Mon
Mar
17
Happy St. Patty’s Day everyone! Deepta here, just coming back from an awesome Swiss Beatz concert in the downstairs lobby of Gap. Gap puts on these concerts once in a while—Swiss Beatz is part of a marketing campaign that Gap is doing where they pick different songwriters to write about a color. Swiss Beatz of course had a song about color green. Only here at Gap can you come back from a meeting, do some hindsight analysis and then go down, drink a couple brewskis (no joke..there were kegs downstairs) and let loose (well kind of…..we still are at work after all) to some really well known hip hop! All in all, not bad for a Monday!
Everyone seems to be getting in the spirit—even our apt building who hosted a little St. Patty’s fiesta, green beer keg and all!
I spent most of last week being sick and Rajiv spent most of last weekend working, working, working (and taking care of me!). It was kind of nice to just have a chill weekend recovering and watching movies (saw some great ones—Michael Clayton, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Death at a Funeral!). Enjoyed the weather a bit yesterday and ate by the water over at Java House.
The next few weeks are going to be busy, but exciting for us! We both have a lot going on at work—Wednesday I get to have a Barcelona reunion with my good friends Katrina and Roshen, Thursday we have our LOST night with Sanders, and this weekend we get to chill with the always lovely Amanda Michele and celebrate her new job with her!
Weather still is awesome—have a great week!!!!!!!!!!
Mon
Mar
10
Hi everyone! This is our inaugural post on deeptaandrajiv.com to keep all the lovely people in our lives (plus those people who randomly google “DEPT” and get “Deepta and Rajiv’s blog” instead) informed of what’s new with us, share pictures and all kinds of fun stuff.
This past weekend was just GORGEOUS and jam packed as well. On Friday, we went to Estia, this Greek restaurant in North Beach our friend Jena recommended and ate wayyyy to much. Then it was off to a late show at Cobb’s Comedy Club to watch Hal Sparks (he’s done some TV Work, but he is the short sarcastic guy who comments on “I Love the 80’s”). Hal was hilarious, but his opening act—not so much. We both were actually on the verge of dozing off (it’s a little scary how old we feel these days!).
Saturday we spent catching up on some sleep and a visit to the Mission Bay library next door (who actually has some really good music and movies—from Tegan and Sarah to Fergie…..pretty impressive!). In the evening we celebrated with Aya’s birthday with her and James at several locations—we started off at Out the Door at the Westfield (amazing jicama and cabbage salad), and continued on to yummy margaritas at Tres Agaves and some wine and champagne at District. In true Saturday night form, we ended up back at our house and entertained ourselves with funny YouTube videos. Sunday we went to a good family friend’s son’s rice eating ceremony in the easy bay. For those of you who have no idea what that is, it is called “Anaprasan” —and you should watch or read the Namesake to get a better understanding of it—basically when a kid turns 9 months or so, there’s a ceremony where the baby has a plate of different things (book, money, an apple etc etc) that all symbolize different things and are supposed to be telling of the future. It is unique to the Bengali culture and pretty superstitious—but a very cute ceremony regardless (unless the baby screams and cries which they normally do). Our family friend’s baby touched a gold bracelet—symbolizing a life of wealth to come! Deepta touched the book—which means smarts :)
Hope everyone had a great weekend and is enjoying the weather wherever they are!
Since we’re an “old” married couple now, we wanted to jump on the bandwagon of informing our friends and family about our life, share funny links, post pictures, videos and just updates on what we’re doing…in other words, you can add it to another one of your “when you’re bored of all the gossip websites” links. Enjoy!
