I am a born traveler.
I have been traveling all around the country for the last 18 years. Here I must say that I live in a country where there are above three hundred languages and much more communities. My traveling mate has always been my French friend. While most people visit the country to see historical monuments, natural beauty, we see people and culture of its different people. Most interesting thing for us is to visit villages where the real flavor of the country lies among her people with different background, cultures and traditions.
We have been lucky to attend and experience wedding ceremonies of several communities. While different people have different methods and traditions to celebrate the occasion, we have noticed something unique which is common for all communities – it is the presence of wedding rings. Rings are of immense importance for wedding ceremonies of each and every community that we came across. We have not yet seen any marriage being held without rings. Most communities have traditions of exchanging rings between the bridegrooms and the brides. Some communities have traditions of the bridegroom gifting the wedding ring to the bride which of course is compulsory.
It seems, the wedding ring is not only important for oriental communities but it holds importance everywhere in the world for every community.
Amen.
April 26th, 2008 | Posted in Home & Family Shopping | 1 Comment
Wedding is one of the most important social activities that every human being has to go through. Nuptial tie is also probably the most important thing for someone – man or woman. While all of us participate and enjoy wedding ceremonies and celebrations, few people know the trouble that is associated with arranging a marriage. Well, you can always hire wedding planners and give orders to them how you want your wedding to be arranged. But still, there are some personal things, choices that you need to attend yourself rather than depending on some one. For example you can always ask the wedding agency to make so many invitation cards – but still you have to repeatedly go through minute details on how the wedding invitations should look like. Or you can hire a professional photographer to savor memories of the most important thing in your life. But the professional photographer will not see the marriage the way you look at it – purely personal. In this case the best solution is a disposable wedding camera. This will enable you to make your marriage ceremony memorable from your own view point. For all these you need advanced planning and visualize how you want to arrange you memory. These days of online invasion to our lives, one just needs ideas and shopping for these things are easier than never before. So if you are thinking of getting married, don’t get frightened – just chill out, plan it and log into online.
April 26th, 2008 | Posted in Wedding Shopping | No Comments
The world is changing fast and so is the dynamism of economy. There was a time when no market existed and human beings used to exchange goods (known as barter system) to meet their basic needs as no single community or village could produce all those required for living. Slowly markets grew and money was introduced. But that scenario too is changing fast. Now money is again loosing its pre-eminence as medium of exchange to what is being popularized as plastic money (credit cards, ATM cards). People are also not going to the local grocery shop or super market to buy things they require. Internet has opened a whole new door or windows of opportunity to us. Our life is so busy that we hardly find time to do some household marketing. Thanks to the internet, we can now do marketing from our tables by just clicking the mouse button. From beds to mattresses, from wine to champagne – we can buy everything through internet. And there are whole new businesses developing rapidly who conduct their sales through online. Not only that. They also have home delivery facility. If you don’t feel like cooking tonight after grueling work at office and also don’t feel like going out to restaurant, just login to the net, find the local PIZZA supplier, book online and your dinner will be delivered quickly at your door step. Phew!
It has been an exciting and phenomenal change over last 2 decades and more is coming soon which will change our living style forever.
April 26th, 2008 | Posted in Clothes & Fashion | No Comments
Well, I was looking for some non risky games for my seven years old son who is fast growing up and getting naughty. Although house is not of high standard, the land it is built is quite large as we have a sizeable garden and good vacant spaces. So I was browsing online and searching for some games specially
paddling pools and trampolines. After lots of search I found the things I was looking for and ordered them immediately. As I live in a not so advanced area, it took around two and half weeks for the goods to reach my given address. But its true that they reached well intact - alright.
Now my son is happy and we are happy too, to see his energies being utilized in positive manner. He has become very fond of the trampolines within a short time. Now he can boast of his possessions and invites his friends to come and play with him. It seems children are liking to jump and do little bit of rock n roll on the trampolines. The paddling pool also is just the right size and it feels great to see my son getting used to water specially when I am yet to be able to make a swimming pool.
What more! All this came at very affordable prices, even lower than the price of local vendor.
April 10th, 2008 | Posted in Online Shopping | No Comments