Yearly Archives: 2012

Mirrors of the Rambagh Palace

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I don’t remember if in the other places we stayed, there were many kinds of mirrors, but for some reason I noticed many beautiful mirrors at the Rambagh Palace.  These are the ones I noticed, there could have been many more kinds of mirrors in the Palace 🙂   

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Steam at Rambagh Palace

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We are so busy everyday, we hardly have time to appreciate our hotel.  We get home late afternoon or early evening already just in time for dinner

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We wanted to try the train in the hotel 🙂  So we came for dinner

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A day shot so you can see the train- an old train which they restored and made into a restaurant

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The gang 🙂

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They have a nice menu!  There were many choices aside from Indian food and it was nice to have a break for awhile.  It’s really a bar type of restaurant so it’s finger foods and snacks 

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Love Comes In All Shades at GAP for Holiday 2012

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Have you shopped for all your loved ones yet? Gap makes ticking off everyone on your gift list easy with its season-appropriate offerings, all in-stores now. Get inspired with our array of easy gifting solutions, sure to make your holidays bright with its range of shades and colors. Pick out a cozy scarf or layering cardigan in blue to warm your loved ones’ chilly nights, or add a dash of excitement to their everyday outfits by adding punchy accessories in neon yellow. For the younger ones on your list, there’s always our softwash tees and our favorite denims in sweet pink and cool green.

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Show your LOVE in ALL SHADES this season through these favorites at Gap! Join us at facebook.com/GapPhilippines for details on selections or visit our stores today.

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Andraab Jaipur

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Andraab is one of the recommended shops for beautiful pashminas

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 One of the owners, Mubashir, was there! 

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 Explaining about his products.  There are shawls costing US$ 10,000.00 and even more 

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 This is a photo of the owners -Father and twin sons 🙂

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Beautiful Tita Mary Ann in her beautiful shawl which she purchased!  Tita Mary Ann is the most Indian among all of us girls 🙂  

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Beautiful embroidery and color- reminds me a bit of the details found on the walls of the Amber Fort

Previous entry:  Amber Fort Complex Jaipur December 5, 2012 

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  Click below to go to their website

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The Pink City and the City Palace of Jaipur

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Jaipur is called the PINK CITY

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because in the old city, all the structures are pink!  The kind of pink they are talking about is a peach or salmon kind of pink.  Which explained why the carpet people were showing me peach or salmon colored carpets when I kept asking for pink carpets!  haha!!  We were not understanding each other so i ended up not buying any pink carpet! 🙂

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That is just a facade!  As our tour guide Raj kept reminding us 🙂  

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We visited the City Palace where the Royal family still lives in.  Due to heavy taxation, they converted the ground level into a museum.  They did not allow photo taking in the museums so I have no photos, but they have a beautiful collection being exhibited – Textile, armors, doors, miniature paintings, etc 

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My Dad liked the Museum of Armory

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Look Good, Feel Good and Do Good with Bobble

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Water filtration never looked this good!

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 For today’s upwardly-mobile individuals, looking good and feeling good means being on top of the latest wellness trends, especially when it comes to exercise and diet. Among the most sought after health innovations are life-enhancers that take care of every aspect of their well-being, all without sacrificing personal style and looks.

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Taking top priority in achieving a healthy lifestyle is staying hydrated, which is one of the easiest yet overlooked ways to keeping fit and healthy. As you live actively, drinking clean water daily helps flush out harmful toxins and help protect the body from illnesses. It also maintains the body’s pH balance, improves metabolism, and keeps essential organs such as the heart, liver, and skin healthy.

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Taking better care of your body is now simpler and more elegant with bobble, the latest wellness innovation that makes a bold fashion statement out of drinking water while on the move. Combining elegance with health-giving benefits, bobble is a chic, reusable drinking bottle, designed by renowned industrial artist Karim Rashid—the man behind numerous luxury goods and popular product designs for Christofle, Alessi, Umbra, Bonaldo, Vondom, and Hugo Boss, among others. bobble™’s iconic shape and curvy form make it easier to carry around during workout sessions or while out socializing.

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Not only is its multi-awarded design praised for ultra-sleek form factor, bobbleis also lauded for its eco-friendly features. Its unique, replaceable and recyclable carbon filter purifies potable water even further by eliminating chlorine and organic contaminants for a fresher and crisper clean drinking water. Through the ingenuity of its design, the 1: 300 ratio—one bobble is equivalent to 300 single-used plastic bottles—consumers can be more active in protecting the environment. Helping stylish users protect the environment by reducing the use of PET bottles, bobble champions a greener lifestyle, making it a trusted and truly revolutionary brand.

On your way to becoming a better version of yourself—one who reflects a modern lifestyle—keep in mind that feeling good starts from within. So whether you want to embody the accomplished entrepreneur, the adrenaline junkie, or the present-day hero persona, upgrade your way of living and imbibe the stylish bobble outlook of water made better.

Since bobble was introduced in February 2010, it has been an outstanding success and has been very well-received by consumers and global retailers. bobble is another leading innovation introduced to the Philippines by TERRY S.A. INC. (TSA)—the same company that brought in lifestyle giants: Havaianas, Aura Athletica, David & Goliath, Dupé and Pininho—

Anne Arcenas- Gonzales – one of the owners of Terry S.A.

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and is priced at Php 595.00 per 550-ml container and filters at Php 345.00 each. It comes in six vibrant colors (green, red, black, yellow, magenta, and blue)

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and will be available starting December 1 at Aura Athletica, Power Plant Mall.

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It has also won numerous industry awards including a Green Good Design Award in both 2010 and 2011, Gold Edison Award 2011, a Red Dot Award 2011, an American Graphic Design Award, a Good Design 2010 Award, a Spark! Award, iF Packaging Award, Ambiente 2011 Award, Die Line Packaging Award, Great Idea Award 2011 (Latin American award) and three Pentawards.

To find out more information about the product, please visit our Facebook fan page: bobble Philippines at www.facebook.com/bobbleph.

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Lunch at The Raj Palace Hotel

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Only eat at hotels!  That is the instruction 🙂  So the tour bus took us to this hotel for lunch

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It was very peaceful, not many people

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Ganesh again 🙂

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Indian food again! Yipee! 🙂

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Take note of the Maharaja’s Special health Potion for dessert.  It is 31,000 rupees which is around P 23,000.00.  We obviously didn’t order that! 🙂

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Tito Joe loves ice cream so this is his 🙂

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Always Gulab Jamun for my sister and we all share

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Click below to go to their website

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Jantar Mantar Observatory Jaipur

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In the olden times, when you are King or Emperor, you can have anything built- and during those times, no one really questioned, they just followed.  Looking back, we now appreciate what these kings and emperors built because these structures cannot be built anymore in the same scale.  

Because the founder of Jaipur was an astrologer, he built this observatory! 

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Lunch at Dera Amer

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After the elephant trek, they took us to this place to have lunch 🙂 It is included in the package

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Sweet lime juice and sweet lassi!! YUM!!

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there was a tent beside it with a guy making Naan bread!

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Indian food!!! YUMMY!! It’s been a week and we still love the Indian food!!

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I love Basmati rice!

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A beautiful bird landed on the lamp

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Cotton growing nearby 

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