It's My Empire

Omer and Puneet bust out some bhangra! As I had mentioned in a previous post, I wanted to do a separate post on our first dance, which took place on September 2nd at the San Francisco Design Center. The inspiration for our dance actually occurred in early May. Actually, I take that back, the original idea was born years and years ago. I had always joked around with people that for my entrance at ...

The third and final part of our adventures in Bali ended with a four day stay in Jimbaran Bay. After experience the culture, greenery, and adventure of Ubud, we were excited to get back to the beaches and resume our relaxing vacation. I was looking forward to the seafood while Puneet was probably looking forward to watching me eat seafood. Okay, Puneet was looking forward to the beaches. Did you ...

Part 2 begins with our treck from Seminyak to Ubud, the cultural capital of Bali. Like my previous post, these are notes that I jotted down while on the trip. Some things might be random, some things might not make sense, and some things might be one of those, ‘I guess you had to be there’ moments. (Check out Bali Trip Part 1 – Seminyak for the first part of our trip) The Rice ...

The beautiful beaches of Seminyak With the wedding chaos finally coming to an end, Puneet and I were off to Bali. We had booked our tickets to Bali about a month prior to the wedding. When people would ask where we were staying, I would say I have no idea. They thought I was joking, but I was dead serious. We actually didn’t book hotels until the day before we left. Why? Because I suck at p...

September 2nd, 2012 marked the 3rd and final day of our wedding festivities. The Walima (or reception) is the event held by the groom’s side after the wedding. And of all the events we had, the Walima was the one I was looking forward to most. Why? For one, it was where the Bhangra Empire performance would be held. Secondly, Puneet and I would get to debut our first dance. And lastly, becau...

August 31st, 2012. The day of our wedding. The date that was plastered across all the random save the date pictures we took. The second, and arguably most important, day of our wedding festivities. Okay, I guess it isn’t arguable that the wedding ceremony itself is the most important part of the wedding. I mean that’s the whole point of a wedding right? To actually get married. But so...

Thursday, August 30th, 2012. The first big event of our wedding. The actual wedding celebrations had officially started the week before, but this was the first REAL event: The Mehndi. And it wasn’t just any mehndi. It was the OMG mehndi. Please see my last post (The OMG Wedding Extravaganza) if you still think OMG means ‘oh my god.’ For those that think the Mehndi is to put on a...

It’s been a little while since my last post (sadly to say, a lot of my posts start this way). But I guess I have a pretty decent reason this time, with the whole wedding thing happening. In case you didn’t know, I got married last week (August 31st to be exact). As with any south asian wedding, the whole wedding process is a long and cumbersome one that drains every ounce out of you. ...

Last weekend, I had the pleasure of heading to Colorado for my ‘bachelor trip’. Most of you might be thinking, “Colorado? Why Colorado? Why not Las Vegas? Or Cabo? Or Bangkok? Or somewhere else crazy.” Well, as most of you already know, I don’t drink or, contrary to popular opinion, go to strip clubs. So the default, “lets get wasted and head to a strip club...

This is a bit overdue, but earlier this year, Puneet and I officially got engaged. To some people this might come as shock, while others will think of it as a long time coming. Either way, we had a small get together with our family and close friends on January 15th. I had actually gotten some questions from people asking why I had not posted about it yet. Well, Puneet has been working on a littl...