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Art with a heart

@Apparao Galleries

Date: February 16 to 22

Time: 10.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m.

The Hindu Young World in association with Apparao Galleries invites readers to exhibition-cum-sale of the numerous pieces of art created by the participants of The Hindu Young World Painting Competition, 2008. Titled, “Young Picassos — Art with a Heart”, this isn’t just a display where you see your picture and snigger at what your neighbour drew. The paintings will fund a social or charitable cause. For more information call 28589060.

Venue: Apparao Galleries, Wallace Garden, Nungambakkam Chennai.

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Peaceful expressions

Send Pramod Muthalik a Valentine’s Day Card. Collect cards from friends and relatives and drop them off in the box provided at The Madras Terrace House 15, Sri Puram, II Street, Royapettah! Remember, this cause is nothing without numbers… so bring in as many as you’d like. They don’t have to be expensive. We’re aiming for quantity! Do NOT use any kind of abusive/offensive language! This is about peaceful expressions; Gandhigiri at its best! Till February 13, 2009 at 12:00 noon.  

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All heart

@Sathyam Cinema

Walk into Fa’s counters and smell the two new fragrances — “Golden Star” and “Purple Passion”. Vote for the fragrance of your choice and win a special date with your valentines on Valentine’s Day. On till on February 13, 5:00 p.m.

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Romance the coffee

@ Café Coffee Day

 

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the launch of “Couplets”: two new flavours — delicate Strawberry and heady Coffee along with a special Valentine’s menu. Contact Devahuti Gangwani: 098199 62524 for more details.

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Fill your kitty

Virgo Events helps you to fill the home kitty. Learn fabric painting, mehendi and participate in several games, quiz and win prizes.

Date: February 14 Time: 3 p.m.

Venue: Max New York life Insurance, II Floor, Essarar Towers, 41, Venkatnarayana Road, T. Nagar, Chennai-17.

To register call 24892798/99410 18210.

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Go glitter

@ Chennai Diamonds.

 

Check out diamonds for your Valentine. From sparkling bangles, rings, earrings, nose-rings, bracelets, anklets, girdles, pendants to watch- décor to complement any dress code, whether casual, formal, party or wedding wear. Chennai Diamonds is at 46, Cathedral Road, opp Poes garden, Chennai. Want more details? Call 42104050/98840 33660.

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Valentine rock

Get set to rock on Valentine’s Day at Flamboyant ‘09. Unseen Underground presents “Blacklisted”, a blues grunge experimental rock band to set you on fire. Also featuring DJ Niel.

Venue: Ambassador Pallava Hotel , Montieth Road, Egmore. For more details contact Nicky @ 9380560142.

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Techie gifts

Special occasions call for special gifts. For a gift as unique as the person you are giving it to check out LG’s latest Valentine gift options. The KP500 (popularly known as Cookie) is an attractive full touchscreen GSM handset priced at Rs. 13, 500. Another gifting option is the stylish HT953TV home theatre system priced at Rs. 59,390. Make your Valentine moment more special.

 

Or go the Apple way. With the new Genius feature, iPod nano creates a playlist of songs that are great together. Now in a stunning, curved all-aluminum and glass design. Available at Rs.8,200. The new, ultra-thin iPod touch helps you tilt, tap, shake, and swipe your way through stunning 3D games and applications. Surf the web and send e-mail from any Wi-Fi hotspot. Available at Rs. 12,800. Wear up to 500 songs on your sleeve. Or belt. Or gym shorts. iPod shuffle now comes in new, more brilliant colours. Starting at just Rs. 2,300.

Visit http://www.apple.com/asia/buy/ to locate the nearest reseller store

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Scent of love

Ripple Fragrances presents a unique collection for Valentine’s Day. Check out the special Rose Fragrances gift set from Iris comprising floating aromatic candles, potpourri, special incense sticks and handcrafted cones to make candlelit dinners even more romantic. The perfect gifting solution: a selection of potpourri in a handcrafted basket to spread the scent of love.

Ajmal Perfumes introduces two new fragrnaces for Valentine’s Day: Sacred Love: For Her and Carbon: For Him. The gift package includes candles, a calendar or a pen set. Price: Rs. 1000 for 50ml and Rs. 1000 for 100ml respectively. Available at: Pantaloons and other leading outlets.

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 Care factor

 

Pamper your Valentine with flowers, a cute teddy, heart-shaped chocolates/cake, balloons and a live guitarist singing love songs….. Cost: Rs. 2000. Packages can be custom-made according to your choice also. Contact: Ashish Gupta at 9841118892/9840531515.

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Rosy touch

@Limelite 

 

Try Limelite’s exciting service with a rosy touch: a new and exclusive rose-based beauty package, which includes a Rose Facial, Rose Manicure and Rose Pedicure. The ingredients are 100 per cent organic with rose petal extracts, rose wine, peppermint and marine salts! The treatments also works as a mood elevator and an anti-inflammatory agent.

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Get gorgeous

@Green Trends

Celebrate this season of love. For every service bill, half the amount will be given back as a gift voucher that can be redeemed by your valentine or any other person necessarily an opposite gender. The offer is on till February 22 and the vouchers should be redeemed before March 1.

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Truly special

 

Make your Valentine’s Day very special. Write in 10 lines why your valentine is special to you and mail it to ask@paversengland.com. The three most beautiful and interesting entries will win a special pair of Pavers England footwear. Participants can mail their answers between February 13 and February 15. with their contact numbers and address for follow-up. The winners will be announced by February 16 evening.

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Wanted: Field officers

Two positions for field sampling from March to May are available to help study the genetics of commensal rodent species. For more details contact Uma Ramakrishnan at uramakri@ncbs.res.in or call 080-23666030, 080-23666478, 09845436445.

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Study abroad

 @ Taj Coromandel, Nungambakkam

 

Are you looking towards the U.K. for higher studies. Then you need to check out British Council’s Education UK Exhibition. Over 50 universities from the UK will be part of the event. Come face to face with representatives from schools, colleges and universities and learn more about courses, admission requirements, facilities and services.

Date: February 12.

Time: 2.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.

Call 4205 0600 for more info or look up http://www.britishcouncil.org/india-educationuk-events-exhibition2009-2.htm

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Paint the Sphinx

Learn the art of Egyptian Painting in two-day workshop. Material will be provided. Time: 10.30 a.m to 1.00 p.m and 1.30 p.m to 4.00 p.m

Date: February 14-15 and February 16-17.

Venue: New no. 154, N.T.R. Street, Rangarajapuram.

To register call 9952082726, 9952082585.

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Ethnic looks

@ Sri Sankara Hall

Till February 17

 

Is ethnic wear your kind of look? Then take a look at Gujarat Emporium’s Gujarat Handloom Expo at T.T.K. Road. Call 9381036936 for more details.

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Finance at your fingertips

FINMARTS launches Mr. Finance, a sms service that brings financial information to your fingertips. SMS 96000 55000 to get any kind of financial information. The service is free of charge from Monday to Friday, from 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. excluding national holidays. For more details, call 24982906, 9940044704 or e-mail: finmarts@gmail.com

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Next gen entrepreneurs

This is the era of 20-year-old CEO’s and their start ups. Recognising this trend, AIESEC is doing its best to create the next big entrepreneurs through its Global Entrepreneurship Programme, which enables students in India to access a country of their choice to work in the most challenging field of Entrepreneurship — Social Entrepreneurship. Students can pick out of 16 countries from AIESEC’s global network. To achieve this end of creating the nation’s next entrepreneurs, AIESEC is recruiting members and interns. What are you waiting for? The next big start up could be yours. Contact Arjun Chidambaram at 9884259713 or Inder Prakash at 9884217611 for more information.

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