Woodstock School Alumni Magazine Vol CIV, 2011

Quadrangle - 101
had a monsoon wedding in Mussoorie in
Jul & now lives in England. She is taking
a break from the world of cooking,
just enjoying being a housewife. SUMIR
GANGULY is working as an account
mgr at Saatchi & Saatchi (advertising) in
Dubai. He says he recently got some new
Tibetan tattoos. REUBEN GERGAN, you
may think you can hide out in Leh, but
we all know you’re there & that you’ve
got access to the internet. BIBEK GU-
RUNG is in the US army based in Joint
Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma WA.
MERENLA IMKONG’s back in NG.
IRINA ISSAEVA HAYES married Brendan
Hayes on Mar 29 in Aruba. She’ll be
moving to Toronto CAN soon. OSWIN
JOSEPH’s still working as sr analyst at
Citi in NYC. FLORENCE JOUTE’s still
working & living in Delhi. NATASHA
KAPUR EARLY lives in Bahrain with
daughter Kyla (1) & husband. She’s been
busy setting up her own bus & opening
up a baby shop. ISHITA KAUL works in
Delhi, she often meets SAKSHI MEHRA,
SHEENA UPPAL, KARAN MADHOK &
others that pass through Delhi. REETI
KHARE finished her PhD in virology
& gene therapy. She is working as a research
fellow in a virus lab at the Mayo
Clinic. She met KARAN M, SHEFALI
S & SURABHI P at her sister’s wedding
last yr. WOON YEE KOH after having
visited India, just moved to Singapore
for her work. HELEN PROVOTOROVA
LITVINENKO has celebrated her 5 yr
anniversary. She started a new job in Jan,
project mgr for Oojo.com now working in
the travel industry. MOA LONGKUMAR
lives & works in Bangalore & met WOON
YEE K during her visit. KARAN MAD-
HOK works with the Basketball Federation
of India (BFI), as a writer & Head of
Media Relations. He’s got a blog about
basketball in India hoopistani.blogspot.
com. He lives in Delhi but says he’s not a
fan, so travels a lot. DHONDUP RODER
stayed with him a few mo while in India
for work & he regularly meets SHEFALI
S & SURABHI P when they’re in town.
KAVITA MANDALIYA was in Nairobi
for the past yr, taking a yr off to spend
time with family & travel. She’s getting
married in Nov in India after which she’ll
be moving to Vancouver & focusing on
a career in culinary arts & restaurant
mngmt. SHERRY MASIH is in NYC;
he opened a branch of his Indian export
bus in NYC last yr, Raise India LLC,
promoting Indian handicrafts. He also
works for an NGO. He meets SAURABH
NIRAULA, OSWIN JOSEPH, SHIVI-
KA SINHA, RAHUL
AGARWAL & ARUN
DANIEL regularly.
BETH MCALEER
NG finished her degree
in Speech Language
Path & moved
back to CAN, got
married. She is working
with Saskatoon
Public Schools as a
consultant & is thinking
about opening up
a private practice.
KARINA MEMON lives in Denton TX
with her fiancé & daughter Myra. She
works at 1st Am Mortgage Services.
AKIKO MORIMOTO SADZIAK is still
in Tokyo, working as a system engineer.
She got married last Apr. WANGCHUK
D NAMGYAL has moved back home to
Bhutan. He started his own bus which has
kept him very busy. SAURABH NIRAU-
LA finished his econ (grad) degree at
the U Cincinnati & lives in Washington,
DC. AYLA PARIYAR lives in Edinburgh
where she works as a freelance journalist.
PAURAVI PATEL is working toward
a specialization in pediatric pharmacy
at Stanford Med School & working as a
clinical pharmacist at Lucile Packard’s
Children Hosp. LE DUC PHAM works in
Osaka for a local consulting co but will
be moving back to Vietnam to get married
at the end of the yr. He’s also in the process
of applying for an MBA at INSEAD
(France) for next Fall. DONNA PINTO
works in Arlington TX. SURABHI PU-
DASAINI has lived in Kathmandu for the
last 3yrs, working for Himal Southasian.
She recently quit her job & went on a 2
mo roadtrip in US where she met DONNA
P & REETI K. She often meets KARAN
M, SHEFALI S & ASHWINI T. She’s now
back in Kathmandu working as a freelance
writer. PEM ZAM RABGYE lives
& works in Thimpu, Bhutan. TALINA
RUSH is in Qatar, working as a primary
school teacher. She’s planning on getting
married next yr. YUN KYOUNG RYU
got her PhD in Biology/Neurosci from
Johns Hopkins U & lives in Baltimore
MD. SHEFALI SALDANHA works in
Bombay for a Micro Housing Finance
start-up; she hopes to start grad school
soon & regularly meets Karan & Surabhi.
MICHAEL SCHICK lives in Heidelberg,
doing a Masters in Sports Mngmt. JAE
HEE SHIM graduated from Case Western
Reserve Uni in DMD Dentistry & lives in
Clevland, Ohio. KONG JOO SHIN lives
in NYC but went back to S. Korea for a
Class of ‘04 Tenzi, Grace, Afshaan & Esther in Boston in June
visit in Aug. SONJOY SINGHI works
at DreamWorks Animation & hopes to
become a Dir soon. SHIVIKA SINHA
works at Epsilon Interactive as a Sr
Strategic Consultant in NYC. She & her
sister recently wrote an interesting review
of the Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975.
CHONI TENZIN went back to visit family
in Bhutan during the summer. She
lives in Calgary CAN & works in child
services. ERNEST TANDON finished
college in NY & works for Nintendo
CAN (the video game co). He regularly
meets TENZING GAPHEL & JIGME
SADUTSANG who also live in Toronto.
He plans to do a Masters or law next yr.
ASHWINI TODI is in Nepal working in
his business. He says there are lots of
WSkers in town so they meet whenever
they can. JIGME TSHERING quit his
job in the Govt in Bhutan to get into
private bus. He currently does managing,
2 wheelers, tourism & hotel. SHEENA
UPPAL is working in Delhi & met up
with Kavita, Lara, Helen & myself in
London, then flew to Ibiza for Kavita’s
bachelorette party. CHARLES WAITARA
is a lawyer in his own practice in Dar es
Salaam. NANAKO YAMAMURO is in
her 4th yr as an IT engineer in Tokyo.
Over weekends she enjoys playing violin
with friends. SONAM YANGKI visited
Singapore , but otherwise works in
Thimpu. LARA KANGA & I still live in
London. She works in a co that does PR
for classical music.. —Daniela
Class of 2004
ESTHER LEE is working at Boston U
but will be heading back to Korea to
spend some time with family & lovely
WS friends in Korea! AFSHAAN ALTER
is living in & enjoying Boston MA, now
working at a local uni. In Apr she visited
Grace Hur in CA & she returned the favour
in Jun. In May, I was honored to be
part of Katie Henderson’s beautiful TN
wedding! SANGHMITRA GAUTAM is