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December 10, 2012

FAMILY ADDITION

At once I was blessed with, two hearts to love, four eyes to see, four ears to listen, four hands to hold, four legs to carry, You, my child. I’m a mother of four. We are so pleased to announce the birth of our baby girl Nimitha. She is a sweet little bundle of joy came on October 26, 2012.

October 1, 2012

OUR FIRST PRIZE

Selection and luck is behind this surprise. Wes Parker, owner of Children of the Sun Koi had mentioned about his first grow out that he’ll be doing at his store which attracted us to participate in this new attempt. Wes had bought some tosai from Sakai of Hiroshima koi from Japan. The last shipment was here around the mid of

September 4, 2012

2012 PORTLAND JAPANESE GARDEN KOI RELEASE

Few years ago we had a major winter storm here in Portland, Oregon. Most families in Portland were stuck at home beacause of the snow, during that winter The Portland Japanese Garden lost majority of their koi collection. Employees of Japanese Garden were not able to open or do any maintainence which was required to save the koi, for almost

September 2, 2012

ELEGANCE OF KOI TV

It’s been almost a year since we have blogged. We are expecting our fourth child. We don’t know the gender of the baby yet, but soon we’ll be able to find out. Sumi is due in October. With the pregnancy it was hard to travel and blog. Sorry, hope you will understand.After the break, we are back again. Since Koi

August 17, 2012

KOI TV® ON ROKU!

We are happy to announce our new acheivement, Koi TV® is available on Roku. This is a great achievement for the koi hobby itself. All Roku customers can add Koi TV® as one of their channels to view. This way you don’t have to sit infront of your pc or laptop to watch koi related videos. We have always been

August 13, 2012

2012 PUGET SOUND KOI CLUB KOI SHOW

The Puget Sound Koi Show was on August 4th and 5th 2012. The show was held at the Hoshi Koi Farm. Vik Nair and David Young were the Koi Judges. Hoshi Koi Farm is in Tacoma, WA. As you enter there is a beautiful Koi Pond with a good landscape. The whole farm is surrounded with 20 acres or more

May 6, 2011

OUR KIDS KOI – A KOI FOR A KID

Kids love animals and birds. They like to grow them as their pet. The only pet in our house is koi. So Antony and I thought we will buy at least a koi for each kid. They get to name them and grow them. Once when we were attending Pan Intercorp live koi auction at Kenmore, Washington, our kids participated

April 7, 2011

PORTLAND JAPANESE GARDEN – ART IN THE GARDEN: COME BACK KOI!

Have you been to the Portland Japanese Garden recently? If not, come and see some of the beautiful renovations that are taking place. To add color to this, The Japanese Garden is planning to bring some new koi into the pond. In the winter of 2008, The Japanese Garden lost some of the koi that were in the pond due

February 2, 2011

KOI CALENDAR, WHERE KOI KICHIES STAY INFORMED.

Finally, we got all Koi Events in one place! Time is valuable for all of us. Here is a smart way to track Koi events. In the past Antony and I have missed a lot of koi events, just because we didn’t get enough time to track it. From that time onwards we were thinking of an easy method of

January 13, 2011

INTERVIEW WITH SHIGERU MANO

Do you know that The Nishikigoi Vereniging Nederland (The Dutch Nishikigoi Association) traditionally organizes “The Holland Koi Show”-which is known as the biggest koi show in the world. Netherlands (Holland) neighboring countries are Belgium, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Since there are many koi hobbyists from these countries, the Holland Koi Show became the single most important koi exhibition in