My experiences in the funny world

My life so far

2011-12-12T19:33:00.000-08:00

saw this pic with same title :)

Resume vs Reality

2011-12-11T20:05:00.000-08:00

Since I am looking for a job I am preparing a resume ,after updating this is how I feel!

Source: doghousediaries

I 'm Back

2011-12-10T19:22:00.000-08:00

will post when I have time here after!

Thought for the day

2011-11-16T21:05:00.000-08:00

MAN'S mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds,and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts. By pursuing this process, a man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. He also reveals, within himself, the laws of thought, and understands, with ever-increasing accuracy, how the thought-forces and mind elements operate in the shaping of his character, circumstances, and destiny.

(few lines from "As a Man Thinkth")

Pic for the day

2011-11-14T22:01:00.000-08:00

This weird object is in the river side park!

Alexander Hamilton final post

2011-11-10T18:01:00.000-08:00

After the tour got over I just roamed around in the ground floor which had few information about Hamilton. He was the first American involved in a sex scandal which damaged his reputation and forced him out of public life. He was killed in a duel between Aaron Burr the then vice president of United States.

He is one of the two non US president to be put on a currency note.

He favored government over business and felt that government was needed to control business.Below are the few of other stuffs I found interesting in the place.

Alexander Hamilton's house

2011-11-09T20:39:00.000-08:00

Hamilton Grange the place built by Alexander Hamilton was renovated and reopened to public last month.The property transferred few hands and was with a church. Then the National park service got it from them and moved the house from that place . They literally carried the house 100 feet up from the ground using a crane and moved to hill where it is located now.

There was not many people in the place and I signed for a tour around the house ,first I was the only person in that tour and guide was explaining little bit about the importance of Alexander Hamilton by being the founder of national treasury and building the initial foundation to make new york city financial capital of the world.Then a family joined the tour ,they had a eight year old kid who was named Alexander. Then the tour guide started explaining the American war of Independence how battle for new york proved to be a turning point. Then he took us around the house explaining the old architecture ,furniture working etc.

Then we were left on our own to explore the little of the remaining stuffs for ourselves.

Alexander Hamilton

2011-11-08T18:51:00.000-08:00

Last Sunday I visited Alexander Hamilton's house which was recently opened to public. He was one of the founding fathers of USA and supposed to be the master of all trades. Picture below tells it all.

More details tomorrow!

Fault Line

2011-11-07T19:26:00.000-08:00

When there was minor earthquake few months back , there were reports that there is a fault line in Manhattan, specifically running across 125th street. I live near few minutes from this street and never new this fact. The subway station is above the ground in our area one of the few in Manhattan. Yesterday I was taking a walk towards upper side and could see how deep our street looked from there.

The above is the picture of the subway station .

taking pictures

2011-11-06T14:50:00.000-08:00

I went for a walk on the river side after lunch. This week was supposed to peak fall color in new york city but last week snow messed up things. I had taken my camera along with me and tried taking pictures using few effects in the camera.

Fish Effect:

Toy Effect:

Monochrome

Adding color tint:

Wide Angle:

Weekend Read(2)

2011-11-05T21:47:00.000-07:00

What supposed to be a weekend read got finished in a day ,so I need to figure out what should I do tomorrow.

Anyways coming back to novel about smart young lawyer quitting a big firm joining a broke legal firm with two lawyers whose main clients are drunk driving cases and divorces. Suddenly they found a case which might bring a big pharma company down. Story goes on how the law suits are fought between big firms who are much organized compared to the ordinary street lawyers. It was an interesting read !

Weekend Read

2011-11-04T18:25:00.000-07:00

So here I am in New York library thinking of what to read for the weekend. Its been sometime I read a novel so I went to the new releases section. There were few chick flicks,horror science fiction books there but nothing caught my attention, I just for a second thought why cant there be a John Grisham book. Immediately I heard somebody saying excuse me behind my back and there was the librarian placing the placing the latest book "The Litigators" by John Grisham in the new releases section. I grabbed it quickly, took home for the weekend read.

Moral of the story:
Great people get things the moment they think about it.

Mail I got

2011-11-03T15:04:00.000-07:00

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PS:

nothing would change linking that here to a blog visited by 10 people per day but its first time I got a marketing mail using a personal touch template.

halloween kids

2011-10-31T20:49:00.000-07:00

This is my first Halloween in new york and I remembered to stock up few candies for the kids to give. When ever a kid knocks for trick or treat I engaged in small talk before giving out candies. First I tried guessing out what they were ,talked about their costumes and finally gave the candies. One cute girl was dressed up as a kitten and I asked her where is her tail, one of my neighbour's kid dressed up as a Japanese animation character and I asked her to speak in Japanese. Finally there was a small five year old kid came along with his mum, since he was shy to speak I started the conversation, looking at white powdered chubby cheeks and red lipstick all over the mouth I told him you looking cute as a clown. He was about to cry and said no I am a Zombie, then I acted to be frightened and gave the candies. Evening went better than expected :)

Snowy mess

2011-10-30T20:48:00.000-07:00

Yesterday due to unexpected snow storm things went haywire. First I had to get my winter cloths from the loft and couldnt find where I kept my gloves. My friend who was here on a short visit didnt bring any winter clothes like jackets and boots. She had to catch her flight at night in JFK, I lent my sneakers and she layered up with her remaining clothes to protect herself from the weather. When we entered the subway it was Halloween time as many people dressed in weird characters ranging from a pregnant pig to zombies. I told my friend with the layered costume and luggage she will surely fit as a homeless person.
Given the snow and rain the subway system was going slow, my friend got tensed as she might miss the flight as her flight was in two more hours. I was sure the flight will be delayed in the given weather but she didnt want to take risk. So we got down and took a cab to the airport. Once there she checked in the bags and asked the people whether the flight will be on time, they said there will be few minutes delay. I said goodbye and left back to home.
On the way back I caught the air train to get down at metro station. I found a family not getting down at any terminals. I asked them what they were doing, they said they are from Argentina and they were to go to their relatives place in New Jersey but because of the snow storm the trains are cancelled and they are staying overnight in the airport. They are taking the train for time pass.
I got a mail from my friend that her flight finally took off after 4 hours of delay and she missed the connection flight and reached home taking 2 other flights.

View from my apartment

2011-10-29T12:09:00.000-07:00

I think this is the first time I am posting a picture of the street where I used to live. This is pre world war brick buildings. My building was build in the year 1905.

Anyways why I am posting this picture today because when I woke up today morning I was surprised to see it was snowing outside, it was only October,trees are still green and felt weird to see it. Last year it was sometime mid december it started snowing.

Movie I watched

2011-10-28T21:44:00.000-07:00

It is Friday night and I had company so went for a movie. Since it was a Halloween weekend there were many horror movies to choose from but filtering those options only thing left were Puss in boots and Like crazy. We decided to watch Like Crazy, it was a romantic story about a British college girl falling for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.

Then they try to work out a long distance relationship which leads to lots of complications.I personally felt the movie to be a drag and didn't see the purpose of these two people to be together when they were well settled in their respective countries. Anyways as title suggests you would love the movie when you are like crazy!

NY METS

2011-10-27T14:40:00.000-07:00

Today I went to a super market near my place. The place is called as METS fondly named after the New York baseball team METS. This team is in a poor form at present and is topic of jokes on all ads and newspapers. When I visited the shop today they celebrating the 25th anniversary of the team getting their world series title, with posters like "you belong to the city of 1986 METS", "no team has been loved like 1986 METS" etc. They were taking pride in their old glory.

One of the key matches was the game 6(even a movie was released based on that) they were playing against Boston red sox. With scores tied match went to extra innings and Sox scored 2 runs in the 10th, Mets were down to the final out and it seems even the digital board flashed Congrats Red Sox world series champions for few seconds. But then the impossible happened METS turned things around and won the match ,making one of the most thrilling comebacks of baseball history.

PS: Found the video clipping just for Sundu :)

EDIT:
Seems all game 6 are exciting, I got a call from my friend in Texas to talk about the game 6 which was being played today, he was thrilled as Texas Rangers were on the way to win their first world series as Cardinals were down to their final strike out. But from there things changed Cardinals equalized. In the extra innings Texas again took a two game lead and brought Cardinals to final strike out only to find themselves equalized by Cardinals again. And finally Cardinals finished a game with a home run breaking my friend's heart :)

SRI KANDA SHASTI KAVACHAM

2011-10-26T20:01:00.000-07:00

Found this on youtube , when I was kid my grandma thought me the whole Kanda Shahti Kavasam such that I could recite the whole thing by heart :)

Hearing this after a long time!

Happy Diwali

2011-10-25T19:43:00.000-07:00

WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY AND COLORFUL DIWALI!

(picture when I celebrated diwali in Trivandrum)

DIWALI FACT

In Nepal, Diwali is Known as "Tihar" or "Swanti". They also celebrate diwali for five days like Indians but with different traditions.

First Day, crows are given offerings because they are divine messenger.

Second Day, Dogs are given food for their honesty.

Third Day, Laxmi Puja is performed and businessman clear there accounts.

Fourth Day is celebrated as new year.

Fifth Day called as "Bhai Tika", brothers and sisters meet and exchange gifts.

Diwali Sweets

2011-10-24T14:43:00.000-07:00

For some people they have to make sweets for diwali, for others they need to go to shop to get them but for great people like me think of sweets it will come right in front you. Today morning I woke up to Sheila's Badhusha Blunder post , I realized its diwali time and thought it would be nice if I have some sweets in my place. I am too busy to make sweets and too frugal to buy them. Guess what happened.

Today afternoon my friend came from Azerbaijan for an official trip, she gave me a box full of sweets made from her country. So this diwali I am eating a new variety of sweet :)

Living in India

2011-10-24T14:12:00.000-07:00

I am regular reader of New York times India blog post, where readers share their unique experiences about India. Since many people share their thoughts we get to read diverse views from different set of people. Two days back I read a post from a person who had left India again. The person describes the experiences he felt while returning back to India and elaborated the reasons he decided to go back.
Most of what he has written was pure ranting though true about India but I am not sure what else he expected his life to be here. There were lots of thought going in my mind as soon as I read the post but never had the time to pen it down. Today I read two more blog post from Chetan Bhagat and Sharnell which was good reply to the post and conveyed my thoughts in a better way.

Link

2011-10-21T21:03:00.000-07:00

For all the people who think I had fun doing my masters check this link :)

Pic for the day

2011-10-19T19:32:00.000-07:00

Took this picture in Veli beach, Trivandrum 2006

Grand Army Plaza

2011-10-18T19:24:00.000-07:00

Last month when I was in Brooklyn I went to Grand Army Plaza. It is at the entrance of the prospect park built to denote the defenders of the union during the civil war of 1865.

It was good to see the bronze statues sculptured with great detail. Quality pic here.

Room keeping

2011-10-17T18:33:00.000-07:00

Making my room a more better to live ,I got சாம்பிராணி from road side on a nice deal. Got 16 for a dollar and I got to choose from different varieties.

They also had ஊதுவத்தி but since it will make the room messy I didnt get it.

its pleasant to enter my room these days.

Walk across the George Washington Bridge

2011-10-16T18:49:00.000-07:00

George Washington Bridge is a 1 mile long connecting New Jersey and New York. This was the bridge through which I enter New York city. The bridge has an 8 lane traffic on upper level and a 6 lane on lower level. Apart from that there is small path way for bicycles and pedestrians. When I was doing my summer internship I used to travel via this bridge everyday and loved the view of the city from the bridge. I decided to take a walk on the pedestrian path once.

The bridge was around 2 mile from my place, there was a separate exit for the pedestrians which leads to the bridge, I took that and walk over to the bridge. I took some picture near the entrance and walked over to the middle. Since its a suspension bridge and given the packed 14 lane traffic there were vibrations and as I walked towards the middle of the bridge I could feel the effect of the wind. I tried once to look down at the river it was really scary and I never bothered to look down again and restricted myself to see the people taking a walk across the bridge. All in all it was great walk.

PS:Picture with higher resolution

Trip to Quincy Market

2011-10-14T20:21:00.000-07:00

When Sheila told me that a trip to Quincy market is a must I was imagining the place to be like huge whole sale market but it turned out to be a cute little building with forty different eateries inside the place. In front of the entrance there were lots of street shows going on ,we stopped and watched few of them. I have seen quite a few of them in New York, it always amazes me how these artists involve the crowd when they perform and make the show interesting.

Then we went inside the market looked all around and settled for quesadilla from one of the Mexican stores. The quesadillas were good but not as good as I make. Once we finished that we went around the market to do some window shopping saw lots of knick knack shops around. Then we walked back to the north station took the train back to home. Next morning I took the bus back to New York. Thus ends my trip to Boston which was fully sponsored by Priya :)

Edit: My mum at Quincy market in the fall of 2002

Parade and shooting

2011-10-13T20:34:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday when we got down at Boston north station first we decided to goto Quincy market but while going there we saw few people crowded at a junction and the roads where completely blocked with cops diverting the traffic. When we walked little closer we saw that there was a major accident in a junction with two trucks and a car collided together. When we arrived at the spot we found it was a mock accident and it was used for shooting a movie.

We waited there for a while since there was no action we started to move suddenly we heard drum beats as we hear in tribal movies in other direction. So we decided to check that out and saw that there was a parade going on ,it was the Taiwanese parade portraying their relationship with US and Boston. It was a long parade and would have had more than 1000 people participating in it.

While walking through the parade we found the red line as told by Sheila.Following this line led to different old buildings statues graveyards and granaries. After

Boston Statues

2011-10-13T05:35:00.000-07:00

Apart from lots old building in boston there were lots of statues put up in various places in the park. There were statues in the pathway as well as in park bench.

So here we go again , Sundu/Sheila can you recognize these statues :) . Better quality picture is here.

Boston Buildings

2011-10-11T19:50:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday we went to Boston downtown ,took the freedom trail and few lots of old building of historical importance. Below are few of the buildings

Lets see how many Sheila and Sundu can remember.

Fall Colors

2011-10-08T18:55:00.000-07:00

As per Sheila/Sundu's suggestion took a drive to Kankamagus highway located in white mountains in New Hampshire to see the fall colors. The weather was wonderful and we had record high temperatures after 42 years making trip all more pleasant in October. There was trees with different colors from green, orange ,red and mix of all the other colors.

As such pictures can't do justice whats seen by the real eyes but any ways above are few of the pictures we took today.

Movie I watched

2011-10-07T21:57:00.000-07:00

This weekend I am spending in Boston. So while travelling on bus I thought I would see a movie based on that place. So I am came across this movie.

The movie is based out in Boston. The movie beings in October 2003 a girl meets a nice guy,they fall in love and enjoy the winter. Her friends say this guy is too good to be single for such a long time, she says couldn't find one. The following spring she finds out he is a crazy red sox fan attending each and every game. This jeopardize their relationship. The movie goes along the famous 2004 series and was good to watch during the ride.

Pic for the day

2011-10-06T20:46:00.001-07:00

What is a medieval festival without owls!

Steve Jobs

2011-10-05T20:40:00.000-07:00

Steve Jobs a guy I admire for not the products he gave but for the way he lived his life coming back like a pheonix which was burnt to ashes. He had an amazing vision and his annual speeches will always create an excitement on what new product he is going to unveil. I will remember those.

When I was doing my undergraduate our college computer lab used to few macintosh systems in between hundreds of normal PCs. Those machines looked exotic and students had to register/require permission to use those. I never had the need to use to those during my college days. Then when ipod was released few of my friends were giving wonderful reviews about it,so when Sivaram came to India I asked him to get me one, he got me i pod shuffle which was sleek and easy to use as we can pin to our sleeves. The trouble I had with ipod compared to normal mp3 players was when I connected to PC I couldn't directly copy paste songs from my music folder to i pod but I had to rather add the songs to itunes library and then the player picks it from there, a complicated process. For hearing songs I thought it was a usless process to waste time.

Afterwards apple introduced many products but for my frugal way of life I considered those luxurious and stayed away from those. The only thing I can afford now is the one below.

But whenever I see that I will remember Steve Jobs!

EDIT: I was listening to the speech gave by Steve in Stanford during 2005. Quoting few of his words
"you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the wellworn path, and that will make all the difference."

Wooden swords

2011-10-04T20:43:00.000-07:00

There were lots of weapons on display and I was getting a feel of it. The below was a wooden sword made out out of single piece of wood.

Below you see a woman molting iron to make weapons.

Apart from these stuffs there were also stuffs like making pottery bee hives etc

Dentist in olden days

2011-10-03T19:26:00.000-07:00

Last time when I went to medieval festival I spent most of the time gazing at how people dressed and visited the medieval museum. This time I spent more time in the stalls put up there and listened to what they have to say.There was a stall put up on how dentist worked during olden days.

People in olden days where told there demons inside the tooth and they were told to take proper precautions and should make sure it is not coming out. The tools used looked frightening as you can see hammer crowbar kinds of things used in the tooth if at all a cavity arises. Good we have come a long way from that.

Visit to Medieval Festival 2011

2011-10-02T18:15:00.000-07:00

Its been like I went to the medieval festival 2010 few months back, a year has gone by and I was there back to Tryon park to attend this year's festival. Last year I didn't plan the schedule correctly so I missed few of the key events but this year I made sure I attended those.

Tried taking video with my camera , not sure whether it plays quicker because when I heard it music was little different.

Will post few stuffs in coming days!

Difference in colors

2011-09-29T21:10:00.001-07:00

I went to one of my friends place for dinner yesterday, we were discussing about the color to paint the wall. His wife was listing various colors which I cant even recollect. I remember seeing a picture in internet sometime back and searched for the same. This is how I felt.

Pic for the day

2011-09-28T20:29:00.000-07:00

View of Manhattan's financial district taken from Brooklyn

Philly's Bell

2011-09-27T20:11:00.000-07:00

Phily's Liberty bell is a ding dong bell which was rung to mark the begining of US's inpendence. The bell is also famous for the crack in the middle.

Though I have to been Philly many times and pass through the downtown I have never seen this bell. Mostly I would be having luggage in my hand and will be rushing to catch my bus. So this time when I went to dinner with D and G we walked via the bell's location.

Links I liked

2011-09-26T20:49:00.000-07:00

1)Caitlin's Blog
Remember my friend from US who went to work in Chennai ,she has started writing her blog. I have also added to list of blogs I follow.

2)US Foreign Policy on South Asia
Its a long detailed post about the foreign policy of US with respect to India and Pakistan spanning over the last 50 years.

3)Baby Animals:
I got irritated with google search today as it was always pointing me to open Google+ first, so changed to bing, there was link to search pictures of baby animals and that is what I got.

4)Moneyball Song
Song from a cute 12 year girl from yesterday's movie.

Movies I saw

2011-09-25T20:52:00.000-07:00

When I watched the trailer of the movie Moneyball last month I decided I should see this movie as soon as it got released. The movie was released this weekend and I watched in AMC along with Diana and Ganesh.Written by Micheal Lewis the movie is based on a true story. Movie is about how the business in baseball is done, how money plays an important role and winning is even more important.

Brad Pitt stars as Billy Bean who failed as a baseball player even though he was predicted to be prodigy at young age. When he is the general manager of Oakland A's team he hires an economist to his team, who studies various statistics and hires players on specific individual talents which general people fail to see.After initial hiccups his team delivers and becomes the first team in major league history to win 20 games at a stretch. The movie was well taken with flashbacks in between with right sequences and dialogues at right time.

Ganesh's Birthday

2011-09-24T20:59:00.000-07:00

Celebrated Ganesh's birthday in Philly downtown

The restuarant name was Tequilas serving awesome Mexican cusine.

Ted Talk:6 apps for growth

2011-09-22T19:42:00.000-07:00

Its been quite some time I watched a video from TED. So it was refreshing to hear someone speaking sense
and involves you at the same time. Niall Ferguson mentions 6 major factors which were responsible for growth which made west better that east.

One more thing I feel which was responsible for the growth of West during the 19th century was availability of cheap or free labor they had due to slave trade. The same can be said to the growth of China in the 21st century.

Visit to Brooklyn book festival(2)

2011-09-21T18:28:00.000-07:00

The book festival had lots of stalls and I was gazing through each and every one. Most of them had the author in it signing their books for the fans. Since I am living a frugal life I can't afford new books and rather be content reading from the library.

When I was going through the stands one of the sign below caught my attention h, the author name was Goodloe Byron. He goes around US giving his book for free calling as zero dollar tour. So I picked one book from from there ;)

The book I picked was The Wraith seems like teen fiction!

Visit to Brooklyn book festival

2011-09-20T19:04:00.000-07:00

The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest literary event in New York City and it was held last week. We had various authors writing all sorts genres visiting the festival and signing the books for their fans. Sunday was the last day of the festival and there were few famous authors speaking on that day. When I reached there the place was pretty crowded.

First I went to the talk by Jhumpa Lahiri who was the BoBi Award winner ,the event happened in the church and by the time I was there it was fully packed . She talked about her writing career and about people who influences her writing. then I went to the talk by Chris Lehmann author of Rich people things , he was talking about the US economy and the policy decisions taken by the congress.

Once the talk was over I remembered the Thirukural "செவிக்கு உணவு இல்லாதபோது சிறிது வயிற்றிக்கு ஈயப்படும்" and went on to have a cup cake :)

cup cake shop

2011-09-19T20:42:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday I was in Brooklyn, roaming around in the court area. I heard one of friend said before Montague Street is famous for eateries. Since I had lunch I was not in a mood for heavy food I was looking for a snack shop, then I saw the crumbs cup cake shop, I have seen that in Manhattan before but never tried so went thought of getting one. There were lots of beautiful cup cakes with different colors and flavors making the choice of choosing little difficult. Finally I settled down with Strawberry with chocolate.

It was big and had strawberries stuffed inside and tasted really good. I got a card with 12 stars in it and one checked from the shop mentioning if I had 12 cup cakes the 13th will be free but eating one itself gives the satisfaction which will last for a whole year.

Pic for the day

2011-09-18T19:58:00.000-07:00

Guess the animal

2011-09-17T21:57:00.000-07:00

From the context and size of the content can you guess the animal :)

Pic for the day

2011-09-15T21:42:00.000-07:00

Movies I watched

2011-09-14T20:43:00.000-07:00

There were quite few movies I watched over two weeks short reviews for those

1)Invention of lying:
It was an ideal world in which everybody speaks the truth and they tell what they think. One mans invents how to lie then what happens next is taken in a funny way.

2)Mr Popper's Penguins:
What happens when a group of penguin is mailed to your house. Jim Carrey played his role wonderfully in the movie and the cute penguins made this movie funny. I watched this movie with Navya and we liked it.

3)Mankatta:
Watched this movie with Kannan and Suja, Kannan slept within few minutes ,Suja and I watched this two hours of torture in spite of fast forwarding at many places.

4)Flipped:
The movie is about story of boy and girl ,who were neighbours. Movie goes in two tracks one part =its shown from the perspective of the girl's side and other from the boy's side

Balloon twisting

2011-09-13T19:49:00.000-07:00

Whenever I used to go to central park there would be the balloon twisting person, who would make all sorts of creatures using a balloon. It is a treat to watch his crafty hands at work and within few minutes he would give us the animal we asked for. When Nithila was in Central park last month she asked for a flower with a rabbit to the balloon guy, he twisted and turned the balloon gave one below to her in a short time.

When I browsing through the net today I came across a free balloon training session taken by the famous

Todd Neufeld, I thought let me give it a try.It was a free two hour session starting from 4 to 6pm near Penn Station. I looked at my clock time was past 3:30 ,if I leave immediately I would make it on time.So I sent an RSVP for the event , dressed up quickly, took the subway and was at the place by 4:10.There were around six or seven people waiting for the class to begin. Since I have the apt timing sense the class started as soon as I got in and sat on the chair.

The first hour of the class was how to handle a balloon Todd was teaching about the different types of balloons, how much air we should have,how to bend a balloon and to break it. We have given some hand full of balloons to try it out. After learning some intrical stuffs about the balloons I started making my own stuffs with the balloon. First we were thought how to make sword then an aeroplane hat and finally a dog. Twisting and turning the balloon is easy to do but we need to make sure the sizes are right and pressure is optimum. below are the few stuffs I made my own.

The first is a hat,next is a hand gun and finally a rat!

Milking a cow - Hands on experiance

2011-09-12T18:43:00.000-07:00

When I went to Baltimore farm fair last week, there was a separate section where we were allowed to milk the cow ourselves. Since it was unique opportunity I wanted to try that, since most the people standing in the queue were kids I dragged Navya along with me even she hesistated a little in the begining. After waiting for few minutes in the queue we got the chance to try our hand with the cow. First we were given instructions and then we were allowed to try it out

Steps followed
1)Make sure to secure the cow in a position
2)Place a bucket under the udder
3)make sure hands are clean and apply lubricant to avoid friction
4)slowly squeeze the teats from up to down gently
5)Continue until all the milk is got or when the bucket is full

Precautions
1)make sure you give hay to cow while milking
2)handle the cow gently if you surprise her ,you will get kicked and also get to visit hospital
3)cow can kick the bucket also and you will lose all milk
4)sometimes it can drop big pie in middle of milking so make sure you are prepared for it!

happy milking :)

9/11 day

2011-09-11T19:06:00.000-07:00

Its 10th anniversary of 9/11 and I never knew I would be in this city when it happened a decade ago. Since the memorial is being opened today and lots of VIPs are visiting the site I decided to skip going downtown.
Later afternoon I was in mid town I could see the new world trade center being built. Just wondered its easy to destroy something but rebuilding it will take years. If it takes more than a decade to rebuild a building I was thinking about building a nation, it might take ages!

Happy Anniversary

2011-09-09T19:33:00.000-07:00

Wishing my mum and dad a wonderful 30th anniversary

PS: I am still trying to reach them, let me know if somebody talked with them!

Trip to Annapolis

2011-09-09T05:55:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday evening we went to Annapolis where there was US naval academy, it was almost an hour ride from Baltimore. When we reached there it was crowded and there were lots of boats and yatches docked in the bay nearby.

We went inside the naval academy but since we got there little late almost most of the building where closed. Then we thought have having an ice cream but the best ice cream shop was also closed. The best thing I liked there was the below stick magnet which was available in the nearby shop.

Trip to farm fair

2011-09-07T17:18:00.000-07:00

Last weekend when I was in Baltimore we were discussing what to do for the weekend, I searched for events happening around the city. There was a grand prix race going in the city which I wasn't keen on to check out. There were two other fairs happening outside the city a balloon fair and farm fair. Since balloon fair was for the evening we decided to go to the farm fair.
The fair was really huge with lots of activities for kids,lots of products on display,lots farm animals and with lots of fresh produce. We first checked into the agricultural section where we saw huge pumpkins and water melons which can be served to all people in a village.Then we went to home needs exhibition section where they were selling lots of useful(less) stuffs which will make life easy. From there we started walking to dairy and we could smell the fresh milk. We got Raven berry ice cream which was made of fresh milk. The ice cream was delicious and I have never tasted an ice cream like that. Then we into the stable where we saw cows chickens pigs ducks etc.

After spending quite some time looking at all the animals we moved to food section not the one where we eat but different types of food were on display. We saw beautiful cakes baked,cookies made and lots of other stuffs. There was a pig race but we didn't have time to watch. Since we got tired we called it a day and came back home.

PS:There were lots of stuffs to do in cow stable will write about it later!

Drama at airport

2011-09-06T19:18:00.000-07:00

Vaishnavi my sis had come from Chicago. She spent the long weekend in the city and since I was not around during the weekend we decided meet on Tuesday. It was a rainy day but even hurricane Irene can't do anything to the city what few inches of rain can do. We decided to look around central park. We reached central park around 10 in the morning, it was great day to go to central park as it was almost empty.We roamed around the park for sometime then went to Levain bakery to get cookies and then to have lunch at the dabba near my college.

Her flight back to Chicago was at 4 o clock at La Guardia airport. We started around 2 30 and since the airport is near and traffic was less, there would be enough time to reach the airport. She told that she had to take Delta airlines. I have not taken delta airlines before but I know that Delta has a separate terminal in the airport and the bus reaches there first.

We got down around 3:15 pm and directly went to the departure area as she was about to enter into the security check line I noticed her flight was missing in the long departure list. I mentioned that to her and then we asked the Delta official nearby she told that the flights to Chicago will take off from Delta shuttle terminal which was at the other end of the airport more than 2 miles away. With less than 40 minutes to catch the flight we asked us to hurry up. The options to get to the other terminal was to take free airport shuttle which comes every 15 minutes but since it had just left we had to wait another 15 minutes which we cant afford. Taking taxi was an option but the queue was really long and also no driver would take us terminal to terminal when he could get passengers all the way to Manhattan. So within 5 minutes when a public bus came we grabbed into that and thought we should make to the final terminal in few minutes but the bus was loading and unloading people at every other terminal. So when the bus finally left the central terminal we breathed with a sigh of relief and we would reach the terminal soon. The bus inched forward for sometime and stopped ,we got down and when we were about to walk in we saw that the place we got down was cargo terminal and when we turned back the bus was gone. With 15 minutes left to catch the flight the only option left was to walk with the terminal which was still away. Even the walking had to stop as the pedestrian pathway abruptly came to an end. Now the situation looked impossible to catch the flight , I only hoped for a miracle to happen.

We decided not to strain ourselves by walking sat in the bus stop and waiting for the next bus to come and were thinking about catching the next flight.Out of no where came a taxi with For Hire light on, we quickly
waved our hand and got in,we asked him to hurry up and go to Delta Shuttle terminal, his first question was how we ended up in cargo terminal(maybe he was wondering we were shipped from somewhere). He was telling us he was tired and calling it a day ,he wasn't interested to take passengers back to Manhattan but taking the taxi back home. We thanked him and got down at the shuttle terminal at 3:55. With 5 minutes left we hurried up to security queue,when she showed the boarding pass ,she was allowed to skip the queue go to security check first.I waved goodbye ,she came back and throwed my umbrella back to me.Yea forgot to mention all these things happened in the pouring rain.I saw her running towards the gate and within few minutes I got a call from her that she got in and the flight is about to start!

Moral of the story:
"நல்லவங்கள ஆண்டவன் சோதிப்பான் ஆனா கைவிட மாட்டன்" :)

Temple visit

2011-09-05T21:49:00.000-07:00

Today visited this Murugan temple in Maryland

Back to NewYork after an awesome weekend! More about it later!

Beautiful Cake

2011-09-04T19:16:00.001-07:00

Beautiful Horses

2011-09-03T19:14:00.000-07:00

picture says it all :)

Weekend Time

2011-09-02T19:42:00.000-07:00

August 31st was my last day of the internship and the last two months went really well giving my tiny contribution to the research world. Today I went to the institute to collect the month's pay.

All work and no play will make Sriram a dull boy . So its time for a much needed break. So packed my bags and went to Baltimore for the long weekend.

Weekend started with an awesome dinner with kottu parota,upma and tacitos :)

where is george

2011-09-01T20:38:00.000-07:00

Today I went to grocery store to buy some stuffs , while paying for the stuffs and getting the change I got this one dollar bill.

So checked the website where it before , it was not a long journey as expected but I got it from a person from upstate new york.

Coffee with friend

2011-08-31T22:32:00.000-07:00

Today I met one of my classmates for coffee. She is from New York and has taken up a job in Chennai in a NGO. So she was asking lots of questions about the city and way of life. We talked for almost two hours and I was giving all sorts of scenarios about the day to day life in the city. Yea there will be few cultural shocks when she goes there and starts her work . There are many things which people take it for granted in US wont be easily available there.
Few things I said were in this terms there is no partying after mid night everything closes before midnight. There are lots of good beaches in the city dont ever go there wearing your beach wear. There are public transport but you can't use it for day to day use. How to be careful with with the people who will try to rip money at any given opportunity. We also talked about the weather ,food ,fashion etc etc Then she was asking me where she could find an apartment. I had heard Thiruvanmiyur is one area where expats live and suggested her to live with room mates rather than stay alone in the city.
Whatever I said seemed too little compared to the ground realities she will be facing. Hope she has a wonderful experience in Chennai.

US Open inauguration

2011-08-30T19:28:00.000-07:00

Tennis stadiums are viewer friendly ,even from the last row we get a good view. In fact its better to be little bit away from the action else we need to turn our head left and right to see the action. So when I booked the tickets last I didnt care where the seats were located and since it was the first day tickets were really cheap. Being first had the added advantage as we watched the inauguration ceremony

Mayor Bloomberg inaugurated the event said even Irene wanted the event happen without hindrances. With few musical performance ,firecracker bursts and flag salute by mariners the inauguration went well.

US open opened

2011-08-29T21:11:00.001-07:00

Good to be there on the inauguration day!

Irene- Big Flop

2011-08-28T19:28:00.000-07:00

The much awaited Irene didn't bother to make any major impact in the city apart from breaking few branches off the trees and bringing down few letter boxes. Since I forgot to close my bathroom window two of my shampoo bottles were knocked down but as I had closed them tightly not much damage was done.

When I got up in the morning it was bright outside and I knew that the storm was weakened and decided to check how it is outside. After having my breakfast I ventured out to the nearby river. Wow the sight was awesome the wind and surge from the Atlantic ocean made the Hudson river to flow in the opposite direction. There were few branches flowing in the river apart from few debris caused by the rain. There were few people who had come to see the river. One person looked at me and said disappointing right, I agreed with him I expected some trees to float in the river. He added he is still more disappointed as he has to goto work on Monday.

It was fun to see seagulls trying fly ,with the wind speed the only thing they could do was to fly in the direction was the wind. I spent more than an hour in the river talk with people there and with few people on the phone. Finally came back home when I was hungry.

Movie Marathon

2011-08-27T18:53:00.000-07:00

With hurricane threatening to hit the city around the corner , the whole city has shut down. This is this first time subway system of New York is getting closed as a precautionary measure to avert damages coming from a natural disaster. People who are living in downtown river facing apartments have been evacuated from the city.
Its kind of boring to sit in home all the day long doing nothing. So I decided to watch movies. By the end of the day I watch three back to back movies.
1) Me Myself and Irene
The title suited apt for the day, its the usual Jim Carey movie where you shouldn't look for any logic but just laugh.
2) Definitely Maybe:
Its a story of a met dad telling his daughter on how he met his mother. He starts his life as ambitious young man coming to New York working for the campaign for Bill Clinton and meeting new friends.
3)Trading Places:
This was movie I really enjoyed staring Eddie Murphy taken during early 80s. Two brothers who are owner of big brokerage firm have a bet that money makes a man's character. They hire Eddie Murphy who is a homeless guy as their new manager and fire their present manager by putting false charges and making him penniless. What happens next is told in a funny way.

So here is the picture of Grand Central and traffic around the city. First time I have seen the station empty and road around the city green in color.

Picnic at the park

2011-08-26T19:50:00.000-07:00

The weather was bright and sunny today, since we didn't want to waste the day by worrying about the hurricane we decided to have picnic lunch at the riverside park near our college. Each of decided to bring their own food. First I thought of getting some Indian snacks but I found that I had fridge Russian stuffs in the fridge,so I decided to bring those.

We were seven of us there was lots of food for everybody, one of them brought pita bread with hummus ,Japanese girl prepared a veggie sushi with bean curd which I liked very much, there brownies bread and cheese apart from lots other junk stuffs.

One thing everybody liked was my Russian Cola. Good lunch to end the week.

Pic for the day

2011-08-25T21:38:00.000-07:00

Guess the bird - taken from my work place!

Zoom of my camera

2011-08-24T19:03:00.000-07:00

Last week I was checking how good the my camera zoom works, so while I was returning back from work I few pictures from the Geo Washington bridge.

Below is the normal view

with zoom.

Thanks Sheila ,the camera looks impressive :)

Earthquake in the city

2011-08-23T20:42:00.000-07:00

I was having my lunch in the basement when Diana messaged me "Sriram R u ok? I found it weird and replied I am fine and even tried calling back. My friend tried to reach me then I didnt pick it up. Then we got alarm in our building saying there was an earthquake. Earthquake in New york is very rare and when it struck I was in the safest position underneath the building failing to feel it.

Stuffs I got this weekend

2011-08-22T19:10:00.000-07:00

After browsing through the books my friend took to gifts section where all sorts Russian souvenirs were available. Below were few of the stuffs available in the shop. Can you guess what are they and where its used?

From top left clockwise

1)Russian Chessboard

2)table heat protector

3)The famous Russian Matryoshka dolls

4)Tea nesting doll ( used to cover your morning tea)

5)night lamp

6)drinks brewer

Since all the items were way above my budget limits I happy just to take pictures of them.

From there we went to Russian one supermarket as she told Russian cookies made there are really famous. When I entered the shop there were lots to choose from I dont what choose from those ,finally ask my friend to select the best among the lot. She selected the one made with layers of waffles with cream which tasted good.Then there was something like are bajji but stuffed with potato paste ,it was so big and when I finished it my stomach was full.

Then we went to shopping the super market, since I needed to buy food for the week I thought why not try different varieties. First my friend took me to cheese section and asked what cheese you eat I proudly said Philadelphia cheese ,she asked how can you eat packed cheese and took me to place where fresh cheese was available and after tasting 3 or 4 varieties finally I narrowed down on one. Then got German butter dont know what special in that. Got Turkish bread ,Ukraine cola,Danish muffins and few other stuffs

Good thing about this shop was all these food items where cheap so bought a bagful.

Trip to Russian book shop

2011-08-21T18:02:00.000-07:00

This weekend I went to Coney island with my class mate , after going for few wild rides we decided to go the Brighton beach area where there are lots of Russian stores. Since my classmate did her schooling in Russian she was keen to go this place. We saw a Russian book store and she said she will show some of the best Russian collections.

Once inside I saw different sections and there not much for to look apart from the front cover as everything else was in Russian.There was section called bilingual which was interesting because the left hand side was written in Russian and its english translation on the right hand side. It would easier for people learning the language to read these books.Then I found that all great writers like Shakespeare, Dickens to the latest books by Paulo Coelho translated in Russian. There were also the book of famous Russian authors like Leo Tolstoy Alexander Pushkin etc Then there were biographies of famous Russian people like Lenin,Trotsky,Rusputin etc. My friend was telling me all the book she read during college days and how much importance the Russian literature were given importance in their school curriculam. It was my first experience to go into a book store finding my as an illiterate.

Movie night

2011-08-19T21:07:00.000-07:00

Since the weather reported predicted there might be a thunder storm in the evening we decided to go to a movie to begin the weekend. Then we were discussing what movie we should see since I ran out of gold amc passes and had only silver passes with we had to watch a movie which is two weeks old.Given our choices from the showlist we could see only one movie which suits our taste. It was horrible bosses.

When we started from the home it started pouring and we were almost drenched before reaching the subway station.We reached the theater 30 minutes before the screening got some snacks from the nearby shop and went to the theater. Being a friday night the hall was packed ,we patted ourselves for coming early and getting good seats.
The movie was about three people who are having terrible bosses and given the economic conditions have to live with it. They get frustrated at one point decide to kill their bosses and hire a hit man to do so. Things start to mess up and it is a laugh riot after that. We enjoyed the movie and it was a good start for the weekend.

Reading on travel

2011-08-18T18:57:00.000-07:00

Books are best companions and we can take them where ever we go. Best time to read a book is during the travel. This should have in practice for a long time ,to prove this I came across this statue of Lincoln in our institute in the middle of apple orchid . We can see him reading a book while riding a horse.

Movement against corruption

2011-08-17T19:17:00.000-07:00

With anti corruption movement gearing up in India I steadily keep myself updated with whatever happening there. There were some interesting videos posted and had good dicussions with my friends in facebook. There were arguments that the movement is pure blackmail against the government to get things done but it wasn't a blackmail as government had plenty of time to negotiate on the table.
Government handled the whole issue badly first appointing the five member commitee from the ruling party alone, second changing the bill given by the civil society upside down replacing the bill to be piece of joke. The best thing would have been to get bill introduced in parliament had a discussion among the political parties and made amendments which were necessary.Arun Jaitley explained the opposition's view excellently in the parliament. Government has caught itself into a cobweb finding difficult to come out it.
I commented in one of facebook post "Since we dont have right people in power to make right policies, we now see people on the streets demanding politicians to implement policies which will be beneficial for the country" Hoping the best happens for India!

Cooking time

2011-08-16T19:23:00.000-07:00

This summer I started to cook slowly as I had some free time and my cook didn't have enough customers in our area as most of the students are away from the city.Another main thing is the location of the place I work. Its in middle of a national park with the nearby restaurant is not near by in walking standards. So apart from eating salads in the cafeteria a better option was to cook.

Cooking is not new to me I have done it in Trichy as well as Cochin. First I started with Indian foods such as tomato rice fried rice etc.Then started making the easy ones like pasta spaghetti macaroni noodles etc. I also made Spanish rice and red bean rice.

Today after coming back home I thought of doing something different. I decided to make Quesadillas and checked I had all the necessary items in the kitchen. First I fried all the veggies and beans in the olive oil. Then toasted the tortillas stuffed the veggies inside and sealed. It was as simple as I said. Now I remember why I restrain myself from cooking because of the delicious taste I always end up eating more.

Independence Day

2011-08-15T12:43:00.000-07:00

Today after lunch I was in an eternal mood , my supervisor came to desk you never told me an important news. I was wondering whether he was mentioning about the aloo paratha I had for lunch. Seeing my blank look on the face he said congratultions for your 65th year of Independence.

Oh yea it is Independence day today but is it an "Independence day" with me coming to office and working hard :)

Cartoon I liked

2011-08-14T19:40:00.000-07:00

Midnight at NYC

2011-08-13T21:59:00.000-07:00

Sathi and Surya came to NYC along with D and G. We roamed around central park, had dinner at Indian restaurants and finally spent the midnight at times square.

Above is the the picture of times square at mid night!

Dino in the sky

2011-08-12T18:24:00.000-07:00

Took this picture yesterday!

Movie night

2011-08-11T21:15:00.000-07:00

In summer we have many movies screening in different parks of the city. One I found worth watching was in the Brooklyn Bridge park in Brooklyn. The screening was called movie with a view overlooking the Manhattan skyline. The movie shown today was Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Audrey Hepburn one of my favorite actress.

Knowing that it will be crowded we went there a 30 minutes early but even then the lawn was fully packed but we squeezed in between little place available in the middle of the lawn. When we looked around most of the people were busy munching something, my Eastern Europe classmate commented going for movie in their country is a culture but here people come to eat. Anyways I told her to enjoy the movie and the view.

The movie was taken in 1960s in New York where Audrey Hepburn play a role of New York socialite with a sole aim of marrying a millionare. Her neighbour is guy is a struggling writer who is trying his luck in New York. The movie is about the complicated relationship between two of them.It was fun to watch the movie in Open air theater bringing memories of many movies I have seen in Trichy club. More than the movie the view of Manhattan skyline was really wonderful. I patted myself for choosing a good park to see the movie.

Book I read

2011-08-10T19:19:00.000-07:00

When I was in the border's stores looking for books to pick, I found the book Marley and Me. I have seem this movie two years back in Chennai and really enjoyed the full movie. Its about a naughty dog and the troubles it brings along pictured in a funny way. Since the book is always better than a movie I thought I will read the book.

The book was ridiculously funny and I laughed loud at many parts while reading the book , my room mate would have thought I was crazy laughing alone. The book was well written and hilarious along with toughing parts embedded all the way. One of the good reads this summer.

Work Authorization

2011-08-08T18:28:00.000-07:00

Today my room mate gave me mail which had come during the weekend. I was curious who would have sent me mail. I was from USCIS giving me authorization for an year. With the card in hand its time to search for a job :)

Visit to book shop

2011-08-07T20:05:00.000-07:00

Its been more than a year I got books for myself, after becoming a student I usually get books from my college library or NYPL. Today one of my friends was shifting her room and asked me for help. Her new place was near the Penn station and I knew of Borders bookstore near that place. Since the store is going out of business it was selling the books at dirt prices. So after helping her out I went to this store spent more than two hours there and got few books.
Now I should get back to reading my new book!

Movies I watched

2011-08-05T20:32:00.000-07:00

1)District 9:
In my work place they arranged to screen a movie today afternoon. It was a science fiction movie about aliens setting down from the outer space.They live friendly with the human beings but they are evicted from the place due to some misunderstanding. I couldn't watch the movie for more than 30 minutes as the movie was gross and filled with bloody violent scenes

2)Crazy Stupid Love:
My classmate wanted to see this movie,so after I finished the job we went for the evening show. It was good to see an house full crowd in the theater.As the title suggests the movie was crazy and stupid and we laughed all the way through the movie.

Edit:
3)Midnight in Paris:
It is a Woody Allen movie which takes place in Paris. Owen Wilson stars as a budding writer and want to live in Paris. At mid night he travel back to 1920s of Paris and meet the famous people of the era like Ernest Hemmingway, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso etc. Funny movie well taken.

Dinner at friend's place

2011-08-04T22:24:00.000-07:00

My Serbian classmate invited me to dinner at his place tonight. His fiance prepared wonderful food for me starting with a wonderful porridge then baked sandwich and ice cream. Coming back home after four hours of chit chat!

scam mails

2011-08-03T18:30:00.000-07:00

I used to get lots of spam mails but this was the first time coming from a facebook , first there was friend request from a girl posing as if from my university then a message in the facebook.

Thx for the add the other day on facebook. Im sorry for it taking me so long to email you. I just was wondering if you could meet me? Sorry for me being so blunt but I just had to ask because Im really tied up with classes and don't have a lot of time for much more, but anything can happen.. Btw if you maybe ever want to grab a bite to eat or something I would be up for that :) I know that I said I would send you a few photos of me but... I could not get it to go through, so I just decided to put them here on my page: Goto my page. Email me when you get on there with your user name and I can allow you access to my photos.

xoxoxo,

Also, Pls dont give out my pictures they're only for you :)

The go to my page linked to spam website asking to pay money to become a member. It is funny to see how personalized spam mail have become.

New York 19th century

2011-08-02T17:48:00.001-07:00

Took this pic in national arts gallery in DC last month

Fact I read

2011-07-29T19:28:00.000-07:00

Movies I watched

2011-07-28T19:46:00.000-07:00

Over this week I watched few movies

1)Its a Wonderful Life(1946):
Its classic movie about a young man who sacrifices his dreams to pursue a career his little home town, due to unavoidable circumstances the bank he owns is about to face bankruptcy and he plans to commit suicide. At this point a fairy is given the job of saving his life. Then what happens next shows importance ones life. A lovely movie do watch if you get a chance.

2)From the Ashes(2011):
Its the 30th anniversary of England winning the Ashes series against Australia. Shows how Ian Botham single handedly took home the trophy. Narration was good with apt match clippings and wonderful background music.

3)Harry Potter 7:
Finally series comes to end ,not good as the book but can watch for time pass.

4)Delhi Belly:
just started watched this movie becuase it was Amir Khan production but couldn't stand it for more than 30 minutes,

bubbles

2011-07-27T17:43:00.000-07:00

There were those buddle making solutions in the science museum, it was beautiful to see large bubbles coming out of the rings but alas there were those little kids not giving me a chance to let me try.

After waiting for quite sometime the little boy was taken away by his parents and finally there I am making a big bubble from the ring!

Science Museum

2011-07-26T18:45:00.000-07:00

Saturday to avoid the heat outside we decided to go to science museum situated in the Corona park. There are lots of activities to do with science principles built behind it. There were experiments with lights mirrors which were quite interesting. Below is the one is like a passage way but its just two mirrors

Then there were those funny mirrors room showing us in different sizes and shapes sizes which I have seen before but the one below shows as if we are in air.

There were lots of interesting stuffs in the museum and as usual we didnt have time to check each and everything there.

Testing my strength

2011-07-25T19:19:00.000-07:00

Exclusive trip to METS

2011-07-24T15:28:00.000-07:00

My classmate told she wanted to visit Alexander Mcqueen collection in the METS museum. I asked her who is that artist. She gave me shocked look and asked you don't Alexander Mcqueen he was the king of the fashion industry. "Oh I see ok I will give it a try". She told "Do get ready early and we should be there in the museum at least by 10.

Sunday getting up early and going to a fashion exhibit didn't excite me much and when I got ready and finally reached the museum it was 11. Once we entered the METS we saw a huge queue to see his collection and my classmate was giving me I told you so looks.

The queue in the above video is not even half of it and we had to wait for two more hours to finally get to see his collections. His fashion styles were way above normal sometimes weird and colorful with heels being almost a feet long and dresses made out of feathers shells etc. I liked the way the presented the exhibit with pleasant sound in the background,wonderful lights to show the beauty of the dresses and well placed reflecting mirrors. Since photography was not allowed I couldn't take any pictures but here is the google image link for few of his collections.
Our legs were literally broke once we finished seeing his collection ,we headed straight to cafetaria had our lunch and headed back home.

Summer time

2011-07-23T17:35:00.000-07:00

Last days few days are blazing hot with tempeatures hitting 40C, taking humidity into the picture it feels like 44C and even the short walk to the bus stop makes the body exhausted. One of classmates came to city from DC for the weekend,she told me to plan the weekend ,given the fact outdoor activities are not possible I planned to goto a museum which is in the Corona park in queens.

First we stopped near in the Corana park fountain ,we could see the water directly evaporating from it. It was awesome place to be before we walked our way to the museum.

My first pay check

2011-07-22T18:03:00.000-07:00

Today I got my first pay check for the research I m doing this summer. In fact this is the first time in my life I was given a pay check as in the previous job, salary would be credited to the account. Its always a wonderful feeling to have that small sheet of paper in hand which gives the satisfaction for the month long work we did.
You feel different to spend the money you earned and spend the money you got from others.As soon as I got back to the city I deposited the check in the nearest bank and started thinking of ways to spend it effectively.
Now its time to enjoy the weekend :)

Ocean maps

2011-07-21T18:14:00.000-07:00

Today after lunch I was feeling sleepy as usual, my supervisor inheriting the same feeling from me told lets go for a walk around the campus. He was telling me the place has a historic importance of the place. During the early 50s they used a ship named RV(Research Vessel) VEMA which sailed a million miles while transecting the world's oceans for research under the flag of Columbia University.

It discovered important spots in ocean like Vema Seamount and Vema channel. It also collected the samples under the oceans which is used for research all over the world. He show us the place all over the world were the ship partnering with respective countries.Though the vessel has been sold after 80s and replaced with a another vessel with equipped latest technology, the eagle emblem in front of the ship is kept as a memory in the institute.

My experiences in the funny world

~~My life so far~~

~~Resume vs Reality~~

~~I 'm Back~~

~~Thought for the day~~

~~Pic for the day~~

~~Alexander Hamilton final post~~

~~Alexander Hamilton's house~~

~~Alexander Hamilton~~

~~Fault Line~~

~~taking pictures~~

~~Weekend Read(2)~~

~~Weekend Read~~

~~Mail I got~~

~~halloween kids~~

~~Snowy mess~~

~~View from my apartment~~

~~Movie I watched~~

~~NY METS~~

~~SRI KANDA SHASTI KAVACHAM~~

~~Happy Diwali~~

~~Diwali Sweets~~

~~Living in India~~

~~Link~~

~~Pic for the day~~

~~Grand Army Plaza~~

~~Room keeping~~

~~Walk across the George Washington Bridge~~

~~Trip to Quincy Market~~

~~Parade and shooting~~

~~Boston Statues~~

~~Boston Buildings~~

~~Fall Colors~~

~~Movie I watched~~

~~Pic for the day~~

~~Steve Jobs~~

~~Wooden swords~~

~~Dentist in olden days~~

~~Visit to Medieval Festival 2011~~

~~Difference in colors~~

~~Pic for the day~~

~~Philly's Bell~~

~~Links I liked~~

~~Movies I saw~~

~~Ganesh's Birthday~~

~~Ted Talk:6 apps for growth~~

~~Visit to Brooklyn book festival(2)~~

~~Visit to Brooklyn book festival~~

~~cup cake shop~~

~~Pic for the day~~

~~Guess the animal~~

~~Pic for the day~~

~~Movies I watched~~

~~Balloon twisting~~

~~Milking a cow - Hands on experiance~~

~~9/11 day~~

~~Happy Anniversary~~

~~Trip to Annapolis~~

~~Trip to farm fair~~

~~Drama at airport~~

~~Temple visit~~

~~Beautiful Cake~~

~~Beautiful Horses~~

~~Weekend Time~~

~~where is george~~

~~Coffee with friend~~

~~US Open inauguration~~

~~US open opened~~

~~Irene- Big Flop~~

~~Movie Marathon~~

~~Picnic at the park~~

~~Pic for the day~~

~~Zoom of my camera~~

~~Earthquake in the city~~

~~Stuffs I got this weekend~~

~~Trip to Russian book shop~~

~~Movie night~~

~~Reading on travel~~

~~Movement against corruption~~

~~Cooking time~~

My life so far

Resume vs Reality

I 'm Back

Thought for the day

Pic for the day

Alexander Hamilton final post

Alexander Hamilton's house

Alexander Hamilton

Fault Line

taking pictures

Weekend Read(2)

Weekend Read

Mail I got

halloween kids

Snowy mess

View from my apartment

Movie I watched

NY METS

SRI KANDA SHASTI KAVACHAM

Happy Diwali

Diwali Sweets

Living in India

Link

Pic for the day

Grand Army Plaza

Room keeping

Walk across the George Washington Bridge

Trip to Quincy Market

Parade and shooting

Boston Statues

Boston Buildings

Fall Colors

Movie I watched

Pic for the day

Steve Jobs

Wooden swords

Dentist in olden days

Visit to Medieval Festival 2011

Difference in colors

Pic for the day

Philly's Bell

Links I liked

Movies I saw

Ganesh's Birthday

Ted Talk:6 apps for growth

Visit to Brooklyn book festival(2)

Visit to Brooklyn book festival

cup cake shop

Pic for the day

Guess the animal

Pic for the day

Movies I watched

Balloon twisting

Milking a cow - Hands on experiance

9/11 day

Happy Anniversary

Trip to Annapolis

Trip to farm fair

Drama at airport

Temple visit

Beautiful Cake

Beautiful Horses

Weekend Time

where is george

Coffee with friend

US Open inauguration

US open opened

Irene- Big Flop

Movie Marathon

Picnic at the park

Pic for the day

Zoom of my camera

Earthquake in the city

Stuffs I got this weekend

Trip to Russian book shop

Movie night

Reading on travel

Movement against corruption

Cooking time

Independence Day