~~Check this out~~

From one of our professor at Columbia university ,watch till the end,you have a surprise!

~~TV Show I watched~~

After a long time I had time to watch TV, my room mate was browsing the channels and we saw coming up next "Gordan Ramsay's Great escape" a series by Ramsay on his quest to discover the delicious history behind his favourite cuisine. Any guesses its the Indian cuisine!

Having seen few of his TV shows earlier I wondered how could he maintain his temper interacting with the Indian people. But the show turned out to be real fun he travelled to places from Lucknow to interior Chattisgarh to Rajasthan were he tried out different dishes.Interacting with Indian people is another thing.One good quote he said was good cook never sees recipes but use their intutive skill to make the food great. An hour flew away as I really enjoyed the show.



After the show I talked with my room mate and the topic was about the food, since Saturday was fast approaching we called up our cook and said to prepare Aloo paratha for this weekend :)

~~Courses for the next semester~~

Today we got a mail regarding the courses we are going to take for the next semester.Below are the courses!

Microeconomics & Public Policy
Macro for Economic Policy Management
Development Economics
Accounting & Finance
Econometric Techniques for Policy Managers

apart from that I have to take an elective which I have to decide later this month!

So its gonna be six subjects full and full economics!

~~Light at the end of the tunnel~~

I literally found what light at the end of the tunnel really means - waiting for the train at a subway train which reminds me of India many times as trains never come on time ,tracks infested by rats and the whole station is crowded. And we when we see the light of the train at one end of the tunnel it gives such a relief.

~~Newyork city population:facts~~

I was just checking the population details of Newyork city,got few interesting details, the city's population 4th largest in the world (ie) larger than any of the Indian cities and almost sum of the population of Los Angeles,Chicago and Houston,the 2nd 3rd and 4th largest populated city in USA.Also the population in the city is more than that in 39 US states.Manhattan's population density is 66,940 people per square mile (25,846/km²).Mumbai's is just 22000/km.

Apart from the above details one important fact I found was the population of women in Newyork city is higher than that of the men by 375000,that means I have lots of choices!

~~Sealion show~~

Few pictures of sealion show I saw yesterday !


On to the stage acknowledging audience response!


Crawling like a reptile


Dancing to the tunes!


Final Salutation!

PS:If I get a trainer like that I would also do all these stuffs :)

~~Visit to Coney Island~~

After going to Queens for one weekend I decided to go to Brooklyn this time. At the far end of Brooklyn lies a picturesque place called as Coney Islands. This place houses the oldest Aquarium founded 1896 which has some exotic varieties of sea animals.There is an amusement park which has one of the oldest roller coasters in America built in 1927 made entirely of wood which makes lots of noise and vibrations making it a different experience.


I looked into the subway map and found that train F goes directly to that place,I took my downtown train an transferred to F.Once on board heard the driver saying that the train is rerouted to Queens,so I had to get down in the middle and transfer to a different train,seems I have mastered in using New york subway.Once I reached the destination I came out of the subway just to note that it was raining and as usual I had left the umbrella at house. Then I waited for Prabu who had to transfer 3 different trains before reaching the place.Since it was raining we decided to explore the aquarium first ,there were lots of fishes few I m seeing for the first time.There was a sea lion show which was wonderfully choreographed.Then went on to see shark,string ray,jelly fish etc.


Once we were done with the aquarium we went to amusement park and only thing we had in mind was to try the roller coaster ride.Prabu made sure we get into the first two seats to make the ride was more exciting.Oh man that felt more like a suicide mission than a ride and being in the first row or wobbly sound and vibration from the wood didn't help me to feel better.Once we were done we decide enough of venturing into anymore rides as none other can match this thrill.


Then we took a stroll in the beach I expected a lot from that place but since weather played a spoil sport had to be contented what is left.After enjoying the cool breeze we decided to leave.On the way back we took the same train and Prabu had to get down at 9th Street station, the driver announced 9th street I told Prabu down and later realised that he had to get down at 4th Av 9th Street station.Poor guy got down at middle of nowhere and it took him 2 hours to go back home!