~~Resume vs Reality~~

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

Source: doghousediaries

~~I 'm Back~~

will post when I have time here after!

~~Thought for the day~~

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~~

This weird object is in the river side park!

~~Alexander Hamilton final post~~

   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~~

 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~~

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~~

  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~~

  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)~~

  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~~

 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~~

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PS:

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~~halloween kids~~

  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~~

  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~~

  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~~

  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~~

  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~~

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~~

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~~

  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 :)