Potluck over @ Apple

Hi,
there was a potluck last weekend and here is a snap of yours truly hogging it out ;)
anyhows loads of samosas, added with a hundred from my side made everyone cry out , no more samosas please ;)

I guess they said it..

Here goes :D

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What is a Klien Bottle ??

Klien Bottle .

How the alphabet came about

This is how the Alphabet came about.

The Tragedy of Julius Santa

Well. This is " Julius Ceaser" redone with a Christmas twist. So now it is Julius Santa. with Brute being played by Rudolph the red nosed reindeer. Also there is Marc Anthony, a worthy successor to Santa Claus' tyranny and yet Rudolph is an honorable man ;)

Saw this play this weekend, Had gone over to help out in the staging and setup of the annual fundraiser for the Affordable theater company in San Jose. Cool Stuff,

Came back with a miniature of Rudolph ....

good times...

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No Gravity (Xero)

Xero Gravity

Still movie ???

Still Movie

Awesome Stuff, hard to beleive that someone would shoot a movie in stills and then stitch it together.

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funneah lol

Funneah

Awesome

Woooooo

Shoreline Blvd

Hi,
Here are some shots on the shoreline Blvd, Mountain View.

outing at the Half Moon Bay...

Hi,
a few shots from the outing that day,....

More pics of the car :) aka gadi

Hi, Here are more pictures of the car as promised last time around :)


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It is here

wow ! that was quick ... my licence is here :) yay ... party time ;)

Thanksgiving weekend is here as well. :) work tonight and then party :D

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mere dost

Have created another group, where you can add yourselves to make a more complete map :)
cheerio

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Frapper.com

Hi guys,
I have created a gang website for dce gang. it is interesting stuff.
check it out. It is the link on the right hand side just above the counter.


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German...

New thing to do for the next two months. Learn a bit of german or rather de Deutsche,

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license to drive :)

Hi,
Finally managed to get meself a pakka license in this place :) took a while but i am finally there :O

cool runnings now :)

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Meri naye Gadi

Hi All,
here is a look at the latest acquisition by me :) Just got this baby home :)
better pics are on their way :)






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realization

Realization just dawned on me ! My logic circuits are kaput ! gone ! they have been replaced by this absolutely crazy system of living la vida loca style ! I used to be logical. Able to see the different sides of things. Now I am unable to see past my nose, if the solution was hitting me on the top of my head, it would be a tough thing to for me to see, realize and act upon. what can all this mean ! Maybe that life can be interesting and lead to boredom at the same time. Life can be great and in the dumps at the same moment. Life can be monotonous and exciting simultaneously. Kind of a quirky twist to life but then that is just what life is. I need challenges as a plant needs water to survive. I need a mountain to climb, if lucky someone will let me. I need an ocean to swim, only if people realized I could swim. I need to fly... soar up in the sky .. if only if ... I had wings
...
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Happy Diwali

By popular demand :)

Me at Lake Tahoe :) here you go D, the whole pic :)

Cheeiro

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Birthday - 12-Oct-2005

Mera Birthday :) me with a huge chunk of milk cake being thrust down my throat.


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Me, You and Everyone We Know

a true Human interest movie after a while.... offbeat... distinctive... and oh well funny in parts :)
great job Miranda July :)

Me, You and Everyone We Know

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Wallace & Gromit

Hi,
Well my birthday yesterday and celebrated it by watching the Wallace and Gromit movie :

Wallace and Gromit


more at
Curse of the Were-Rabbit
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me at the Presedio

Me at the Presidio

Airshow

Hi All,
Here is a look at a few of the cool fotos at the airshow last weekend :)



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I drive......

Haha ,
now is this smthing to crow over.. welll i do no know. Apparently in golf a driver is the toughest to master in terms of direction. and the irons are the easiest. I work the other way with me hitting the woods over 200 yards and absolutely straight. and me hitting the irons all over the place. looks like will have to get my irons into play more and more and ofcourse have my short game which is nothing to write about over here.

and yes hit a +28 in my last game.(over 9 holes of course) at the
BLACKBERRY FARM GOLF COURSE


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Google Personalized Webpage

Similar to my page at yahoo.com. This is new stuff at google with personalized webpages. check this out at :

Google for you

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Fast (Navratre)

Well.... the last day of the fast dawns upon us today or is it tomorrow :)
i am still unsure over here :)
anyhows has been a fun week of fasting with me cooking food : read making chapatties (kuttu's atta - if someone can tell me what exactly is this made of :) ) and then from Singhada ka atta ( Buckwheat flour ).

room - mate was kinda concerned on seeing me fast and he started eating more so to ensure that he did not fall ill just watching me fast ;) ( just kidding...)

well now that navratre are almost over, i can get back to life as we knew it, though I think this too was quite nice and very much a healthy cleansing experience .

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Preparation :)

Preparation :)
Originally uploaded by vivekgera.

Actual Cooking

Actual Cooking
Originally uploaded by vivekgera.

More Preparation

More Preparation
Originally uploaded by vivekgera.

The finished Product

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Originally uploaded by vivekgera.

me with the Finished Product

Halwai and me ????

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Originally uploaded by vivekgera.

Flight Plan

Well.. went for FlightPlan last weekend. Nice outing with the entire office group joining in the fun, here is the pic :)


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Golf nirvana

Hi,
Went golfing over the weekend. not really too good at it, though first day at a course, so I expect will get better with time.
Patience is one thing which I am looking at in this particular game and I hope it teaches me that.
anyhows a great weekend well spent :)
cheerio
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Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

The river runs thru it (Russian River)

Well this trip of mine reminded me of this movie that I watched a while back called the river runs through it". A really deep movie about fly fishing directed by Robert Redford. really a must watch movie.
Cheerio
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Me @ SBC Park (Home of the San Francisco Giants) Part -2

Here I am again looking more pensive than i would think was possible :D

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Me @ SBC Park (Home of the San Francisco Giants)

Here I am match between Phillies and the Giants. Giants got thrashed. quite possibly their worst match ever, but then was the first time I was ever seeing them live in action :)


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Sun screen.. very important before canoeing

Hee hee. I am here putting on the sun screen :)
before the canoeing trip./

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Mera Joota hai South African

Hi :)
My new shoes :)

Cheerio

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Canoeing trip

Hey hey hey..... .:D
went a canoeing this weekend and will be uploading some pics from the trip.
Place Russian River.
time: 4 hours
Temp: Entirely tooo hot.
Distance: 10 Miles .
Experience: Pretty much ok :)
Compared to White water rafting.. not even close.
Enjoyment quotient: HIGH. :))
Cheerio
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Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince/.

Hi There,
Finally got my hands on some more of the Harry Potter series this week. I guess this is not as gripping as the last set which i finished in 3 days flat, and 2 days into the book , and I am still 100 pages into the novel.
Not really my style to spend so much time on a single book, but I guess it is the Calvin and Hobbes intruding on my reading space which is essentially causing such a problem.
:)
anyhows liff as we know it is gud. .... :)
cheerio
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Calvin and Hobbes....

One of my all time favorite cartoon strips.... hence decided to catch all the books this month:

Starting with The Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons. Stay tuned to the latest on this :)

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Nature....

Flower...

Night Shots - 3

A look at I-280. interesting the interplay of lights here :)
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Part 2 - Night Shots

Wet wet wet :) makes a nice impression does it not :)

Night Shots

hi,
This is the start of the series featuring some of the night shots i have been taking :)

Check this scene out (taken in front of my house)

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just musin....

Why do we feel that we can implicitly trust people? Why the urge for some people to be totally paranoid about something and for others to be naively trusting?
I am thinking it is because essentially we are all children at heart. Such an outlook is understood when you look at a kid taking the first steps and learning to walk and if you see a baby/child trying to come to terms with water when exposed to a swimming pool for the first time.
The first contact of water and the first steps into the unknown are all tinged with joy and glee, yet the fear and the ignorance of the unknown is still there, hidden behind the twinkling eyes and the wide smiles(grins).
As you grow up you gather further knowledge and smile and laugh as you try and take on the further reaches of the unknown from you. But it is the childhood innocence which is always there when we are presented with the doubtful and the uncertain. .....


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Apple - Mighty Mouse

I though you might enjoy this. To the livesaver dude.

Batman begins

Wonderful awesome work done by Christian Bale. one of the two best portrayals i think of the whole series, in fact. Michael Keaton is the best definitely . since he brings out the true darkness of the dark knight. Liam Neeson was awesome as the baddy. At last a bad guy with nothing wrong with him except a warped mind :). Ever wonder why every one of the villians in Batman movies have some wierd costume on or the other, rather even the hero wears a cape, But the villian of the piece here does not don nothing, except a mask/a disguise :)
anyways do not forget to catch this movie. definitely a must see :)


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Life saving activity @ the pool

Hi All,
Well, kudos to me :D. Managed to pull this guy out of the pool, call the paramedics and get him breathing (.. well somewhat) till the time they arrived all in the matter of 20 minutes. this is how the story goes.... Dude is drowning on the other side of the pool. I go over to that side to see wtf.. is going on. Then this kid next to me says that the dude is drowning ... I am like ok let me go see what is he doing at the bottom of the pool. I realise he is not doing much down there and is managing to do that without moving. DING>>>>> i suddenly realise that this is definitely not good for the dude's health and make it down there to pull him out( with assist from another dude). Then get him out of the pool somehow..(heavy fellow!! ). This dude is not breathing at all at this point. I give him some chest compressions and ask if there is anyone around who knows CPR. apparently nobody did and I am not really that knowledgeable about these matters of life and death myself and found me dialing the paramedics. Well they talked me through getting them over there and on how to assist this guy breathing. In the meantime this dude who teaches swimming in the pool arrives and I thankfully hand over the charge to more experienced hands. I am talking through to the paramedics now.. who arrive there in a few minutes of the call to give the dude further attention.
Well thankfully .. a life is saved .. and mebbe there was a purpose in me staying back this long after all :)
cheerio
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my current desktop

My Current Desktop .... courtesy Art Lebedev :)

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Art Lebedev

A new link as seen to the right of this post, is one of the most innovative designers/pages I have had the chance to come upon :)
anyhows go to this website and have a look around.

Russian design was this good, I never knew :)
Cheerio
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Beyond a Salmon of doubt :)

Well yes , finally got my hands on the last outing by the great Douglas Adams : The Salmon of Doubt. A posthumously published collection of his work. Amazing stuff culled from his hard disk with stories which were to become his next novel.
More up when I am done reading it :)

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BBC has used one of my pics

Hi All,
Check this out BBC has used one of my pics:

link as below:

Mera Picture BBC ki web site pe

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Dell Woes....

Did not know dell could give a date so late for delivery. Ordered my stuff on the 4th of July and they went ahead and made the ship date as 28th of September.. Go figure.. out the equation, cause I for the life of me cannot figure it out :D


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Abstinence....

Hi All,
Been abstaining from NON-Vegetarian food and Alcohol now for over 3 months now :) please give me a hand / a huge round of applause for having made it this far :D .
I AM SO PROUD OF MYSELF...
you will understand when I say this .. considering that I cannot put my mind to much nowadays ;)

cheerio
Vivek

One of the first

One of the first pomes of mine hits the limelight here in A View from Without :)

Why Me:

What is it that we are trying to prove
we with our sights we only disapprove
of all the things that go wrong in a day
thinking that life should only go our way

Do we ever stop to look at a blind man
or hear the yells and shrieks of a mute
Do you ever stop before you walk past a lame man
or try to explain yourself to a mute

Why is God so unfair and unjust
gives sight to some and to others only trust
Why does he work the way that he does
is a mystery to almost most of us

He gives us all an opportunity, a stance
to make the best of it, if only by chance
if only to make us a better man or beast
to make it through life; an adventure in the very
least

To attain heights, to seek new goals
to make it for a hundred and one hopes
that may or may nopt be pinned on you
the day you go out to give what's due

To finally understand the meaning of life
and your place amidst all this strife
to truly become aware of the dream
is the purpose of all or so it would seem .......

Vix
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14th March 2003

My Pix.... new link on the right

Hi all.
i have added a new link to the right and you can access the photo adventures with me on my various sojourns and outings :)
cheeiro

and like vittal said... i do a lot of travellin.....

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Shasta Lakes and Caverns

Hi Catch the Shasta magic over at

Shasta Lake

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gizoogle it....

Hi All,
I am including here a look at how snoop would have written my page :)

A View from Without(Snoop Doggy Dogg Style)


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Oregon - Crater Lake

IMG_0768
Originally uploaded by vivekgera.

Crater Lake - Oregon.. Did not expect this to be much to look at after Lake Tahoe.. But then it did surpass my expectations to be one of the most beautiful lakes I have seen for a long while.

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New Look ???

DSCN0220
Originally uploaded by vivekgera.

New Look ????
temme how y'all feel. ??

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Aman' Birthday

hi,
talked to Aman and appu this weekend after what seems like ages. They both seem to have taken to Chennai quite a bit and waxing eloquent about the ECR, which over here means an Emergency Change Request.... which kinda got me all worked up about the work involved and all.. .before I realised they meant the road. Anyways was nice talking to them after such a long while.
...
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Past, Present and Future

Well... am back after a short break, work and travelling was keeping me busy with loads of stuff. Anyhows am here now. What have I been doing, well travelling at a breakneck speed all over the bay area for one....
Finished reading Mi Moto Fidel..
bought a Powerbook :) well that I guess makes me a complete Mac convert ;)

Went ahead and finished The King of Torts by John Grisham as well :)

Completed One month of Vegetarianism :) went 2 this place yesterday called Fresh stuffings or smthing. Had enough ghaas phoos(salad/vegetarian) in one evening to last me a lifetime. However am unfazed about the setback.. not quite a setback but very nearly put me back on the path of non-vegetarianism. I thought i heard some chickens committed suicide to avoid this fate, but then I cannot be sure of what I hear on the grapewine ;) .. anyhows decided not to go ahead and make the day of all those people betting on how long can I last without meat. but I am gonna be proving them wrong ;)
did I realise that it is tougher to be a vegetarian or rather that I should have tried converting to vegetarianism in perhaps India, where it is infinitely easier to convert than over here in the US. well I guess I just love a challenge.

Planning to take up roller blading today now that my back appears to have healed :) wish me luck ;)

Dhar was here in town a while back ... great meeting him after all this while. had a great time catching up on some of the shit that happened to each of us and would have loved it, if he was here for a longer visit, but then cannot really go ahead and have everything now can I .
anyhows will log off now have been writing for quite a while now :)
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Well... here it is

DSC00026
Originally uploaded by vivekgera.

Well.. here it is, my new Powerbook :) the first unveiling of my new Powerbook.
cheerio
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Hydro-therapy.... & its benefits

Hydro-therapy has been the saving grace for the past 2 days. It has been helping out in pain relief and god knows how much would it have helped.

Fact:
The therapeutic effects of warm water treatment include lowering of blood pressure, fatigue relief, faster tissue repair and pain relief.

here is a transcript from a webpage that i referred to a while back:

Spa therapy for lower back pain

Lower back pain is the number two reason in New Zealand (after colds and flu) for a visit to the doctor. Thousands of people suffer needlessly.

For many years Europeans have used spa therapy (soaking in hot baths of mineral water) as an alternative treatment for various chronic diseases. Yet, the effectiveness of such therapy for chronic lower back pain has not been well documented.

In 1995, a study published in the British Journal of Rheumatology offered evidence that spa tub therapy aids both short and long term benefits for people with lower back pain.

A later study, published in the Journal of Rheumatology by a group of researchers in France, sought to confirm these results and quantify the overall benefits of spa therapy.

After three weeks of consistent spa therapy, examinations showed more improvement in the health status (as measured in pain duration and intensity and back flexibility) of the spa treatment group than in the medication only group. After six months, significant improvement continued in the spa therapy group. In addition, their use of analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs had decreased.

aarrggghhhh...

Well, three days now.. out of commission .. basically this back of mine is never gonna let up. It is excrutiating pain and then some. I would not wish this upon my worst enemy. I really feel I should take more care of my self, however it is just that I am so lazy. Maybe it is God trying to tell me something. please wake up and smell the coffee. I have not done that for a while now :) Then i see the amazing stories of Gloria estefan and how she came back after a bus accident had taken her back away from her. Her grit and determination make me feel incomplete and a loss to life in general. Mebbe I too should take inspiration from her and move on. Get my ass moving and onto something worthwhile in life.
anyhows that is me and this is now :)
cheerio
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Long time ...

Long time no see. deja vu. Meeting with friends after a long time is fun and lot of times you quite do not know what to say. But then today was fun meeting up with an old friend after nearly 10 years. good times to roll and all that and was quite nice.
:)
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Brothers in arms...

Well tennis pics seemed to be missing for some time and well here is one, and I think I should have uploaded some more much earlier. But then blame it on the time issues.


Anyways here is the pic.

cheerio
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Inline .... Skates and Me

Well finally i think about time that i posted my inline story. well got the skates in pristine condition and they do fit me well. However. the issue i do not understand when I am nearly 4 inches taller... I am in a better position now to appreciate the people who kept reminding me that it is not one of the best sports to take up at such an age. anyhows am here now and have to take this sport up.



Yeah and by the way.. that is me ... just with a beard :)

Cheerio
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Life in the fast lane...

Well, Bro is gone back and is currently in london; if my calculations are correct. ENZAY the brit scene dude :)
anyhows am here all alone now, and might have to rethink what to do with my time now ;)
cheerio
Vivek

sahara..

A really timepass movie with a load of action and un-real scenes.. like doing the Panama.. a whole heap of lame jokes and ofcourse the mandatory female lead in Penelope Cruz. Totally unreal and miscast is what i term her being in the movie. However as I said... good tp....
anyways not a powerful movie and a total masala movie....

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????

Why are we here? what is it that we seek? is it not enough that we have our own expectations to measure up to/ that we have others as well .... The questions just keep coming my way. and I wonder why it is that I have so much to care. So much to think about and so much to be. So much of myself to give; in this short span of time that is LIFE.
Maybe I think too much sometimes. Mebbe I dream too much at times.... I need something in life and mebbe I want it too quick. which is it going to be. what is the credo we live by. what are we trying to achieve here. the mad mad rush from one place to the other, single minded distraction just leading us astray. Maybe We were never meant to be too much in life. mebbe We were just meant to be...just be... nothing else.....

when will the answers come? when will I ever know? what I was put here on earth to and what next. it is a thought which occupies me now,. what next rather than what now. I know whats now, it is the next that worries me. I need to know what the future brings on to me. I need this to understand, whether now is worth it or rather is "worth it" worth the time I put in now.

Anyways,.. view from without....(thinkin outside the box)...
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Comeback of sorts ....

Well... have been out of touch with tennis for a while so was taking my time hitting some god... aweful.. shots.:) but then yesterday was superb comeback. Playing with my bro.. trailing 2-4 in the final set... Won 4 games on the trot to make it 6-4. It was a sweet victory with the points being contested hard and fast. Spent nearly 20 minutes getting the lead in the 4th game with the deuce and advantage saga being reenacted in the very next match again. before moving into the fast gear to fire in a couple of aces to finish off the match .... :)
good fun tennis is at all times....

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Eyeballs counter

Cool.. so finally managed to put in the code for the counter to the site. :) much better than sitemeter in the sense that it give a more representative figure of the number of people who have visited the site.

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I am a cheeeessseee????? ( I am mozzarella! )

Tech Museum @ San Jose

Tech Museum Day @ San Jose... Well check out the link on the right. I will be uploading some more stuff some time later....
Cheerio

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Robots - IMAX

Well, one thing learned. IMAX you need to catch at the very last row. It is definitely not the greatest of ideas to sit in the 18th row and watch it. I say watch it from at least another 20 rows behind and IT WILL still not make a difference.

ROBOTS: Well you see it is a mixture of Jazz and Funk .... ie JUNK :) yep really good stuff coming from 20th Century Fox, Ice Age.. and now this . well let us hope that they keep us so entertained as have done Pixar for the last decade.

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Downfall

A very powerful potrayal of Adolf Hitler: his life and his passionate hatred for the Jews. Superb film. Took nearly 3 hours to go through the thought process' and the deliberations that make up HItler. German subtitles tho- some words just jumped off the screen and really made you think about what persecution the Jews had to go through and how terrible and horrific war can be. Nearly 50 Million people died in World War II and nearly 6 Million Jews died in the German Concentraton Camps. It is tough to imagine that all this happened less than six decades ago. We are certainly very fortunate to be living in these times and I hope that this is a lesson not forgotten easily : that discrimination and hatred serve no purpose save the destruction of the very essence of life...

ps.
Also one of the best theaters I have had the chance to go to in the Bay Area: Cinearts Cinema.


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Why are there eighteen holes on a Golf Course?

In Scotland, where golf got started, golf courses were originally designed with a varying number of holes, depending on the size of the parcel of land that was available. Some golf courses had a few as five holes. The most prestigious golf club, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of Saint Andrews, originally had twenty-two holes. On October 4, 1764, which contained eleven holes out and eleven holes in, was reduced to eighteen holes to lengthen them and make the course more challenging. In order to codify the game, eighteen holes were adopted as the standard after the Saint Andrews model.

Adapted from David Feldman “Life’s Imponderables”


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strange but true...

It's widely known that Alexander Graham Bell beat Elisha Gray to the patent office by a mere two hours with his application to patent the telephone. However, ten years after Bell's patent was issued, patent examiner Zenas Wilber admitted in a sworn affadavit that he had taken a $100 bribe from Bell, had taken a loan from Bell's patent attorney, and had given Bell the complete details of Gray's caveat. Hmmmm....

Source: Inventor's Digest, July/August 1998, pages 26-28.

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Clock is up and running...

Hmm. Now have the clock up and running.... on this page. am thinking whether should add india timing as well.
well... will need the feedback coming as well if I have to do so ...

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Lake Tahoe

Shores of Lake Tahoe
Originally uploaded by vivekgera.

On the shores of Lake Tahoe

million dollar baby...

Really not one of the run of the mill movies. pretty hard hitting and all that. well the movie was great and now i realise why the oscars are being handed out to the movie. the name of the movie does not really make you realise well that is an Oscar Name :) but then then you got to hand it to Clint Eastwood and Hilary Swank for some pretty amazing performances :)

Rating - hard hitting and wow.... definitely a must see...

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Moi @ archery

Moi @ archery
Originally uploaded by vivekgera.

Moi @ archery as well...

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Bhayia @ archery

Bhayia @ archery
Originally uploaded by vivekgera.

This is archery at the very best guys, me and Bhayia went over to stanford where we were transported back to the yesteryears of mahabharat and ramayana, which we used to enact :)
nice and enjoyed a lot . got a lot of bruises to my arm due to the string hitting me everytime i let go of the arrow but the pain was lightened by the number of bullseyes I managed to get :)

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Kyun ho gaya na.......

Well, watching an Aishwariya movie after a while which I am actually able to enjoy, This is after the debacles as.... Shabdh & Chokerbali... What can I say.. I think I do not watch enough good movies.. or that Aish Rai makes some funky movies. anyhows..
well then off for the weekend I guess.. pretty soon gonna start some photo blogging which should be a change from the crap that I sometimes come up with.

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Y the subtitle....

hmmmm interesting Q. here. welll.. it all goes back to this attempt of mine to enlighten the lives of the people around me by starting this newsletter called thesun. referring to the timing of the editions. but then a couple of puns later we had..... the sun of the beach.. pun intended or not ..... well it is up to you to decide.
anyhows... thats that.....
let us have more action... over here and set this up as a major forum where we discuss the sun, the beach and the like......
guys.. wot say get the gang in here....

cheerio

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sum changes to the look

Hi,
am making some changes in the code over here so am still struggling to get everything right. So let us see. have added some more links on the right column..
and will be adding some more as and when time permits....
cheerio

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Trekkie

Ha.. a first over here in the Bay area. with me goin on my first trek today. Went over to the Muir Woods National Preserve. Awesome place, well first missed an exit and instead of the Golden Gate bridge, did the Bay Bridge... well not much lost except for 2 hours and of course managed to visit another point not previously covered in my sojourns in the Bay Area.

.... GOD... my feet are killing me...
anyhows have to sleep now..
work is over for the night took some time but then still managed to get it all done...
its a wrap..
cheerio

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Sleep rulz......

slept for 12 hours yesterday.... needed it desperately... More of the same coming up today. so should be bubbling over with energy and vim as soon as i am done with this cycle of sleeps :)

cheerio
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Hectic........................is life

Well.. life has been hectic as hell... for the past few weeks and more so for the past few days. I am in a daze now and i need a break to recover. .. not that I'll get any but then whats the harm in asking. right? anyhows need a change any change.,.... i don't care what it is . should get me to think a little more. there is no time to stop and think and to see where my life is headed or where it has been. :)
damn life is beautiful.

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wow amazon is fast........

I ordered an item like, on the Jan 26th and it already here on the 28th morning. Nice and quick. i am blown away.

thanks ..... Amazon.

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email successful

Email blogging has now been tested and it is working good. so i guess will not have to log in to blogspot to write in everyday, I can just send it through the e-mail.. thats nice.
:)

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Testing

Test message incoming from the email world. interesting thing..

Rgds
Vivek

My New Phone - the HP iPAQ h6315

got meself a new handy.......impulse buy and it is keeping me good company :)

check this link out below:



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Need a title for this poem wrote it here in the US. so let us what suggestions i get:


I don't want to leave my life unattended
Though some times I just might have pretended
To lead a life as though I mean
That I am someone else or so it may seem.

As I walk down these streets in a line
Of what could have been yours and mine
Of what dreams may come and go
I just watch the life just flow

There was a time when I thought life would
Take a change and lead me to good
Or rather to what was better meant for me
But strangely that was not meant to be.

It is interesting how life turns out
If you just watch and wait it all out
Passivity might not get you anywhere
But its a way of getting there.

Sometimes I say Carpe diem,
Sometimes I say seize the day
But then interia hits me to the plexus
Knocks me cold and I sit here in Texas

Looking at the way the world goes by
As I just sit here and wonder why
Why oh why does it always turn out to be so
I'll make a change I will someday ofcourse.......


Vix
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06-Jan-05

Vivek Gera

Vivek Gera
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Me @ Boston (This is right across from Harvard)