Because I sometimes meet people who look me straight in the eye and say 'Oh yes I talk to animals and plants. For that matter, even spirits if you want to mention that.'
Because on the same day as the 'spirited' lady I meet a couple in a mud home that looks straight out of Architectural Digest (ok, with a rural edge) who do not waste a single drop of rainwater.
And because when the house is asleep and I turn to God Google to provide me with life's answers (read search results/story ideas), I come across amaziung stuff on all purpose grinding machines called Veetamma Yantram and egg boilers designed by 15 year old kids. Or a Boiled Tea Making Machine for Customised Taste by a Haryana lad who spends his meagre income on innovations and a Kerala girl you may have read about, who built a washing machine that also works as an exercise bike.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Lost...
...and also confused. As to why on earth did I spend 699 rupees (on Dan Brown's latest. Knew I shouldn't have. In fact, as I approached it in Crossword, it gave out strong vibes that clearly said DON'T BUY ME I'M A MARKETING TRICK but being a non-believer in powers of the mind like Langdon I did anyway. Nateeja? Sardard aur badhajmi.
From labouring through Langdon's never ending lectures and remembered conversations and examples and illustrations of all those symbols and magic squares which you must mentally try to solve but cannot. Also from googling Noetic Science and hidden chambers and tunnels of Washignton DC and of course from reading the book late into the night(s) and desperately thinking okay, just three more pages, maybe something earth shattering really will happen this time. It does. In page number 509. The book comes to an end.
Sleep now. And if you can't, read http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/sep/15/lost-symbol-live-reading-dan-brown
From labouring through Langdon's never ending lectures and remembered conversations and examples and illustrations of all those symbols and magic squares which you must mentally try to solve but cannot. Also from googling Noetic Science and hidden chambers and tunnels of Washignton DC and of course from reading the book late into the night(s) and desperately thinking okay, just three more pages, maybe something earth shattering really will happen this time. It does. In page number 509. The book comes to an end.
Sleep now. And if you can't, read http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/sep/15/lost-symbol-live-reading-dan-brown
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Images from holiday...
Spotting 'Nemo' at the Museum of Natural History in DC
Vintage models at the Air and Space Museum, DC
How my son usually finished most of his food
Niagra ya Naya Agra. I shall forever wonder why Indians do transatlantic travelling to eat Paneer Makhni and Butter Chicken
The lights over the falls at night were quite neat though...
Moment of calm at Central Park
Boats opposite MIT campus
Playing Bob The Builder at Boston Children's Museum
The tyke goes wild at the waterpark
Pumpkin spotting...
...and blueberry picking with the kids at a farm near Marlboro
The right way to sleep after a few beers...spotted outside a pub in Boston
An old marketplace, now turned into a food court
Dregs of an evening in DC...
Gotham City
Vintage models at the Air and Space Museum, DC
How my son usually finished most of his food
Niagra ya Naya Agra. I shall forever wonder why Indians do transatlantic travelling to eat Paneer Makhni and Butter Chicken
The lights over the falls at night were quite neat though...
Moment of calm at Central Park
Boats opposite MIT campus
Playing Bob The Builder at Boston Children's Museum
The tyke goes wild at the waterpark
Pumpkin spotting...
...and blueberry picking with the kids at a farm near Marlboro
The right way to sleep after a few beers...spotted outside a pub in Boston
An old marketplace, now turned into a food court
Dregs of an evening in DC...
Gotham City
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