Hello doston,
Maine socha having a place where we can post (links to) and follow the fun stuff goin' on around the country would be a really cool idea. (I like taking ze credit. Sorry Ramya :-) ). It'd be cool to have a substitute for the dinner-time chatathons, plus we'll have a bunch of stuff by the end of this summer.
To set the ball rolling, a quick update on my trip to NY. I stayed at my friend's home where, Allah be praised, his Mom was visiting from Kerala. It'd been a six year deal that his Mom'll treat me to Idlis the day we meet. She stuck to her word, and Inshaallah, they were worth the wait. We headed out to a Jazz club where a really cool sounding guitarist was strumming away. We shelled out a cover charge, (I'd never pay that much 'cept if I was on a hot date. In the future! :-) ) enjoyed a great performance and headed out through this overflowing party zone to a big park where a million guitarists were sitting out in the open sky-high on the fun stuff and strumming away lustily. Some wandering fellas wanted to know really bad how we were doin' and if we wanted some more fun right there; it took a lot of persuasion to convince them we were there just for the music.
The next day we packed our bags for Long Beach, spent a couple of hours, and established the truth of the matter as to which of the oceans has warmer waters this time of the year. Continuing the musical theme of the trip, we watched the NY Philharmonic perform Summertime classics from the last century. The best part was when the conductor would go through a detailed story and then look for the plot in the following performance. There was a beautiful piece on the Elbe river, where they started with two flutes for two streams that join and part and join again with the sound of raindrops falling in the background, and on it went until it passed out of the country with a flourish...Amazing!
We went back home to find a journalist waiting for us. Turned out he was working on a story on which books people've felt a connection with, so we'd an impromptu interview. Now if you see my pic on Rediff someday, you'll know who to hunt down :-).
My friend, Manish, then took us out to this Gujarati restaurant (a veggie place, Ramya) where they seat you in a really nice setting and bring out three loaded courses for dinner. No menu, no choice, no nothing! Just lean back and wait for the goodies; and eat all you can. Highly recommended! I've put up some photos here.
Apart from that, I like this place. It's thickly wooded and has nice trails to ride around. There's the IV of Princeton univ nearby and as for work, there are a few new projects starting up, so I'm pretty much charting out my own path. सब लोग मस्त मज़े मैं हो, इस आशा से यह ख़त यहीं समाप्त कर्ता हूँ। अलिव्दा ।
Maine socha having a place where we can post (links to) and follow the fun stuff goin' on around the country would be a really cool idea. (I like taking ze credit. Sorry Ramya :-) ). It'd be cool to have a substitute for the dinner-time chatathons, plus we'll have a bunch of stuff by the end of this summer.
To set the ball rolling, a quick update on my trip to NY. I stayed at my friend's home where, Allah be praised, his Mom was visiting from Kerala. It'd been a six year deal that his Mom'll treat me to Idlis the day we meet. She stuck to her word, and Inshaallah, they were worth the wait. We headed out to a Jazz club where a really cool sounding guitarist was strumming away. We shelled out a cover charge, (I'd never pay that much 'cept if I was on a hot date. In the future! :-) ) enjoyed a great performance and headed out through this overflowing party zone to a big park where a million guitarists were sitting out in the open sky-high on the fun stuff and strumming away lustily. Some wandering fellas wanted to know really bad how we were doin' and if we wanted some more fun right there; it took a lot of persuasion to convince them we were there just for the music.
The next day we packed our bags for Long Beach, spent a couple of hours, and established the truth of the matter as to which of the oceans has warmer waters this time of the year. Continuing the musical theme of the trip, we watched the NY Philharmonic perform Summertime classics from the last century. The best part was when the conductor would go through a detailed story and then look for the plot in the following performance. There was a beautiful piece on the Elbe river, where they started with two flutes for two streams that join and part and join again with the sound of raindrops falling in the background, and on it went until it passed out of the country with a flourish...Amazing!
We went back home to find a journalist waiting for us. Turned out he was working on a story on which books people've felt a connection with, so we'd an impromptu interview. Now if you see my pic on Rediff someday, you'll know who to hunt down :-).
My friend, Manish, then took us out to this Gujarati restaurant (a veggie place, Ramya) where they seat you in a really nice setting and bring out three loaded courses for dinner. No menu, no choice, no nothing! Just lean back and wait for the goodies; and eat all you can. Highly recommended! I've put up some photos here.
Apart from that, I like this place. It's thickly wooded and has nice trails to ride around. There's the IV of Princeton univ nearby and as for work, there are a few new projects starting up, so I'm pretty much charting out my own path. सब लोग मस्त मज़े मैं हो, इस आशा से यह ख़त यहीं समाप्त कर्ता हूँ। अलिव्दा ।
2 comments:
What kind of fun was that guy offering exactly ;)
Oh, I regularly get my doses at the emergency care ;-)
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