Bad News

One of my all-time favourite blog is Creating Passionate Users by Kathy Sierra and in her latest post, she is thinking not to write anymore, WHY, read her latest post here - Death Threats against bloggers are NOT 'protected speech', which she wrote after receving death threats, abuse and sexually-explicit comments & pictures on her blog.

I never thought, you had to be afraid to speak your mind on a blog. Lend you support to Kathy and her blog.

Cricketing News

Its the ONLY sport we play on world level and its not a great news for the millions of cricket fans in India. Yesterday, we lost again in the crucial match of cricket world cup to qualify for the final 8 and now rest our of hopes of making it on an unlikely defeat for Bangladesh by debutants Bermuda on Sunday . If you are still wondering, what is cricket, read on wikipedia.

I am not ardant fan of cricket, used to be, but still feels bad that we can't even make it to top 8 in the ONLY sport we play and now a days, it seems all about money. No harm in making money from sport but its has crossed the limits where money is over the game. The equation is somethin like this probably, play local level exceptionally good, earn a spot in the national team, play some good games, make millions of bucks from fees and ads and forget the game.

Worth mentioning

Here is a great link for all TV, Animation, Music & Movie addicts, to watch your fav. shows on broadband anytime .. Enjoy .. Click HERE.

Back in Dublin

Yesterday, I arrived back to Dublin, after a 3 weeks stint in Delhi. There was so much to write about while I was there, about the city itself, changes happening in Delhi (flyovers everywhere, metro, roads), rising cost of living (inflation, Malls), awesome food (street food, new joints, home-made), traffic (didn't try to drive my bro's new car), so n so. But offcourse, I didn't feel like writing anything, my laziness had taken over.

I am already missing the good food

Back to pasta now :))

Back Home

Its been long long time since I have been home in Delhi, finally I am back and the feeling is beyond words.

Arrived home (delhi) on 1 March, met family and friends, celebrated holi (a festival of colors), gorgeous food (even the street one) and lot n lots of changes in the city itself (will write on it later) and chilling out.. the weather is very pleasant.

MOVED

, originally uploaded by xion.

Few weeks ago, I posted about sharing some news, forgot about it myself :). But now time is ripe, so here it is.. Last month (after a wonderful & never-ending free time in Munich, trips across europe etc.). I decided to take my new research job and hence move to Dublin. From the land of famous german beer to the land of equally famous Irish beer and pubs :)), DUBLIN. Have heard a lot about the city in recent years, so expectations are high. Till now, in last 6 weeks, things are smooth, ok red-tapism is everywhere.. but the transition has been smooth. Can't say much about the city from my point view, still have to explore it. But it def. has a vibe to it. And yeah, the weather changes so equickly .. even before you can open your eyes. Enjoyin' the start, n hopefully will write more about it in coming weeks or months or years.. as it goes.

As per Munich (can't finish without mentioning it), its still like next to me, n will be forever.

And finally, I am going to Delhi next week for a month.. relaxing times.. and the good food :)

Craic

Feb. fav. - flickr

The Living Rainbow, originally uploaded by | HD |.

Make your life as colorful as this little guy!!

Post Colonial Takeover

Probably, you heard of another Indian Steel (after Mittal Steel took over of Arcelor) company Tata Group taking over the British company Corus after a bidding war between Tata and a Brazilian firm CSN, if not heard, here is an interesting article about it, but in a different prespective, HERE.

Update (6 Feb. 2007): NY Times Article.

No Matter What

yeah, no matter what, vista is gonna kick ass :))

Read it HERE

25 Million Indian Rupees

wish i had won ;-), thats the money won by Shilpa Shetty in Celebrity BB

Hopefully everyone knows Shilpa Shetty by now due the HUGE controversy the Celebrity Big Brother house created in last few weeks for its racial comments. I am not going in the discussion of racial or not. At that time, I told my friend, She is gonna win this thing and that too by huge margin. And that what happened. So much in the name of reality TV.

Road Trip

Just a few pics, more on flickr ->

You shud know this :)

Milan Castle

As I mentioned earlier, the beautiful settings of Lake Como and Belagio. For recent ref., the latest Bond movie, was shot here, when he was recovering from enjuries :)

So what, if we cudn't skii, there was HOOOOTERS in Interlaken. We (not me) had like a 30 chicken wings at 1 AM in morning, after dinner n several beers. Jao is unbeatable in it.

Here is Jao, I bet he is unbeatable in eating Chicken Wings, I hav never seen anything like that. After dinner, and several beers, he had like 2 dozen chicken wings. And imp. thing - didn't throw up ;)
Once more Jao, somewhere along Lake Como, in summer this place wud be un-matchable

Small incident/accident in swiss, actually both are side view mirrors were hit by the time we finished the road trip :))

Thats it..

French Honour

Not for me, but one day it will be.
But untill then, yesterday "Amitabh Bachchan was awarded France's highest civilian honour, the Legion d'Honneur". News Here.

Woh Woh

its been so so long since I wrote something. I feel bad now :))
I do have somethings to tell all, but it has to wait a bit more, so in the mean time, I will say something about Italy.

During xmas, we made a road trip across Austria, Italy and Swiss. Italy was a welcome surprise, I just loved the place, architecture of the cities, culture, more so FOOD, COFFEE and SWEETS & ice cream (best i had). We visited Verona (of the Romeo Juliet fame), Venice (everything I say for this city would be less, Amazing, loved every moment I spent there, def. once again), Milan (highlight was the Leonardo DaVinci's original painting "The Last Supper", the feeling of being in the same room as DaVinci was ...), heading over to Lake Como and Belagio (beautiful settings of the alps and lake, a must visit in summer).

Not to leave, Interlaken and Zurich in Swiss (but no snow) and Innsbruck in Austria were great fun too.

cheers 2007

cheers, originally uploaded by Tsjeu.

Hope everyone had great start to the new year. This was most probably my last New Year in Munich as a resident, off-course I would be back for more :). Its a been a wonderful last few years here. We had a great dinner n celebrations yesterday.. Thanks Silvia, Grace, Herwig n all others for making it very special. 2007 is bringing a change for me, which I would post about soon. Till then, keep it safe and make some resolutions :))

emerson - words to live by

emerson, originally uploaded by susafri.

A friend on flickr posted this image. Wonderfully said quote and a guiding light for the new year for all of us. Wishing everyone a wonderful and prosperous New Year `07.
*Cheers*

Amsterdamed

Few weeks ago, I visited Amsterdam with a bunch of my friends and I damn I was Amsterdamed to the limits ;))

Just Arrived

Familiar Shot

Oldest and one of last few coffee shops serving alcohol too

Any ideas??

On a boat, some of them look so high ;)

More Pics Here. Anytime of the day, this city has no limits.

Munich News

Lot of you might have heard of the "Free Hugs" campaign, which became even more famous with this video.

It reached Munich on Dec. 16. I missed it thou', its a great campaign with all this fightin and stuff going on in the world. Cheers for the organizers.

Secondly, for those of you who have visited Munich, most probably sometime for sure while walking down the Marienplatz area must have seen an old man playing piano "rock n roll". A thread on toy-town-munich has been started as the piano has been spotted abandoned near the area. More Info here.
Pic. courtesy: jiformales (flickr)

Finally, I made it there

DSC_0063, originally uploaded by Mohan S.

After years of staying here, I never could made it to Schloss Neuschwasnstein. Finally last week, we drove there. The castle's location is just awesome, surrounded by Alps, Lakes, Plains; but the castle itself from inside is nothing spectacular. But again, it was worth the visit.

Time Person of the Year 2006 is YOU

and ME. Congratulations :))

can't get it out of my head

i am not a great shopper, I don't have the patience to go to every store and look for something I like. Since last month or so, I have been looking for some shoes, went to several stores in Munich too, mostly I don't like them & freaking expensive.
Finally while surfing flickr, I came across some shoe pics; and since then I can't get them out of my head. Searched several stores, even went to Hamburg (they have a store but no shoes :)); the only place they are available are zappos.com and they don't ship internationally.. f***; for all that web 2.0 crap and online stuff. **very annoyed**
it always happen, first i don't like & if i like somehthing.. can't get them, as some of you who worked at SCR with me last year might remember, it took me 2.5 months to find a pair of shoes.. same story ..
crap .. crap .. f***
damn, why can't i get them in europe .. any knows any store which might sell them online n ship