Grand Central terminal altered my view on train stations. Normally my vision of a busy train station is a depressingly crowded place with hordes of impatient people. While it has it's fair share of crowds (the largest train station in the world in terms of platforms), the shops that line it and the random artists that perform in there make it a welcome change. We saw a dancer doing Billy Jean and a violinist performing Beethoven's spring.
Pic 1a: Grand Cental Terminal, New York
Pic 1b: Grand Cental Terminal, New York
Pic 2: Time Square, New York
Pic 3: Annie, Hemmant and Navin, Time Square, New York Drove back to Annie's place Friday late night, dropped her off and then made to Boston to Hemmant's place.
Saturday was a 'stay-at-home' day. Cooked some vegetarian fare, couldn't exercise my inner carnivore, Navin being a vegetarian. Tried three dishes - dondakaya veypudu, cabbage potato curry and koduguddu pulusu, goults will know exactly what I am talking about. At the risk of sounding boastful, must say it turned out pretty decent. Thanks mom for the training and recipes.
Played 'Age of Empires' the whole day after lunch. B.T.W, we are pretty geeky about this game, would play this for hours. We have tried more recent versions of the game and others, but this one is a particular nostalgic favorite. We used to network to play this game. What with our cries of 'Kill him da', 'Get him' interspersed with the 'Aiyo Aiyo' of the priests and the 'dishum dishum' of the helipolis, I thought we would bring Hemmant's neighbors down on a not so friendly visit.
Pic 4: Swans, Reservoir by Hemmant's place. BostonAnnie joined us Sunday morning. Took a walk by the reservoir by Hemmant's place. The swans above were showing off quite a bit, mooning us off to at times, okay, maybe they were just looking for fishes.
Took the 'T' to Harvard university, had lunch there.
Pic 5: Exhalted gates to Harvard, so to speak
Pic 6: Memorial Hall, Harvard U
Took the 'T' to Harvard university, had lunch there.
Pic 5: Exhalted gates to Harvard, so to speak
Pic 6: Memorial Hall, Harvard UTook the T back to Boston Commons to start off the New Year's celebration kick-off there. The city organised these events called the 'First Night' celebrations, you can get into these fun events with just a 15$ badge. After a round of 'Patron' tequila (my fav) in a local pub that wasn't taken particularly apreciated and a Absolut Screwdriver later, we headed to the fireworks and dinner. Vijay joined us for a brief time.
Pic 7: Boston Commons
The First night activities were fun, watched an African drums band performance that turned a bit too didactic for my liking, a Jamaican band that was just great, an extempore Improv that was really quick-witted and part of a film festival. Navin tells me later the movie we watched was 'Curse of the Golden Flower' - really dramatic Chinese action/drama movie.
Pic 8: Bring it on! fireworks to kick-off the new year
Pic 8: in exhalted company, i'm the only one in the pic who wasn't working on a Phd
Pic 9: No competiton - Moonlight wins over Streetlight
Pic 7: Boston CommonsThe First night activities were fun, watched an African drums band performance that turned a bit too didactic for my liking, a Jamaican band that was just great, an extempore Improv that was really quick-witted and part of a film festival. Navin tells me later the movie we watched was 'Curse of the Golden Flower' - really dramatic Chinese action/drama movie.
Pic 8: Bring it on! fireworks to kick-off the new year
Pic 8: in exhalted company, i'm the only one in the pic who wasn't working on a Phd
Pic 9: No competiton - Moonlight wins over Streetlight 
1 comment:
Dei a wonderful account da, it is funny how you mentioned our place as somewhere between Boston and NY!
You have not eaten my cooking hence those disparaging comments!
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