Memories of Halloween party - 2004

Thanks to Lucas, Meg and Kiran for arranging such a fabulous halloween party and thanks to rest of troop for joining the party and making it a success.

Place: Kiran's Place, Apt #226. Austin. We had wonderful halloween party exactly an year ago. I wore dementor costume. It was fun party where people enjoyed a lot with drinks, dance, and music. I was busy taking pictures and dancing. It started at around 10 pm and ended at around 3 am early morning...



Place: 6th Street, Austin downtown. Day after the Halloween party, there was a halloween parade on 6th Street in Austin. 6th Street is known for parades, Pubs, Dance clubs (Not recommend for students, by professors)... On regular weekend people come here to drink and enjoy the party environment on this road. The roads of this street is closed for vehicles during weekends. On halloween parade most people form a group and dressed according to theme, few as star war troop with Jade`, Yoda, and some in Justice League, some as disney characters and so on. Some individual were also were special attraction as the above Zombie. Most of the young cute girls wore flower dresses... and Looking at a person (Picture below) I thought some are extreme, dressed and behaving themselves as cops and having a bike like cop does - woh thats the cooling thing in US to do, but I was wrong, when I was told that he is a true cop monitoring the parade, I hope he didn't see me taking his picture. Anyway Enjoy the pictures...

Sweet memories of Halloween party... :-))

Summer palace Adventure - Part 2

Place: Summer Palace, Beijing, China.

During this visit, I had to climb a small hill, It was worth the effort I had put to climb the hill... Got to see many interesting places and temples. Initial climb was not so steep and later we followed people (As the saying goes, when in Rome, do as Romans do) and trekked to top of the hill with great effort, Janata took shorter and more steeper path to reach at the top. I was really amazed and didn't knew that I could do this. I have taken this as some sort of motivation for my next adventure "Great wall of China" this weekend.

After climbing, we visited Buddha temple and prayed for our needs and "World Peace"... Buzz word, isn't it? I prayed for my safe return to India after my onsite assignment.

Outside the temple there was this magnificent view of City on one side and lake on the other side. Couldn't resist taking snaps. We spent some time taking photos of each other and were enjoying the view. It was really pleasant experience.

Check out for part 3 (final part of Summer palace)

Summer palace Adventure - Part 1

Place: Summer Palace, Beijing. This is the corridor in Summer palace, interestingly its 700 + mts long (nearly half a mile) and it has the painting done through out. In this picture you can see some of the horizontal wooden bar which are painted. At regular distance there are kinda rest areas. Picture is shown below. Along this corridor there is lake shore and on the lake there is a monumental structure. Sorry, Don't know what is it called, as I didnt had enough time to see all the places. Planning to visit once more and will update then.

Glimpse of ShanGhai - Fastest Developing City in the World

This is just the glimpse of ShanGhai, China - This City is one of fastest developing city in the world. As far I have seen, the modern architecture of buildings are more advanced than what I have seen in US (New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Etc). The Roads are better here, but unlike US, there is huge traffic but its moving traffic.

While traveling for Medical tests (Compulsory for every expat who lands in China), I just had glimpse of Downtown. I think its one of biggest downtown, I have ever seen apart from Manhattan.

Traveling in Taxi/CAB is pretty cheaper and affordable. I didn't have enough time to explore other places in ShanGhai. If I get some time during my stay in China, I would definitely like to stay in ShanGhai at least for a week and enjoy roaming around.