Beauty shall thy be called 'Yosemite'

Of the many places I've seen so far, 'Yosemite' has been the one which made think I should visit again. Even after couple of trips, I Still feel like going there. No wonder John Muir visited this national park so many times.

Of the snaps I've taken there, couple of them I really cant forget & would treasure them. Even if I see them now, I am engrossed in the beauty of the scene. Especially ,the yosemite falls taken from the meadows, it just happened that the two of these taken during each visits just matched exactly.

Mysteries

After moving to Bay Area, happened to visit these two places, 'Winchester Mystery House' & the 'Mystery Spot at Santa Cruz'. Pretty interesting to know their details, hard to believe but its true.

The following videos sum up everything what I want to say. Of course, these aren't mine, a link from youtube. Check my pictures, but you may not understand anything out of these snaps till you visit these places.

Fotos: Mystery Spot & Winchester Mystery House

Websites: Mystery Spot & Winchester Mystery House

Longest day of my life

22nd April 2008 has been the longest day of my life. Was in Sydney between 12:00am (midnight) to 3:00pm, then spent 14 hours on air, and the rest of the day at San Francisco from 11:00am (again) to 12:00am midnight. Totally I made almost 42 hours as against 24 hours. Crazy and bizarre experience !!!

Sydney Spectacular

Been there, relished that. Went to watch the 1st ODI final of the 2007-08 Commonwealth Series final between Australia and India. On a perfect day for cricket, India pulled off a marvelous victory. Adding to the joy, the master blaster came up with a fantastic century.

Taare Zameen Par

Though Bollywood is as popular as Hollywood, in my opinion, not many quality movies come out from there. The recent movie 'Taare Zameen Par' created by Aamir is lining up with Lagaan and Swades, which are samples of rare and quality productions from Bollywood. This movie has a touching message, with the little guy doing very well in action. Though not having a great story on hand, Aamir has done a fantastic job as a debutant director. The concept created and compared by the writer Amole, with real life legends was astonishing to note. Simply a good movie to watch.

Floola-the coola

Few months ago I bought an iPod. I was having high hopes about it, as its been entertaining millions of users around the world. Till the time I installed and started using it, it was looking good & fine. Later realized that iTunes which is an interacting software used to organize the iPod is such a big crap as it gave me all sorts of troubles. In my opinion though iPod is good release out of the Apple family, iTunes on a contrary is far opposite to that. It froze my computer & iPod several times and had to restart them million times. The main frustrating thing was, it rearranged all the albums and songs on its own fashion and totally shuffled the structure of arrangement. Ultimately it was a real pain in my back to get it work in my way.

Then I started researching on the net to see whether others have experienced these difficulties which I was going across. Browsing through different forums I got to know that there were plethora of buddies who were frustrated like me. Then reading through those discussions came to know about Floola. With Floola, I could rearrange & fix my album structure within minutes on the fly. Adding, modifying and deleting songs were so easy. It was far better than iTunes, really a cool piece of tiny software. Instead of saying a software I would say its a standalone application which doesn't even require any installation, so its portable. Moreover, it was free!!! Floola was the real coola for me and it made my life much easier with iPod.

NYE 2008 at Sydney Opera House

Sydney invited the New Year 2008 with much more than the usual fun fare with an amazing fireworks show.

Centre of everything, middle of nowhere

Though I have visited a few places before, visiting Uluru National park has been a long time dream for me since I arrived in Australia. The Uluru National Park surrounds the area of the Uluru popularly called the 'Ayers Rock', the Yulara village, the annexed tourist centre, Kata-Tjuta or 'The Olgas' and the little connellan airport which just bears a tiny strip of road called the runway and a coffee shop. Its one of the most iconic places down under, or in other words the highly acclaimed natural icon of Australia. I would say, this has been my most spectacular trips I have ever had so far.

Uluru is approximately 3.5 hours by air from Sydney, situated almost at the centre of Australia and closer to Alice Springds. Lot of tourists especially from US and Canada visit here. So what is so special about this place. There is nothing here, thatz what is the specialty I would say. When you have an aerial view of the whole place, you could see that its totally barren on all directions (watch my video below). Simply to say, its an arid desert expect for two rocks. These two rocks have geological significance and also has a great historical importance among the aboriginals. The aboriginals still worship them as God.

The marvel about these rocks are, though Olgas and Ayers rock are close by, the rock formation between them is entirely different. The Olgas have a pebble formation, but the ayers rock has a scaly stone structure. A closer look at the pictures will reveal this information. The Olgas is formed by 36 domes surrounding it. In the aboriginal language 'Kata' means 'many' and 'Tjuta' means 'domes', which describes the reason for its name.

Peep in here for more pictures....

Uluru/Ayers Rock Aerial View

An aerial view of the Uluru/Ayers Rock and Kata-Tjuta/The Olgas from an helicopter.

Your Business Success

On the weekend's business program 'Your Business Success' on the popular Australian TV 'Channel 9', last week the focus was on web based branding & it was on ' The Cavalry'. You can see my bosses Peter & Sturt talking on the program. Its my office where I work and surprisingly my office looks really clean on the TV. Unfortunately I am most of the time at my customers' place these days and none of the other technical engineers were there in that video as well.

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