I have been able to experience a few extremes with my stay in the US, and I really like that fact…
Things that I could only imagine, or maybe not, were there in front of my eyes!
Talking about large …
Being the country with more than 9 times zones all territories considered
Niagara which has close to about 561000 litres of water flowing down per second
Being able to drive the distance between New Delhi and Kanya Kumari over a long weekend
and the other extreme… small…
What would you call a 40 seater bus which makes awfully loud sound and can fly? no points for guessing that it’s called an aeroplane and this size is very popular for short distances in the states… my flight from Syracuse was a CRJ200 Bombardier Regional Jet with a seating capacity of 50 (2 pilots, 1 crew member, 42 passenger seats – 9 rows of 4 seats each, and 1 of 6 , I am not sure where are the other seats) and if this was small, there was another flight which had only 3 seats in a row, more rows though, and just enough headroom for me to stand properly… now the good part about these flights is that they have a good amount of legroom, and if you are not taller than 6ft you should be able to stretch your legs all the way… the bad part is that you might have to move around if the plane is empty to distribute the weight for a take off!!! It’s a plane, I understand a bit of the weight balance and aerodynamics but still found it amusing when I was asked to move the first time 😀
I think these planes make more sense to fly low traffic routes in India instead of the large Boeings or Airbuses. I wonder why they use large aircrafts all the time.
Taking about sizes, here is something for you to read and think about…
“On a diagram of the solar system to scale, with Earth reduced to about the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over a thousand feet away and Pluto would be a mile and a half distant (and about the size of a bacterium, so you wouldn’t be able to see it anyway). One the same scale, Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, would be almost ten thousand miles away. Even if you shrank down everything so that Jupiter was as small as the period at the end of this sentence, and Pluto was no bigger than a molecule, Pluto would still be over thirty-five feet away. (Bill Bryson – A Short History of Nearly Everything)“
And speaking of distances and history… some distances do get covered in due course of time and some milestones do become history… one of such is about to happen shortly while I am writing this!
Bad Evening with a repeat muscle pull… and temporary reduction of movement around the house for a few hours with much uncomfortable pain!!!
Worse Evening with a totally ridiculous movie called “Management”… what a piece of crap!!!
Better ending to the day… sleeping while some movie is on… not even realizing when you slide into a deep sleep is one of the nicer ways to fall asleep!
Not so good start to the day… waking up because of a strange dream at 4 in the morning…
And making it better by spending the day at The Office (watching all 28 episodes of season 5 back to back, with a Japanese movie for a break), getting a 1965 edition of a photography magazine, and buying a Tie for myself.
So all in all, this Halloween turned out to be full of Tricks and Treats for me!!!! purrfect!!!
Happy Halloween Everyone, from the Chaiwala, and the Chai Ki Dukaan!
The Pumpkin I carved for the Halloween!Hope this Diwali
You feel rested and relaxed…
You find peace, outside and within…
And you make memories that you can save for life in a glass bottle :)!!!
Happy Diwali folks !!!!
I saw people getting invites to write at the Chai ki Dukaan and secretly hoped for a day when I’d get the invite too. My ‘corny and cliched’ initiative displayed below worked, and here I am. 😀
Here’s wishing all the visitors of Chai ki Dukaan a safe and joyous Diwali. Hope you don’t burst crackers. And make up for it all by eating lots of mithai. 😀
thank you Vaishali for pointing that out!
There are so many memories that have been associated with her that I would not even know where to start and end…
This September is a special month for me! a lot of things happened including Chai ki Dukaan celebrating 5 years, some things and thoughts moving at the personal front, and my EMIs for the car getting over! now I can start saving for the Enfield I have been eyeing for a while! 😛
Speaking of cars, this weekend I drove the largest SUV I have been in, so far! A Toyota Sequoia. It was a 4.6 litre, 32 Valve V8 engine which produces a mind boggling 310 bhp@ 5400 rpm! The pictures below should tell you something about the size too!
Its exactly the same as Bajaj Priya scooter… inch by inch, switch by switch, curve by curve! someone please tell me that Bajaj picked up this design legally and did not steal it! I would be very disappointed if they did steal it!
I checked the Bajaj official website too, it talks about introduction of Bajaj Super, Chetak and Classic, but does not mention Priya anywhere! Was this a Bajaj model at all? or am I wrong? I remember using this scooter when I was doing mu PG. My batch-mate Gaurav used to have this model and it had a bajaj tag on it!
At the same time, I cannot ignore the fact that some amount of brain have been behind causing 9/11 and all such similar incidents!
Click here to see some heartwarming and some amazing photographs related to 9/11.
And I have been reading about how India and Pakistan are arguing like kids on what happened in Bombay! It is so shameful for us as a nation and disrespectful to people who lost their lives and the ones who lost someone important! Is it that we Indians do not know how to take a stand or are we people who can be walked over with ease?
