khil rahi hain kali kali

Kahin dur jab din Dhal jaaye

Loved the colors and the cloud formations in this one.

Cherry blossoms!!!

..very pleasing, to the eye and the mind.

Kaleidoscope

colors, calmness, chaos, complacency, aggressiveness, rain, sun, home, office... feels good to be back in namma Bengalooru!!

at the same time friends and conversations@SJ will be missed...

Na hain zameen..na aasman..

I visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium last weekend. The aquarium is spread across two floors..and the world inside was truly so different.


So true!!!

And then we went on the 17-mile drive. This drive takes you through million-dollar homes amidst wilderness, with ocean on one side of the drive. The few minutes we could spend in the cold wind and the slight drizzle made my day!
Pics of the aquarium tour below:


The Entrance


Yeah...this was inside the aquarium :-) Oh..there were dolphins hanging too!!


The kelp forest and the fishes




Sea-dollars

Spot the fish!

Jelly-fishes

Asian Green-Viper





Phew! That was one colorful ride!!!! :-)

Finally something..well, not colorful!

Shaky Reflections!

Deepawali

Festivals celebrated away from home is just not right. Esp. such major ones. Strange as it may sound, I am even missing the sudden frights I used to get when someone lit a cracker outside! [I am still against crackers though; you know, the pollution, noise etc etc]

Also missed is the awesome food mom makes. Although, I did try my hand at sweet-making today, and believe me, it is best left to mothers! :-)
But it did not turn out that bad either. Hmm..lesse what others have to say tomorrow about it! Yes, of course, you think I am going to let my friends go away so easily!!! :-)

Happy Deepawali to you all!

Realisation!!!!!!!

I can cook!!!!!!!

and oh..the food I prepare is very much edible...and hmmmmm, kinda tasty too!!
[Bhuv would vouch for that! :-)] I am slightly amused too!!

Assorted!

View from above the clouds

Its a nice timepass to just stare outside the window in a plane..some parts reminded me of narada/demigods/gods descending to earth in movies :-)

Park in Santa-Clara

I call this the last ray of light!! ---- for the simple reason that it was taken during sunset!


Ghirardelli chocolate shop in SFO. The dark choc fudge sauce they give is just mind-blowing!
The shop has a display of the the machines used in the process of making fine chocolate from cocoa-beans. Here are a few of them..













And to end this assorted post, here are some macro shots of flowers! I can almost hear a few ppl saying "here we go again...we expected nothing less!!!"