June of 2010

Journey of Miles ... continues !

the maze of moments

You Gotta Be Here !

June1

· Evening with a Canadian family

· Played piano for 1st time in life! - But All I hear are low sounds

· Listened to experience of a Canadian Soldier who

had been to Afghanistan

June2

· Nothing much

June5

· Walked 16km in the shades of lynn Valley -

I walk to the horizon, And there I find another

June6

· Hiked Grouse Mountain - Highest point in Vancouver !

· How it feels through clouds !

June12

· Lukha Saturday

June13

· Went Jug Island. - The shells upon the warm sands

How I run to the other side of island !

June14

· Attended 19 presentations in 10hrs.
Well presentations were good but I couldn't keep myself awake.

June15

· Presentation Workshop

It was really good one

June16

· Industrial Tour to airG – a mobile social networking company

· Networking Workshop

June17

· Networking Reception

June18

· Visited EA Games {Electronic Arts}
What a Company!Even has space for employee’s dogs to roam about.Barber and football court too!

Slept in 1hr Presentation

· New Shoes - Most costly ever purchased!

June19

· This Weekend @ Whistler [ it’s situated 2 hours north of Vancouver ]

· Missed Bungee

· Missed Peak2Peak

June20

· @ Whistler

· Ziplining at 80km/hr - Longest Zip Trek in Canada

· Miles in the sky - Gondola Ride, a breathtaking, 4.4-kilometre journey.

Longest unsupported span, Highest of its kind above the valley floor, the longest continuous lift system on the globe

· Over the roads of NFS most wanted.

June22

· Slept for entire day

· Evening @ Punjabi Market

June26

· Triggered fire alarm of entire building at 5 am. :)

Do you know who it feels to wake up every one on a lazy Saturday morning?

· Miles towards Tofino [it's about 7 hrs from Vancouver ]

· Ferry Joy Ride - In motion on the ocean

· Miles on roads below sea level - I took the turn and turned to

· Camping near beach on a rainy night

· Barbecue

June27

@ Tofino

· Cox and Long Beach

· Pacific Ocean [ West coast of Canada, I guess you can't go more west in Canada than this ]

· Car Journey touching 200km/hr speed !

· Ferry Ride

· Back to Vancouver

June28

· Purchased iphone 3G 16GB! I wonder if I would ever purchase such a piece of technological marvel again.

June29

· Realized that will have to work hard.

June30

· Booked Tickets and Tickets

Hope that irctc.in will be peaceful one day

Amidst of all that some feeling haunts me every now and than.

How far you are from home ?

I go there I'll lose my way

Tofino - Miles near Pacific !

June 26 -27

Travelling during weekends has became a routinous job this summer. We were blessed with very good GSA's [Globalink Student Associates]. This time Deepansh and Harshul planned a trip to Tofino. Tofino is situated on the west coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada.

As par schedule we were to left by 5 am and reach ferry station on cars rented. I waked by 4 am - probably the 1st in our group of students interning at UBC. I was expected normal things that morning. As usual I decided to get my bread ready over flying pan. But unfortunately, brought my unit of building to music on a weekend to as early as 5 am. Fire Alarm here are too sensitive and I am bit unsensitive, so smoke of my half an hour unattended bread on flame triggered fire alarm.

Anyways, after around 45 min drive in car we reached ferry station. Technology I must say is so awesome here. You can carry your entire car inside ferry. Ferry carried me to land I have never seen.

Although there are many memories associated with this trip ... but I will particularly like to mention a few now.

My friends still tease of saying"yeh ATM se keval Pepsi, Cok hi nikalta hai"

Also Harshul's nbd and rush at 200 km/hr to catch the last ferry. (That was such an addrenaline rush)

Hopefully I will complete this post sometime later..

Farthest from Home !

Journey of Miles !

Summers of 2010

Well Canadians call it summer, but it is no lesser than winter for an Indian.
Although I have not done much in these 4 weeks, but unknowingly have gathered some unforgettable experience in this life. I am here at Vancouver this Summer. If you wanna know more of this place, must watch the short clip below.

31 Days of May !

1. Zipped cloths, shoes, food items like never before. Well I ended up with luggage more than my weight.

2. Longest day of my life - 36 hours !
From Powai to CSIA through the roads of Mumbai
From CSIA to Frankfurt through the lands I have never been
From Frankfurt to Vancouver through the shades of Eyjafjallajökull

What a day to take to !

What a way !!

What a way to make it through !

What a day !!

3. Jetlag at St Andrews [my 1st place of residence in Canada]

4. 1st Day of Internship
- Professor was much smarter than his pic on website.
- Lunch with Lab people and Professor :) but Sushi Restaurant had only grass and other herbs to fill stomach of vegetarian people :(

5. Shifted to Marine Drive Residency [new accommodation in Canada]
- No Microwave
- Well, this place is no lesser than Marine Drive in Mumbai. Right out of window is Pacific. Somethings I can't even explain.
- Went Downtown for grocery.

6. Well, started cooking stuff.

7. Weekend Wait

Weekend 1
8. Its Saturday: Holiday
- Purchased a microwave.
- Went to Stanley Park, Walked for miles.

9. Sunday
- Went to Science World.
- Ultimate Wave Tahiti at Omnimax Theater.
- Free Strawberry at McDonald :)

10-14: Paper reading - Boring stuff.

11. Wreck Beach
- Illegal fire at beach :)

Weekend 2
15. Mitacs Workshop at Sandman Hotel
- Fruits and Fruits for Lunch and Breakfast.
- Waitress refused to even serve rice :( [Rice was even non-veg]

16. Mitacs Workshop
- Team Brooked UBC students record of making Turbine :) Childplay !
- Iron Man-2 at Scotia Bank Theater. Movie in a theater after years.

17. Mitacs Opening Ceremony
- Dinner at Sage Bistro !

18-21. Lyf goes on

22. Purchased 1 TB Hard drive :)

23. Sunday: Went no where
- cycled the campus on a bike

24. Victoria Day:
- Again chilled at home on a holiday

25-27. Did some stupid simulations in lab.

28. Microwave Fired: Yay ! I did something after long
- Grocery from Store around 2 hrs public transit and 20 min walk. Have seen no Canadian buy stuff like this. As I am Indian so, every penny matters.

Weekend 4:
29. Canoeing at Jericho Beach
- Sailed in an inlet of pacific.
- Rain and damn cold water.

30. Unlucky Sunday: Stanley Park Aquarium
- Missed 4-D show {main attraction of Aquarium} because of technical failure there.
- Missed UBC Bharat Meet at Spanish Bay because of information lag :(
- Felt Damn cold for first time in Canada although the climate was quite not that worst.

31. Its Today
- Music for New Television {got cable to make TV useful}

Tym flies as pendulum swings.

Duniya Kuch Toh Bolegi !

Way untitled

oh oh, o o o oh,
oh oh, o o o oh,
everyday i want to fly,
stay by my side,
everyday i want to dream,
stay by my side,
eeeevery morning i wish i could just play,
wish the mornings would just stay....
oh oh, o o o oh....
everyday i want to fly,
stay by my sid ...

Wants such a friend!

Finally to Sameer Hill

This is a short account of my visit to sameer hill....
my laziness kept me away from this awesome place since two years in IIT ....but finally because of a week's shut down due to swine flu syndrome in mumbai....we finally decided to spare a few hours for sameer hill.

Sameer Hill is the Hill on North west side of IIT Campus and it keeps IIT Bombay protected from the Leopards and other illegal elements to enter in to the campus. It is a picnic spot for us, if you wanna to be chiled just climb up to sameer hill, if you wanna see a beautifull sunrise just climb up Sameer Hill, you can see the Entire Campus, you can see Powai Lake, you can see the beauty of Vihar Lake, you can see the Mumbai Harbar, and if you have good eyes you can see Vashi Bridge and aeroplanes@airport and bandra worli sea link .....
"Zara hans ke, zara bach ke, ye hai mumbai meri jaan"

well i guess it would be quite boring ..browsing all pics ..so in order to reduce burden at your head i have created a movie ...it will take you through all in just 50 sec ...and if you are really interested plz feel free to ask for album link....
comments are welcomed .....

Although the time spent in IIT Bombay is only 2 years nw ....
But this little span of time was full of learning .... Full of pleasure ......Full of knowledge .....
Be it the Lectures .... full of questions of stupidity .... where the length of questions use to be much much longer than the answers
or the the funny lab work, the realtime experience of experiments ......

Cheers-
Gaurav

Visit to Akshardham....

Its June end by now, the wind howled and great scudding clouds raced overhead ...its rare thing here in my hometown Udaipur (often called the Venice of east & the city of lakes), over the last few years rains had been very scarce in the city of lakes, newspaper headlines will title tomorrow by so much inches rain here and there.But rains are almost routinous in Mumbai and so the mumbaiya life....."Zara hans ke, zara bach ke, ye hai mumbai meri jaan"

Anyway rain created quite a fantastic atmosphere around, we (me with my parents and my sister) were all soon to depart for Ahmadabad, a city I had visited half a dozen times in last 1-2 years but only a max of 4-5 hrs every time. But this time it was planned for a complete day. Finally we reached our destination early morning, visited few relatives ....just from one corner of city to another. Ahmadabad unlike Mumbai is a well planned city, it’s beautiful too...and what adds more is the polite, helpful nature of Gujarati people. Gujarati’s, I believe are the most cooperative people in India. As there was the whole day ahead and climate was too pleasant, we switched our direction towards Akshardham Temple, name which needs no introduction. It’s one of most awesome place I have ever seen. Mandir, exhibitions, verdant gardens and other attractions ......and not to forget the restaurant inside are worth visiting. We were short of time so we had to rush through all that.Then we made our way to Hathee Singh temple, it’s too an architectural marvel that has been built using beautiful white marbles. It was evening by then, I was completely tired....but I had to depart for Mumbai in a few hours. And next day I opened my eyes in Mumbai.