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Of family and friends

While my friends are spending their summer in turkey/paris/crete, i am here in Bombay relaxing…spending time with my family and friends…

week has been quite uneventful…eating…relaxing…sleeping…i miss my bed though…i hope one of my roomates are watering the plant in my room…

what else…went to a pub called totoes and then had dinner at some other posh place…moral of the story…Bombay is more expensive than Oslo…

what else…what else…

…met up with relatives on sunday and talked of the good-ol-days where we were kids…

someone in Oslo…did not know what a JackFruit is…this is it…
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the first day i got to bay…sis and me were looking at the old albums…when my parents were newly weds…my dad had taken a LOT of pics of my mom with his AGFA cameras…
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28 years later…mom still looks great…wrinkles and all…
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she is still extremely irritating and nagging…
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met up with friends at night…hanging around…
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nice one lali…watering the plants…
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dinner at kunals house…ordering dessert…free home delivery should be a law
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my sis…still trying to figure out how to use a camera…
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mens Wimbledon finals…we ended up watching it till the end…2am in the morning
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lali joined us later…after spending some quality time with his girl
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obligatory lamp photo
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the ice-cream was decent…
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it is still raining…
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and i am still learning to cook from my mom…
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thats potato and cauliflower in tomato and onion gravy

thats it for now…lots of pics on film…but that will have to wait till i get back to Oslo…

shank :: Jul.07.2008 :: digital :: No Comments »

Back in Bombay

…and i am glad to see that its raining…as it cools the city.

The trip to bay was full of…exciting times…let me explain…

Everything was fine till i goto Helsinki…thats where i found out that the flight to bay was delayed by 4 hours…then i meet an Indian…

who was studying medicine in Ukraine
according to him Ukrainian chicks are the best in the world
he had 15 girlfriends in 12 months…
he does not trust the “the best in the world” because they have sex with one person in the morning and another at night
he told me that i should speak in Hindi if i am “True India”

needless to say…i managed to find another more “Intelligent” person…a psychologist from Stavanger…

We waited for about 30 mins for the food counter only to be told that the food would take an hour to be prepared…nice…so we just grabbed a sandwich…at least they had Stongbow…

On the plane i was sitting next to a Latvian lady who liked Bollywood movies…

The steward managed to spill milk on my hands as he was serving breakfast…

The customs officer had a problem with me getting two cameras in to the country…luckily both the cameras were worn out…so it was all good..

Exciting times…

Got home to find out that the computer(my old one) had broken down…the technician bought it in the evening and was pretty close to being beaten up by yours truly for his complete lack of technical skills…

he told my dad that
the ram was broken
the gfx card was broken

i found out that
the ram was not broken
the gfx card was not broken

the only that was broken was the gfx drivers…if only people did their jobs…

Anyways…all this is forgotten once i eat the awesome food made my mom and spend time with my family and friends…

saturday…went to pub called OnToes…
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sis took this one…dunno what cracked lali
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kunal got a new haircut to impress his girl…who was not really impressed with it…
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sis and delna…who has worked on some big hollywood movies
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chicken schezwan …indianized chinese food
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it is raining here in bay
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today morning…i start my cooking lessons from mom…Ghol fish curry and kokka for lunch
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thats it for now…need to upgrade the internet…

hope guys are having fun in Olso/Os/London

shank :: Jun.30.2008 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

oslo street shot…

with delta 400…

Had bought a roll of Delta 400…dont remember when or why…so just took a walk…this time i went to Majorstuen…on saturday and Karl Johan on sunday…

Have been watching Twin Peaks…which is quite good…which is not surprising as its by David Lynch…

BTW suri made a real cool entry in his blog…read it and you will realize how much better he is at words than me…

Today its sunny and cold…yes it is possible…

Listening to Marty Willson Piper…nice music…

We had a fire drill today…we dont have them in india…its all about issues and priorities…when you have so much other troubles…i dont think one can spend time and effort on fire drills…

I am not saying one is right and other is wrong…its just about different people with different issues…

People can be vegetarians when they have the luxury to choose…someone who cannot even make a living does not really care about chickens…as long as they get some kind of food on their plate they would be happy…

…think about that…

Delta 400 | OM2 | 28/2.8
oslo street