Mission to moon

Being away from home land brings you more closer than being there. Today a great moment in the history of space science of India with the lift off of the mission to moon. Just too good to see and feel.

Regua

The next day had been to wine yards to celebrate the grape cutting ceremony. It was very nice to see entire family enjoying the moment of cutting grapes. For more pictures..

http://picasaweb.google.com/pb.sujit/WineYard#

porto, aveiro and costa nova

Stipes houses in costa novo, very nice place to see where you have river in front of the houses and ocean back of the house.. awesome..!Circular bridge connecting different ways.. :) nice architecture..
Almost evenings..


In the canal. Interestingly, each boat has unique paintings and art.. quite time consuming process to see all the boats..
Gaia, the adjacent city to porto in the night. Its nice to see..

Metro connecting porto and gaia.. night view..
The sight from the above bridge in day time.. awesome view.. just want to be there...

Dancing in Odessa

Just bumped into this book Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky. The poems are just beautiful. You can watch some of his readings at the berkeley website.

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?seriesid=0b5dd59e-357e-4666-9632-b6dad144eda5&p=1&ipp=15&category=

Enjoy it :)

Bangalore to Porto

Its been an adventure to venture into a new land. The adventure is far more adventurous even before landing into Portugal thou not so adventurous after landing here. The good bad ugly of porto varies pretty steadily as the waves of the ocean.

Good: Awesome scenic place, with a river and an ocean in the same place. The city as such is pretty decent with typical European style old buildings and bars cafe as well as others everywhere. People are quiet friendly. Even locals do not know much English still they try to make you understand pretty nice thing in an unknown world. Cusine is fine if you are not a vegetarian, for vegiies its just potato and bread in various forms. When in US I never liked bread, but here bread is really good and is part if daily diet. I really started to love bread.

Bad: The place is neither truly european nor truly asian. It stands somewhere a mix between these two.. a sandwich probably, but locals say its because of amount of culture mix in them they have adopted various things. People are not as friendly as the people in US are! I mean in greeting, or smiling at unknown face. This attitude cannot be seen here..! The people are more like indians with a blunt face..! Too many cars, narrow roads.. with loads of traffic jams.. but people have patince and still follow rules..!

Ugly: Everything is in portugues, espicially it becomes difficult in the super-market as we do not know what is there in that or not!.. Pork..Pork.. and Pork.. with Fish fish and fish.. this is all they eat!.. what is the speciality cot fish! for everything its cot-fish.. espicially the salted cot fish..!
When I was in bangalore, the weather used to be so unpredictable, when in Utah it was one step ahead of unpredictability, but here its horrible.. things change in a second..!

uncurl

Things finally started to uncurl and show a door out of the haze right from the time stepping back into bangalore. Its nice to be in a place where everything is serene.

But if life is always serene then where's the fun to experience all sorts of emotions?

At times you want to do many things and hardly there is any time to do or it so happens you do not have interest to start any one.. so called starting problem. Even before you start you start to think so many other things and it so happens that what you wanted to start will never be started and they are lost in the world of thoughts itself. So, is my condition now...