I'm back!!
Ya, I know, long time since I posted. Sorry, all you people who've been waiting eagerly for another post (I wonder if there are any!). So 2 weeks worth of news to put in (basically, 2 weekends' worth of news to put in, so not a big fight).
so, last to last weekend, I went to see my sis in houston. Got up at 3:00 in the morning so that I could get to some arbit airport in NY (which isn't even connected by a metro station!) on time. It so happened that I reached almost an hour early. Neway, had a hearty breakfast there, and just slept on the flight (as you can guess, no interesting people beside me on the flight). Di was there on time to pick me up... met here after a long time :)
Houston is pretty dead I must say... tons of buildings, some nice expensive houses, but little else. ya, there is a so called museum of modern art (believe it or not, there was a painting there which was about 10feet X 6 feet, which had only a broad vertical white stripe, followed by a broad vertical black stripe, followed by a broad vertical white stripe and... and that's all!). oh, they have a small but very nice museum of contemporary art.
the good thing about houston though is that there are tons of indians there, and therefore tons of great indian places to eat at. so all my meals (barring one, where one of di's firang friends who detests indian food was with us) were indian. pukka indian :D so one day i had a buffet at madras pavilion (nice dosas they make, though the buffet was north indian), one meal at a gujju place (amazing food, i must say, and the owner himself comes and serves you rotis :). really nice) and one meal of chaat pakodi and paneer parathas :D so apart from the fact that i met di (and for the first time got a vague idea of what she does all day in the lab), the food was a real positive in favour of houston. there was also a party at Rice (di's college) where i met all of her friends, though it wasn't as interesting as it mite have been, owing to the fast that most of di's friends are male. :(
oh, and ya, i finally saw RDB (rang de basanti, for the uninitiated) in houston! one of di's friends regularly downloads movies and stuff and he got it for us within 3 hours of us asking him if he had a copy of the movie! amazing guy dutta (his last name) is :)
hmmm... so that was houston, i guess, for those of you who want a break, i'll write about last weekends travails in the next blog. tata.
so, last to last weekend, I went to see my sis in houston. Got up at 3:00 in the morning so that I could get to some arbit airport in NY (which isn't even connected by a metro station!) on time. It so happened that I reached almost an hour early. Neway, had a hearty breakfast there, and just slept on the flight (as you can guess, no interesting people beside me on the flight). Di was there on time to pick me up... met here after a long time :)
Houston is pretty dead I must say... tons of buildings, some nice expensive houses, but little else. ya, there is a so called museum of modern art (believe it or not, there was a painting there which was about 10feet X 6 feet, which had only a broad vertical white stripe, followed by a broad vertical black stripe, followed by a broad vertical white stripe and... and that's all!). oh, they have a small but very nice museum of contemporary art.
the good thing about houston though is that there are tons of indians there, and therefore tons of great indian places to eat at. so all my meals (barring one, where one of di's firang friends who detests indian food was with us) were indian. pukka indian :D so one day i had a buffet at madras pavilion (nice dosas they make, though the buffet was north indian), one meal at a gujju place (amazing food, i must say, and the owner himself comes and serves you rotis :). really nice) and one meal of chaat pakodi and paneer parathas :D so apart from the fact that i met di (and for the first time got a vague idea of what she does all day in the lab), the food was a real positive in favour of houston. there was also a party at Rice (di's college) where i met all of her friends, though it wasn't as interesting as it mite have been, owing to the fast that most of di's friends are male. :(
oh, and ya, i finally saw RDB (rang de basanti, for the uninitiated) in houston! one of di's friends regularly downloads movies and stuff and he got it for us within 3 hours of us asking him if he had a copy of the movie! amazing guy dutta (his last name) is :)
hmmm... so that was houston, i guess, for those of you who want a break, i'll write about last weekends travails in the next blog. tata.
posted by Paritosh Gupta | 11:00 PM
1 Comments:
thank god rdb finally !!
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