through the rocky mountain national park...

...mercy...

The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown.
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this scept'red sway;
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings;
It is an attribute to God himself,
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice.

- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

pirates 2

... i wish there was more of johnny depp and less of those ugly creaturessss in the movie...

so now I come back to....

downtown denver...



coors baseball field...

... both of the above as seen from my new home every evening

recommendation....

On an absolute spree of watching movies I watched three good movies...

Indian but not Hindi...

1. being cyrus ( in English)
2. anahat (marathi)
3. antarmahal ( bengali)

... three movies with three strong stories, extreme issues and great handling and execution....

It wont be fair to write details about any movie... i would recommend all three as worth watching...

sterling goes??? :(

http://advaitsambhare.blogspot.com/2006/06/sterling-falls.html

...words fail me too advait as i saw this on your blog... i cant believe I will never have the sterling steps to sit on or never eat that very caramel popcorn or the thrill of seeing a late night movie at sterling...( thats the first place in the city I drove to so late in the night) :(

I just wanna shout out loud .. I HATE THIS MULTIPLEX CULTURE THAT IS TAKING OVER OUR CITY... and the fall of sterling almost signifies the end of an era... i feel really awful... really really awful... WORDS FAIL ME TOO.

spot me...

where have i been?

...at my graduation in Ann Arbor




..with friends and family over dinner just before leaving from Ann Arbor



...interviewing at D.C.



... with ol' friends at Boston : shweta and i



...with family friends in the 'desi' jersey




...with mom and dad in NYC




... at the Niagara falls...

... so pretty much all over the place. This blog also comes as i wait for my flight to chicago at the buffalo airport. a post abt myself. more later on all the places I visited.

School is done and lot to blog about tht too... tons of stories.. tons of emotions... i shall be back on blogger soon.

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thats me in the corner

Spring is here... and Summer is round the corner

back to the good old ann arbor pic series....

law quad!!!

please please let me crib right now...

...because i feel horrible today...

...why?

1. i reached school totally drenched thanks to the rain gods who suddenly decided to bless... and an in-human only 'auto'scale landscape with no place to find a shelter...

2. i really really rather be in bombay with my mom right now.

3. i am unable to focus on what I thought would be a really simple paper.... or anything else for that matter for the past two days

i guess its all connected to one thing... my want to be with mommy

of more iconic architecture... and cities

this one Denver, Colorado...

the extension to existing art museum...

Architect: Mr. Daniel Libeskind himself!!!

one can make an opinion oneself!!!


(the ****** thing on the right is a Michael Graves structure)






personally i liked te libeskind 'monument' in the context of the city.



This one is the old art musuem by Italian architect: Gio Ponti

an interesting forward....

On Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be
01:02:03 04/05/06.

That won't ever happen again in our lifetime.


Email source: Reshma


... but thts not completely true... will happen in all the places which follw dd/mm/yy format on 4th of May at the same time. wont it?

happy gudi padwa... this one was a difficult read for me ....:)
but liked it...

the second

this one is the
..the courtyard in my school building...



and here is how this is goin to work... each blog hopefully would carry a lil something about the image on my previous blog...

so the story of the geese... of 'white -meat' the poor chicks were fed a lil of their own by some nasty souls :)

no details on the blog

the first

the countdown has begun...exactly a month to go...there is so much I want to do and so lil time...amidst all that, an emotional attachment is beginning to surface... for a place this time...Ann Arbor...

two years ago I was really upset to leave the city where I was born and lived all my life... but this one's to cozy little town that had much more to offer than I ever imagined...

school is going to keep me busy this month but this blog shall be fed with images taken in the past couple of years of a wonderful place that I so love and will rem as my 'favorite l'il cozy' town...

So the first one... at Gallop park!!!

morning Ann Arbor

thats TCAUP (my school building)

a deep breath always helps...

standing here almost at the beginning of an end... just a few steps and then a new beginning?

“Shake structures. School yourself. Look twice at a thing, once upside down. Answer yourself clearly.”

and when you have done that... dont be scared...

"Consider calling it a challenge rather than calling it a crisis.”

and remember...

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying,"I will try again tomorrow"
and now begins a new day with a deep breath!!!

quotes: mary anne radmacher

graduate school/ design dissertation is almost at a climax...at this juncture I can make it or break it...

... my project right now fascinates me as a beautiful dream and haunts me as the worst nightmare. wonder on what side I shall be a couple of months from now!!!

Happy Holi

how many times in the morning do you hit the 'snooze' button on your alarm before waking up?

Do you rem this guy?

He used to be my favorite cartoon to sketch!!!

this one was too tempting to not put up!!!

of iconic architecture and cities...

This one: Minneapolis (out of the blue from a trip last sem)

take your pick...


the shouting cantilever of the 'guthrie theatre' by Jean Nouvel?



or the shimmer of the 'walker art center' by Herzog and de Meuron

Though I love the other work of Jean Nouvel, visiting the Walker was a greater experience than the Guthrie

... and now back home...

... to good old ann arbor!!!

of solitude in chicago

Do you have a favorite store that never dissapoints?

... I do ... GAP...there has never been a single time that I haven't walked out of GAP store happy ( except for the thanksgivin sale where the sadness is cos of the number of people there)

But Gap it is... not only the collection but price too!!!

E X P R E S S
is by far my favorite store though... I think there is not a single style or design at express which I haven't liked till date... incidently even their store design.

But only place where express disappoints is the 'price'...
...its so freaking nice...

I come out happy but broke in case I pick up something :)

of personal traits...

1. My absent mindedness/ forgetfulness is gettin worse by the day- this week among a thousand small things, two that stand out

-i went for a day to himani's place and forgot my computer charger there...well that is a huge deal since I was almost paralyzed on the work front once my comp battery died down hadnt it been for my data on the college server.

- I left a nice stack of portfolio paper down at the print shop in school... n they r closed for the break... and so am i out of town for the break for a good ten days
:(

(nothing has beaten the forgettin car and walking home story...hopefully never will)

2. this one is to my 'panda' buddies. I am beginning to feel nauseated
with the smell of 'panda express' food too..everytime I walk down that corridor I feel like gettin out of there really quick. I feel bad..cos I used to love that food so much. I guess I shall have someone pack the food for me and eat it some place else - make sure my tastebuds get readjusted to the 'junk chinese' i loved so much

so this one seems like a useless post...highly personal and totally contextual...

My apologies to readers who r out of the context..

What matters...

... you having faith in yourself?

...or you having none but everyone else havin faith in you?

flowers i love

...are they cared for?

...and now it is in black and white...

CNN money features architecture as second ranked under " big jobs that pay badly'"
hahaha...

all our cribbing is in black and white listed among the few careers where time and money invested to qualify for a position is disproportionately high to the pay

it is so encouraging right now!!!!

Friday night out

Friday nightout: venue: Zingerman's road house and Ashleys!!!
Special attention mom dad: my new hair cut :)



zingerman's roadhouse. i really like goin to this restaurant.




our cheese platter



of goodtimes!!!



nathalie and abby joined us later...

My latest aquisition.

yippppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... the black i-pod nano... its is sooooo cute!!!