(Read this if you have uninterrupted peaceful 5 minutes with you. Will suggest you to see the below video in full screen mode.)
Ever thought where do our home/family/pets/friends/beloved stand as compared to whole earth ?Ever thought about where this earth came from ? What is the the comparitive size of the earth as compared to other space entities ? I am sure must have thought about it atleast once. So, as we go on searching about the answers, it turns out that earth is just a tiny little particle in the galaxy.
How can we compare it with other planets, stars? Well we can do it by observing the snaps of it from all possible distances from the earth. I guess the farther we will be able to send our spacecrafts from the earth the greater will be our understanding to understand the whole cosmos. Till that time enjoy the snaps in above video.
Friday, July 27, 2007
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Video games making sense in life.
(above is the video for the games introduced last year for sports in your drawing room)
The earlier games made you very lazy and couch potato as it just involved pressing of few botton or some joysticks. But the companies are now thinking wisely and trying to make video game players more healthy, smart and intelligent. For knowing "How ?", read on..
Nintendo "Wii Fit" as it is aptly called, is again a new concept which is brought by the japanese company Nintendo. Nintendo is very famous in local market from quite some time with its very intuitive learning games on a portable device "Nintendo DS", is now out in the world with innovative stuffs with what they call "Wii" console.With "Wii" we can actaully enter into the game and play games like tennis, boxing and other games with really moving our hands as we would really do in the real world.
(the latest one that which keeps you fit)
The above video "Nintendo Wii Fit", is one more step in that concept which helps you to play funny on a thing they call "Balance Board". They exploit the concept called "Body Mass Index"(BMI) and help us to train in pushups, soccer headings, Yoga and other exercises. You can have a look at the video what change these games can bring in your life. So now with Video Games, we have a digital personal trainer in our lives which helpts us to be fit and remain healthy.
Friday, July 13, 2007
Pranayama - A Conscious breathing.
Just came across a lovely video which talks about how we should do Pranayama in much great details. It would be worth watching it again and again till you get it right. There are simple 3 basic steps to follow. Just have a look at it and tell me if it helps.
The omnipresent videos era are helping a lot to make us understand the life in more better ways. The video above is a link in the whole chain for such kind of experience. Earlier we need to go to some expert to know whats being explained in the clip.But things like youtube helps us a lot.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Our Second Wedding Anniversary
My mom always wanted to see the our snaps on the web. But I must say the technology is still not very simple for someone of the age of our mothers and fathers or grandparents . Ofcourse they can get along when they learn it over a period of time. Such was the case when i asked my mom to see the snaps by logging into a Photo uploading website or sending her a mail. This is still too difficult for a casual user like my mom, untill i discovered this Picasa feature of embedding the whole album into a simple embedded slide show. Now I just refer her a single URL of this blog and "boom" she can just see on the page itself.This is also one of the reason i am shifting my blogs here, since it gives me such features.
Yes the above snaps are taken on our 2nd Wedding anniversary (26th June) for which we decided ato spend some time in the cruise in Tokyo Bay from a compnay called "Symphony". It was really a "titanic" effect and it was a pleaseant surprise to discover that in the last 30 min a live piono show was there. Apart from all other things that was the best part in the end.
The Jesus Phone comes in US on 26th June, 6pm Local Time
Day : FridayDate : 29th June
Time: 6 pm Local time
This day will be markd in the human Cyber History as on this The Reality Distorter (Steve Jobs)present to the world "The Jesus Phone" which is the name given by media to iPhone.Its a big news in the US today, while rest of the world awaits when it will hit thier countries.
It was previously announced that first it will be launched in USA, then Europe and then Asia inyear 2008. Now come on man, we cant wait for that long.
Hey Steve, please make this baby available during the holiday season this year man.
But anyways, this will speed up other mobile manufacturers to speed up the innovationin their phones too. All bug players like Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and LG wait nervouslyto see how this phone perform. For me, I dont care how the phone performs, I am fascinatedby the basic idea of it that its a best ever video iPod and a breakthrough internet browser with Wifi.
Waiting anxiously to buy this puppy as soon as possible.
Wandering in woods of Mount Mitake !
Monday April 23, 2007The day was Saturday the 21th Aprtil, 2007 when we (I N Swapna, Rajan N shraddha, Bipin N Beena) decided to go for a one day trip to Mt Mitake.
The weather forecast said it will be partly cloudy and partly sunny. But we took a chance since from the Monday of that week it was continuously raining and we all were sick and tired of that. Hence we really needed a freak out. So we decided to start our journey on Saturday morning aroung 8 am to a place called Mt Mitake.
The route was to go
from Myoden --> Nakano -->MitakA -->Tachikawa -->Ome-->MitakE...
You can find snaps at the following link
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/straighttoprem/album/576460762399356930
The journey till the Mt Mitake was intresting. Trains took us till Mt Mitake Station and from there we need to take Bus till a station where Cable Car was waiting us to take us till the Mt Mitake trek start point. We reached at the trek start point at aroung 12 pm. It was a lovely view point from where we could take a glimpse of Tokyo, Chiba and all palces which we left for this place. There we decided to have our breakfast with sandwitches. Its really very "Anandmayee" to eat at such lush green places. So after break fast we decide to visit two famous spots called "Rock Garden" and "Nayana Falls". While on the way we enquired checked about the possibility of doing night stay in those lovely woods and hece we enquired to a "Visitor Center" for the availability. And to out surprize we got a cottage kind of place for 8 person. Since we were only 6 the place suited us very well. We went to take a look at it. It was a lovely duplex cottage with the windows facing the beautiful and deep valley. Everyone reminded of their honeymoons with the similar views :) We were informed there was no food avialable for dinner in that village after 6pm or so. Mount Mitake trek start point is a small village type place where the shops almost close by 5pm. yes you read it right. We requested a hotel owner to provide us dinner by 7 pm. The shopowner was a lady and she readily agreed for that. simultaneously we booked the cottage also and dumped our bags there and again started for our trek with a plan of returning by 6pm.
So again we were on the trek. The rocks on the sides of the trails covered with green things are called as Rock Garen and the Fall were also quite decent.We had lot of fun while going deep into jungles, specially when searching of Rock Garden. The route was never ending only. Along the route came big shrines, small shrines, small wooden bridges for crossing shallow waters, very very tall trees, untouched natural wooden sticks (which i carried all the way till we departed for tokyo), the passing by trekkers and lots of other stuffs. It was all fun in deep jungles.
Around 4:30 pm we started our journey back to our Cottages. We didnt planned to stay when we were leaving for this trek. So there were no extra clothes, towel, tooth brush, soap, cream or anything like that which we carry when we are supposed to stay. So have to struggle a bit in buying those things since it was not easily available there. But at last managed to find brush/toothpaste/towels/soaps from shops and resteraunts().That part was also fun.
When we returned to the palce where cottage was located , sat somethimes, sang few songs in the open and then proceeded towards the cottage. Evreybody was tired and need to freshen up a bit. After gettging rejuvenated, the lovely dinner was waiting for us. The dinner included "O-Soba"(like noudles), "Chyahan" (chinese masala rice :)) and "Onigiri" (Rice bowl which is covered by a Sea Leaf and inside there is a pickle like thing called Ume-Boshi).We also had our lunch left whcih we didnt eat "Theple" and "Dahi", which saved some lifes :). It was a filling dinner and around 6 onigiris and few theples were left for next day breakfast.
We took dinner on the ground floor and then we went to 1st floor. There someone suggeted we wil play "Dumb Sherads" It started with me where i was asked to act the movie called "Bewafa". I really couldnt act that moview :((. After that we went on playing till 11:30 pm and it was becoming very hillarious specially when Bipin was asked to act for "Badhai ho badahi" ,"Atank hi Atank" (you can imagine how you can act such movies), "Wajood", "Ina Menna Deeka", "Sailab", "Hakikat", "Tejaswini", "36 Antop hill" and more and to end with "Hawas" (dont imagine anything ):))...In a nut shell it was all fun on that saturday night.Then we went to sleep.
When we wake up next morning I came to know nobody was able to sleep except I and Bipin. When we asked why we came to know that we were "Snoring" like anything :)) I really really felt bad for that.OK, then I and Bipin went out to take morning Tea and Milk from vending machines (somebody shud introduce the "Tapri" concept here yaar, badly need it) to compensate bad their sleeps. Then by 10 am on that lovely sunday morning we strted our journey back. In the return journey we decided to go on foot skipping that Cable Car.On the way we sang and sang and sang ans said "Konnichiwa" to all passing by people.Took lot of humourous snaps, took shortcuts (first i and bipin only , for which I got scolded too :)) but soon it was peace :)) but i m sorry for that and soon we took shorcuts with our betterhalfs :)))
It was a lovely journey, took us aroung 1 hour 30 minutes and then when we reached as bus stop the bus has just left hence we need to wals again for arnd 45 minutes. On the way we got good and close glimpse of a river where people we fishing untill we finally reached at Mitake Station from where the journey back to Tokyo thru train was about to start. Everybody was very tired and wanted to get in the trian as soon as possible.
So as a whole this one day freak out turned into a night stay at Mount mitake and it was all new experience again.Its a must go place for anyone who is a nature and adventure lover.
Japanese Dance On Indian Tunes !
Sunday April 1, 2007Yes, you read it right.The place is Indian Embessy, Kudanshita, Tokyo.Occassion is Cherry Blossom in Japan.Indian embessy organized this program where the Japanese people were made to dance on feet tapping songs like "Kajraare".."Nach Balliye"..some South Indian Songs and Marathisongs too (I do not know the lyrics though but the tunes were the same foot tapping)..They were really performming like professionals in India :) given theirfirst performance.The things got more exciting when spectators took over the stage withthe their wildest dance steps...And yes our UniKaihatsutians also showedtheir "Jalwa"..Here is the link to some snaps...http://new.photos.yahoo.com/straighttoprem/album/576460762395965854
Watch out Shailendra, Jimit, Bhavesh and more...and here is just a 11 sec clip uploaded by on youtube to give just a glimpse (end of the song "Kajraare") of a Japanese girl and a boy dancing on the stage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18F28RZ9yiY
Watch out Shailendra, Jimit, Bhavesh and more...and here is just a 11 sec clip uploaded by on youtube to give just a glimpse (end of the song "Kajraare") of a Japanese girl and a boy dancing on the stage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18F28RZ9yiY
A little monster speaker. Super Solid Output - Yamaha NX-A01
Thursday January 18, 2007There has been much hype about all the little speakers built araound iPod like iDog, iFish, and what iNot !
But one product of which i didn`t about so much was Yamaha NX-A01. This is a lovely piece of speaker which can work with bluetooth devices if you buy Bluetooth reciever with it. Ofcourse you can buy without it also. This white cube fits perfect in the iPod ecosystem and deliver much much better than its counterparts. This embodies a super sound engineering by Yamaha. The output is such that you really feal the music`s each and every intricate detail you would like to listen. Don`t underestimate the performace by its size because the max volume is something which can blow you away (ofcourse a bit hyperbole here). But honestly this delivers a ouptput which a musicphile will love it. Super SR-Bass (what yamaha calls it Swing Radiator Bass) for better bass sound.
Dimensions: 3.5 inch cube..yes 3.5 inch... Has an iPod scrolling wheel imitating button control over its top, with an orange LED (which looks cool in the dark )for Power/Mute/Volume Level.
A perfect companion for iPod (preferably white ...since these speakers are available in white only), can suit a computer table, Mobile phone music output player, with MP3. I use it as an alarm too :)) so that i can wake up with my favourite tune in the morning.
Coming to its bluetooth part, you can connect bluetooth reciever (another smaller cube) with this cuty and stream your music/audio from your bluetooth device like cell phone/laptop/PC/Mac...any damm bluetooth beaming thing. I am also using it by pairing it with AirMac Express.
The looks are so stunning that even if you don`t use it its a good as a showpiece :) A must for an audiophile !
But one product of which i didn`t about so much was Yamaha NX-A01. This is a lovely piece of speaker which can work with bluetooth devices if you buy Bluetooth reciever with it. Ofcourse you can buy without it also. This white cube fits perfect in the iPod ecosystem and deliver much much better than its counterparts. This embodies a super sound engineering by Yamaha. The output is such that you really feal the music`s each and every intricate detail you would like to listen. Don`t underestimate the performace by its size because the max volume is something which can blow you away (ofcourse a bit hyperbole here). But honestly this delivers a ouptput which a musicphile will love it. Super SR-Bass (what yamaha calls it Swing Radiator Bass) for better bass sound.
Dimensions: 3.5 inch cube..yes 3.5 inch... Has an iPod scrolling wheel imitating button control over its top, with an orange LED (which looks cool in the dark )for Power/Mute/Volume Level.
A perfect companion for iPod (preferably white ...since these speakers are available in white only), can suit a computer table, Mobile phone music output player, with MP3. I use it as an alarm too :)) so that i can wake up with my favourite tune in the morning.
Coming to its bluetooth part, you can connect bluetooth reciever (another smaller cube) with this cuty and stream your music/audio from your bluetooth device like cell phone/laptop/PC/Mac...any damm bluetooth beaming thing. I am also using it by pairing it with AirMac Express.
The looks are so stunning that even if you don`t use it its a good as a showpiece :) A must for an audiophile !
At last, the revolutionary Touch Screen iPhone is born(announced).
Wednesday January 10, 2007Yes , at last the wait is over of all Mac Fans...with Steve announcing the most awaited Apple Product of the decade "The iPhone" at MacWorld 2007, San francisco. A soon as i came to know that Synaptics is the partner Company of Apple then I started imagining the possibilities the future may have for all of us. The "onyx" concept of synaptics technologies...which are innovators in Human Interface for computers/devices is really a revolutionary within itself which says you don`t require any harware buttons for operating a device. See this link for that concept. http://www.synaptics.com/onyx/ But i was wrong in guessing the partner company for multitouch screen.There were independent researchers too like Jeff Van who demoed themultitouch screen concept on big screens in Feb ` 2006 itself about a year beforethis iPhone was intorduced.Video can be found here,http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=884017118027634444&q=multi-touchBut later i cam to knew that the company behing this tech is FingerWork ergonomicswhich was well know in making gesture pads for MAC and PC both.See one example of it.http://www.fingerworks.com/gesture_guide_web.htmlI also happen to visit some places on net which gave insights about what was Apple upto...
http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/51/apple-multipoint-touchscreen/
http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/54/touch-sensitive-ipod/
http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/48/new-apple-patents/
Everything can be converted to a software and just a pointing device like "Stylus" or "Finger/s" will solve the purpose. As Steve Jobs said in yesterday`s key note (9th jan at MacWorld 2007) that we have solved this problem in computers 20 years ago, where you use a bitmap image as a button for any operation and a pointing device like "mouse" for this purpose. In the same fashion that solution has been finally introduced by Steve in the third revolutionary product "iPhone"....after "Macintosh" (revolutionized Computer Industry) in 1984 and "iPod" in 2001 (revolutionized the Music Industry). It is bound to shake it for Cell Phone Industry now and Oh boy...he introduced the "iPhone" in his own unique electrifying and captivating way. Apple loves uniformity in such a way, that they have kind of squeezed the MAC OSX and built it as a foundation for software in the mobiles. A solid MAC OS X foundation helped Apple to make waht they called "Desktop Standard" applications...which i take it as..fully functional applications...no crippled small adjustment kind of application. The look of the phone is similar to ultra-brightening shine of MAC OS X on Macbooks, MBP or iMacs...Its a sunshine phone... iPhone consists basically a combination of 3 devices.. 1. iPod (Music, Video, Photo and other) 2. Phone (SMS, Normal Calling, Conference CallingTouch Screen, BlueTooth, WiFi Enabled) 3. Internet Communicator (Mail, Safari, Voice Mails Visualizer) In addition to this it has three special sensors for sensing the proximity of your face so that when you are picking up the phone the video fades out, then for a light sensing (for adjusting lights according to surrounding light conditions) and for mode sensing (Portrait or Landscape for automatic fliping of screen) When you are scrolling a list, the faster you move your finger the faster will be the movement of list....and it would be like you are playing with a wheel. Stay tuned...more to come....
I think this is just a begining of real digital age. We wil also see more innovations from other companies too..since this "iPhone" has triggred a new race for out of the box innovations.
http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/51/apple-multipoint-touchscreen/
http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/54/touch-sensitive-ipod/
http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/48/new-apple-patents/
Everything can be converted to a software and just a pointing device like "Stylus" or "Finger/s" will solve the purpose. As Steve Jobs said in yesterday`s key note (9th jan at MacWorld 2007) that we have solved this problem in computers 20 years ago, where you use a bitmap image as a button for any operation and a pointing device like "mouse" for this purpose. In the same fashion that solution has been finally introduced by Steve in the third revolutionary product "iPhone"....after "Macintosh" (revolutionized Computer Industry) in 1984 and "iPod" in 2001 (revolutionized the Music Industry). It is bound to shake it for Cell Phone Industry now and Oh boy...he introduced the "iPhone" in his own unique electrifying and captivating way. Apple loves uniformity in such a way, that they have kind of squeezed the MAC OSX and built it as a foundation for software in the mobiles. A solid MAC OS X foundation helped Apple to make waht they called "Desktop Standard" applications...which i take it as..fully functional applications...no crippled small adjustment kind of application. The look of the phone is similar to ultra-brightening shine of MAC OS X on Macbooks, MBP or iMacs...Its a sunshine phone... iPhone consists basically a combination of 3 devices.. 1. iPod (Music, Video, Photo and other) 2. Phone (SMS, Normal Calling, Conference CallingTouch Screen, BlueTooth, WiFi Enabled) 3. Internet Communicator (Mail, Safari, Voice Mails Visualizer) In addition to this it has three special sensors for sensing the proximity of your face so that when you are picking up the phone the video fades out, then for a light sensing (for adjusting lights according to surrounding light conditions) and for mode sensing (Portrait or Landscape for automatic fliping of screen) When you are scrolling a list, the faster you move your finger the faster will be the movement of list....and it would be like you are playing with a wheel. Stay tuned...more to come....
I think this is just a begining of real digital age. We wil also see more innovations from other companies too..since this "iPhone" has triggred a new race for out of the box innovations.
The First Sun Rise of year 2007
Date : January 1 ` 2007Time : Morning 6:51 amPlace : Myoden, Chiba Ken, Japan....River SideImportance: First sunrise of Year 2007.May this year be full of happiness for everyone.
Nintendo Wii, bringing families and friends closer at play.
December 4, 2006Recently broke a war of consoles as the holiday season was approaching.For hard core gamers it was a haven on earth when consoles like X-Box 360, Plastation 3 and Nintendo Wii were planning a launch for this year`s holiday season. But out of these 3, Nintendo Wii was able to capture the imagination of common sonsumers who have not so much exposure towards these consoles. The ability to play the sports with actually moving your hands and body is so fascinating that even the begineer in the world of Video Game consoles will find very intuitive to use such games.Nintendo Wii yet does not support High Defination (HD) Displays but then also has cought attention of many.
To play a game like tennis on this lovely innovation, the player holds the remote in his/her hand and gives real forehand, backhands and smashes...To play golf one litrally gives a swing to remote in that origianl fashion. And just imagine when you with your frind decide to play boxing you can defend with your left hand remote and attack with your right hand remote. Hence a must see game ofr every consumer new to gamings.
To play a game like tennis on this lovely innovation, the player holds the remote in his/her hand and gives real forehand, backhands and smashes...To play golf one litrally gives a swing to remote in that origianl fashion. And just imagine when you with your frind decide to play boxing you can defend with your left hand remote and attack with your right hand remote. Hence a must see game ofr every consumer new to gamings.
Flower Valley !
May 5, 2006The place is called SeibuChichiBu which is around 3 hoours from tokyo. There is a garden at SeibuchichiBu station where lot of flowers named "shibaSakura" had bloomed and they were spread across a big area which made that scene very beautiful, bright.
The path we took was
from Myoden-->
Takadanobaba-->
Tokorozawa-->
Hanno-->
SeibuchichiBu.
And after reaching that station 15 minutes walk led us to that wonderful place full of bloomed flowers with varied colors of white, light pink,pink and violet. The journey was also interesting through train. Both the sides were full of mountains, lush green trees, water streams and people out in the open for a trek, freakout and picnic.
At the garden also, hundreds of native people had come to see that flowers at their best. This place bears the flower between the months of 4/27 to 5/7. Hence rare event in the year. A must see for japan traveller during this period of year.
Its a treat for a nature lover.
The path we took was
from Myoden-->
Takadanobaba-->
Tokorozawa-->
Hanno-->
SeibuchichiBu.
And after reaching that station 15 minutes walk led us to that wonderful place full of bloomed flowers with varied colors of white, light pink,pink and violet. The journey was also interesting through train. Both the sides were full of mountains, lush green trees, water streams and people out in the open for a trek, freakout and picnic.
At the garden also, hundreds of native people had come to see that flowers at their best. This place bears the flower between the months of 4/27 to 5/7. Hence rare event in the year. A must see for japan traveller during this period of year.
Its a treat for a nature lover.
Sakura Bazaar - Year 2006
April 01, 2006
April 1 was the day when Indian Embassy, here in Tokyo organizaed a function called SAKURA BAZAAR. I think their idea was to bring together all Indians in Tokyo together and make them to see the wonderful national flower of Japan - SAKURA- to its fullest bloom. The place where this was organized is called "Kudanshita". I and swapna reached that station 1 pm and the crowd was incredible. Majority was of japanese people who have come to see the the cherry blossom at a park just outside the station and others were mostly indians who were supposed to reach to embassy Sakura bazaar held at indian embassy.
As soon as we came out of the station, there was a small lake, fully surrounded by Sakura Flowers...and this scene was phenomenal. The road fully crowded...and all the sides of lake fully occupied by people from all over the places. The embassy was actually just 5 mins away from that station, but it took us around 30 mins to reach there b`coz of the crowd.
At last seeing the flowers on the road, we managed to reach at Embassy, where all the indian citizens in japan have gathered. The embassy was fully packed and the atmosphere was exactly similar to a "Shaadi" (marriage) thing in our India.The volunteer groups from south india, west india and ll over the indian places have organized the different stalls for Dosa/Idli,Chaat,Chhole-Batture, Wada, Sabudan Khichadi, Chai and what not. Apart from indians, the japanese friends also acoompanied them. The place was jam packed man, you could feel that you are in india. There were clothes stalls too, where indian women were helping out japanese counterpart for trying them indian dresses like Sari...
To summarize it was very much like an indian party and this function helped us to see the beautiful Sakura, the lovely food and lot of friends where you could meet at one single place.Looking forward to such more programs and also thinking of volunteering with a food stall with some intersting stuff.
If interseting in seeing some more flowers and a glimpse of indians here, have a look at the adjoining photo album named same as "Sakura Bazaar"
April 1 was the day when Indian Embassy, here in Tokyo organizaed a function called SAKURA BAZAAR. I think their idea was to bring together all Indians in Tokyo together and make them to see the wonderful national flower of Japan - SAKURA- to its fullest bloom. The place where this was organized is called "Kudanshita". I and swapna reached that station 1 pm and the crowd was incredible. Majority was of japanese people who have come to see the the cherry blossom at a park just outside the station and others were mostly indians who were supposed to reach to embassy Sakura bazaar held at indian embassy.
As soon as we came out of the station, there was a small lake, fully surrounded by Sakura Flowers...and this scene was phenomenal. The road fully crowded...and all the sides of lake fully occupied by people from all over the places. The embassy was actually just 5 mins away from that station, but it took us around 30 mins to reach there b`coz of the crowd.
At last seeing the flowers on the road, we managed to reach at Embassy, where all the indian citizens in japan have gathered. The embassy was fully packed and the atmosphere was exactly similar to a "Shaadi" (marriage) thing in our India.The volunteer groups from south india, west india and ll over the indian places have organized the different stalls for Dosa/Idli,Chaat,Chhole-Batture, Wada, Sabudan Khichadi, Chai and what not. Apart from indians, the japanese friends also acoompanied them. The place was jam packed man, you could feel that you are in india. There were clothes stalls too, where indian women were helping out japanese counterpart for trying them indian dresses like Sari...
To summarize it was very much like an indian party and this function helped us to see the beautiful Sakura, the lovely food and lot of friends where you could meet at one single place.Looking forward to such more programs and also thinking of volunteering with a food stall with some intersting stuff.
If interseting in seeing some more flowers and a glimpse of indians here, have a look at the adjoining photo album named same as "Sakura Bazaar"
A Day out for ski-ing to Karuizawa, Nagano, japan
Feb 18, 2006 , was the day dedicated to Skiing....
It was our first time when we were trying out this sport....The day`s journey was planned on ShinKansen .The dramatic day started with a blast when we missed our morningtrain, but somehow managed to get into another train after 15 minutesof scheduled time. The plan was to go to a place called Karuizawa, wherea resort named Price Hotel Resort manages the skiiing activities. It tookus an hour from tokyo to Karuizawa...
And talking about Skiing part tell you its not that easy as it sounds....The gear is so heavy that intitially it gives us a feeling thathow can I ski wearing all this stuff....
But then out trainer taught us started from how to stand firstwearing those stuffs...then step by step started skiing somehow...It was fun in short...but too hectic. Today, one day after the skiing,i suddenly got aware how many bones and muscles do I have :-) Every partis aching......:-))
But no pains no gains (here gains = the fun...)
But the epitome is, it was a wonderful experience, and one mustgo for skiing in his/her lifetime.
As for me, even after falling for so many times, i would love to goto such place again and again till the day i smoothly ski along theski- courses...
And talking about Skiing part tell you its not that easy as it sounds....The gear is so heavy that intitially it gives us a feeling thathow can I ski wearing all this stuff....
But then out trainer taught us started from how to stand firstwearing those stuffs...then step by step started skiing somehow...It was fun in short...but too hectic. Today, one day after the skiing,i suddenly got aware how many bones and muscles do I have :-) Every partis aching......:-))
But no pains no gains (here gains = the fun...)
But the epitome is, it was a wonderful experience, and one mustgo for skiing in his/her lifetime.
As for me, even after falling for so many times, i would love to goto such place again and again till the day i smoothly ski along theski- courses...
The day for Chikatetsu HakuButsukan, Kasai
Feb 16th, 2006
The adjoining snap is of a boggy of the FIRST SUBWAY TRAIN of JAPAN that ran between UENO station to ASAKUSA.
Saturday was the day when we chose to see what is the secret behind the Metro Subway Trains. We went to a Underground Railway Museum. Boring it may sound, but its worth visiting. Since it talks about
1.Where the first subway train started in Japan.
2. What were the problems when the authorities decided for this way of communication.
3. What is the mechanism behind their success.
4. The people behind its existence.
5. The safety measures.
6. They talk about how drilling the ground was the greates task.
7. The simple sign boards they designed.
and much more....hence i guess its worth visiting.
Its here that i learnt that in the Metro Subway Rail network. TOZAI LINE (Our current residence is on this line ) is the longest line. Shinjyuku to Shinjuku San (3) CHOME is the shortest run between ant two stations in the whole network.
If you are keen to explore more, then see the snaps in PHOTOS section and send me feedback.
Saturday was the day when we chose to see what is the secret behind the Metro Subway Trains. We went to a Underground Railway Museum. Boring it may sound, but its worth visiting. Since it talks about
1.Where the first subway train started in Japan.
2. What were the problems when the authorities decided for this way of communication.
3. What is the mechanism behind their success.
4. The people behind its existence.
5. The safety measures.
6. They talk about how drilling the ground was the greates task.
7. The simple sign boards they designed.
and much more....hence i guess its worth visiting.
Its here that i learnt that in the Metro Subway Rail network. TOZAI LINE (Our current residence is on this line ) is the longest line. Shinjyuku to Shinjuku San (3) CHOME is the shortest run between ant two stations in the whole network.
If you are keen to explore more, then see the snaps in PHOTOS section and send me feedback.
The moody and lovable Kawashima San with Seiko San (his wife) and the lovely Mina Chan.
January 29, 2006On Sunday, we (I and Swapna) visited Kawashima San`s place. Kawashima San is a lovely person too. I have been working with him since i have come to Japan on two different projects. He is moody, sensitive, a very hard worker person and has become a lovely friend since then. We have fought too during this period but have worked a team. He loves Rock Music and has had a kind of guarage band. He was a singer. But now a serious C, C++ programmer and a father of 3 months lovely Mina Chan.
Will post something more.
The wonderful and affable Ueda San
January 28, 2006Hi,
On friday, Ueda San, by accepting our invitation, for some breakfast and CHAI, came down to our place here in Myoden (chiba Ken, Japan). He enjoyed by having "POHE" and "Shira". Before coming to our house, he searched net for info regarding indians. He read somewhere that the indian food is so spice that you may require a towel for it. And to our surprise he did bring along a small napkin to handle such situations. But we prpared the food keeping him in mind, that Ueda SAn won`t be able to eat too much spicy. It was lovely time with Ueda San.
Ueda San has helped me a lot during last few months for learning japanese. He sits besides me in the office in HIC premises. Apart from being a great game programmer he also is great guitar player and has performed on stage.
Swapna also enjoyed his company.
Will write more about him now and then.
Monday, July 2, 2007
My First Post
Hello Dear All,
The blogs name "Life n Technology" will cover, well, Life and Technolgy :)
This corner is just a small space in this galaxy of web about my views/thoughts/sharable things, discussions about new gadget, service or things touching the life as a whole.
I already have a blog at
http://360.yahoo.com/straighttoprem
But I am planning to shift all my blogs to this site http://lifentechnology.blogspot.com , since its gives me flexibility to have greater control over my blogs. Hence would be moving all the data to this corner.
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