I don't when was the last (old) 7 wonders were declared, but I know now when the New 7 wonders were announced. Glad to hear that The Taj Mahal is one of them and it tops the list.
Just to make a note for myself these are the other six monuments that made it to the list:
The Great Wall of China,
Petra in Jordan,
The Statue of Christ Redeemer in Brazil,
Machu Picchu in Peru,
The Pyramid of Chichen Itza in Mexico
The Colosseum in Rome
Having a holiday in the middle of week isn't really much helpful, The time you start enjoying it, Its gone. We've spent 30 minutes watching the firework and 90 minutes getting out of the traffic.
I always prefer watching local suburb's fireworks from near distance then the Macy's 4th of July Fireworks from far distance.
At last, this weekend will be remembered for paying $55 Parking Violation ticket for a casual visit to the park. I always put coins in parking meter without taking any chance, but this one time I took a chance and I was fined huge amount.
This visit to premium Outlet has turns out to be very fruitful; shopped for various clothings brands on bargain prices. What I liked about the Clinton Crossing Premium Outlet is, shops are organized in the straight rows making it easy to cover everything rather than just tiring your whole body.
You can cover whole outlet area in 3/4 hours on the evening time, rather than spending entire whole day at this vast Woodbury Outlet Mall, which I've been visiting last few years.
Did you know that "R2I" keyword stands for "Return to India" ?
May be you don’t until now; unless you are really planning to return to India from living abroad.
In Last few months, I’ve given serious thinking on this topic of returning to India due to many factors and hence stumbled upon this keyword "R2I" after searching on web.
One of the very useful forum that encountered is "r2iclubforums"; where you can find detailed information about various topics from 'sharing a container' to 'school education' for your kids.
Its been sometime now I’ve been reading these posts randomly, whenever I get a chance. Also, Few experienced R2i’er have started blogging about their experiences, which are very interesting to read about and thus the introduction of this new tab on my iGoogle page.
The 16th Jun had some special significance in our calendar due to the above event.
Indeed the Concert was true to the expectations; a concert to remember for lifetime. We had special interest due to the Rang De Basanti songs from Pathshala to Roobaroo. All together, It was an awesome experience to enjoy songs from Dil Se, Bombay to Tamil Shivaji and the unique 'Vande Mataram' to conclude with.
As we say in Hindi, "Paisa Vasool ", a Totally Rocking one !
It was long due to visit Coromandel Cuisine for Indian food. After many failed attempt of finding this place, it was the occasion of team lunch which brought me to this restaurant.
Due to the lunch time, we tried our hands on lunch buffet which had 4 veggie-variety and 2 non-veg ones supplemented with Kabob & vegetable bhajia. Personally, I enjoyed their dessert (Rice Pudding) the most, a nice way to end your meal with the sweet and cold feeling in your mouth.
Overall the food was delicious with reasonable price tag. The atmosphere is warm and casual. Thou I couldn’t understand the logic of giving 15% Tips on lunch buffet.
Finally It has paid off ! All the efforts & stress of going thru Visitor visa process.
Thou it took almost 2 yrs, 3 attempts, 30,000 /-Rs, plenty of paper work and lots of emotions. In the end, the feeling of getting Visitor visa is comforting & uplifting.
So my advise for others who have faced rejections; keep a hope alive at least in Visitor visa case.
A casual visit to Quassy Amusement park turns out to be a family fun for the whole day. This affordable amusement park is Worth a visit, if you've kid under 3 yrs or so.
Most of the rides are quick ones with no waiting and for the grown-ups, they've Water park & Beach . Specially, I had awesome fun on this Tunnel Twister water slides.
A great way to spend your Saturday afternoon with the family !
Being a second floor tenant and having a 20 months old toddler isn’t the best combination you can ask for. Specially, If you are living in American Apartments, where everything is made up of wood.
Kids love running & jumping on hardwood floor and more when you ask them not to. This has been really disturbing ground floor neighbors.
Facing this dilemma, I was running out of options. Carpeting or changing the apartment wasn’t feasible option. Hence, the other day I found this alternative option to cover most of hardwood floor by these Play mats. These mats are made of soft foam, which might be used as shock absorbing material. It is easier to assemble and most importantly economical.
For now, I’m hoping that these mats will solve the purpose. So if you are in same situation, this might be the solution you can think of.
This long weekend will go down as major Prod release implementation.
Its Major one, Due to the 200 GB table's data migration from one schema to another schema using SQL Insert statement by partition wise. Then comparing the record counts verifications and Building Indexes and Last migrating application Synonym from old table to new table.
The whole release took almost 20hr spanning over Friday night to early morning and upto Evening. Surely, the next week will also be the busy one. Its feels different when whole world relaxing and you are working hard.
FedEx truck never bothered me before. Now every time I see a FedEx truck or plan it reminds me that they charged me hopping $48 for International Priority delivery to India.
I’ve been using USPS’s Global Priority Mail to send the documents to India, for which they charge me reasonable $10. But this time due to the non-delivery of documents I had to use FedEx. They claim to be "World On Time" and thats important in Shipping Industry and as they say "Time is Money".
Somehow this year hasn't been lucky enough to produce a single big Hit of the year. So even after reading the disappointing reviews, We thought to give a shot for this movie, Keeping in the mind the director's previous hit movie "Salaam Namasate". Thou we weren't quite happy with the outcome, We were humming few song like "Hey Shona" and "Chika Chika...Chika Chika ...Girl...!" when we came out of the theater.
The problem is this movie has too much of Racing, and every time we had wait for 100 Laps to finish.
After eating various salads in lunches at work it was time to try out one at home.
So the other day we picked the essential ingredients for the “Green salad” from the grocery store. Most importantly we needed fresh-cut Asian salad, Honey Mustard dressing, Zesty Italian Dressing, fresh Mozzarella cheese and Garlic Croutons as toppings.
It is obvious that you will have few of these items handy when you plan for salad.
Those are tomatoes, sliced cucumber, carrot, kidney beans, chick pea, green peas, white onions, green & bell peppers, Walnuts or almonds.
As for salad recipe, all you got to do is throw these veggies and toppings in big bowl, add the dressings accordingly, mix-up the entire stuff by tossing the bowl and there you have it, A fresh, tasty healthy green salad.
And thus it adds another dish, which I can make on my own.
Sometime just taking a different route might lead you to a new place. That’s what happened this weekend when we stumbled upon this great new specialty dairy store called “Stew Leonard’s”. They claim to be the World’s Largest Dairy Store.
The unique thing about this place is everything is fresh here, even the bakery products are served out of the ovens.
As New York Times says "Disneyland of Dairy Stores" because of its own milk processing plant, costumed characters, scheduled entertainment, petting zoo and animatronics throughout the stores.
Indeed, We had good time shopping here.
Pad Thai – that has become “The usual” for me at any Thai restaurant.
I love those sauteed rice noodles with the combination of veggies, garnished with crushed peanuts and coriander, served with a piece of lime.
The Occasion was another farewell team lunch at Thai restaurant.
