Last of Dubai...
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Laptop's back, unformatted, time to rejoice! It actually back in a better condition than before apart from the booting problem. After its first stint at toshiba's repair center last year the external LEDs for Power and hard drive werent working but they are now...woohoo! (Nerdy, yes please)
Some more photos for my thousands of fans. I love you all!...wait what was that..only 5 u say..well I love u 5 to bits.
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and jo-incidence is coincidence with a J
Thursday, August 03, 2006
My laptop's dead... for no good reason apparently...I returned from India and it refused to boot...I believe its got something to do the old and really bad X-ray machines at Nagpur airport...damn them. What is worrying me is that I gave it to the dealership and they seem to not care about the gazillion photos present on my hard drive (why should they) and might just wipe my entire hard disk...everything...gone...I will be sad :(.
Whats funny is that it died about the same time last year...and that was worse...atleast I'm here in Dubai so my loss isnt a very drastic loss. I mean to say that I still have access to other PCs and other forms of entertainment in general.
I bought an extended warranty last summer when I realized some laptop probs are just beyond my geeky domain, so hopefully I wont be stuck with a huge bill for the repairs. Toshiba was nice enough to let me knwo that if I didnt have a warranty they wudve charged my some 500 odd dollars..I dunno what it will be now.
If anybody is still wondering about the post title, watch more F.R.I.E.N.D.S, its good for your health ;)
edit: Double jo-incidence, my earlier post linked in this entry also makes a reference to F.R.I.E.N.D.S, makes me wonder on the way my brain works..hmmmm...
Best of Switzerland
Saturday, July 08, 2006
As usual, select photos, touched up...
Come n get it!
Switzerland
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Switzerland, it is everything Bollywood makes it out to be. That country is blessed with natural beauty and the Swiss people know it. Completely decked out for tourism, competely free of pollution; the air and the noise kind, and completely breathtaking.
As before, I hardly believe in describing the trip in words since I really invest my time in capturing the best photographs, limited by my ability and camera (to some extent). However I will give a brief run through of the trip since it will help put names to the places seen in the photographs.
First stop, Zermatt:
A tiny village located south of Switzerland and the best stop according most of my group members (not mine though, I preferred Interlaken). A village so much in love with its natural beauty that they have disallowed petrol powered vehicles from entering. Only seen running around are small electrical cars and horse carriages. However, the village being very small, everything is a stone's throw away and walking is the best mode of transport. Zermatt is also home to Mt. Matterhorn, a mountain with a recognisable peak (seen on Toblerone chocolates). It was one of the places that we went up through cable cars (a height of approx. 3400m). The other activity that we indulged in was taking a hike through a gorge that meanders along the foothills surrounding Zermatt. A few people and I also wanted to go paragliding but bad weather played spoilsport.
Zermatt Gallery
Second stop, Interlaken:
Situated between two huge lakes, the city's name doesnt come much as a surprise. One of the lakes, called Breinzersee, has a pristine turquoise color that one only gets to see in travel photographs of some exotic beach in Thailand. Apart from taking a boat ride over this lake we also took a rail upto the highest rail station in Europe, named Jungfraujoch (German spelling bees must be hell). Situated a few hundred metres below the peak of Mt. Jungfrau, this was the only place where we encountered bad weather. Almost zero visibility due to 50 km/h winds and comparitively pretty cold weather (about zero degress celcius which is actually not that cold according to my standards).
Interlaken had the right mix of natural beauty and developed areas. I felt more comfortable here for that reason. Also we had an Indian restaurant behind our hotel. It cost an arm and a leg to eat there but what's 300 CHF (abt 900 AED) after 4 days of fast food :).
Interlaken Gallery
Third and last stop, Luzern:
The largest city on our iternary, Luzern was the least "Swiss", in the sense that one imagine bustling towns when thinking about Switzerland. Also situated along a very large lake, the name of which I forget voluntarily for the fear of having to spell the montsterous name. On our first day there, a festival was taking place and the lake shore was packed with young people, avery welcome change from the majorly old population of Switzerland. And I was particularly thankful for the "hot" day if you know what I mean ;). Also adding to the atmosphere was Portugal's win over England in the QF. There were cars honking, people dancing, babes taking their shirts off (no, I just imagined that). The sad part to this story is that I forgot my camera in the hotel room and was too lazy to go get it, so no pictures :(.
Other places of intrest were Mt Pilatus and Mt Titlis (yes, what a wierd name). Mt Pilatus was just beautiful beyond words (which is why I have pictures) and Mt. Titlis had a "snow park" which had toboggan slides cut out of snow. That was just a blast. Going downhill on a chain built out of 5 toboggans and having your family screaming their heads off behind you is a totally different experience :).
Luzern Gallery
What a trip and now I'm geared for my trip to India which should be in a few days...
