Catch me before I jump!!

I just a tedious walk over to Manhattan from Brooklyn over the brooklyn bridge. Took a stop at the City Hall Park, where there was this beautiful fountain in the middle. Decided to take some rest and sit on the bench.

I was looking at this small kid who was in some mood for some mischief. Slowly as he saw his mother move away from him to sit on the bench, he decided to take a plunge into the fountain. It was for his poor mom, who had come down for a peaceful walk at the park and ended up chasing the notorious kid. In the last pic u can notice the hand of the kid's mother, running to pull him off the fountain.

Brooklyn Bridge

You can find all the info u need about it on the web, so no history or geography about it, all i'll say is, this bridge is amazing and it's amazing to walk on it. It inspires you to jog!!

Manhattan Bridge

This is the Manhattan Bridge from the Brooklyn Bridge, it runs parallel and the subway runs below the traffic, looks nice in the night with all the lights, and massive too

Lincon Tunnel

This is the major tunnels that joins NY & NJ together. The tunnel is under the bay and beautifully lit. I'm not sure if I could click pics here, but got this one and looks good. I was on the front seat of a BMW Beamer.

Finally!!

This was long long over due!! I finally got an internet connection at home! During the initial days, when I was working with AOL support, I used to get a lot of calls cursing Time Warner Cable, and guess what. I got Time Warner Cable for myself!!

How ironic...

Ok so now the post will get regular again.

The ice-cream truck

After walking for over a mile and a half over to the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge, I was a bit tired and wanted to eat something. Something that would fancy my craving for hunger and cool me too. That very instance, my eyes fell on this ice-cream truck. My happiness knew no bounds; it seemed liked the luckiest day of my life! I waddled my way to the truck, reaching for my wallet, only to realize... I was living on plastic money past few days, and had no bills or enough coins at my disposal.

The desire to get my chocolate ice-cream was slowly fading away in front of my eyes. The laziness of not withdrawing cash from the ATM was going to cost me, and cost me dear. Seemed liked I would not be able to fulfill my aspiration. Darkness dawned upon me and I fell back on the park bench, sad and dejected.

It’s not what the ice-cream can do for you, but what you can do to get an ice-cream. These great words echoed in my ears, the battle might be over, but the war had not yet been won. I sprang on my feet in quest for an ATM, in search of ‘Bank of America'. Battling through the park, dodging the playing kids and their dodge balls, I skimmed & scanned every nook and corner of every street and every possible red hooded shop to find the ATM


Within a few minutes I was standing in front of a main branch of ‘Bank of America’ at Church Street. It had over 3 ATMs. The place was deserted and bore a quite grim look, as though it had just been raided by the Pirates of the Caribbean. I flung open the door, caught hold of an ATM, swiped my card, punched my PIN **** and got 2 crisp bills of $20.

Grabbed my transaction receipt, rushed out, and crossed the streets, closely watching the 'WALK' signals for pedestrians. I ran back towards the ice-cream truck, being more familiar with the terrain now, I easily dodged the kids, and came to a screeching halt in front of the ice-cream truck.

Fate, fortune, good-luck, destiny, providence… nothing was on my side. The efforts of a fat man to eat an ice-cream were wasted. The trust in fairy god mother of ice-creams was lost forever. A tired man I was, who was tried and tested in tiring times, with the greed of laying his hands on a delicious cold soft ice-cream in a nicely baked waffle cone.

As I fell on my knees tired and broken, darkness surrounded me and this time for real… my dreams just melted away… And to rub salt on the wound the truck just stood there, with the windows closed. I sat there staring at the truck, in sheer anticipation, one day, the window will open and the ice-cream man will sell ice-cream again and I will get a bite of it…

Time Square

This is the Times Square, the most maddening crowd in US. The place is not as populated a Bombay, but the enthusiasm is not less either. People just flock to this place, to see the billboards and signs, the place is simply amazing filled will light, and LCD TV's. All I can say is it's an AMAZING PLACE!

Spot Varun

Liberty Island.

Spot the Bull

This is next to my office. Its a massive structure at Downtown Manhattan. This BULL has featured in many movies also. Looks massive and amazing.

Liberty Island - Statue of Liberty.

The first two pics is me at the Liberty Island, and in the lower one with a classical look to the place. I tried tickling the statue, so it gets the torch below, but alas! that was a bit difficult..

Flying Catch

These birds were in action in Liberty Island. They were barely 8-10 feet above my head. The pic has come out neet. I liked them a lot.

The Thinking Man

Enroute to Liberty Island, I got this pic among the other statues.

Daily Trivia: Find the thinking man.

The tunnel of light...

This is the passage way in the hotel leading to the room, I kinda liked it. It has come out neat.

eXtended Stay America

This is Extended Stay America, The place I'm places the black & white is the room where I'm placed the building pic. The tree below is just behind the hotel, next to the river.

The flight and Hethrow Airport

I had a flight through British Airways BOM-NWK via Hethrow Airport, the first two pics are the airplane I was flying in. The next one is the Heathrow airport London. I had a 7 hours stopover there moved around and enjoyed the place. The airport is huge and highly commercial.

I guess the Indian airports should take some tips from them in commercialization.

The last one is my flight from Hethrow to Newark airport, the whole row was empty!! I enjoyed the flight. Saw "Departed", "Casino Royale", "The Incredibles" and slept for a long time...

The begining of a new era

The day before I was leaving for New York for a new professional life, I got some dollars from the bank, and I liked this comparision what I was doing. The sequence is

• INR 100
• INR 20
• $ 100
• $ 20

This was the last Indian currency and the first American currency I was carrying.