Pictures of Tripura - 2

The biggest advantage of being a student is that you get those long summer & winter vacations. This was the longest break I had in last 4 years. So I tried to use to the fullest by lot of traveling and clicking pics my new found obsession. I clicked some really nice pics in Trichy and lot of pics in Tripura but unfortunately the hard disk of my laptop crashed and I lost almost all my pics. Luckily I had few pics saved in my pen drive, which I am uploading here. I really miss the pics I clicked in Udaipur, the pics of the ruins of the old palace had come out really well, the pictures of river Gomati flowing in its full force was mesmerizing. There is no way I can get them back again :(

Summer vaccation in Chennai

Chennai is definitely not the ideal place where you would like to spend the summer, but I am here again back to Chennai, the place where I did my engineering. Last time when I had come here to collect my Degree certificate I bade good bye to the city without knowing that I will be back here in a year’s time. Chennai is not among my most favorite cities but there are few things here that you will miss in other cities: the wide variety of non-veg foods, juice shop in every corner of the road, the smooth roads etc. The city has changed a lot since I left it in 2006. New buildings and companies have sprung up in outskirts of the city, the traffic has increased, things have become costlier the same juice which used to cost Rs. 10, now costs Rs. 25 and the autowallahs seem to have become little sober(though I still prefer bus over the overpriced autos). One thing that has not changed is that you need to have some knowledge of the local language to manage on your own, the Hindi speaking population is still very little, and of course you will find people who speak English more often that in any other city in India. This gives me another opportunity to enhance my Tamil speaking prowess.
climate is as hot as ever though the summer is still on the side but with every passing day the temperature is soaring and its promising to be a very hot hot summer.

Good Bye Kingdom

I finally got to say Good Bye to kingdom of Saudi Arabia(not kingdom exists this days). Though I have not yet reached India because I am stuck in AbuDhabi airport rite now. I still have 8 hours in my hand before i board my next flight to India,my condition is slightly better than Tom Hanks in Terminal as luckily this time my office gave me Business class ticket and I got the opportunity to be in the Etihad Premium lounge, it is from their big 21" macintosh that I am composing this post. The contrast between the AbuDhabi airport and Dammam airport are startling, AbuDahbi has one of the best airports in the world and here one get to see a very good crowd from all over the world and for someone like me who as spent last three months in Saudi, where the only part of female u can see is their eyes if you are lucky may be their eyes sometime, I am enjoying every bit of it now.
Thats all for the time being, more on Saudi after reaching India.