- John Titor
- Software Developement Methodoly - How to track/ document and divide work
- Vishal's Nasa auditorium visit in Houston
- Previous visit to Jagjit Singh's shows in Houston
- We will watch couple of horror movies together and he told me about "Beutiful Life" movie.
- I told him about "House of Nine", "Saw", "Saw II"
- Barnes and Noble near Augusta Mall (Wrightsboro Road)
- Magazines I subscribed
We were supposed to pick tickets from Vishal's friend Gautam in Atlanta and we first went to his home. It was at a very nice location with a great view. He also offered Upma to us that was very tasty too. Due to heavy breakfast we couldn't eat much right then but got some packed. :)
Then we left for Farmers Market in Atlanta. It was suprising to find so many food varieties of Indian and Pakistani Origin in addition to other stuff and huge variety of vegetables. We found that Indian stuff was costlier than the Indian grocery store so we purchased only minimal stuff but lots of vegetables. Then we moved to an Indian Store - Patel Bros. in Decatour near Lawrenceville Highway. There the goods were cheap and we got good stuff - including my Jaljeera Masala etc.
From there, we moved to the nearby Mirch Masala restaurant that offered a buffet. Buffet was okay from Indian taste perspective but very good in comparison to my previous experiences in US. Still, I'll rate it below Bombay Central of Augusta. Varieties were good and I liked the Gajar Halwa a lot. I have a problem with smell of Garlic and too much of Garlic in food. So I stuck to just matar paneer :)
Then we moved on to Georgia Aquarium. We had an advance booking of 4 pm but we could reach only by 5:30pm. We weren't sure whether they'll let us in. When I reached gate and asked the security personnel she told me "sorry you can't go in". I was shocked. Then when we were about to get back, she told us she was joking. Georgia Aquarium is a place where we can be late. :) The overall aquarium experience was very good. We clicked almost 150 pictures. The aquarium is huge and much better than what I had seen at Sentosa Island in Singapore.
After spending about 2 hrs in Aquarium, we moved on to Vishal's favorite Jagjit Singh's concert. We were there at about 7:30pm. From his past experience, Vishal was skeptical whether we will get tickets at all but as such it was well organized and there was no trouble as such. The concert was scheduled to start at about 8:00pm but it could start only at 8:30pm. Jagjit Singh was not in best of his health and was coughing regularly initially. After about 30 minutes or so, everything picked up rythm. The supporting crew was just marvelous with different instruments such as keyboard, flute, sitar, tabla, saxophone etc. It was just breathless moment. Saxophone reminded me of my favorite tunes from Kenny G.
I took 2-3 naps in-between just because I was feeling a bit tired.. but none of tha naps lasted more than 2 minutes... so I didn't miss too much :). Overall, the experience was better than I had anticipated.
Concert rounded up at about midnight. We were not feeling hungry so decided to directly head for Augusta. We looked for directions but found out that couple of roads were blocked so we couldn't follow directions. Had to take couple of extra turns to find out our way but without much of trouble. On our way back also, Vishal drove. He didn't let me drive at all. We had interesting conversations and some of the key things we discussed were:
- Indian Politics
- US Politics - his view of Bush Administration
- Rising prices of Gasoline
- The plant that converts waste into Gasoline (http://www.mindfully.org/Energy/2003/Anything-Into-Oil1may03.htm)
- John Titor again
- Coding and bad-side of Open Source
- Minority Report, Demolition Man movie
- Futurists and what they predict about future
- Iran's gain from Iraq war
- Google and its dominance
- How Operating system is irrelevant now
- Phoney programmers using Open Source to fool others
- Riya.com - a cool photo search engine
Overall, it was a trip that will remain in my memories forever.
I would like to thank Vishal for this memorable trip and I look forward to many more memorable trips during my US stay.
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