Satish's Blog

Dandiya/Garba 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:48:00 +0000

Portland Indians performing Dandiya

No more street cricket...

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:56:00 +0000

US vs. India Visual Comparison

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:05:00 +0000

The one that caught my attention is the total daily newspapers. The glaring difference may be the result of the number of languages in India.

Human Ocean

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:05:00 +0000

The Boston Globe always has great pictures on their "The Big Picture" blog

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/

Waiting in the car

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:06:00 +0000

Quick Gun Murugun - Mind it, I say !!

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:09:00 +0000

Anyone familiar with the original Quick Gun Murugun TV character on Channel V from the early 90s will find the movie "Quick Gun Murugun - Misadventures of an Indian cowboy" hilarious. It's a spoof that doesn't spare anyone. I think this might be the first Indian movie to be released simultaneously in four Indian languages - English (yah, Indian English), Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.

Movie synopsis from imdb:
"Quick Gun Murugun is a western spoof with attitude, featuring outlandish songs, outrageous melodrama and crazy action sequences including a classic duel in a traffic jam. The film tells the story of Quick Gun Murugun - a South Indian karmic cowboy whose duty is to protect cows. When faced with a world-conquering arch villain restaurant owner who wants to create the ultimate McDosa chain using beef, Quick Gun enters into an epic battle of vegetarianism vs. non-vegetarianism that spans time and space, from a small South Indian village to an Indian heaven and then finally to a cosmopolitan Mumbai across 15 years."

Quick clips from the movie - I can't help laughing every time I see these.

It's finally here

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:26:00 +0000

Portland Rose Garden

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:28:00 +0000

Fall is around the corner

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:05:00 +0000

Street Cricket in Portland

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:19:00 +0000

The world according to twitter by David Pogue

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:52:00 +0000

As a micro-co-author of "The World According to Twitter", I'll be getting a signed copy of the book free. I've been a follower of @Pogue on twitter and on one fine day I chose to answer one of his questions. Miraculously, he chose to include my answer in his book. He warned me that a few tweets may have to be cut from the final copy. I am not sure if mine made it but I will get the book no matter what.

Pogue's Twitter-Book Signing Day from david pogue on Vimeo.

PGE Park MAX Stop

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:14:00 +0000

India cultural festival at pioneer square, Portland

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:13:00 +0000

Bollywood dance on "So you think you can dance"

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:15:00 +0000

We were pleasantly surprised to see Bollywood dance on "So you think you can dance". The performance was amazing. I also noticed "Bollywood Dance" keyword shot up to top 100 searches on Google. You can see the search traffic spike around 6PM PT

Here is the clip:

Native Indian art, anchorage airport - 4

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:25:00 +0000

Seal hide covering boat

Native indian art, Anchorage airport - 3

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:22:00 +0000

Native Indian art , Anchorage airport - 2

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:21:00 +0000

Native Indian art, Anchorage airport

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:20:00 +0000

Highly recommended restaurant in Anchorage

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:07:00 +0000

Our quest for good vegetarian food took us to moose's tooth
restaurant. It's highly recommended by the local paper (discovered it
on www.Mahalo.com). The lone carnivore in our group thought the meat
items were good too.

The pizza we had was delicious.

Alaska wild berry products

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:56:00 +0000

Chocolate fountain at Alaska wild berry products store in Anchorage

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:26:00 +0000

3400 lb of chocolate was melted to produce this falls

Moose crossing the river while we were rafting

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:34:00 +0000

Fishing for salmon on Kenai river

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:08:00 +0000

People combat fishing

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:04:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (Satish) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:57:00 +0000