Sab rang udd gaye :-))

Dancing Partying at Manish's wedding

With Manish, on his wedding 29.6.2006

Suyash Asthana, Me, Manish Raghav and Sunil Rathore

Aurora Borealis aka Northern Lights

Some ugliest snaps (by me) of the most beautiful phenomenum in Northern Hemisphere.

Hardly any lens is able to capture the experience of viewing Northern Lights with naked eye.

Early Days & Latter Days

Foothills of Alps at Linthal, Switzerland

Sparkling Ganges at Haridwar

North Indian Summer

Finnish lake in Summer

Autumn in Uppsala, Sweden

Month of March in Lapland, Finland

IPO

Swiss Alps

Trip to St.Petersburg

My Doll

My younger sister 

Somewhere in time

Me with my elder sister

FISH C(o)urse in Vienna, Austria

International FISH course 2006 was organised by Department of Microbial Ecology (DOME), University of Vienna, Austria from 13.2 - 17.2.2006

The corridors of the university are amazing. Huge skeletons of various animals, microscopes and other instruments are on display. It doesn't looks like university at all, more like museum. Entire city seems to have an affinity towards ancient things. There were small "museums" in nearly each and every food joint and shops I visited. No words to describe about museums and beauty in the city of Mozart.

The FISH here stands for Fluorescence in situ hybridisation. It was a wonderful course, and very informative as it was being taught by one of the best guys in the field. Team included Holger Diams, Matthias Horn, Alexander Loy, Sebastian Lucker, Frank Maixner, Kilian Stoecker and Michael Wagner. The team used to call the course as c(o)urse, you can choose between curse and course depending on your experiences. Quite polite way to put it.

The day used to start at 8 AM and then we were supposed to FISH till 9 in the evening. The grilling schedule didn't gave much chance to visit historical places in city, as university was quite far from downtown. The hotel I was staying was in the heart of the monumental city. I used to see places from outside, while travelling via tram. It is amazingly beautiful city. The best so far I had visited. The city feels very lively, maybe then I was coming from cold Finland.

Only place I visited was House of music. Good place for music lovers, its a museum and took me over 4 hours to quickly visit the place. Otherwise I used to walk through the streets and look monuments from outside in the night time and trying out different restaurants every night. Compared to Finland, it wasn't that expensive place at all. I tried to took few pics, but then it was difficult to capture good images without tripod at the night. A big blunder I committed while packing my luggage :-((

Maybe, I soon visit Vienna again and will then post you some good images from Wien.

King Nothing's party in Tampere, Finland

Oh what a surprise bachelor's party it was!!! Arranged by Perttu, Jenni, Steinar, Paliwal and Vivek - It surprised me, and then I surprised everyone around. At shivering cold noon on eighteenth day of March, 06, the bell rang and I found these ghonchoos on my doorstep. Loaded with snacks and beer, they made me wore "I'm the king of the day" tshirt, blindfolded me, pushed me into car and drove. Making my senses go haywire all the way, they stopped at Go-karting centre, then to Laser battlefield, dinner at Bellaroma, back to apartment for heavy booze with Finns trying their first steps on bhangra, beer taste competition at Perttu's place, then to Rusty Angels followed by Hella. Finally we were back at 0400 hrs, after nearly 16 hrs of partying.

Whatever happened that day is a memory in itself. First as King, then a Flying Indian ;-)) (getting wounded on the track), and then we being honored with word scum by some racist hooligans at Rusty Angels. It was really a happening ironical party (although not intended to be). Day started with us playing Metallica's King Nothing loud, never knew that we would experience the same beats at midnight. "Where's your crown King Nothing ..."