French Food and Wine!

Last few days, I am discovering myself ….. my likes and dislikes. I felt the two things I like to do the most is meeting and interacting with different people and eating good food. Last two days I was just doing this. Our lab hosted a meeting so we had collaborators from all over Europe visited our lab. Lot of talking, enjoying different colors of people, tasting good French food and wine! After living in France for more than three years only during last few days I was able to understand why we consider the French cuisine as the best one in the world! To add cherry to this cake, I also got sponsorship for my next trip, to a country close to my heart, just because many people I admire and love are from this country! New trip meeting more people and tasting more food!

What a Saturday!

Started my Badminton after a looong break.....played for two hours and now having difficulties in even typing this blog.... Ended up eating lunch cooked by three guys, these super fast cooks cooked 3 dishes in 30 minutes! Usually too many cook spoil the food but luckily it was not true today! Well! Had a good work out today morning... so deserved more nice food, Had a good company and nice excuse to go to an South Indian restro for dinner, its suppose to be the best one in Paris and no wonder I bump into two famous Tamil singers in the restro! Its nice to take a such typical 'celebraties' photos for the blog. I am meeting more Indian celebrities in Paris than in Indian.... May be That is called living in the most happening city .....

These two singers Mano and Chithra may be total strangers for many of my blog readers, if you are interested to have a sample of their voice,you can listen to the song below, Obviously its from a Tamil movie; Mano and Citra are the play-back singers for the actor and actress in the song. They have many of very famous duets together, but this following song have a more of Tamil flavour than most of their other songs, the lyrics, the basic Tamil folk tune, pictured in Tamil nadu's country side etc. etc.

One more in Chitra's Voice!

Lets fly a kite!

There is a big lucky star burning bright just above me having a week filled with nice things, good news and lots of surprises. To start with work my second author paper got accepted in PNAS, journal increasing my publication count to 6. I took a nice sunny break in north of France in a small sea side village called berck sur mer to see a kite festival. It was my first visit to kite festival and it happen to be the best one in Europe with nice weather and nice company, I am just trying to make a small attempt to share the experience, but it is too difficult to put in words or photos! The sound of sea, mixed with gentle move of huge kites and lots of fresh air and sun. In the night the sky filled with kites with glittering lights. It was mesmerizing. Thanks to Shanana and her friend Alex in back stage who gave us some real time experience in flying the ‘real’ kites. The ‘real’ kites are the huge one which are coordinated with two hands and four threads and makes you feel like wind and a bird! Swim with dolphins and fly a kite are two must to do in a life time!

The best part of the festival was this 82 year old Canadian man controlling 3 ‘real’ kites two in two hands and one in his hips and still synchronizing everything and made them dance in the sky! yeah! Sky is the limit for people’s talents! (check the below video of this wonder man)

check out more photos and videos of from Berck sur mer!
and also Alex's Revolution kites Videoblog!

Once upon a dream !

When I came to Paris, I was not able to carry with me my complete collection of things I loved and valued from my childhood but still I had enough space in my luggage and heart to carry all the Disney soft toy collection and CDs! For many known and unknown reasons I lost this child in me in Paris. Today accidently landed in Disney world and lived a part of my childhood dream! I have to thank lot of people for this ‘serendipity’. Thanks to Umesh for gifting me with his free tickets, if not I would have never made an effort to go there! Thanks to Paris weather forecast for its usual wrong prediction, if not such a sunny day would have attracted lots of crowd to Disney land! Thanks to Alberto for getting his ‘kid’ friends along, they added lot of color and life to the colorful Euro Disney! This day totally looked like an universe’s conspiracy !

carnaval de venice

Thanks to the Carnival of Venice, grey Paris had some colours!