More Observations

So I am back from New York City, and it has been quite a trip, I have stayed up later than I ever have in the United States, gone to a diner at what can be classified as both late night, and early morning (used to be early morning while I was back home), been to a Broadway show, walked along a street where more money changes hands than most countries can rightfully call theirs, and done way more things than I want to describe. But well I will not write one long paragraph after another describing things, what i will do instead is to present a set of observations, some made by me, some by others, on the things I have seen in the days gone by…

Being in a hot tub often leads to something very similar to inebriation, in fact I happen to know from close sources that people are often more easily inebriated when in a hot tub. A hot tub however is one of the coolest things to be in, is übber fun, and hence is something everyone needs to try out.

Times Square is probably one of the worst places to find yourself on a Friday night, it is far too bright, is far too crowded, and requires enormous amounts of elbowing. A friend described it as red light district meets Disneyland, I think it is something like a brighter, flashier version of old Delhi.

New York City is surprisingly expensive, and sometimes surprisingly cheap for things in there. It is probably one of the most expensive cities in terms of transportation and living, and I think a lot of us hated that fact, it however is also one of the few places I have been to where you can buy really really good food at cheapish (by most standards, including standards based in Delhi) rates, it however is not simple, you usually spend almost as much as you would anywhere else in America for food, you could spend a lot more if you eat at the übber expensive places frequented by all those people in New York City.

NYC much like any other city is one of those places where you get to see both the bad and the good sides of life, the übber rich people who could do whatever they please, and the really poor, and in that it is no different from every city in the world. It however is also one of those place which has areas exclusively restricted to the rich, areas which are not ambiguous about which tract of society live their.

I don’t like tall buildings, I am sorry but I simply do not like buildings which are that tall, they confound me, and I have to walk with my head perpetually upwards to see where I am, and they seem far too tall. Buildings should be moderately short, and while I can understand the intense desire of certain people to be at the top of the world I think it’d be pretty cool if some of them stayed somewhat lower.

The Met is far too big, aiming to explore all of it, or even all of its paintings is an extremely ambitious project which should not be undertaken by anyone who cannot walk for miles on end, and even then should not be a journey taken lightly, it will take you long, and there are many things which can be easily missed but should not be.

Central Park is interesting, in that there are things you really want to see, and things you would rather avoid, trust me on that one.

The Central Park Zoo, and its supposedly “gay” penguins are more expensive to visit than the Met, making it somewhat intriguing.

Museums with suggested entrances are really not free, unless you manage to walk in without feeling any guilt, for they have ticket counters and give buttons and stuff out, and umm ya you will pay, you most probably will.

The Met is not the Louvere, since it wasn’t made by exploiting one countries wealth, nor by royal prerogative, they however still have nice paintings, though they don’t have the Mona Lisa, or half the wealth in terms of paintings kept in Louvre. (This was borrowed from a discussion I had with people after we entered the Met)

NYC truly is one of those cities where street photography should be fun, and relatively safe seeing as no less than half a doze people at anytime have cameras on them, I am kind of sad I didn’t carry mine along, I was scared of rain, and stuff. After looking at a photography exhibition at the Met, and at List (Brown’s art building and gallery type thing), I am kind of missing doing any for so long, hmm it is spring there are all those people around, hmm, me not have time…

NYC is interesting but hard to write about, hence other observations shall now follow…

All those people talking about jet lag don’t know the first thing about it, shifting around 5 or 6 whole hours at a time is perfectly understandable, it is fun even, and you can sleep it off, shifting one hour back (as opposed to forward), and living through a 23 hour day without moving an inch, now that is bad, it is so much worse than any jet lag, hmph all those people trashing jet lag, give me jet lag any day…

Spring in New England is beautiful but unpredictable, it can be nice and sunny, toasty even, but then it will rain, and rain cats and dogs it will, and then it will be coolish, and okishly coolish, but well rain so much rain, pfft (hasn’t happened in a while, but is around the corner)...

There are weeks when I have too much work, and weeks when I have not much work, and then there are weeks like this when I don’t have too much work but am not sure, since surely I must have more work (well to be truthful I do, it’s just that I don’t want to do that part of work now), and I guess the last kind of week are my least favorite since I keep shifting between things none of which are too fun or exciting.

Baseball and all that its terminology is associated with is weird, the fact that I have got to hear a lot of baseball terminology is somewhat funny .

Hmm that’s all the current observations, or more like I am going to the Gate, and this damn window needs to go…

Ze Panda