Having idly and horlicks in nesara

Feels good to be back. Felt great after eating idly after three full months.

hi

Dubai airport, the most boring place on earth ! ! !

People chanting quran

Agnes bought chocolates

These are the chocolates that Agnes brought from Hungary ... Very unusual taste but very yummy!

chocolate shopping

shopped these chocolates so that I can put on some lost weight.

celebrating independece day with a tiramisu cake :-)

watch

saw this watch in a showroom in Heidelberg. Got reminded of the project group in 2007 who gifted me with this watch :-) My best gift ever!

My chocolate cappuccino

Prepared myself a glass of cappuccino after fighting through -- and finally finishing -- a very boring-obscurely-written recent nature paper on community detection in a social network :-((

Cappuccino was more rewarding than the paper...

yet another beautiful sunset :-) too good ala?

super dinner...

Pasta egg and sauce... this was probably the best self-made dish ever :-) was too tasty.. except that it became very spicy ... had to consume gallons of water with my tongue dancing :-((

Agnes shopping meat

che che, obba brahmanana jothe shopping bandhu meat shop madidhre noorondu paapa baruthe !!!!!

Agnes and kobourov

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~kobourov

Kobourov gave an amazing talk about networks and visualisation. He is "the" speaker. He knew very well what would interest the audience and what wouldn't . He didnt' speak about all the things that interests him, he spoke about things that would interest the novice audience.. Way to go Kobourov.

Agnes is discussing about clustering after the talk with Kobourov....

beautiful sunset...

looks much better than what the photo says :-)

from the 11th floor

This is where I stay. View from my 11th floor. The beautiful football ground where smooching happens more than sporting :-). You can see the rain droplets on my window pane . . . This would have been a great pic with a good cam :-)

kesari bath

costed me 150 rupees for a slice of kesari bath. It had a ton of oil on it. :-( mtr ready made food is in no way equivalent to what mummy does. Mom is so good at making kesari bath :-( miss you mom! :-((

I cook these many eggs at a time to use them for the next four days

Germany and germans

The whole country looks dead dull. Guess why? Its (s)painfully affected.

Enjoying an italian sandwich sitting on the roadside

Leaving my apartment'

Bye bye room. Miss you

Agnes and Pradeep

Looks like they are seriously discussing the poster... no!!! Agnes was asking pradeep what was the background picture at the top of the poster.. Looks like San Francisco :P

Nina's appa...

This is Nina's dad..

He was so engrossed in explaining to me his encounter with Indira gandhi where they had to share the same car :-) He also predicted indira's raise and fall in the elections and won loads of whisky bottles for that :-) very interesting story.... he deserves a credit in "rajneeti" movie for sure :-) I really wanted to speak a lot more with him ... Went to a technical presentation in the university and got a historical refreshment of india in the late 70s :-) it was too gud :-)

By the way, he seems to have acted in the movie "rocky" starring our infamous sunil dutt :-)

bit meat :-((

Came for a poster presentation in Heidelberg university and tried the snacks section... took a bite of something that looked like Indian cake... and my friend told me it is meat :-((

eeks... gargled my mouth....

Sudarshan "Iyengar"

Chocolates by agnes

Agnes loves bitter chocolates very much. She bought this and I almost got a high eating them :P

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Lunch time

Absolutely love this food in our office canteen. Potatoes, rice,
vegetable salad, soup and some unknown items. Dad and mom! Don't
worry, everything here is vegetarian. So I think :-(

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Madhwa rasam . Man what a feast!!!!!!

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Harish the cook of the year.

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Wow finally I get to eat rice.

Harish is a great cook. This tastes exactly like mom's preparation

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Thank god found the place finally

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Wow what an amazing place to ride a bicycle. Hope I'll find harish'S place soon. Very hungry

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Going for a long drive with winni for martial arts class

I thought the class was in our place.. But winii drove me to the neighboring city... It was a fantastic drive... had never touched 160 km/hr on a car :-)

The martial arts class was good... it was more of technique than fitness... I like the other way though!!!!
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In media mart

Media markt is one stop store for electronic items... atleast 20% costlier than reliance time out!

mera bharat mahan haaaaaahaaa!

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Mr and Mrs. Researchers!

This is one and only couple I have seen who co-author papers :-)

On weekends they work on problems of common interest and publish them.... haven't seen many who do that.... thumbs up!!!!
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My first talk....

Had my first talk... it was for 60 minutes out of which i spoke for just 20 mins... the rest was spent on asking sooooooooooooo many questions by Agnes, gergely and Nina...

Agnes is surprised with my results, gergeley is trying to give me 10 new ideas while Nina is trying to solve a conjecture :-)

Nice team!!!!!!!! :-)) :-))

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Kids are always the center of attraction

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Dinner time at sriparna's place

Dr. Christoph S. Garbe
works on quantitative imaging. A very nice person and likes talking about India.... There is a reason behind it... his brother in law is an indian... that is his sister's husband ;-)
http://ipm.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/people/cgarbe/



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Sriparna and asif :-)

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That's called the beer bike. Everyone pedals with beer in one hand

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Such bright light at ten in the night. This place is freaky

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It is fun to cross this bridge everyday

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Having cornetto and riding bicycle

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Nina my advisor...

That is Nina, my advisor...

Had my first technical discussion with her :-)... was very busy talking about food and my stay all while... so here we get to business :P

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Agnes my colleague

Poor Agnes, it is 8 pm friday and she is still correcting answer scripts of algorithms course... She has to sacrifice her weekend for this :-(. Pity her boy friend :-)


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Lisa, a second year student of medicine

This is Lisa, a second year medicine student at the university of Heidelberg, she is the one who is lending me her apartment for the next two months... A very nice gal and probably the only one who speaks good english of all Germans I met so far.

My new apartment starting july. It is in 11th floor and the view is beautiful. :-)

Having vollkorn bread. It tastes like idli :-)

David my cabin mate!

David is a first year computer science underundergrad student in the university of Heidelberg and is a good programmer :-)

Trying to tex type my proof. It is a nice afternoon :-)

At the end of the day, seeing so much of yummy jammy carbohydrates and proteins, I feel the struggle tonight was worth it.

My empty shopping trolley