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Day 1 in Costa Rica : San Jose
Stopover at San Salvador
We landed in San Salvador airport at around 8 a.m. this morning and had a short wait to board our flight to San Jose Juan Santamaria Airport. The flight didn't quite leave at 8.30 a.m. as scheduled but the board kept saying the flight was on time. At that time, little did we realize that this was our first taste of Costa ( Read more... ) -
Pura Vida!
I am all set and excited to go on our first vacation for 2013. We are off to the land of "Pure Life" (Pura Vida) - Costa Rica. The trip has been many months in the planning and I can't wait to get on the flight this evening from San Francisco to San Jose, Costa Rica with a stopover at San Salvador, El Salvador. My feet are itching to get into ( Read more... ) -
Change what you can...
This beautiful quote found me today ...
"We cannot change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust our sail." -
Es Cendol
shivspeak and I chanced upon this Indonesian restaurant called Bay Leaf near Sunnyvale downtown as we were searching for a place to have lunch.
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Gearing up for our next production
Its 2 weeks remaining to our next production "Mudivalla Arambam" - a Tamil play to be staged in Cupertino, CA. Work is picking up momentum on all fronts - acting, production, marketing, lights, sounds. The days are all a blur as every waking moment and even a good part of the sleeping ones are being put into this. Hoping the final product is ( Read more... ) -
Miscellaneous observations in Vancouver
- Restrooms are called washrooms
- Restaurants are conservative in the paper napkins used and all napkins I saw were from recycled paper
- Pubs are often referred to as public houses
- Kept seeing Canuck in various contexts and discovered later that it is a word for Canadian. The Canadian National Hockey team is also called Canadian Canucks.
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Vancouver sightseeing - Day 2
The clouds have returned to Vancouver but these are the small white ones that don't want to completely cover the blue skies like their heavier gray counterparts. I set out at 11 a.m. all excited to hit Medina Cafe and have one of their delicious waffles. I'd been there on Friday morning and fallen in love with their waffle with white chocolate ( Read more... ) -
Vancouver sightseeing - Day 1
Thanks to the US consulate deciding to take an additional day with my visa processing, I had to spend the weekend in Vancouver. The weather gods have been most graceful. It was raining incessantly since Wednesday night but come Saturday morning, the clouds cleared out and I got to see blue skies and the sun. Now with the cold & rain out the way ( Read more... )
