62% of the people who live in Mumbai live in slums. 62%!!! On what is only 6% of the city's land! 1/3rd of the residents have no access to clean water. And in 2015, Mumbai will become the world's largest city. It will have more people than Australia or all of Scandinavia. IN ONE CITY. Seriously, think about draining every human being in Scandinavia ( Read more... )

This is the biggest and best batch of Mumbai pictures!


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Colaba is the southern most tip of Mumbai. Mumbai used to consist of several islands, which in the very early 20th century were turned into one landmass by reclaiming land from the ocean. It was ruled by the Portuguese for a long time, before finally being turned over to the British in 1762. Planning and architectural styles still remain from the ( Read more... )

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I love hotels. I'm kind of a connesieur. By far my favorite hotel ever on earth was at the Intercontinental Marine Drive, overlooking the ocean in Mumbai. I really wanted to go to The Taj Hotel (infamous now for the terrorist shooting there in 2008) but it was expensive. We used Thomas' business points to get into this one for two nights, and it ( Read more... )

[Wiki words on Vipassana & this Pagoda]
Vipassana is one of the world's most ancient techniques of meditation, which was introduced by Gautama Buddha. It is a practice of self-transformation through self-observation and introspection to the extent that sitting with a steadfast mind becomes an active experience of change and impermanence. In English, vipassanā meditation is often referred ( Read more... )

I'm going to start posting pictures from the trip! Pardon the shitty quality. You have to go through a really annoying process that i didn't have access to to upload DSLR pics to Fb without them losing quality.

Here are just a few pictures from the flight over. As you might have seen, on my D.C. to London flight I happened to sit next to a girl (who ( Read more... )

I just realized that I never posted photos from the City Planning Student Association trip to Cinci in February. Woops. These were taken with my old camera while it was mostly dead, so no good photograph quality, just a trip photos.

It was actually a great experience. Cinci has always been the big city that Daytonians would go to if need be (or ( Read more... )

homes are dangerous to live in.

Yesterday I cleaned my house. (!) It was gross. I needed to clean it the day before my supposed-to-be-housewarming party 2 weeks ago during spring break, but since I was sick all break, it didn't get done, and then it continued to not get done. I took a Ritalin yesterday after Jeremy cancelled our plans to go see ( Read more... )

COMPLETED: 13/101

( my 101 in 1001 list! )