Saturday, October 21, 2006

Berlin - the city of walls


Memorial to the 96 Reichstag members killed by the Nazis.

The Peugeot Moonster



The Holocaust Memorial

Berlin Hauptbahnhof - undoubtedly one of the best railway stations ever built to date

The Berliner Dome (severely damaged during the war; it was reopened in 1993)
&
Fernsehturm - the TV tower in AlexandrePlatz

The Reichstag

Friday, October 20, 2006

The riverside and other pictures from Frankfurt



Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof - Nazi swastika logo on jacket (?)

Flying to the moon and back (Click on the picture to get an enlarged view of the aircraft and the moon)

The skyline on a foggy night - The Pencil tower is just visible.

Musician keeping the onlookers enthralled at the Central Market

Grafitti, grafitti on the wall.... who is the most beuatiful of them all

Aerosol Kids Rize




Antwerp - a mine of Diamonds









Pics from my Ora Era ( Hyderabad / Oracle June 2003 -> June 2005)

Ha, Ha!! Caught you shoulder surfing from behind !
(Photo - Pranav Reddy)

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
And all play and no work makes Rajib a software programmer at Oracle.
(Photo - Harsh Poddar)

Shilpa Raman at 3 in the morning

Pea-hens inside the KBR Park.



Visage decoration ceremony on my 23rd birthday (4 December 2004).
(Photo - Uday Jose)

Team Outing to Mount Opera
(Photo - Livingston Jebakumar)

The emergency staircase near the 6th floor - where a lot of product designs were finalised over cups of tea, a lot of bugs were resolved, and also the place where 'plots' to change jobs, etc were made
(Photo - Uday Jose)

Eat Street - A variety of food stuff to select from; and the kewl breeze from the Hussain Sagar to keep you company.


HUDA walkway just outside KBR park



Home, sweet home.
(You might want to take a special note of the Volvo stretch-limo in the parking lot. BTW, UK, now u know why LIMO does not stand for LIncoln MOtors but for LIMOusine)

Allen 'GOD' D'Souza aka 'Bhagwan' preparing another of his master creations (Mela near Hussain Sagar Lake).
(Photo - Summit Sharma)

With Gujju around, things are always very lively (Mela near Hussain Sagar Lake).

The TCA, OCO and the BIS teams - Pranav's last day in office before he left for IIM - Kozhikode
(Photographer - Unknown)

We stayed still for 8 seconds to ensure that the lights by the lake in the background got captured in the photo.


(Photo - Shweta Jain)
I was actually rowing ( unlike Harsh above ... u might add)
(Photo - Shweta Jain)

(Photo - Summit 'DJ' Dahiya)

Obviously Summit was oblivious to Shweta's plans (see below)
(Photo - Summit 'DJ' Dahiya)