http://priyank.com/weblog Priyank Thatte's personal weblog and travelog Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:12:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I will officially be homeless in few days. So please don't send me a snail mail, I don't have a physical address for now. :) I sublet my apartment, packed my stuff in 7 boxes, dropped them off at friends places and now I am ready to travel. After working long ... http://priyank.com/weblog/2008/10/11/russia-travel-backpacking/ Very hard to describe what I saw in the subway today. She looked like any other 35 year old mom with her 3 year old son. Yet, something was very different about them. The two were lost in deep conversations with each other, totally oblivious to the world around them. ... http://priyank.com/weblog/2008/10/09/wearing-socks-and-setting-standards/ This post is part of "Scrolls from the Holy Land," a series of stories from my travels in Israel. Here are the other scrolls! My plane too off the runway and as I watched the land of Israel from my window growing smaller and smaller, I inadvertently found saying to myself: "येतो ... http://priyank.com/weblog/2008/10/07/exit-departure-israel-travel/ This post is part of "Scrolls from the Holy Land," a series of stories from my travels in Israel. Here are the other scrolls! Jaffa, western port of the Canaanite empire, 1470 BCE. Pharaoh Thutmose III sought to regain Egypt's control over the lands as far as Syria. He presented large ... http://priyank.com/weblog/2008/10/05/jaffa-yafo-tel-aviv/ This post is part of "Scrolls from the Holy Land," a series of stories from my travels in Israel. Here are the other scrolls! "Haifa to work, Jerusalem to pray and Tel Aviv to play." That's what they say! I was in Tel Aviv (तेल् अवीव्) for 9 whole days! Doing what? Ah, ... http://priyank.com/weblog/2008/10/03/tel-aviv-market-skyline/ I was strolling in the park yesterday with my friend. Out of nowhere, a red maple leaf came flying by and landed on his hair. "Oh ..., I guess Fall is really here...!," both of us exclaimed as I took the leaf off him and blew it away. It flew again ... http://priyank.com/weblog/2008/10/02/falling-leaves-and-building-blocks/ This post is part of "Scrolls from the Holy Land," a series of stories from my travels in Israel. Here are the other scrolls! After having first, second, third, fourth and fifth post about the old city of Jerusalem, here are some views of the new city from the old city. View ... http://priyank.com/weblog/2008/10/01/jerusalem-old-new-city/ This post is part of "Scrolls from the Holy Land," a series of stories from my travels in Israel. Here are the other scrolls! Kotel - the Western Wall. Looks like just another wall. But really? Magic of the Kotel: Narration of my first hand experience at the Western wall on a ... http://priyank.com/weblog/2008/09/30/kotel-western-wailing-wall-jewish/ This post is part of "Scrolls from the Holy Land," a series of stories from my travels in Israel. Here are the other scrolls! The citadel of David The Citadel of David - a defensive structure that was destroyed and rebuilt over and over! Jerusalem has been a center of activity for such ... http://priyank.com/weblog/2008/09/28/jerusalem-old-city-christian-armenian-quarter/ "Your website looks great, do you use Dream weaver?" I get that question sometimes and it always used to bother me. But I don't get annoyed anymore. Instead, I quote the following story: :::: A photographer was invited to a dinner and he took along some photographs to show the hostess. She looked ... http://priyank.com/weblog/2008/09/25/talent-and-the-tool/