RoboCup 2008 Day Three, Four

• Scrambled eggs with pork today. So it was just bread and boiled eggs for us.
• Had to go to the Expo Center early today for our presentation.
• All the presentations went well, very nice ideas.
• I feel Professor Takahashi's idea deserves the Aladdin Prize, will have to wait till Sunday to see who wins.
• Met the team from Jacobs University from Bremen. They had implemented a flood simulator. Their team leader, Narunas (I believe that is the spelling) - a Lithuanian and a Top Coder, who apparently started working on it last month thereby putting us to shame (Not that we put in our 100% in the first place) - is a pretty cool guy. Then we met Nour, an Egyptian, from the same team and exchanged contacts.
  
• We will get to work together in the near future, sounds very exciting!
• Infrastructure competition was not received with the warmth that we were expecting. First of all, the stupid dance programs were creating a lot of disturbance and we could not really hear what the presenter had to say. No one really bothered about the complaints made by the volunteers, who tried their best. Finally we got into a small room which was OK. Also, all the agent teams were supposed to come to our presentations to see what progress was being made, etc. However, only a few team leaders showed up. They are the ones who decide which projects wins. None of them even came to see the demos after the presentations. They were too busy tweaking their own codes. We found this a bit discouraging. Yaso did tell us that this would happen. But then Sir had a point. There had been no significant changes in the server for quite some time now, so the agents teams had also become very passive about it. Hope to create a disturbance with the launch of our DDRRS in a few months :)
• Simulation in general, as in Rescue and Soccer, did not get enough audience. People did not find the screens on which the games were projected, that interesting. True, even we got a bit bored after the second day, just watching the same old screen.
  
• New measures have to be taken in making the event more interesting. Made some notes on that too.
• Made a couple of rounds around other leagues. The small, wheeled robots are very cool. Good control, aim and speed. Very nice passing. The rest have become very boring now. 1 week is really long for such things. From next time onwards, IF there is a next time, I guess I will head out for "tourism" after the third day.
  
• Homesickness is another thing that is killing me! Just two more days and I will get back to my home, sweet home :). Tried calling amma on the day we arrived. Unfortunately they did not have calling cards for India. Excellent!
• Went to a Chinese restaurant yesterday. After some sign language, we finally got them to understand that we wanted vegetarian food. The waiter pointed to some rice rolls. I was trying so hard to control my laughter! He then told us that he would prepare the usual food minus the meat. Nice! The pizza, fried rice and spaghetti turned out to be good. The rice was different, fat and sticky grains but good.
• On the way, we saw a worker holding out 3 dead tortoises for sale. Come to think of it, those dead tortoises were the first animals, other than humans, we got to see in China. And today we came across a pet store, LOL. I saw an Alsatian waiting in its cage to be bought by someone. Little does it know where it will finally end up :P. Did not come across any stray dogs in China, is the recent "ban" on dog meat related to this in some manner? :P
• The seats in the auditorium are very comfortable for sleeping. There is good WLAN reception, so chatting is pretty comfortable too. The dim lights and the speaker's boring voice is enough to make one go into a deep sleep, as was the case with half the people in the room. The keynote address was very interesting.
• Our paper got selected as a Poster in the Symposium and yesterday was our turn. They had the poster session running during dinner. Who the hell came up with that idea? As expected, people just went round the buffet table, filled their plates and went back to their respective seats. We waited for about ten minutes and then left to get some food. We spent about forty minutes waiting for someone to show up. But looking at the rate at which new dishes were being put up (formula: {pork, beef}{vegetables}* minus {spices}) it was clear that no one will ever show up.
• Anyway, a very funny thing happened during the dinner at the Symposium. We could not find any dishes that "we" could eat. So we just asked one of the volunteers if there was any vegetarian food. This was how is went:

Us: Ni Hao! Is there any vegetarian food here?
Volunteer: Vegetarian? Is that Halal?
Us: No, vegetarian. Not Halal
Volunteer (She put a really confused look on her face): Uhh, what is vegetarian? Is that Halal? (I am not able to recollect the exact pronunciations :P)
Us: No MEAT. Only vegetables.
Volunteer (After consulting another volunteer): Sorry, no vegetarian. We have Halal though.

WTF.

• We finally got to eat some french fries with popcorn chicken, chicken and macaroni salad with some curry made with corn. No second helpings, because those were the only chicken dishes available. Had some pieces of watermelon after that, awesome (Yes, even watermelon feels awesome now :D).
  

• One thing that is very noticeable in China is the hospitality provided by its people. Apparently it is common only in Mainland China (NO, not MLC - Banjara Hills :D). The people try their best to help others out, which is very nice.
• Went to an Indian restaurant today, Southern Cross. Had some Dal, mixed vegetable curry, naans and of course, biryani! Tasted good, given the fact that we had been living on biscuits and chips for the past three days. We finally got to see what a busy place as in a market looked like. The dormitory and Expo Center are very far away from the main city. So it is very difficult to go out.
• Trip to The Great Wall is out, because there is not much time and Beijing is more than a thousand kilometers away. However, we will be going to the local sightseeing tour. And then there is a grand banquet dinner in the evening. Really looking forward to that, especially after the amount of hype Yaso has created :D.
• Have to leave for the airport on Sunday itself because our flight is at 0800Hrs on Monday and the first bus to the airport leaves at 0730Hrs. =((
  

RoboCup 2008 Day One, Two

• Woke up on time, even though we were 2.5 hours ahead of IST. All those nightouts did pay off :D.

• Breakfast was OK.
• Bland scrambled eggs.
• Bread and butter.
• Boiled eggs.
• The rest were too horrible looking to even try.
• On the way to the "mess", I saw some kids ferociously training in the NCC way, can only assume it is for the Red Army.

• The communication problem has become a big headache. People here just do not understand simple English. We are using sign language and specific keywords to make any sense to them. However, there are some people who do know some English.

• China reminds me of America, the lifestyle here is so similar to that of the Americans. How ironic, given the diametrically opposite nature of the governments.
• For example, take the road system which is "right" oriented.

• Completed team registration and entered the exhibition rooms, and my first conference. Apparently the International Expo Centre at Suzhou (pronounced as Sew-Joe) is larger than the one in Hitex, which I have never been to.

• Covered the entire ground in about 45 minutes.
• RoboCup Rescue Simulation.
• Some teams were already there, working on their codes.
• Had the opportunity to finally meet Mr. Tomoichi Takahashi. It is a privilege to even sit beside him.
• His team has come up with a component by which one can import Google Maps and thus use real map data for simulations.
• Met an Iranian team for the Infrastructure competition. They introduced emotions for rescue agents which, as pointed by Harith is bullshit because robots are used for the very reason that humans succumb to their own fears and other emotions. We will just have to see what they have to say tomorrow.
  
• RoboCup Rescue.
• Real life scenarios, limited to finding the civilians placed at some places in the map. Interesting!
  
• 2D Soccer.
• Virtual Reality Rescue.
• Aibo Soccer.
• Looked dumb, however some of the goal keeper's saves were cool.
  
• Small Soccer League.
• Small wheeled robots, quick, high speed passing including long balls, observable team work.
  
• Medium Soccer League.
• Big wheeled robots, a lot of "Cronaldo" behaviour (which means SELFISH game). Then again, it must be the teams right?
• Humanoid Soccer League.
• The smaller humanoids looked cool, well balanced.
• The life size models required a person to hold on to its back while walking. Purpose served?
• Water Polo with fish.
• Unlike the original game, the ball in this game is never in the air. The fish looked a bit real from a distance, until the familiar sounds of whirring gears caught out attention.
  
• Home Assistant.
• To server us coffee, clean rooms and prepare dinner. Boring!
  
• RoboCup Junior.
• School kids putting their creativity at battles with one another in Rescue and Soccer.
• Robo Dance.
• By far the most pathetic competition. Maybe the teams are to be blamed because all I saw were a couple of robots simply rocking back and forth to some stupid beat while humans danced around them trying to make it look like everything is SO spontaneous.
• Good Stalls.
• Many commercial robot manufacturing companies showcased their products.
• Got a cool poster from the RoboCup 2009 @ Graz (pronounced as Gratz), Austria stall.
• Small demo of the NAO robot, looked nice. Apparently the usual price of one such humanoid is 10000 Euros. However, for the "sake" of RoboCup, they put up a special offer, "Buy 1, Get 3 FREE!".

• Bathrooms stink! Well that will never be the case if the guys try to "aim" rather than you-know-what!

• Some of the girls are very pretty, mostly Iranians and some Europeans too.

• "Zee Germans" have pretty good physique, so it is not just Schweini! Well that kind of applies to all those Nordic descendants. A prefectly _straight_ point, no comments.

• The food, OMG - where do I even start!

• Fish sandwich, pasta (looks and tastes like crap), pizza (local bakeries in India bake better that these) and some Chinese buffet provided here, costing an average of RMB 35.

• Walked around the Expo Centre (more than 2km) in search of some place to eat. The map was of no help to us because even the locals could not make any sense of it. Finally ended up eating at the stupid "food court" in the centre.

• Living on stuff like biscuits and ice tea, SAD!

• Might be going to an Indian restaurant the day after tomorrow, yippee!

• There is a KFC approximately 7 minutes away and the nearest Pizza Hut is twice as far (McDonalds is much farther and Subway is not even on the map), so I guess tomorrow it will have to be KFC :)

• The opening ceremony could not have gotten any geekier, with a Star Wars theme in the background. And then there were robot dances, lame!

• 2D Soccer looked really interesting, one particular team was playing a sexy short pass game just like Arsenal :).

• Observed a couple of through ball passes made by actual robots, looked very impressive, although it was just a mathematical equation :)

• Very weird people around.
  

• The RoboCup Junior party hosted the day before kind of sucked because the electric guitar was not working properly. Apparently the person who was supposed to play it was really good at it.

• Had some Lays chips for dinner, tried to swallow them with the help of some stupid tasting lemon ice tea - sucked!
• These Chinese people have no extremes at all. I actually found "Blueberry" and "Litchee" flavoured Lays chips. WTF!!! Samba on the other hand would say, "Cool!". LOL.
• Being a non-vegetarian, even I feel so repelled by the odours that come from their kitchens. I wonder how Sir is taking it =)). What is wrong with adding a few pinches of salt and pepper? All these people think that food must be tasted in its natural flavour, or else it must be sweet (Wrong sentence, lite).
• All I could see in the lunch menu was pork, cow, sweet pork, shredded cow, duck, blah, blah.

• Enough of complaing and LOLing for today. We have our presentation tomorrow. After that it will most likely be a trip to The Great Wall. I read a quote on men somewhere which went somewhat like this, "If you have not seen The Great Wall, then you cannot call yourself a man". LOL.
  

RoboCup 2008 Day minus One

I am so in the BLAH zone right now that everything here for the next few days will be very discreet.

• Bad journey.
• Tough luck for Harith, this being his maiden flight experience.
• Flight to Bangkok got delayed by an hour.
  
• Why do all flights other than Air India to and from India are inferior to every other flight in the world in every aspect? I did not consider Air India because it is too fucked up.
• Hyderabad-Bangkok - Food, environment and hospitality were pathetic.
• Bangkok - Food was OK and the rest was great.
• Bangkok airport is beautiful and HUGE. We had to walk a little more than a kilometer to get to our connecting flight.
• Slept in the plane for the entire time.
• Shanghai airport feels like a really big Begumpet airport.
• Had to wait for 2 hours for the "special" RoboCuppers bus.
• The bus then did not move for another hour.
• Had to experience the humid climate of Shanghai, worse than Visakhapatnam.

• Reached the dormitory 3 hours later.
• Some Iranian team was too "busy" to reserve rooms in advance and so we had to stop at every damn hotel for them to check for vacancies. They finally ended up at the dormitory.
• Saw countless men, and I repeat - MEN, just lying on the roads and lawns, without shirts. The reason became very clear the moment we stepped out of the AC bus.
  

• The hospitality team is awesome, very friendly people.
• Special thanks to a girl named Kenny (do not remember her Chinese name), who gave us a very warm reception and helped out whenever possible.

• The dormitory room is excellent (Will update with pictures later).
• Able to accommodate 4 people in a room, with all the necessary furniture, which is 1.5 times the single room in GHEB.
• Attached bathroom and a very powerful AC, what more can one ask for?
• Rent is RMB 180 (INR 1260) per day, which is pretty good for the quality of the room and service we get.
  
• Had Oreo and Chips Ahoy! biscuits for dinner.

• Slept peacefully after a very tiring day.
  

Speed Kills...

Yes, we all know that! We have seen so many instances of it in movies and real life. Yet our know-it-all attitude always makes up keep the throttle wide open.

“Dude, watch your speed!”

“Dude, you cannot cut him off like that!”

Dude this, dude that.

“Oh come on! As if I do not know what the hell I am doing? I always take calculated risks. Do not worry about me mate!” is the usual response. I personally hate it when people tell me how to ride my bike. Valuable suggestions they may be, but they can keep those to themselves. People who have had the opportunity to get behind me on my bike know what I am talking about!

But one day, it just had to happen. For it must have been time that I finally learnt my lesson. A fine cloudy morning it was, with a cool breeze brushing against my face. I was gliding along on the smooth shiny tarmac between the Guest House and Faculty Quarters at around 40 KMPH towards OBH when suddenly a chipmunk, trying to cross the road, came in front of my bike. There was very little time to apply the brakes, and so I tried steering myself clear of the tiny obstacle. After passing the chipmunk, I looked back to see if I was successful in doing so. To my shock, the poor thing was lying on its back, shaking its hind legs violently. I jumped off my bike immediately and ran towards it, and all the time I was thinking, “It might just be the tail, or a leg. I can take care of it as a pet if possible!”

Little did I know what horror was awaiting me. As I approached the scene, I noticed blood oozing out of the chipmunk’s nose and right eye socket from which the eye had popped out. The black silky looking tarmac had now turned red. And all the while its legs, all four of them, were shaking violently in the air, its heart beating wildly, trying to pump as much blood as possible to sustain life for a little while longer.

I just stood there helplessly, watching the mother die slowly. The mother who was probably going back to her kids, to feed them, to play with them, to freaking BE with them! And there was NO bloody thing that I could do. There was nothing anybody could do.

A minute had gone by, and the mother’s twitching started to slow down.

And then it stopped.

It was my first road kill, after a decade of riding a cycle, a scooter and a bike. As I touched the body hoping to see the mother spring back to life, I felt the warmth of the blood inside and the softness of the now limp body. Eyes filled with tears, I picked up the lifeless body and placed it near a small plant.

By the time I reached my room, the cool wind had cleared my eyes of the tears. I was however left with a dent in my mind and heart, that no paint job could ever cover up. The upcoming Sunday will mark its 1 week death anniversary…

Drool Drool Drool!

Following are some pictures of a few HOT babes I came across at Sea World, taken without their permission of course. So what if they feel violated, it is not like I will see such beauties up close in the near future!

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Yes, I was referring to bikes. These ladies made my day!

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I think Robert Frost was riding this one when he wrote,
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."

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:)

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Very simple looking gauges on board

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Just look at the chrome work, silencer and rear tyre on this one!
Owner is a lady, how cool is that!
Sexy metallic black, heavenly...

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That is a big engine alright! And the paint makes me go oh lala!

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Now that is a HUGE disc brake!

XBox 360 "Elite"

6 days ago...

After 2 weeks of consistent pestering, I have finally managed to convice amma to buy us an XBox 360 Elite. It took me more than a week to crawl through the Internet to find the cheapest deals, finally landing on a decent deal in Sams Club (A wholesale store). I am not able to control the excitement, and I might not even sleep tonight! Rock on GTA IV tomorrow!

5 days ago...

Woke up late (Having not slept at all the previous day) at around 10 A.M. We had to wait for nana's friend because Sams Club required a membership and we did not have one. So I had to wait for 8 more hours and then, I FINALLY GOT MY XBOX! However, I could not find the GTA combo deal (Game+OST CD+Photo Album+Metal Deposit Box+T-Shirt with GTA IV print on the front side) in any of the stores that day. And the games that I got with the XBox combo, namely Forza 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance were obviously going to suck (The main reason for bundling such games with consoles). I did not want to play Halo 3 having not completed Halo and not started Halo 2. Next on my list was Gears of War. I could not play it on my laptop because of lack of a solid graphics card and this game was pretty much available in all stores. So GoW for the next couple of days!

STRIP TEASE, g33k style, LOL...

STEP 1:



STEP 2:

STEP 3:

STEP 4:

STEP :5

STEP 6: Put my pinkie in my mouth and laugh at all my friends :D (Like Dr. Evil, for the ignorant ones)

Is it not simply beautiful! I had to buy the "Elite" version for the sexy black colour(100 GB more than the regular Pro model @ 1 GB costing $1 and a HD cable). The entire setup took about 30 minutes. Well who would want to hurt that baby?

The wireless controllers are terrific. Excellent battery life and range. It took me about 10 minutes to get used to the FPS shooter mode in GoW. Luckily GoW is not heavily dependant on "mouse", if you know what I mean. It is not as rigid as PoP III either.

Well I have started playing GoW. So far, it has been excellent. Awesome graphics, gameplay and the usual story. The notable feature in this game is the "taking cover" option given for a player under fire or in other situations like reconnaissance which is usually what the military/S.W.A.T teams rely on (As we see in Hollywood movies). There is heavy use of this option in the game. There is absolutely no jumping, except for over small blockades using the "taking" cover combo moves. Surprisingly, there is no recoil in the weapons. But then again, take a look at the suits those guys are wearing, nothing short of those things we saw in Matrix:Revolutions. I hope to finish the game soon!

4 days ago...

Completed 3/5 Acts in the game. Pretty short with the less than average looking villains. Some of the weapons are awesome though. The characters in Doom III were COOL.

3 days ago...

Woohooooooo! Just got my copy of the GTA with the bundle (minus the T-Shirt :(()! Now I HAVE to complete GoW ASAP.

2 days ago...

Complete GoW yesterday night. The ending was cool. However, the game was a short one. Not really worth $60.

And OMFG, GTA GTA GTA GTA is freaking AWESOME. Starting with the titles itself (Heroes style for every episode), the game looks so sexy! The city is HUGE, with a subway now! I am yet to try "driving" a subway, LOL. The bikes are easier to manuever. Dating, strip clubs, etc. added. And the game is not like GTA San Andreas which felt more like an RPG with all the minute details like working out after having eaten a slice of pizza and maybe gettting a haircut, etc. The sex (Staight, till now atleast. I am yet to play as a gay partner for a mission) part felt stupid because the controller would just vibrate for like 10 seconds with the girl screaming out my name (Well I am the hero right?). WTF is up with that? The plot has become a real twister. I cannot wait to see the end!

Yesterday...

25% of the game completed. Already 1/5th of the town is against me. The Russian mafia is behind me, lol. The plot is dark, funny with loads of sarcasm and lots of Shits, Fucks and other combinations that follow. The common bugs are still there, like the person you are supposed to take with you (Like your girlfriend on a date) stops following you after getting stuck (Like in a gutter, and yes - I did take her out for a walk in the gutter - dumb computer program did not know that :D) and some fences simply DO NOT fall down not matter how much you try ramming into them with a bus :P.

Today...

I have only 6 hours left to play the game because tomorrow, the packing starts :((. I will not be able to play it for another 2-3 months. CRAP! Some of the missions are hard, and I hate finishing a game using cheat codes. And I have to go now because as they say, "Make hay while the sun shines."

A Visit to an iStore

Few months back, the plastic covering over the AC charger that came with Revanth's MacBook melted (I believe the reason was overheating) and the wires inside went FUBAR. I felt sad (for him) every time I watched him set up a fragile arrangement by tweaking those tiny wires till the green light came on, only to be accidently disturbed by some random guy passing by, lost in his own thoughts. The incident made me lower my respect for Apple (Not that it was high before), because Apple, with such innovations, failed to see such a simple point!

A few weeks ago, Apple announced the opening of its largest iStore in USA, in New York City. I then checked if there was an iStore close to my place. And of course, I found one in Northpark Center Mall in Downtown Dallas, the largest and poshest mall I have been to till date.

So Revanth asked me to get a new charger for him ($85!). When I went online to place an order, I could not help but notice that not even a single comment/review under the product description was positive. The product itself was rated 1.5/5 stars. I thought Revanth's case was an extreme one, probably one in a ten thousand. However, the probability now seemed to be even more and guess what? Most of the customers complained about the meltdown.

Well this was my chance. A 30 minute drive and viola!

The tiny store stood out among all the shops in the mall, just like its products - simple, white, clean, angelic. There was so much of white in the store that it really made me sick. There were more sales executives than customers (Mind you, this is Downtown Dallas and is packed with high class customers). OK! So Apple is always prepared, nice. There were two arrays of tables with the latest products on display, including the MacBook Air and iPhone (Which by the way is out of stock) of course. WHITE and BORING! I went to a guy and asked for the charger, because I wanted to get to get out of that place ASAP (I guess I will be going to hell, I cannot take all the white in heaven, lol). He called up some other guy and asked me to wait for a couple of minutes. Now what was I supposed to do for those couple of minutes? Why not check out the iPhone? I touched the screen to open the browser and oops! My fingerprints were on the screen, and I noticed all those smudges made by customers before me. It really spoiled the look of the screen. I then remembered an argument Kirthi and I had about the iPhone's screen (I believe this was before the meltdown incident). Kirthi kept telling me that Mr. Jobs would have obviously considered the smudges issue and must have developed some way to counter it. And in fact he did, I saw some sales representatives occasionally cleaning the screens using some cloth.

And I think I pissed off one of the guys because the first and only thing I did on the iPhone and MacBook Air was browse through http://www.microsoft.com/ while he was looking. ROFL!

All in all, it was a very enjoyable trip to the mall. I ate an original SUBWAY sandwich (The details of which shall be posted later!), listened to a live musical performance, by an orchestra, of the latest Indiana Jones movie and had a good long walk in the mall, not the mention the visit to iStore!

Long Weekend - Day Three - Photos

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Star of the show "Believe", in fact "Shamu" is the star of the park!

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Dancing in circles...

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"One way or another, I'm gonna find ya'

I'm gonna get ya', get ya', get ya', get ya' "

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A couple of detectives trying to solve a case on missing fish.

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A water-ski show, pretty good.

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Feeding time for sea lions.

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That fin reminds one of "Free Willy".

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:), no words to describe it!

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Feeding time for dolphins.

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"Viva!"

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Stars of the show "Viva!".

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Dolphins, Beluga whales, Syncronized swimming == "Viva!"

Amazing stunts they were...

Long Weekend - Day Three

After a good day at NASA, we left for San Antonio, to visit Sea World. Sea World is AWESOME. Just looking at those beautiful animals makes one go wild. All the shows arefantastic, starring different sea animals very well trained by their trainers. They also have a 4D theatre, showing some kid-pirate movie starring Leslie Nielsen (No wonder the movie rocked!).

The best moment of the day was me touching a dolphin. Well I got to touch its tail only, but so what! The major roller coaster ride, "Steel Eel", was closed due to some technical problems, so that was a bummer. The rest of the rides had a waiting time for atleast 2 hours, so lite.

The River Walk in San Antonio Downtown is quite famous. We found out why the moment we reached the place. It was magnificient, astounding. Think of Mall Road in Simla, except for a water channel instead of tar and countless restaurants, hawkers and a pavement on both sides of the channel along a stretch of 1500m. There are small boats which server dinner and a short trip for about $35 per person, which is good enough. I still kick myself (Yes, you can really do that) for not bringing the camera with me. Riverside dining with ducks floating close by for morsels, it was quite an experience.

Long Weekend - Day Two - Photos

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A beautiful morning to start the tram tour

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Apparently, even the "President of the United States of America" cannot override the "Flight Director" during a mission. Cool!

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Old Mission Control Center, monitoring ISS 24/7.

The plaques on the left wall are from successful missions, and the ones on the right wall near the door are from failed and yet-to-be-launched ones.

The three projections show, from left to right - some technical details of ISS - orbit and current position of ISS (Over the International Date Line at the time of our visit) - live video feed from ISS.

We got to watch the sunrise over the Pacific - big deal, the astronauts get to watch it 16 times in a day =))

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A replica of ISS in Building 9, training ground for astronauts.

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A replica of the Canadian Arm, used to perform heavy duty work in space aboard ISS.

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Wierd treadmill setup for the astronauts to get used to walking in zero gravity.

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Mars rover, and apparently that really is Au all over it.

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F1 engines (Primary Stage) of Saturn V rocket

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Another view of the same engine.

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Ashamed of myself, to be not able to cover it in one shot.

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Just cannot get enough of it!

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OK, one last time.

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A J-2 Engine (Second Stage)

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Just look at those horns! The cattle raised here are part of some project by students majoring in Animal Husbandry.

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Back to engines! I am not sure where this goes though.

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Complete model of the ISS

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Some Space Science Competition Award, looks pretty cool.

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More engines! This time it is a space shutte's engine.

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Some stuff designed for astronauts in space which reminds me of that joke where Americans designed a hi-tech anti-gravity pen - Russians used a pencil. ROFL!

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Replica of the camera used on the "Moon"

The End.