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May 7, 2006
The Sultan's Elephant
As promised, we made it just in time to catch the very end of the Sultan's Elephant. Poornima (Hatti), PJ, their friend Rene and I made it there at around 5:30 to see the finale and the departure of the rocket, along with thousands and thousands of other Londoners (and visitors)! It was amazing! Some photos and videos are below. The rest of the collection can be foudn on my Flickr collection by clicking here.
The Videos:
Finale:
Departure of the Rocket:
Some photos:
The Sultan's Elephant:
The performers leaving the venue:
Poornima, Yours Truly, PJ at St. James's Park after the hooplah:
PJ, Poornima and random pink haired lady they stopped to take a photo with:
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April 30, 2006
Nuestra comida en casa de Ines y Fernando
With barely a month left before the finals, we thought we'd unwind with a potluck at Ines and Fernando's. It was by far the most relaxing day I've had in ages! Here are some photos from the day out at Wimbledon, and here is the rest of the collection!
The gang: Hande, Sanchari, Nathan, Jin, Timothée, Ziad, Luigi, Marco, Selim, Ines, Stefan, Konrad, Vilma, Fernando, and seated: Burch, Yours Truly, with Fernando (Junior) at the helm. The ace photographer: Fernando (Senior) (everyone's in a weird state of laughter after I excitedly screamed "Gülümseme", which is "Smile" in Turkish)
Timothée putting on an arrogant French pose for the camera: "Je ne m'inquiète pas, mes poumons sont faits d'acier... non... acier français!!!" Tsk tsk... all I have to say is... Quelle dommage!
Vilma, Bernhard (in his usual Churchillian victory mode), and Fernando getting the food ready.
50% of our hosts: Ines (Senior) and Fernando (Senior)
75% of our hosts: Ines (Junior), Ines (Senior), and Fernando (Junior)
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April 25, 2006
Photos from Andalucia -- My favourites
I found some to put my seven hundred odd photos up! I've also put my favourite photos from Andalucia on my Flickr collection. As always, the bigger collection is fun if you have the time to browse through them :)
Presenting my Andalucian mosaic:
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March 17, 2006
Photos from Syria -- My favourites
I've put my favourite photos from last week on a seperate set on my Flickr collection. The other bigger set is also around, and contains all the 500 odd photos I took over my time there... they're pretty cool if you have the time :)
Here's a mosaic from the smaller subset:
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February 24, 2006
Drinks at Pitcher & Piano
Cheryl and I celebrated our birthdays in style this evening at Pitcher & Piano on Kingsway! Since I was really sick on my birthday, I decided to postpone a get together with my buddies from the department. Here are snaps with the MRes gang (just ignore Rex's totally bored look), and the Econ admin gang. Click on the pictures for the rest of the set.
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February 4, 2006
Lost in life, and a receding hairline.
The receding hairline says it all. In case any of you wanted to fix me up with someone... now's a good time. There might be no hair left by the time we revisit this issue next year.
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January 25, 2006
The wishlist.
Dear God / Elvis
Here's a wishlist for next Thursday.
1. Go back in time to December 2004 and cut my internet connection on one particular day. You know which one, and you know why.
2. Bring Nikki back from New York by say... Wednesday if you would.
3. Do something magical to nine files sitting across different desks in the US and Europe.
4. Photo op with Tom Sargent.
Love
Vinayak
The perfect end to a great week!
(Behind Tom Sargent and me, is Wouter Denhaan (who organised this lecture series), and good old Jas)
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January 1, 2006
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year from London! I had a great day -- spent the afternoon/evening with my gang from last year (Third photo - Me, Amitoj, Arti, Shruti, Rajesh), and then ended up counting down to the new year at Waterloo Bridge with the usual suspects (Second photo - Nikki, Kevin, Me, Gopika with Sobia as photographer). I even managed to capture the moment on video; if you're feeling down and feel like some absolutely hillarious New Years entertainment (including champagne up my nostrils), check it out! The Appu accents are courtesy Kevin, the shrill lady-like screaming is courtesy me. No... I'm not gay, I had champagne up my nose and up other places, so lay off.
December 23, 2005
This blog kills my social life.
People seem to be checking this blog more often than they keep in touch with me. I called up Nikki to tell her she'd missed a good day out with Shirin and Madhav, only to get, "I know... I read your blog and saw the photos on Flickr". Well fine! So much for my own storytelling (of course... anyone who knows me knows I'm PATHETIC at telling stories), but at least pretend that you're hearing something new! Economists have feelings you know :)
Of course, this is a much milder example. Take another instance... dinner with good company ended up being this boring monologue of her telling me which posts on my blog she really loved, and the ones that she didn't much care for (though she was nice enough to call me later and laugh about it). Sigh...
Anyway...
Merry Christmas everyone! Santa has some excellent stuff coming your way...!
Here are some snaps from work Alistair took. Brownie points for those of you who can guess the books on my bookshelf and leave a comment!
Update#5: Kyle gets Fumio Hayashi's Econometrics, Advanced Microeconomic Theory by Jehle and Reny, Gujarati's Basic Econometrics, Sundaram's Optimization Theory, and Johnston & DiNardo's Econometric Methods. Wow!
Update#4: Chris Silvey woke up from a year long slumber to claim Freakonomics, and Romer's Advanced Macroeconomics. Those aren't solutions manuals but my folders for this term. Chris also politely expressed his dismay at not seeing Mas-Colell, Whinston & Green. The highly observant among you will still find it, just not on the bookshelf. Chris -- you already know where it is so shh!
Update#3: Ziad got Simon & Blume, Ljungqvist & Sargent (The Red Book), and Barro/Sala-i-Martin
Update#2: Shweta got Obstfeld & Rogoff, Varian (though she didn't tell me which one), Greene, and Alpha C. Chiang
Update: Nikki wins the first round of Brownie Points. So much for you Economists. She got "Monetary Policy by Walsh". That officially makes her the non-economist superwoman of the world! Anyone else wanna try?
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September 18, 2005
The perfect end to a perfect summer
This has been one of my best summer vacations ever. Starting with my trip to India, teaching at summer school, working on projects for next year, teaching (again) on the September Course, sneaking trips to the Proms, I've had such a great time! It's a bummer some friends aren't around, but they'll be in soon as well!
Autumn is officially in, but that wasn't before we celebrated the end of summer in grand style. It all started with Nikki calling me to ask if I wanted to go to the Thames River Festival. Kevin had some work to do at the office, so I figured I'd go with Nikki, and then the three of us could go out for dinner or something.
I met the two of them at Holborn Station, and as we were walking down towards LSE, we noticed a lot of activity at the Lincoln's Inn Fields. We strolled down to find an awful lot of policemen and a bus. Busses don't go down that road, so we were freaked out initially. After some keen investigation by the brave one among us (Nikki), we found out that we had stumbled on a location movie set! It gets better, the movie being shot was "The Da Vinci Code", directed by Ron Howard, and staring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou! We didn't see Hanks, but we did catch Audrey, and boy was it worth catching Audrey. She is so, so, *so* hot! We hung out for a while, they were shooting the bus sequence where (according to Nikki) they catch a bus to the library. Ron Howard was there too, and he looked quite busy.
After that exciting bit of action, we (all three of us, Kevin was too charged to go back to work) headed down to Waterloo Bridge where we started walking down the Thames Path. There were lots of shows, including German folk dancers, Japanese Drum dancers, South American pan pipe performances, everything you could imagine and more! The food was great too - there was a vegetarian Indian stall that was making fresh Bajjis and selling Corn on the cob... I think I died and went to heaven about five times. Kevin and Nikki tried their bit of desi Cobra Beer... and we even managed to stop by the Bollywood tent to catch the last of some guy singing "Mast Qalander".
As we were walking down, we bumped into Janak, his roomie Shirin, and his friends from Oxford, Sebastian and Sarah (who are married). Janak decided he wanted to go on the merry-go-round, and finally ended up taking all of us with him (except for Sebastian and Sarah, who volunteered to take photos).
We went back to the festival earlier this evening, to watch the fireworks display. It wasn't remotely as good as last year's was, and lasted less than five minutes. However, I think it's been the perfect end to a perfect holiday... I can't wait to get cracking on my courses this year!
Click here to see all the photos from my Thames River Festival / Da Vinci Code photoset.
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August 3, 2005
Hahaha!
Nikki and Kevin went to Bristol last weekend, and they sent me this photo of a church front with an ad. I did some Googling, and found a proper full photo of it. It brings me inane joy to share it with the rest of the world.
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