Muranpaadu: July 2006

Friday, July 28, 2006

This post best explains how lazy I am. The post is about the long weekend trip we went on July 1st. Staying over night was not a preferred choice for us. So decided to visit places which are three/four hours drive.

Day 1 - Ocean Shores:

Nice place if you like to fly kite, play beach volleyball, ride a bike or riding a horse. We didn't have any such plans, so we just made our feet wet and spent less than an hour. Drove to Pacific beach near by. This is the only deserted beach I had seen in my life. No single soul was there, except us. Except me everyone disliked this place.

Day 2 - Multnomah Falls
Googled a lot to get the scenic route to reach this falls.Few links have praised the scenic route but the directions was not available in google maps.Didn't get the exact details but still managed to find some hints. The scenic route starts from the place called Troutdale. Just as you enter the scenic route you find a nice link river bank with water flowing along in a slow speed. Bright sun sign,long weekend,not much of people around...you could imagine how people will be there right ?! We just stopped for coffee and nothing else.You get the drift right ?!?! As the temperature rose I got into my regular problem - headache. After that the trip enthusiasm was lost. There was couple of great views of the Columbian river on the way. We saw couple of waterfalls.இதெல்லாம் falls-nu சொன்னா அப்ப falls-அ என்னன்ணுடா சொல்லுவீங்க?

Day 3 - Snoqualmie Falls:
I have been here n number of times. This qualifies to be called as falls.

I didn't have "Water" as a theme for this longweekend. It just happened like that.

More pictures here...

Movies over the weekend:
இம்சை அரசன் 23-ம் புலிகேசி,ஐயா - Good.Superman Returns,Krrish - Not as bad as i expected.உயிர்- Bad as i expected.

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Monday, July 24, 2006

Could you believe this?

“We ran out of fans”. This was the response we got in all shops over the weekend. Yes, a machine using an electric motor to rotate thin, rigid vanes in order to move air, as for cooling [link].

I was speechless when I got the same answer again and again. 'Standing fans' are sold out in almost every shop here. The Sun was scorching like anything. This is the hottest weekend I have experienced here. And whatever Data Mining the stores used, it had failed to a great extent. Most of the stores didn’t do proper prediction. One guy even said that you’ll not find one in the entire state :-(

Only last week, I was boasting to friends in India about the lovely weather in Seattle. sigh..i have to hide my face….hopefully they didn’t read this ;-)

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Mt.Baker (not so) scenic drive

A month ago we went for Mt.Baker.While googling around, i found a site which suggested to take the scenic route. After the trip i felt that i should have not trusted the link(map-ல பாக்கும்போது எல்லாம் நல்லாத்தான் இருக்கு).It was one of most boring routes i went around in washington.To add to my frustration the Sun was blazing,my headache was the next obvious thing to come.Little did i know that the biggest disappointment is to come by the end of the day.Artist point is the one we intended to reach.It was the highest point you can reach via car.Just few miles before that point the road was closed with snow.They were in the process of clearing it and it'll take another two weeks.Should i say that my headeache doubled after that?

More pics here...

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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Mega movie list...

பாரிஜாதம் - A very good one.Refreshing screenplay.Songs are not catchy but really good after few listening.
தலைநகரம் - Average one.
நாளை - Bad.Ananada Vikatan should seriously revise the way they allot marks.They had 41 for this.

Blood movies:

The following is a list of crap movies i saw over last couple of months.I feel guilty even to list them here.Then why the f**k i saw them ? தெரியாம one month Tamilgrounds-ல subscribe பண்ணிட்டேன்.So i had to somehow make use of the money i spent.
நாகரீக கோமாளி,கை வந்த கலை(The song சுட்டி பூவே is good),உணர்சிகள்,வீரன்,சுதேசி,வெற்றிவேல் சக்திவேல்,Mr.பாண்டி, 47 A பெசன்ட் நகர் வரை.

Lucky escape:

சுயெட்சை MLA, குஸ்தி - Room-ல பசங்க இந்த படம் பாக்கும் போது எப்படியோ நான் மட்டும் escape.

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