The Earth as seen by Chandrayaan-1

On 29 Oct 2008, the Indian lunar satellite Chandrayaan-1 snapped its first pictures. The rocket scientists (aha!) definitely wasted no time after launch and beamed the camera Earthwards to snap up a beautiful picture of mother Earth. It would have been great to see India as the first image taken from the satellite, but Australia will work perfectly as well. The stunning image has great detail and can only be a precursor to much more to come. Awesome!

What a party!

Everybody had fun!

Navdeep's Housewarming/Sonal's Bye Bye Cleveland

Carry on Camping

Here's the pictures from our camping trip. My favorite's the one with Kavita's feet. Pranav needs to tell us why he took that picture - it makes for an interesting story. Click the picture below to get to the album. Enjoy!

Camping at Leonard State Harrison Park, PA - July 4, 2008

Supriya rocks!

Here's the pictures for Supriya! It was good fun that night - we should do it again sometime. Click the pic below and it'll take you to the picasa album. Enjoy!

People in Cleveland

Sunny

Here's Sunny's photo, but which one is him? (Ganda joke...hehe)

Cleveland gang...

Guess who's a couple from the following...

You better know what this is...

...coz if you don't, you should not be part of mankind (hint hint!).

Graduation Video is up!

Watch mom and dad 'dress' me for my Graduation ceremony - putting my cap on! It was really windy and my Batman gown seems to all over the place. Its Abhijeet shooting the video - it took everyone a while to work the small camcorder. I'm so happy my parents were able to make it the 'Shoe that day! Take a look!

I am the Master!

It is official. I now have a Master of Science degree from The Ohio State University. Starting in Fall 2003 in University of Akron and culminating at OSU in Spring 2007, it has been a fun ride learning and re-learning things. Although this degree is just a checkpoint to getting my Ph.D, it sure feels great to be at the school commencement, wear the black robe and hood, march into Ohio Stadium, get your degree conferred from the Provost and the President, have a diploma handed to yourself from your college dean and then rush out to meet your parents and friends and show them what you earned.

The commencement speaker Bill Clinton, democratic ex-president, spoke really well and talked about "interdependence" as the new mantra for living in today's world. That guy is good. Maybe I am just comparing him to Georgie Bush.....nahhhh, Bill's great.

Here's some pictures. And here's a link to other pictures taken that day .