Just been a whole lot of time since I posted here.  Mostly been busy.  Had been to a vacation to Dubai and then attending the rocking Windows Vista launch at Mumbai and then at Seattle for an internal Microsoft conference.

Seattle was fun.  Got to go the Redmond campus.  The holy grail.  The pilgrimage.  Clicked a lot of pictures here and there. 

Bought a copy of Flight Simulator X Deluxe Edition.  Have been long wanting to play Flight Simulator.  Aircrafts simply thrill me and the closest to get it to flying is using Microsoft Flight Simulator.  So far, tried flying a plane, managed to take off and then spin around and crash.  Flying with keyboard or mouse is real hard.  I wish it was easier - but it is fun to learn it.  After all, flying in real must be hard too.

Seattle struck me as a different city compared to other places in the US that I have been.  For one, the atmosphere had some class to it.  Seattle Downtown looked very classy and beautiful.  There were a couple of streets that didn't look as good, but the central part of it has these tall-rise buildings that look really nice when lit up.   Mt. Rainer is a nice, huge, fat mountain with a snow cap a couple of hours away from Seattle.  The mountain looks great when taking off from the Seattle Tacoma airport.

The visit to campus was shortlived and I hope to get to see more of it in the coming years.  Will surely need many more trips to go see the entire campus.

Dubai pictures available at http://pandurangvn.spaces.live.com