Vigeland Park - OSLO

One of the main highlights of Oslo is the Vigeland sculpture park. I’m still to post my Norway travel log, will have to write about it soon. Here are my thoughts on this park, I found it very disturbing one. I don’t know how many people would like it. So the picture I had shot boils down to just one. This park contains 192 sculptures with various figures. Expression in all walks of life can be found here in the 600 figures which represent one life right from rite from the new born baby to death. Every expression is captured with the minutest details.
Gustav Vigeland single handedly managed to model the entire work just by himself.
He also designed the architecture of park so that these take u through the rite path.
There is one thing which attracted me the most is the The Monolith & The Wheel Of Life

The Monolith column is 46 feet high and is carved out of a single stone and it consists of 121 figures and was completed just before Vigeland died. The column is completely covered by humans. There are various interpretations of this one – for me its everyday life and how you over come the same.

Read more here about other pictures there

Nice once from Delhi School of Martial arts

Thanks to Nidhi for sending this

6230

No this is not the hot counter number or something like that. Just discovered that the laptop model I have and my mobile model number and one and same. I have Compaq nc6230 laptop and my mobile is 6230i. What a coincidence.
Any guess on the attached picture? This is a clock which I like a lot. This was gifted to me by my client when I went to UK for the implementation. The line indicates the reference point and then the hour, minute & second slices. Many people didn’t understand what it was at the first look. It took sometime for them to understand what this is. Here is another one which I liked, its called a binary clock. Read on more on Prabhu’s site

24 till I die

There can’t be two Venkat’s in the same city, Bangalore. Venkat came to B’lore so I moved back to Chennai.

Happy birthday to me. Thanks to all for the wonderful wishes. Got some really nice gifts from Indu & Reuben. Here is the gift from Indu, we both always end up only fighting, and this girl see what gift she gave, just to tell the world that she is the one who wins.


I’m also called as 24 as Venkat (vingt quatre) means 24 in French.
Girls are always like this. See the other t-shirt she got for me, now do I need to say something else.

One of the world’s costly coffee, anyone for it?

Civet coffee is one of the world's most expensive. In the Philippines, only 500 kg are produced a year and the roasted beans sell for more than $115 a kilogram. Find out the reason why its so here

A for Apple

How many instance we find this one fruit has greatest mention, Starting with Adam & Eve, Sir Isaac Newton’s Law of Gravitation was inspired by Apple and finally we say An apple a day keeps the doctor away. So what do I say now ….

that 20 minutes

I'm surprised to observe that a friend of mine calls me and talks to me exactly 20 minutes, to be more precise its always close to 19.23 or 21.23 minutes. Every time i wonder how is that possible to speak exactly the same duration of time.

On a different note only in Chennai there is something called a sada dosai & a special sada dosai (correct me if I’m wrong)

Super bulb

When was the time u felt really relived after giving u r bike for service or let’s be precise for water wash? Umpteen number of time this has happened to me. No matter which time of the year u give u r vehicle for service and bring it back home to watch it next & clean, Then the next day u get up and just to discover that u r joy just short lived one. I don’t know under which Murphy’s law to classify this.

Out of action

Due to the injury I had in Nov’05, I’m still unable to go for a normal walk. Doctor has advised me to undergo for some Physiotherapy for some 7 days. I hope this would get me back in action soon. During my recent visit to Chennai just ended up meeting only doctors more than the people, was supposed to go on a bike trip to some place with Kaatss aka TheMottaiBoss but could not make it due to the appointments with the doctor.