Largest ski area in the world Moutier @ Savoie

Do you know the largest ski area in the world?

It's none other than Courchevel. It's been for long I wanted to go here, Looks like its still going to be there as a dream as of now, with the close for this season.
The reason why I wanted to be there is for the airport that's there. The run way in that airport is at an altitude of 1941 to 2006m and the slope reaches from 18.5 % of inclination.

Now u know why I missed that place so much. Just went around Moutier watched the ville. The access to this place itself is a tranforming one, u need to travel through the tunnel to get access to this village. YES its a village, but of people speak English. Just take a 360 degree turn, you will just c mountains and only mountians. So what do we do? Just roam around and come back to Grenoble

This picture was in the local cow fair which was going on there. Any guess how much does this cow bell costs. Just a Euro 250(Rs.14000)


Inspite of so many unfortunate things the only consolation for the day is I watched one of the best race days in my life, I hope its the same for others. What a way to race, Schumacher started 13th after the qualifying. He moved up several positions early and reached the 2nd position. No one ever is capable of doing this, U can always expect him to do better after the pit stops. With many disappointing results in this season, he has come back with great vengence.

Fernando Alonso held off Michael Schumacher in battle which provided many excitment to win the San Marino Grand Prix.

Target - the landing point

Preparation Phase I

Preparation Phase II

Take-off Phase I

Final take-off

Flying

Set Your Goals BIGGER

Thanks Lux for this forward.

The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the waters close to Japan have not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population,fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever. The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring in the fish. If the return trip took more than a few days, the fish were not fresh. The Japanese did not like the taste.

To solve this problem, fishing companies installed freezers on their boats.They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers allowed the boats to go farther and stay longer. However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen and they did not like frozen fish. The frozen fish brought a lower price.

So fishing companies installed fish tanks. They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin. After a little thrashing around, the fish stopped moving. They were tired and dull, but alive. Unfortunately, the Japanese could still taste the difference. Because the fish did not move for days, they lost their fresh-fish taste. The Japanese preferred the lively taste of fresh fish, not sluggish fish.

So how did Japanese fishing companies solve this problem? How do they get fresh-tasting fish to Japan?

To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing companies (still) put the fish in the tanks. But now they add a small shark to each tank. The shark eats a few fish, but most of the fish arrive in a very lively state." Like the Japanese fish - "Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment."- L. Ron Hubbard Challenges are what keeps us FRESH !

Instead of avoiding challenges, jump into them. Beat the heck out of them. Enjoy the game. If your challenges are too large or too numerous, reorganize the challenge, team up, be resourceful and do not give up. Failing makes you tired.

If you have met your goals, set some bigger goals. Once you meet your personal or family needs, move onto goals for your group, the society, even mankind.Don't create success and lie in it. You have resources, skills and abilities to make a difference.

Put a shark in your tank and see how far you can really go!
Dream...Think...Create...Solve... Lead...Su(Ex)ceed

Back Packers

Good news is Jag is back. I had checked it only last week and I'm impressed the way he has re-designed.

About this picture, this was taken when Mugi, Indu, Niru, Gaurav & Natasha left for a 3 Nation - Italy, Greece & Switzerland trip. How can this bunch of back packers leave me like this and go on their trip...Miss u all and have great trip. It's me in the middle with a small bag, yes small in mind and action, weekend nothing much gr8 was done, I felt terribly sorry for some thing which I did. A post will follow soon on that..Does that indicate me of something else? Oh its okie.. I'm not getting older people, I need to blame it on my work, this had been keeping me lil busy with a lot of other activities.

Some quick statistics about the flying

PERFORMANCE TANDEM FLIGHT
# Drop from 1000 meters level from Saint Hilaire in vercouse mountain range
# Made a spin at 250 meters level for 3 meters for 45 seconds, this was just great - that's why I call it a performance tandem flight
# Longest lift at one stretch was from 630 meters to 780 meters
# Longest descend at one stretch was 75 meters
Perfect bull's eye landing

Jack I'm flying

YES I did it today, It's my Tandem flight and we were flying for 30 minutes.

Ultra-stretchy

This one is from Hum to me, couldn't stop laughing on "Ultra-stretchy" goals :-)

What's in a status message?

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Originally uploaded by cvraman's.

Well, today I had put my status message on Jabber the internal messenger tool as To err is human, to blame it on someone else is more human, it was not meant to offend any one, just that I place some weird messages some time so that people get reminded of me and ping me. I had tum pinging on me and sharing this with me with his compliments
Tum Brilliant as usual...did you know I own the URL www.blamesomeoneelse.com
Hum No there's no page
Tum I was only joking, but it is true that in the same sentiment as your jabber status, I have joked with friends that I bought that URL for years. The goal being to take the art of blaming others to the web

GOAL

Birthday 16th April 2005 - for those who want to know my age

This whole event on my birthday was reminding of something life has offered / offering, around me I have such wonderful people wishing me good luck. It's not just the people around me on that day it's the whole bunch of people I know. I got a few calls and lots of e-cards thanks a lot to all of them. A special thanks to Gai, Indu, Natasha, Gaurav, Reuben, Niru, Adriana, Varun, Sergio, Mugi, Aks, Christina, Alex, Emil, Mike, Charles, Stef, Laura, KS, Birgit, Ioana, Na, Charlotte , Piia & Aline for making the day a more memorable one. The two funniest things happened on that day are #1 Indu and Niru had the cake and gift and they got struck in the lift and they where rescued by the firemen and thus they made their way #2 Adriana coming to my house and was about to ring the bell @ my house not knowing that the venue for the surprise has got shifted to a different location. Thank you all once again.

Birthday - All candle lights

This is how it started. It was a real surprise for me. This birthday I call it the best ever so far. At Indian time exactly at 00:00 hrs Gai buzzed me on messenger and wished me. It all started with that, she offered me a cake on the web camera, later went to sleep, its me not her. I was supposed to go for the Ice Skating class that evening, but due to very bad weather conditions I cancelled the plan and stayed back. This led to some nice interesting things. Indu, Natasha, Gaurav, Reuben, Niru, Adriana & Varun planned for a surprise thinking I will not be there at home. So this was lil disappointment to them as they had to change the plans.

This is after cutting the cake

Then I was woken up at 00.15 hrs in the morning and was asked to join at Reuben’s place. It was like a movie I walked into a room which was completely dark, with all candles around in the house and there on the table just the cake with candles around ..no one was there it was completely dark. I was standing and wondering what to do looking around as no one was there.

Natoooo preperation

Then I wait there wondering were all of them would have gone and suddenly people jump from all corners and wish me. If was very funny to c that Niru was hiding herself under the table covering herself with a sleeping bag. Then I was asked to cut the cake and they gifted me the sleeping bag and a camera tripod. Adriana presence was of great surprise to me. I missed Mugi so much at this time, and also wished my crush was there to share this happiest moment. We kept aside one dessert and lil cake for Mugi and then we enjoyed the rest and danced for sometime. Adriana taught me some more salsa steps. This dessert was prepared by Natasha which has the chocolate, friuts, icecream and wafers.

The Cake

Me in a sleeping bag -gifted to me

Cake that Adriana got me

Later in the morning Sergio joined the whole gang for an Indian lunch hosted by me. It was nice food prepared by me, trust me. This is the dessert that Adriana got for me.