Guest guest Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 Dear Kishore, That was an excellent virtual tour of SF... :-) Ravin '82 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 Wah Wah ! Kishore !! I am amazed by your memory............your description is as if you are a local. I think one of these days you should do a writeup on Pune and may be Mumbai. That will be better than any tour guide. California also has breathtaking natural beauty ranging from beautiful beaches, snow capped mountains to some of America's best parks - Yosemite National Park. The drive form the beaches to the mountains is not more than 1.5 to 2 hours....which I think will be in very few places in the whole world. I have not visited San Francisco yet and am looking forward to. Agar MGIMSians ki marzi ho, tho isse saal jayenge !! After your description of San Francisco and the fact taht Dr Kalantri will be there cannot motivate our college folks to have a reunion...then I don't know what will ? Ashok : )) Kishore Shah wrote: Dear SP Sir, You are in for the treat of your life. Berkeley is very near the Bay area and Pier 39, both great areas. When in San Francisco, do visit the world's crookedest street. You cannot go there by bus because buses can just never negotiate the many twists and turns. However, you can alight from a bus nearby and see the street first hand on foot. (Wow! What a sentence!) Close by there is a straight avenue with beautifully painted and façades houses. The San Francisco city pays to keep this entire street in that pristine and preserved condition! The unique thing about houses all over here is that they are built on mobile foundations. This is to prevent their collapse during Earthquakes. San Francisco sits on the San s fault and is prone to earthquakes. If you notice carefully, adjoining houses never touch each other, so that they do not fall like a pack of cards during a tremor. Another beautiful area is the Wharf. The seals basking on specially made platforms and making queer barking noises are very unusual. The nearby area has beautiful cafeterias (however, I am afraid there will be nothing much there for a vegetarian, SP Sir! - you can admire the pseudo antique marine architecture). We enjoyed exquisite fish sandwiches here with tangy tartar sauce( a bit heavy on the pocket though!). The shops are tempting here, but do not buy here. A better place to buy is in the Chinatown area. You can have some good, vegetarian, Chinese food there too. The taste is akin to our Indian spices. Besides the main bay area, San Francisco has various small marinas and beaches close by, like San Marino and San o, etc. These will remind you of Anjuna beach of Goa. However, it is advisable not to linger at these remote beaches too late after sun down! There is a museum made of the Alcatraz jail, which is located in the middle of the bay! Now, the first thought that struck me was that only an imbecile would have thought of putting a jail in such a picturesque spot. The first thing I would have thought of would have been a five star hotel! I have purposely ignored mentioning the Golden Gate bridge. For people of San Francisco, that is their Taj Mahal. However, I was sorely disappointed by it. I mean, how long can you stare at a bridge and say " Wow! " ? The people there tend to get lyrical. They mention the length and weight of the cables and how long it took etc. etc. and all you see is a bridge, that, by the way, you have seen umpteen number of times in movies and pictures. Then they take you on a bus ride to the other side of the bridge to show you, (Can you guess this?), the other side of the bridge. Then they take you on a small excursion by the side of the bridge to show you, you'll never believe this, the side of the bridge. Not satisfied with this, they board you on a motor boat and show you the bridge from far. Then they approach the bridge and show you the bridge, hold your breath, from near. Then comes the climax. They take you beneath the bridge, and I'm sure that you'll never ever guess this in a million chances, to show you the under side of the bridge. There is a grand finale, when your boat leaves the bridge and shows you the bridge while it is receding!!! When I returned to India, a friend of mine suggested that we play a game of bridge. He required 14 stitches and a massive transfusion to survive! Another word of advice is that if you drop anything on the streets of San Francisco, be very careful when you bend to pick it up. Why? ....because Frisco is the pink city. Not 'pink' as in Jaipur, but pink as in gay. In fact you will see many rainbow coloured flags dotting the whole area. This is the flag of the Gay movement! So if your neighbourhood guy seems very friendly, be afraid ... be very afraid!! A quaint attraction of Frisco is the antique tram service. It chugs along on selected routes. It might help to wear a white beard, because they charge half fare for senior citizens! The streets of Frisco are also ruler straight, however, they may dip and ascend at crazy angles every now and then! Some call San Francisco one of the most beautiful cities of the US. I do not agree! It is THE most beautiful city of the US! Kishore Shah 1974 ------------------------------ Website: www.mgims.org ------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 Wah Wah ! Kishore !! I am amazed by your memory............your description is as if you are a local. I think one of these days you should do a writeup on Pune and may be Mumbai. That will be better than any tour guide. California also has breathtaking natural beauty ranging from beautiful beaches, snow capped mountains to some of America's best parks - Yosemite National Park. The drive form the beaches to the mountains is not more than 1.5 to 2 hours....which I think will be in very few places in the whole world. I have not visited San Francisco yet and am looking forward to. Agar MGIMSians ki marzi ho, tho isse saal jayenge !! After your description of San Francisco and the fact taht Dr Kalantri will be there cannot motivate our college folks to have a reunion...then I don't know what will ? Ashok : )) Kishore Shah wrote: Dear SP Sir, You are in for the treat of your life. Berkeley is very near the Bay area and Pier 39, both great areas. When in San Francisco, do visit the world's crookedest street. You cannot go there by bus because buses can just never negotiate the many twists and turns. However, you can alight from a bus nearby and see the street first hand on foot. (Wow! What a sentence!) Close by there is a straight avenue with beautifully painted and façades houses. The San Francisco city pays to keep this entire street in that pristine and preserved condition! The unique thing about houses all over here is that they are built on mobile foundations. This is to prevent their collapse during Earthquakes. San Francisco sits on the San s fault and is prone to earthquakes. If you notice carefully, adjoining houses never touch each other, so that they do not fall like a pack of cards during a tremor. Another beautiful area is the Wharf. The seals basking on specially made platforms and making queer barking noises are very unusual. The nearby area has beautiful cafeterias (however, I am afraid there will be nothing much there for a vegetarian, SP Sir! - you can admire the pseudo antique marine architecture). We enjoyed exquisite fish sandwiches here with tangy tartar sauce( a bit heavy on the pocket though!). The shops are tempting here, but do not buy here. A better place to buy is in the Chinatown area. You can have some good, vegetarian, Chinese food there too. The taste is akin to our Indian spices. Besides the main bay area, San Francisco has various small marinas and beaches close by, like San Marino and San o, etc. These will remind you of Anjuna beach of Goa. However, it is advisable not to linger at these remote beaches too late after sun down! There is a museum made of the Alcatraz jail, which is located in the middle of the bay! Now, the first thought that struck me was that only an imbecile would have thought of putting a jail in such a picturesque spot. The first thing I would have thought of would have been a five star hotel! I have purposely ignored mentioning the Golden Gate bridge. For people of San Francisco, that is their Taj Mahal. However, I was sorely disappointed by it. I mean, how long can you stare at a bridge and say " Wow! " ? The people there tend to get lyrical. They mention the length and weight of the cables and how long it took etc. etc. and all you see is a bridge, that, by the way, you have seen umpteen number of times in movies and pictures. Then they take you on a bus ride to the other side of the bridge to show you, (Can you guess this?), the other side of the bridge. Then they take you on a small excursion by the side of the bridge to show you, you'll never believe this, the side of the bridge. Not satisfied with this, they board you on a motor boat and show you the bridge from far. Then they approach the bridge and show you the bridge, hold your breath, from near. Then comes the climax. They take you beneath the bridge, and I'm sure that you'll never ever guess this in a million chances, to show you the under side of the bridge. There is a grand finale, when your boat leaves the bridge and shows you the bridge while it is receding!!! When I returned to India, a friend of mine suggested that we play a game of bridge. He required 14 stitches and a massive transfusion to survive! Another word of advice is that if you drop anything on the streets of San Francisco, be very careful when you bend to pick it up. Why? ....because Frisco is the pink city. Not 'pink' as in Jaipur, but pink as in gay. In fact you will see many rainbow coloured flags dotting the whole area. This is the flag of the Gay movement! So if your neighbourhood guy seems very friendly, be afraid ... be very afraid!! A quaint attraction of Frisco is the antique tram service. It chugs along on selected routes. It might help to wear a white beard, because they charge half fare for senior citizens! The streets of Frisco are also ruler straight, however, they may dip and ascend at crazy angles every now and then! Some call San Francisco one of the most beautiful cities of the US. I do not agree! It is THE most beautiful city of the US! Kishore Shah 1974 ------------------------------ Website: www.mgims.org ------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 Wah Wah ! Kishore !! I am amazed by your memory............your description is as if you are a local. I think one of these days you should do a writeup on Pune and may be Mumbai. That will be better than any tour guide. California also has breathtaking natural beauty ranging from beautiful beaches, snow capped mountains to some of America's best parks - Yosemite National Park. The drive form the beaches to the mountains is not more than 1.5 to 2 hours....which I think will be in very few places in the whole world. I have not visited San Francisco yet and am looking forward to. Agar MGIMSians ki marzi ho, tho isse saal jayenge !! After your description of San Francisco and the fact taht Dr Kalantri will be there cannot motivate our college folks to have a reunion...then I don't know what will ? Ashok : )) Kishore Shah wrote: Dear SP Sir, You are in for the treat of your life. Berkeley is very near the Bay area and Pier 39, both great areas. When in San Francisco, do visit the world's crookedest street. You cannot go there by bus because buses can just never negotiate the many twists and turns. However, you can alight from a bus nearby and see the street first hand on foot. (Wow! What a sentence!) Close by there is a straight avenue with beautifully painted and façades houses. The San Francisco city pays to keep this entire street in that pristine and preserved condition! The unique thing about houses all over here is that they are built on mobile foundations. This is to prevent their collapse during Earthquakes. San Francisco sits on the San s fault and is prone to earthquakes. If you notice carefully, adjoining houses never touch each other, so that they do not fall like a pack of cards during a tremor. Another beautiful area is the Wharf. The seals basking on specially made platforms and making queer barking noises are very unusual. The nearby area has beautiful cafeterias (however, I am afraid there will be nothing much there for a vegetarian, SP Sir! - you can admire the pseudo antique marine architecture). We enjoyed exquisite fish sandwiches here with tangy tartar sauce( a bit heavy on the pocket though!). The shops are tempting here, but do not buy here. A better place to buy is in the Chinatown area. You can have some good, vegetarian, Chinese food there too. The taste is akin to our Indian spices. Besides the main bay area, San Francisco has various small marinas and beaches close by, like San Marino and San o, etc. These will remind you of Anjuna beach of Goa. However, it is advisable not to linger at these remote beaches too late after sun down! There is a museum made of the Alcatraz jail, which is located in the middle of the bay! Now, the first thought that struck me was that only an imbecile would have thought of putting a jail in such a picturesque spot. The first thing I would have thought of would have been a five star hotel! I have purposely ignored mentioning the Golden Gate bridge. For people of San Francisco, that is their Taj Mahal. However, I was sorely disappointed by it. I mean, how long can you stare at a bridge and say " Wow! " ? The people there tend to get lyrical. They mention the length and weight of the cables and how long it took etc. etc. and all you see is a bridge, that, by the way, you have seen umpteen number of times in movies and pictures. Then they take you on a bus ride to the other side of the bridge to show you, (Can you guess this?), the other side of the bridge. Then they take you on a small excursion by the side of the bridge to show you, you'll never believe this, the side of the bridge. Not satisfied with this, they board you on a motor boat and show you the bridge from far. Then they approach the bridge and show you the bridge, hold your breath, from near. Then comes the climax. They take you beneath the bridge, and I'm sure that you'll never ever guess this in a million chances, to show you the under side of the bridge. There is a grand finale, when your boat leaves the bridge and shows you the bridge while it is receding!!! When I returned to India, a friend of mine suggested that we play a game of bridge. He required 14 stitches and a massive transfusion to survive! Another word of advice is that if you drop anything on the streets of San Francisco, be very careful when you bend to pick it up. Why? ....because Frisco is the pink city. Not 'pink' as in Jaipur, but pink as in gay. In fact you will see many rainbow coloured flags dotting the whole area. This is the flag of the Gay movement! So if your neighbourhood guy seems very friendly, be afraid ... be very afraid!! A quaint attraction of Frisco is the antique tram service. It chugs along on selected routes. It might help to wear a white beard, because they charge half fare for senior citizens! The streets of Frisco are also ruler straight, however, they may dip and ascend at crazy angles every now and then! Some call San Francisco one of the most beautiful cities of the US. I do not agree! It is THE most beautiful city of the US! Kishore Shah 1974 ------------------------------ Website: www.mgims.org ------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Dear Ashok, You say: <I think one of these days you should do a write-up on Pune and may be Mumbai. > I have already written an article on Pune for MGIMS yahoo group back in the good old days, when Duggal used to write and you were not a member. At that time he had wondered whether our group would survive, as topics on MGIMS are limited and would shrivel up in due course. I had replied that even if every one just writes about the city in which he / she is in, that would be sufficient to keep our group alive. (This was even before the days of Religious discussions and Ravin's recipes!) To prove my point, I had written about how Pune had changed through the ages. If you look up the archives of our group (the early years) you may find this article. Typing Pune and then searching will help. Kishore Shah 1974 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Dear Ashok, You say: <I think one of these days you should do a write-up on Pune and may be Mumbai. > I have already written an article on Pune for MGIMS yahoo group back in the good old days, when Duggal used to write and you were not a member. At that time he had wondered whether our group would survive, as topics on MGIMS are limited and would shrivel up in due course. I had replied that even if every one just writes about the city in which he / she is in, that would be sufficient to keep our group alive. (This was even before the days of Religious discussions and Ravin's recipes!) To prove my point, I had written about how Pune had changed through the ages. If you look up the archives of our group (the early years) you may find this article. Typing Pune and then searching will help. Kishore Shah 1974 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Cool ! I will look it up !! I wonder how many members did write about their home city in those days. I like to travel and also learn more about the world and hence would be interested in such writeups. Nothing beats one of your own going to some place and then describing the same. BTW <<back in the good old days, when Duggal used to write and you were not a member.>>..........what does that mean ?? ASHOK '84 Shah wrote: Dear Ashok, You say: <I think one of these days you should do a write-up on Pune and may be Mumbai. > I have already written an article on Pune for MGIMS yahoo group back in the good old days, when Duggal used to write and you were not a member. At that time he had wondered whether our group would survive, as topics on MGIMS are limited and would shrivel up in due course. I had replied that even if every one just writes about the city in which he / she is in, that would be sufficient to keep our group alive. (This was even before the days of Religious discussions and Ravin's recipes!) To prove my point, I had written about how Pune had changed through the ages. If you look up the archives of our group (the early years) you may find this article. Typing Pune and then searching will help. Kishore Shah 1974 ------------------------------ Website: www.mgims.org ------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Cool ! I will look it up !! I wonder how many members did write about their home city in those days. I like to travel and also learn more about the world and hence would be interested in such writeups. Nothing beats one of your own going to some place and then describing the same. BTW <<back in the good old days, when Duggal used to write and you were not a member.>>..........what does that mean ?? ASHOK '84 Shah wrote: Dear Ashok, You say: <I think one of these days you should do a write-up on Pune and may be Mumbai. > I have already written an article on Pune for MGIMS yahoo group back in the good old days, when Duggal used to write and you were not a member. At that time he had wondered whether our group would survive, as topics on MGIMS are limited and would shrivel up in due course. I had replied that even if every one just writes about the city in which he / she is in, that would be sufficient to keep our group alive. (This was even before the days of Religious discussions and Ravin's recipes!) To prove my point, I had written about how Pune had changed through the ages. If you look up the archives of our group (the early years) you may find this article. Typing Pune and then searching will help. Kishore Shah 1974 ------------------------------ Website: www.mgims.org ------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Dear Ashok BTW <<back in the good old days, when Duggal used to write and you were not a member.>>..........what does that mean ?? That is just an expression and does not mean what it looks like literally! Kishore shah 1974 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Dear Ashok BTW <<back in the good old days, when Duggal used to write and you were not a member.>>..........what does that mean ?? That is just an expression and does not mean what it looks like literally! Kishore shah 1974 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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