19 April
2014
18 April
2014
My chariot for tonight
There is my plane – A380 – for tonight. It is one humongous beast. Other planes look really puny next to it!
The end of one wing to the other is nearly the length of a football field!! That Wright brother’s flight that got us into flying? They flew only half that distance!!!
The plane has the height of a ten story building! (This one knocked me off)
The plane weighs the same as … not ten, not twenty, not even hundred but 165 fully grown elephants!!!
My daughter’s entire elementary school can get in and then they will have some more seats open!!
It has space for 3000 suitcases!!!
I am told fifteen hundred companies manufacture various parts of this plane!!
If you took all the wires in this plane and laid them end to end, they would go over 500 kilometers!!!
It is amazing that with all that, it flies for fifteen hours continuously at 43,000 feet!!!
18 April
2014
On the average, I will be fine :-)
18 April
2014
“Intersection points” getting popular
I was just wrapping up my call with Sharmila before jumping onto the flight to New York when I saw good old Shahid and his family walking past me. You may remember him from an old post and picture of the two of us sharing shayars and ghazals in a bar somewhere in Bombay after customer meetings.
In any case, I finished out with Sharmila immediately and yelled out for Shahid. He saw me, brought his family to introduce to me and guess what his first words were? “Another Intersection Point”, he said!!!!
I am like. “Yess!! I am going to start a cult”. 🙂
Anyways, it was great to meet Shahid, Munira and the kids!!!
18 April
2014
One more time…
9 April
2014
Wheels up!! Bye bye Florida…
9 April
2014
Nikispeak again!
This time it was after security check in Orlando airport. Nikita and I went thru TSA PreCheck and breezed thru in fifteen seconds. As we were waiting for Sharmila and Natasha to clear thru the normal security lines, I jokingly suggested to Nikita “Let’s take the train and go to the terminal. They have their boarding passes with them. They can always come there by themselves”.
She got extremely concerned by my attitude. “Dad, you have no heart”!
And in three seconds added, “Just like your hair”
🙂
9 April
2014
Nikispeak this morning
Niki and I were discussing geometry as we waited at the airport. We were talking about octagons when she excitedly said “You know dad, how I remember that octagon has eight sides”? I asked her “How”?
“Remember octo-mom? She had eight babies. That’s how”, she said!
And in my mind I went “I wish I had such props to remember my math when I was growing up” 🙂
9 April
2014
Intersection point in Florida
While vacationing in Orlando, found out (thanks to FB) that good old Hari was in town for a conference. A few months back, I had met him after over twenty years. Had promised not to let another twenty years go by before we meet again. No challenge there!!
Sharmila captured some moments during our discussions at a bar – you can see that they were as intense as the good old days!!! 🙂
8 April
2014
