A Mumbai Photo-blog.

Check out this photo blog I stumbled across. I love some of those street scenes.

Quick pix.

Didn't do too much today. Went out after lunch and tracked down the local Barista and then ran a few errands (topped off my Kingfisher supply) but thats about it.

I did manage to get out and take a few pictures though. The first one is my apartment building. My balconies are the two directly above the ones with the bamboo screens. The second shot shows the quiet little street I live on. Quite different from my last neighborhood.



I tried to get some of the inside as well but they didn't come out so great. Maybe next time.

I'll be out of town the next two weekends. The manager I work with over here is getting married next weekend and has invited me to his wedding in Pune. Should be fun. And then the week after that Thurman (my manager) will be in Bangalore so I want to take him site-seeing. We'll probably just go Mysore for the weekend since its close and there's plenty to see there.

Settling In (redux)

I moved into my new apartment on Saturday and I'm all settled in. Moving was most definitely the right thing to do. It's difficult to explain why I like this place so much better, but less than an hour after I moved in I already felt far more at home than I ever did in my first apartment.

Pictures will be along eventually.

More pictures of my first apartment.

Since I'll be moving next weekend this is really the last chance I have to post some pictures of the current apartment. So yesterday I finally took some shots of the both the inside of my apartment and the area around where I'm living.

The first shot shows some shops on Sarjapur road. The big grey building behind the trees is my apartment building. Off to the left you can see the "Classic Department Stores" which is actually the local grocery store.

The architecture of the building itself is pretty interesting. The major hallways are wide and open to the air, and there are large vertical shafts running from top to bottom. You can see in the second shot how some of them create the effect of inside alleyways. This layout provides plenty of air circulation which helps cool the apartments, however their are disadvantages. After a rainstorm last week the marble floors in the hallways got very wet and very slippery.




Finally here are a couple pictures of the inside of my apartment itself. I couldn't really get a good one of the bedrooms so these mostly show the living area (of course I pretty much live right here in front of my computer). The first shot shows my dining area and the entrance to the kitchen. The second is looking the other direction and shows the living room.




Finally, it wouldn't be southern India without the kitschy trashcans.

Some (lousy) pictures.

The pictures probably aren't really worth posting, but I want to get something up and I haven't managed to take anything better yet. Nothing too exciting - just my apartment building and the Barista on MG road.



Today I went out apartment hunting with some help from the manager of the group I'm working with. The place I'm in isn't bad but it's kind of in the middle of nowhere and is very expensive for what I'm getting. I found a place I like right in Koramangala, which is a very nice and rather trendy neighborhood (kind of like Manayunk to Philadelphia). The apartment is quite a bit smaller than my current place but it's alot nicer and I think I'll be much more comfortable there. I'm supposed to be going back on Monday to put a down payment on it to hold in until my month here is up.