Planet Manipal

January 22, 2012

The Lohri Experience

So often have we said or heard that it is from the simplest of things that we derive pleasure from the simplest of things in life. Listening to the birds chirping or the fragrance of the first rain or having a beer with your friends or taking a walk in a windy wintry weather and I can a zillion of more ors to the list. These things at times are so obvious to us that we tend to undermine the importance of these very simple things in our life.

One such experience was the Lohri experience for me. Being a student and staying away from home, I never had time to enjoy a festival. However, back in Delhi NCR the heart of India, I had my chance to celebrate Lohri. A few things that I noticed

  1. Families coming together and meeting each other
  2. Kids playing in the lawn
  3. Meeting the knowns and unknowns and wishing each other
  4. My WARMEST winter experience :)
  5. The beautiful bonfire
  6. The Ladies ;)

These are a few things that are right at the top of my head but then it was an awesome experience to remind me of the old age phrase “In Simplicity Lies Beauty”


January 10, 2012

Pearl EPO Glider 800 - First Flight / Crash

For my 50th blog post i decided to post videos of the crash of the Pearl EPO Glider 800. The crash happened on our first try on the 18th of December. I would have posted the videos on that date but we had recorded the videos using a sony handycam and it took some time to extract the videos (I hate sony handycams and their non standard USB's and Memory Cards). Anyway i did manage to get the videos and here they are. Enjoy

First TrySecond Try

Ill fix it up and have it up as soon as i have some free time.In the mean while enjoy he pics of the broken plane: