By bluerasberry on 2012-11-13
Hurricane Sandy happened and I thought little of it. Marcus was house sitting for some friends in Jersey City and I went to stay with him for Saturday 10 November night, and he took me on a damage tour. The hurricane hit on October 29 and I was surprised that there was still no electricity […]
Posted in New York City, tour | Tagged disaster, Jersey City, Marcus
By bluerasberry on 2012-08-12
I visited the Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of Arts and Design, and the Noguchi Museum this weekend. I also went again to the Metropolitan Museum of Art – this being perhaps my tenth time there and I still have not walked through all the galleries – […]
Posted in art, education, museum, New York City, tour | Tagged industrial design, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Noguchi, protest, Shakespeare
By bluerasberry on 2011-07-25
I have been dating this boy named Xu since the middle of June and we have been seeing each other a few times a week. He is from Liaoning, which is the coastal province of China which shares a border with North Korea. He is doing a logistics program through Penn State’s industrial engineering department […]
Posted in China, love, personal, Seattle, tour
By bluerasberry on 2011-04-30
So Nandan and I went to Kolkata to retrieve that 250kg of books I sent there from Seattle back in January. It arrived March 3 but no one contacted us or became aware of its arrival. I had the American shipper track it and he found in it Kolkata. We hired a customs house agent […]
Posted in encounter, India, museum, tour | Tagged Kolkata
By bluerasberry on 2011-04-30
I went out the next day with Nandan and we Sarukh and Abdul and they said they would show us around Kolkata. They pointed out different things and played frisbee in a park on our way to the Victoria Memorial, which was easily the best-presented museum I have yet seen in India due to the […]
Posted in art, India, museum, tour | Tagged Kolkata
By bluerasberry on 2011-02-20
The temple complex at Khujaraho shows the best Hindu carvings I have yet seen and I would recommend the place to anyone is interested in the subject and has time to spend a day there. I had heard a lot about the erotic carvings there, and they are interesting, but there are maybe 10-20 erotic […]
Posted in art, India, tour | Tagged architecture, monument
By bluerasberry on 2011-02-20
Nandan and I visited some places around Bhopal. Madhya Pradesh as a state seems more livable than Uttar Pradesh as the population seems lower, the roads are better, the cities and countryside are generally cleaner, and the government does more to make things easier for tourists. We visited this zoo called Van Vihar near a […]
Posted in India, tour | Tagged waste
By bluerasberry on 2011-02-16
On February 13 Nandan and I visited the Taj Mahal. The architecture and the building’s history are very interesting and many people have produced media about these things. I want to write about four problems I saw during that visit: Monument entry Boy beating Queue control Filthy grounds I want to preface my stories by […]
Posted in India, legal, rights, service industry, tour | Tagged filth, police, violence
By bluerasberry on 2011-02-14
Nandan and I went to Delhi to attend Chandan’s wife’s wedding. She seems to think of many things relating to Varanasi as having the negative attributes associated with a rural place. The wedding had guns fired into the air as part of the celebration process. I talked with a lot of people there but did […]
Posted in education, health, India, research, tour | Tagged automaton, clinical research, school, vaccine, wedding
By bluerasberry on 2011-02-02
Nandan and I left our Mumbai friends and flew to Lucknow. We visited Imam Bara and the residency and the haunted house as before but all this was just a backdrop for planning our next moves. At Imam Bara we paid for a tour and were charged triple the price we were supposed to pay, […]
Posted in gay stuff, India, non-profit, tour