Wednesday, August 06, 2008

A delerious saturday

Today Ashok,Gsb,sandeep [and ofcourse me!] got together to visit the visvesvaraya museum.Sandeep came over to my place and we rode to the museum. Ashok joined us at the museum. so did gsb but, As usual he made us wait! . The ground floor at the museum hosted the engine room. On display were gears,valves, two stroke , four stroke engines, air craft engine donated by rolls royce, cochran boiler donated by our own college UVCE. The energy balls were also a delight to watch though i thought they could have been maintained better. On the first floor was the fun science room. It had some good exhibits such as an apparatus to find the reaction time of the body, whispering disc where we could observe the sound waves reflection. Also the electronics section contained some of the oldest mainframes from IBM 1401, 1402. Then we headed out to the restaurent "Mainland china" on st. Marks road which was suggested by Ashok. we had rice, noodles [chinese restaurant!], veg. fried wonton, spicy and almond soup. It was good.An interesting thing about this place was that it had mirrors on one side which was difficult to notice and ashok and i were thinking it was a big restaurant!!. It was 3:30 PM and were unable to get the ticket for mumbai matinee which ashok was very eager to see.So we went to planet M on brigade road. we spent 2 hrs !! inside it. It contained some good music, of all kinds from regional to games. I bought myself a cassette "Nature collection :vitality " the music to keep you going while sandeep got himself "Nature collection : unwind" the music to relax the mind. Ashok , gsb and sandeep were on a shopping spree. each of them got a couple of cassettes. Some of them which i remember are "carpenters : gsb", " pt. ravishankar : ashok", "romantic flute : ashok" , "golden flute : sandeep".
Then we all headed back home. If i did not have the task of getting my sister her honda activa then probably we would have ended up seeing mumbai matinee