Unusual restaurants

Check out these unusual restaurant spots (a Forbes list) - http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/2006/12/18/most-unusual-restaurants-forbeslife-cx_ls_1219mostunusualrestaurants.html.

Make sure you check the In Pictures link at the bottom of the news item, or click here - InPictures

One of them is this unique venture - http://www.dinnerinthesky.com/

10 most magnificent trees

You dont need to be a nature enthusiast to appreciate the list compiled here - http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/21/10-most-magnificent-trees-in-the-world/

It surely has a amazing list of trees I at least have never seen before. Go check it out.

what is china upto ?

I was reading this news item on TOI today of China placing a ban on Indian Steel. The amazing thing is this - India has hiked steel prices by Rs 300/tonne. This is causing Chinese buyers to shell out an extra $500 million. A quick math reveals that India is approx shipping 72 ($500 * 43 / 300) million tonnes of steel. And that makes only the third largest supplier for China.

72 million tonnes of existing supplies. I am guessing the total yearly supplies should be a lot more (will try and find that out). But the bigger question is - what is China building with all this steel ?

Update:
Some stats from http://www.issb.co.uk/

Chinese Imports of Iron Ore increased 19% year-on-year in 2006 to 326.3
million tonnes. Australia supplied 126.8 million tonnes up 13% on
2005's 112.2 million tonnes
Brazil overtook India to supply 76.4 million tonnes up 40% on 2005's 54.7
million tonnes
Indian exports increased only 9% from 68.6 to 74.8 million
tonnes

random unreasonable thoughts

• any girl with the name aishwarya should be pretty.
• scott adams almost always sounds right.
• reading others' blogs makes me feel i too can write. or even more, be a writer.
• my IT job always seems to be one notch below what i desire for.
• photographs inspire me. i always ask(or try to find out) what camera was used. never appreciate the skills of a photographer. dream to be a photographer myself. still debating whether to buy that costly SLR.
• the bus ride is always better than the train ride. the train is underground - there's nothing to see outside through the windows.
• any girl called Priyanka has to be sexy.
• whatever my younger brother is doing, never seems enough. i tend to be tough. not sure what i want.
• i aim to be a drummer of a band. no, not the lead guitarist, that was when I was 15.
• am inherently confused about how much of a friend should i be to my friends.
• same for "how much of a son/brother should i be"
• marriage with an unknown person scares me. i am convinced i will get divorced. i forget i am an Indian.
• i rarely feel jealous.
• think that there has to be something wrong with guys wearing pink shirts.
• i will be a street photographer if i get to choose.
• i wonder if i will ever read a book in one sitting.
• i cannot play sports without having the thought that winning is important.

another of that kind.

you know you are a yet another of that weird kind when you get stoked by the discovery that Alt+Enter can help you drop to a new line within a cell in an xl sheet :))