Best vegan restaraunt ever!

Portobello Vegan is one the best place to dine in Portland for vegan food. Food is delicious. They have different menu every night. Desserts are tasty yet light. Courteous waiters. It is just not easy to find such a place. Time for you to try this place!

Long bottom : Breakfast Series – Part 3

I have been looking for a breakfast place close to my home. Thanks to my colleague, I found “Long bottom” near my work. It is great. German pancake is different and tasty here. I started going there almost everyday! Soon, I will start biking instead of going in a car.

Suzette : Breakfast Series – Part 2

Crepe at Suzette

Last week-end, couple of us wanted to eat crepes at Hillsboro Sunday market near to Orenco station parkway and Cornell. That day crepes booth was not opened. We (or may be just me ) were still craving for crepes, so I was trying to recall the name of a good place for crepes in Portland downtown. I remember reading about a great crepe’s place in “B for Bacon and Breakfast article” about various breakfast places in Portland. But I couldn’t recall, so we quickly opened yelp on my iPhone to find a good crepes place in Portland downtown. We found Suzette as good place for crepes. It is located on 29th and Alberta street which is Arts district of Portland. It has lots of good breakfast places, restaurants, arts related shops, etc. It seemed like a fun neighbor hood to spend time with friends. Coming back to Suzette, we loved the crepes there. Guess what? This place turned out to be the place I was trying to recall, however it was called “Tour de Crepes” before . Looks like the management changed.

Tin Shed : Breakfast series – Part 1

My friends and I got up early and all ready for the breakfast by 930 AM! We drove to this awesome breakfast place, Tin Shed, in NE part of Portland. As my colleague said in his email, there was a long wait. We waited for about 1 hour to get our seats! Instead of waiting at the restaurant – we went for a walk on Alberta St, talking about all cool stuff – iPhone, iPads, Chinese hacked iPhones , leopard cats , etc! We saw various shops on the street and went into one nice shop – Collage on Alberta – where they sell supplies for all artists!

I think our first attempt to try a breakfast place in our dear Portland was successful! Every one loved the food. Look forward to the next one in two weeks!

Breakfast Series

We all know breakfast is an important meal of the day. I love to wake up early and eat a good breakfast! This is good for me in two ways – one: I get to eat some nice breakfast in the morning, two: my day starts early and will have a long day! A lot of time to get many things done!

Just started thinking …, looks like I used to like breakfast starting when I am kid only! I remember waking up early at home (in India), waiting for Indian style breakfast (Mainly Idli and chutney ), to be prepared by Mom. Then I went to Junior college, where I was in Dorms (we call Hostel in India), there also I used to like breakfast a lot. Then I went on one year – to Chennai – for preparing IIT Engineering entrance examination – there also I used to wake up very early like 6 AM and used to eat a lot of Tamil Nadu special : Sambar Idly. Same interest continued at IIIT-Hyderabad, then in nVidia-Bangalore . But not much of a chance for a good breakfast at UNC-Chapel hill! I was little constrained by money matters and time at UNC! After coming to Intel-Portland, everything changed back to the good breakfast days! Adding to that Portland is famous for many good breakfast places! I thought I should start writing a blog about various Breakfast places I try/tried in Portland. Look for my first post on this series!

Hierarchical/Combinatorial playlists!

 

Just now, I wanted to listen to music, so opened up my iPhone – thinking about which playlist to choose. It occurred to me that – I wanted to play two play lists as one. I was like – why can’t I tell my iPhone to combine these two play lists for this time? or let me choose a hierarchically one above these two playlists  - or even better just let me choose any combination of playlists!

Kshana Kshanam!

 

“Kshana Kshanam” is a telugu movie. If you know telugu language, spoken in south eastern part of India, Andhra Pradesh – you should definitely watch this movie. Amazing comedy – screen play – dialogues – direction, and especially Sridevi’s action. Her role is very simple, but she just lived in that role. It is quite memorable movie, particularly  the scenes/dialogues with hero (Venkatesh) and heroin (Sridevi) are just amazing!

Splitting a day into two

 

I was thinking … how would I double my performance.  It is kind of mundane to work whole day. So I came up with this option of thinking/imaging/making  a day as two. It is like in the evening I come home little early. Take some rest, get fresh again – go back to work and work until 12 or so, come back and sleep. I am sure many do like this already … but how realistically you make it look like two days in your mind is the point. End result – all matters is – have you double your performance? Let me see.. how well I implement this!

Music has power!

 

Of late, I am listening to a lot of old and new music. Some music is giving me a lot of happiness and motivation, which made me realize that music has power. I also started appreciating musicians and their talents to produce such nice music. It feels good to know that humans have talents in various arts!

Robert Downey as Ironman

Oh man, everytime I watch the movie Ironman, I get facsicnated with scientific/fictional technology used by Robert Downy in the movie and of course with his wonderful action . I became a fan of Robert from this movie. I really liked cinematography by Matthew Libatique in this movie. I also liked the background score of this movie, and I can just listen to the background voice / music  without watching the movie and do work in parallel, which is what I am doing now! . I can’t wait to see Ironman 2 which is going to release in April, 2010? You too?