Live from Detroit - (with some transmission delay :P) - Motown Winter Blast - 01/23/2005

Again new weekend and again snaps and news from Detroit.... just remembered the song "New day has come".. it should have been.. "Another weekend hasssssss come... "..

All snaps which I have send till now, from this cold place, were in covered and heated places :) Well till now I was not having guts to go out and stand this cold.. Last weekend it was something different. Last weekend we planned to go to Motown Winter Blast (yeh yeh.. it doesn't mean that you will blast winter... I assume it meant winter will blast u :P)... In Detroit. next year they are going to have Super Bowl game (now don't ask me what is that.. I am still confused whether its rugby or baseball or kabaddi :P)... So they are promoting Detroit.. For this the city authorities have planned this event.. Now since city authorities have planned it, so they organized it on their property.. yeh you are right.. on the Roads of Detroit... In open.. its okay till the time its not windy... But to add to this cold, in this part of US we had Storm (snow of course).. which dumped 14 inches of snow in Detroit and more than 3 feet's (36 inches) in some places east.. so if Ramsay brother's decide to make hooror movie they will name it "do gaz baraf ke neeche"....

Saturday we all were at home.. spent whole day as roads were full of snow and the cars were skidding :-) And temperature was somewhere around -15 or -20 degree Celsius....
Sunday came.. sunny day.. but when u go out of home.. its toooo windy and chillyyyyyyy... But still we went out to get blasted by snow.. :D...

Amazing ice sculptures greeted us when we reached there (now reaching there is also a story but not as much interesting so am skipping it :)).... From the start there were beautiful figures crafted from snow... moving ahead some distance there was a loooooooongggggggg queue.. queue was for dog sledge and snow slide.. then we went inside "comfort zone".. actually since it was very cold outside companies (like GM, ford etc..) put up tents which were heated.. so that pple can warm themselves... after warming came out and went to see skating rink,... there even small children were skating perfectly...

saw some more sculpture and also went to a maze (which was such that even if u get lost u can come out :D)... then there was performance in skating rink.. it was tooooooooo good.. some three performance.. it was very good.. how we see in TV.....

by this time my body parts which were not covered.. like nose, cheeks :) all were frozen.. I think I saw some snow on my nose tip :P..... after being there out in cold for almost 5 hours (my longest stay in cold.. ) we came back.. and I was alllllll numb.. my fingers.. my toes.. came to conclusion that my leather shoes are not in position to stand to snow.. :D and that now I am becoming somewhat immune to cold weather.. dunno when I go back to India, I might not feel cold out there at all :D

so that's all from Detroit News channel. keep looking into your mailbox and I will be bringing you more live news from various events right here from Detroit..

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnchhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii (oops got cold it seems :) )...

International Auto Show, Detroit - 01/16/2005

Yesterday the first auto show of year 2005, the North American International Auto Show was inaugurated in Detroit. All automakers release their new cars and also showcase the cars which will be released afterwards ( a prototype of sort). Also there are "concept" cars on display also. "Concept" cars are basically cars of the "future" :-)

So today we (10 people from Kmart team) went to see that. believe me, I am here since 2 months but this was the first time had gone to Detroit (have been to other corner of US, but not to this corner of city :P).

Temperature was 15 F (u can convert it in Celsius with that formula :P) and it was windy.
Exhibition is at the COBO (yes just short of COBOL ;) ) Convention Hall. While traveling through highway we saw the message that parking in the Convention Centre is full. As we reached near the venue we got parking in the Renaissance Center (which is GM's Global headquaters). From there we took a tram (overhead tram) which connected all the offices and reached the exhibition venue.
It was full of cars and people :-). There we saw lots of cars, new cars which are being released, which will be released and on which companies are working. Saw some costliest cars, one was Merc costing around half a million USD, 465,000 USD to be precise.

Also there was "hummer", this one is also a vey costly military type vehicle. I probably will be buying this one, if I stay here for some 4-5 years or more.... (hmm yeh i know a nice dream :))
it is a big exhibition and you need lots of time and offcouse energy to see aorund all the places. We might have missed many cars (hope that none of good cars or to be seen cars were missed).
One more this which was quite impressive which was in GM area was the water work. Water was faaling from top and it was making design which said Jeep, and GM logos and other thing. That one was too good. But the processing gone to make that thing happen will be too much, the amount of water and all that.. mind boggling.......

yeh one more thing.... here in Detroit they have a International Speedway where they have races and all. So I am plaaning to go in for races when they start. Will report on that sports event as and when it happens.

Some learning... 01/08/2005

today a big tragedy happenend :(... after dinner i was sitting browsing, had put all utensils in dishwasher... washing powder got over so i used the liquid detergent....

after browsing quietly for 10-20 min.. suddenly i hear shout from my roomie, i thought he is playing jokes.. but he called me... and when i went out to kitchen to my initial shock whole floor was having foam... actually that liquid detergent had made lot of foam and it spilled out of dishwasher and not it was all over kitchen floor....

after a min, me and both my roomies burst into laughter.... it was so funny... at 12 PM in night we were cleaning the kitchen (with no outlet for water.. we had to clean with tissues... ) after removing foam from dishwasher i again started to remove all water and all.. but again it oozed out foam.. haha that was sooo funny... all utensils which we had taken out, one of my roomie was wahing in bathroom under the shower :P and me and other roomie were cleaning the floor....

learned a lesson:
SO USE LIQUID SOAP IN DISHWASHER (as it cleans acche se :)) but DO NOT TAKE LOT OF IT FOR CLEANING :-)

now our utensils and also the kitchen floor are chakachak :-)

its 12:14 AM and the dishwasher is still under observation as we have to dry out the foam and soap water :)