To Sir, With Love

Every Friday night we try to watch a good movie with Swetha and Shreya. Now that we have Roku2, Swetha was searching for another movie in Netflix and stumbled upon "To Sir, With Love". Though I have seen this movie before, we watched it last Friday night. This is definitely one of those outstanding, inspiring, classic, feel good movies you can watch any number of times.

The story is about an engineer (looking for a job),  temporarily working as a teacher in a school. I don't want to give away the whole story. I would rather you watch the movie and enjoy it :)) I guarantee you, this movie will remind you of your school/college days, your friends that you said bye and some highly emotional times in your student  life!.

Sidney Poitier is "Dashingly Smart and Brilliant" in this movie ;)

Baby Blues

Thank God, Swetha and Shreya are not like this :))

கறுப்பு கம்பளியில் வைரங்கள்

The silver lining of the September 8th, San Diego blackout is that we all got unplugged :)). That led to all of us spending time together in the backyard, lying on the hammock and on blankets, gazing at the millions of stars lighting up the night sky. I pulled out the telescope and we ended up watching:

1) Craters of moon
2) Vashister and Arundathi (in Sabtharishi, aka Ursa Major)

                                          3) Double Cluster in Perseus

                                          4) Ring Nebula

                                          5) Andromeda Galaxy

The above fotos are from the web. These fotos are almost like what you can see with my telescope. Right now, I can't take fotos like this but soon, I am hoping to!!!

The star trails foto below is what I took during the blackout. It is my first attempt and I have a lot to experiment and learn. Be warned, you will get a good dose of these fotos :)

தேள் தேள் தேள் !!!

Have been trying to capture the constellation Scorpio for a long time and finally did it today :))

Scorpio (from Google, for reference):

Sagittarius (from Google, for reference)

 
Here is the real Scorpio lying over the neighborhood houses with Sagittarius
(aka the teapot) to its left.
 

Ursa Major (from Google, for reference):

The real Ursa Major (aka Big Bear aka சப்தரிஷி ) rising over our house: