From the Padang area: Singapore

As seen by my iPhone during my morning walk along the Singapore River.

Good Job!

On the steps before the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, NYC. The little book on the iPad box is The Holy Quran, an English edition. There was a ripped keyboard, other parts of Apple machines, candles, flowers, and all kinds of apples, some of them eaten one bite.

Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

Hotel El Convento, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

We beat hurricane Maria to Puerto Rico, arriving Friday evening last week. Then Maria changed her mind, and on Sunday she touched the tiny island only with her fringes. So we walked on the smooth paved streets of Old San Juan and on the promenade at the feet of the medieval Spanish fort, by the sea. We ate in old restaurants. The museums were closed as a mark of respect to Maria. When the rains got serious we hired a taxi and went south to Ponce. 

By the Gateway of India

Mumbai: By the Gateway of IndiaI went for a stroll after dinner at my hotel. It was mealtime for the boatsmen too, and I joined the people who were pressing their groins on the railings and watching the moon and the sea and the swaying boats. It was April and it was cool and the sweat was merely from walking and it felt good to be dried by the constant breeze.

Public Works…

…in Saigon. They wore uniforms; had tools; took better precautions than folks do here at home.

imagine

for John Lennon at Central Park, NYC

…after all these years! Do the dead care?

An evening walk…

…in a vineyard that belongs to a church in a village near Hanau. A deer jumped in the distance. I wished to go there, but it was after nine, and it was getting dark, and some dogs were barking where the deer had jumped.

I should be safe now from the dog bite of a few weeks ago.

Colonne Vendôme

The Colonne Vendôme, Paris

Paris, a parade and post-parade

Paris, Gay Pride Parade and after from Shashikiran Mullur on Vimeo.

Hemingway in Paris

Hemingway's lodgings at rue du Lemoine, Paris, when he was twenty two, and three

Translated from the plaque on the building

January 1922 to August 1923 has lived in the third floor of this building withHadley, his wife, the American writer,

Ernest Hemingway
1899-1961

The neighborhood, quil loved above all, was the true birthplace of his work and spare style that characterizes it. This American in Paris maintained a familiar relations with its neighbors including the owner of the adjacent ball-musette.

... "This was the Paris of our youth, back when we were very poor and very happy."

Ernest Hemingway (Paris A Moveable Feast)

Using Google Translate

Putin at the Paris Air Show

Putin at the Paris Air ShowI was talking to a prospect in Hall 4 when his colleague came up and said "Putin is here." I ran to the Russian stalls across the aisle. My prospect ran there, too, and we lost each other. When we met again we didn't have to apologize to each other because everyone who had heard had rushed to see the Russian leader.

I had a moment for a better picture than this, but I spent it gazing at him, at his pale face, his pale eyes, his clean countenance, and his utter calm.

Rainy Paris Air Show

Paris Air Show from Shashikiran Mullur on Vimeo.

Paris Rooftops

Paris rooftops, from the St. Michele area

The city of Paris as the world knows it today was fashioned and made with the sanction of the emperor Napoleon III, and the genius and determination of Baron Haussmann. Now in the republic, who can say you may build high in Paris? You cannot build tall in this city, so you cannot challenge its Eiffel Tower from any direction.

Parisian Tuk-Tuks

Tuk-Tuks at the Jardin des Tuileries

The best they could do in Bangalore was to have them painted green. I like these better.