During President's day holiday (in USA 2/20/2012) I decided to do a juice fasting ( why am I doing? because I watched that video on netflix fat, sick and almost dead -:) ) .
My real reason is very simple I want to give a rest to my internal organs. I always feel how hard my digestive system must be working when I enjoy foods mostly greasy foods, needless to say !
So Friday I had a nice mutton biryani and from Saturday till Monday night I drank only juices.
By the way I bought that Brevellie Juicer and bought all my vegetables, fruits from local Farmer's market. First day I drank 3 liters of juice (I didn't measure well, so its a guess ). Second day a little less and 3rd day may be 2 liters. I squeezed orange juice also and counting that too. Though it has very little pulp I felt that is fine.
2nd day was tough. I started feeling headache by evening and I was so tempted to eat when my spouse was having dinner. But anyway I survived that and continued. 3rd day was normal again. During those 3 days I did all my stuff normally (probably I should have simple slept at home, rather went outside and did normal chores which could have been caused that second day headache) I lost 5 lb in 3 days (I weight 175lb at start) Coming to fruites and vegetables I used: apples, asian pear, celery, blue berries, oranges, kale, baby spinach, beetroot, ginger, pine apple, carrots. Though I used to mix lot, I made sure at least one juice is to my liking and remaining times it is simply picking which ever is handy. Toughest thing is preparation and cleaning the juicer. I juiced like 3 times day.
Finally I guess I achieved what I want and it may be a good idea to do it at least once a month.
Usually when I am in India we used to fast due to some religious occasion, but pretty much lost that habit.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
2011 western caribbean cruise by norwegian pearl
We took a western Caribbean cruise during last week of December 2011.
I decided to blog this for first timers.
Ship: Norwegian Pearl, Balcony room.
Duration: Dec 25th 2011, 7 nights cruise
Locations/ports: Western Caribbean starting at Miami port, Great Stirrup bay, Ocho Rios, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Cozumel Mexico returning to Miami port. We flew from San Jose, CA to Miami, FL.
If you never taken a cruise, and you have financial strength to take one, I strongly suggest to take one. Its lot of fun doesn't matter whether you are single, couple, or with kids. (especially with kids). But if you get a chance go with friends and family it is going to be a blast.
Cruise line & service: This is my 2nd cruise (first one is with 3 day Carnival cruise to Mexico from LA) I felt Norwegian is good in following aspects:
Quality food (never felt they cheap at any point) this is very important as we tend to eat a lot, so better have good quality food. Service is very professional whether it is room service or front desk, at restaurants. And great entertainment with in ship too. Literally tons of activities with in ship both for adults as well as children. This trip we didn't take our kids, but we bumped to few parents and they said they have great programs.
Negatives are: Room I felt small. They could have put a nice TV, I felt it is like a 14 inch computer monitor. They could have put one big single bed rather than adjoining 2 single beds. So it created a gap and caused a discomfort while sleeping.
Stop overs: Great Stirr bay is Norwegian's private island.
Day#1 (12/25/2011) boarding at Miami, FL. We flew to Miami
We stayed in a Regency Hotel Miami 1000 NW Le Jeune Rd Miami, FL, US 33126. I felt this is not good hotel for people taking cruise. May be for business. I felt for the price I paid I got a crappy room (with lot of noise, and horrible shower and AC unit). But anyway only one night. Nice thing is hotel got a shuttle to drop you at cruise port. We checked in early (I felt early but I saw tons of people when I boarded) and lines were OK. we waited around 45 mins in line. We didn't use the luggage check-in so we have to carry luggage with us along the line. If given a chance do check-in the luggage first.
First day went good. Went around ship.
Day#2 Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas (private island of Norwegian) be early to get down the ship so you get to enjoy lot of stuff. By the time we get down it is almost 11 and you need to be back by 4 pm. They have live music, lot of activities on island. If you just want to chill out on beach, it won't cost you any thing. But if you want to do any snorkeling or para sailing or any activities you have to pay. Important thing is you need to pay day before and get those tickets. Buying on spot is allowed on this island but you may be out of luck. I see few vacationers are asking about para sailing and were turned down as it was all booked.
Food was great. Especially Jamaican jerk chicken.
Day#3 Day at sea : There are several activities on board. We participated on some quizzes and spent some time at pool. We enjoyed shows during evening and late night shows too. Same night I did wall climbing first time. Which I thought is easy, damn its not! Finally finished it. Felt good. At same time there is another blind lady also did. All spectators are helping her to find where the grip is and she did successfully showing that you need will to achieve anything in this world.
Day #4 Ocho Rios Jamaica. We booked white river tubing. We were told to get down by 8 am on that day and a bus took us to that spot. Ride was good and guide also entertaining. Me and my wife both don't know swimming but tubing was fun and easy. While we heading to the spot where it starts we kind of fearing what if tube flips and along with us we saw a grand mother may be in her 70+ then we both laughed at our fears. You better of using storage or keep your valuables in bus itself including glasses, sandals etc. Because at one spot almost 70% of tubes will flit and very likely you going to lose any loose hanging things especially glasses and caps. When we arrive at flipping spot the guides will ask if anyone doesn't know swimming and without hesitation we said yes and he came along with us. Luckily I flipped and some how I managed to hang on to my wife tube and swim few feet (I learned swimming but never got opportunity to practice it enough to master it)
I lost of my flip-flops luckily it got recovered. The whole thing took around 2 hours and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Water was pleasant and most of the ride was smooth and little fun. On the way the tour people are taking lot of pictures and will give you in CD. We bought all pictures for $40 ( a bit expensive we felt) After that bus will drop everyone back at port. We decided to drop off at shopping mall (Taj shopping mall). We bought few cloths. Quality isn't that great as the shorts I bought by next day zipper stopped working and I have to throw away shorts. I felt cost is also high. You can bargain though. Only goo thing is I felt cloth used to make those tees and shorts was really good and soft.
Day #5 George Town, Cayman Islands: We took bus amphibian bus tour and it was good. At the end we dropped off at beach and afterwards spent some in shopping around. Heat was bit high so better have cap, glasses and sunscreen lotion.
Day #6 Cozumel , Mexico. we took a tour of Mayan ruins. Tour was OK. A bit informative. As part of tour they provided food at some local beach location. First time I tasted authentic Mexican tacos beans and rice. I can immediately sense the difference in food and it was way way better than typical food we eat in US. I always feel that we living in US were a bit unfortunate as we made guinea pigs in the hands of corporations, feeding us useless high calorie food in the name of "fast food". Even if I shop at wholefoods, I always doubt how organic they can be because business has already killed lot of natural variety in corn and other foods. Anyway that is another big discussion.
We spent 2 hours at beach before heading to port by tour bus. We dropped off near port. But took a cab to shopping center as we have 2 more hours to kill before boarding. Shopping was good. My wife had beads (don't know what it is called, but they make plaits or braid with beads) first time in life. She enjoyed it. But looks like lady has did it very tightly and by morning she got headache and took them all out.
Day #7 at sea just relaxed.
Day #8 we got off during early hours (if you are willing to carry your own luggage you can pick early time and get down) as we have flight around 11 am. We got off by 8 and by 8:40 am we are at airport and have around 2 hours to kill.
Over all it was really good, with friends and family it would be lot more fun. Specific to Norwegian, I felt they served really QUALITY food and entertainment was great. I wish to do it again may be Royal Caribbean this time just to experience different cruise. Otherwise Norwegian is good.
I decided to blog this for first timers.
Ship: Norwegian Pearl, Balcony room.
Duration: Dec 25th 2011, 7 nights cruise
Locations/ports: Western Caribbean starting at Miami port, Great Stirrup bay, Ocho Rios, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Cozumel Mexico returning to Miami port. We flew from San Jose, CA to Miami, FL.
If you never taken a cruise, and you have financial strength to take one, I strongly suggest to take one. Its lot of fun doesn't matter whether you are single, couple, or with kids. (especially with kids). But if you get a chance go with friends and family it is going to be a blast.
Cruise line & service: This is my 2nd cruise (first one is with 3 day Carnival cruise to Mexico from LA) I felt Norwegian is good in following aspects:
Quality food (never felt they cheap at any point) this is very important as we tend to eat a lot, so better have good quality food. Service is very professional whether it is room service or front desk, at restaurants. And great entertainment with in ship too. Literally tons of activities with in ship both for adults as well as children. This trip we didn't take our kids, but we bumped to few parents and they said they have great programs.
Negatives are: Room I felt small. They could have put a nice TV, I felt it is like a 14 inch computer monitor. They could have put one big single bed rather than adjoining 2 single beds. So it created a gap and caused a discomfort while sleeping.
Stop overs: Great Stirr bay is Norwegian's private island.
Day#1 (12/25/2011) boarding at Miami, FL. We flew to Miami
We stayed in a Regency Hotel Miami 1000 NW Le Jeune Rd Miami, FL, US 33126. I felt this is not good hotel for people taking cruise. May be for business. I felt for the price I paid I got a crappy room (with lot of noise, and horrible shower and AC unit). But anyway only one night. Nice thing is hotel got a shuttle to drop you at cruise port. We checked in early (I felt early but I saw tons of people when I boarded) and lines were OK. we waited around 45 mins in line. We didn't use the luggage check-in so we have to carry luggage with us along the line. If given a chance do check-in the luggage first.
First day went good. Went around ship.
Day#2 Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas (private island of Norwegian) be early to get down the ship so you get to enjoy lot of stuff. By the time we get down it is almost 11 and you need to be back by 4 pm. They have live music, lot of activities on island. If you just want to chill out on beach, it won't cost you any thing. But if you want to do any snorkeling or para sailing or any activities you have to pay. Important thing is you need to pay day before and get those tickets. Buying on spot is allowed on this island but you may be out of luck. I see few vacationers are asking about para sailing and were turned down as it was all booked.
Food was great. Especially Jamaican jerk chicken.
Day#3 Day at sea : There are several activities on board. We participated on some quizzes and spent some time at pool. We enjoyed shows during evening and late night shows too. Same night I did wall climbing first time. Which I thought is easy, damn its not! Finally finished it. Felt good. At same time there is another blind lady also did. All spectators are helping her to find where the grip is and she did successfully showing that you need will to achieve anything in this world.
Day #4 Ocho Rios Jamaica. We booked white river tubing. We were told to get down by 8 am on that day and a bus took us to that spot. Ride was good and guide also entertaining. Me and my wife both don't know swimming but tubing was fun and easy. While we heading to the spot where it starts we kind of fearing what if tube flips and along with us we saw a grand mother may be in her 70+ then we both laughed at our fears. You better of using storage or keep your valuables in bus itself including glasses, sandals etc. Because at one spot almost 70% of tubes will flit and very likely you going to lose any loose hanging things especially glasses and caps. When we arrive at flipping spot the guides will ask if anyone doesn't know swimming and without hesitation we said yes and he came along with us. Luckily I flipped and some how I managed to hang on to my wife tube and swim few feet (I learned swimming but never got opportunity to practice it enough to master it)
I lost of my flip-flops luckily it got recovered. The whole thing took around 2 hours and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Water was pleasant and most of the ride was smooth and little fun. On the way the tour people are taking lot of pictures and will give you in CD. We bought all pictures for $40 ( a bit expensive we felt) After that bus will drop everyone back at port. We decided to drop off at shopping mall (Taj shopping mall). We bought few cloths. Quality isn't that great as the shorts I bought by next day zipper stopped working and I have to throw away shorts. I felt cost is also high. You can bargain though. Only goo thing is I felt cloth used to make those tees and shorts was really good and soft.
Day #5 George Town, Cayman Islands: We took bus amphibian bus tour and it was good. At the end we dropped off at beach and afterwards spent some in shopping around. Heat was bit high so better have cap, glasses and sunscreen lotion.
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| at cayman Island beach |
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| cayman island beach |
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| Cayman Island shopping |
Day #6 Cozumel , Mexico. we took a tour of Mayan ruins. Tour was OK. A bit informative. As part of tour they provided food at some local beach location. First time I tasted authentic Mexican tacos beans and rice. I can immediately sense the difference in food and it was way way better than typical food we eat in US. I always feel that we living in US were a bit unfortunate as we made guinea pigs in the hands of corporations, feeding us useless high calorie food in the name of "fast food". Even if I shop at wholefoods, I always doubt how organic they can be because business has already killed lot of natural variety in corn and other foods. Anyway that is another big discussion.
We spent 2 hours at beach before heading to port by tour bus. We dropped off near port. But took a cab to shopping center as we have 2 more hours to kill before boarding. Shopping was good. My wife had beads (don't know what it is called, but they make plaits or braid with beads) first time in life. She enjoyed it. But looks like lady has did it very tightly and by morning she got headache and took them all out.
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| Cozumel beach - enjoying a hammock |
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| Cozumel beach - a funny tee shirt |
Day #7 at sea just relaxed.
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| Sun raise on 1st Jan 2012 |
Day #8 we got off during early hours (if you are willing to carry your own luggage you can pick early time and get down) as we have flight around 11 am. We got off by 8 and by 8:40 am we are at airport and have around 2 hours to kill.
Over all it was really good, with friends and family it would be lot more fun. Specific to Norwegian, I felt they served really QUALITY food and entertainment was great. I wish to do it again may be Royal Caribbean this time just to experience different cruise. Otherwise Norwegian is good.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
how to install ruby & rvm on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
How to install Ruby & RVM on a fresh Ubuntu 10.04
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-- Get a new VM Ubuntu 10.04, make sure no ruby is installed.
sudo apt-get update
which ruby -- should yield no results.
sudo apt-get -qyy install curl git-core ruby
-- use sudo if you install it as root (so available to all users by default, I didn't test it myself)
##sudo bash < <(curl -s stable https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer)
bash < <(curl -s stable https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer)
-- You need to replace the line that says
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return
-- with
if [[ -n "$PS1" ]]; then
-- Now add this to the last line of the file
if [[ -s $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm ]] ; then source $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm ; fi
fi
-- then run bashrc file
. .bashrc
rvm notes
sudo apt-get -qyy install build-essential bison openssl libreadline5 libreadline-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev vim libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libreadline-dev libxml2-dev git-core subversion autoconf
rvm list known
rvm install 1.9.2-p180
rvm --default 1.9.2-p180
ruby -v
Now install mongo gem
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-- make sure you install rvm, ruby
gem update system
gem install mongo
gem install bson_ext
What is mac equivalent of windows alt+tab, to go through ALL opened windows
'Alt + tab' in windows = 'cmd + ~' in mac.
Let say you have 3 Firefox browser windows opened. You need to still use 'Alt + tab' to arrive at one of the Firefox browser window and then start pressing 'cmd + ~ '.
I recently started using Mac and one of the feature I really wished that existed in mac was ability to bring up any opened window I want. I searched over internet, but not found anywhere. But accidentally found this. I always wonder why not Apple publish a simple cheat sheet with such short cuts?
Let say you have 3 Firefox browser windows opened. You need to still use 'Alt + tab' to arrive at one of the Firefox browser window and then start pressing 'cmd + ~ '.
I recently started using Mac and one of the feature I really wished that existed in mac was ability to bring up any opened window I want. I searched over internet, but not found anywhere. But accidentally found this. I always wonder why not Apple publish a simple cheat sheet with such short cuts?
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