New York City Meetups

WAAAAAH!

I wish I could have been there because it looks like it was loads of fun!

Had a great time. Thanks for posting the pictures. Look forward to seeing all y'all next time.

Yes, a good time was had by all. My apologies to nycank and laughingbuddha towards the end though. I was feeling really ill and could barely keep it together.

Hey y'all!
It was great meeting all of you! I had a blast. Good food and great company. I wish I could have continued on for the evening festivities.
Thanks for the photos Merchant.

It indeed was nice meeting everyone, and a good time indeed. Merchant, the pictures are great. Thank you indeed.
(Holy $^!#, I look like a hindi movie villian with that paan in my mouth , but Merchant did capture the moment. (A reason why I am a failed photographer!))

Hopefully, I'll write a short report about the meetup if anyone is curious.

Wonderul pics! Looks like you folks had a great time!!

Thanks merchant for the pics

So where is the mandatory meetup report?

Hi all,

Janice and I are trying to put together a meetup for New York City for Jan/Feb of 2007. Anyone interested?

Last time we met as a restaurant called Sarvanas, and went for some Paan and beers after.

Reply to this thread if you are, and please suggest some dates.

P.S. Here's the excerpt from Janice's original thread:

thanks, nadreg,

as you can see, i still don't know my way around IM very well!

I'd definitely be interested. Since this is my first post, let me make a brief introduction. I'm preparing to make my first trip to India, probably the first week of March. I plan to stay for 3-4 months, and I have no firm dates for anything at this point. I don't have any travel partners planned, but I'm sure things will sort themselves out once I'm there.

I've been browsing IM for 3 weeks or so, but so far spent all my time just keeping up with the new content and skimming the old threads in some forums (that is, not asking a question that's already been answered five times). I'm looking in to enrolling in either HMI or NIM for a March or April course (realize I need to get moving on this). NIM's website has this gem:
I'm in my mid-20s and bored with my current situation. I studied in Switzerland for one year at university, and I've traveled a few times in Western Europe, twice in Mexico (D.F., Guadalajara, Michoacan and Jalisco by car), and once in China (only HK and Shenzhen). I've done a fair amount of backpacking in the American West but I think some trekking in the Himalayas would be unforgettable. If I don't manage to get in a course at HMI or NIM, I might still look for a place in HP or Uttarakhand for a couple months. A couple months traveling and a couple based somewhere in either of those states sounds quite nice. Will the monsoon be hitting there by June?

hi, beklemmung, and welcome to indiamike! thanks for dropping in to introduce yourself on this NYC thread. glad to read that you're finding answers and inspiration here, and that you'd like to join in an NYC meet-up. this site has been invaluable to my trip planning, and i often enjoy it as much for its intelligent dialogue as i do for the india content. where in NYC do you live? (i'm on the UWS, not sure about nadreg.) PM me if you like.

all best and, again, welcome aboard.

Neither does Nadreg.

Crossing the Border?

Since when did India and USA have a border?







But where do the meetup threads go? Yak Yak, I suppose...

Haha. Nicely picked up Nick. I actually laughing out loud behind this monitor of mine.

sounds good, but i will be going soon and i work at nigt as well, so time constraints will keep me from attending. but maybe next time. have fun

that's odd! i posted it first in the one meet-up thread, but with all the meet-ups posted sequentially, randomly, i suggested to nadreg that we (ahem, i mean you, monitors!) perhaps kick around another way to list them, by date or location or something. meantime, nadreg kindly started a new thread for us. but that's the odd part...it wasn't in "crossing the border". i think they were in "yak-yak" and "announcements", respectively. hmmmmm....maybe not. but it seems it's been mysteriously moved...mod fun? gremlins? poltergeists? whatever...as long as it gets exposure, we NYC folks are happy. (actually, the way things are going under this imperialist administration, we may well end up with a border with india!)