This is the lobby of one of the Microsoft buildings. I was waiting here for my first interview when I took this snap. I remember the strange look the receptionist gave me when I asked her if I could take a snap. I wonder how many students go for an interview with a camera ready to take photographs !

This is the outside of one of the buildings in which I interviewed. It's pretty cool here, there are these mini-buses and cars that come by almost every 5 minutes for transportation to the different corners of the huge Microsoft campus.

These are a few pictures inside a place called the Microsoft Musuem where they showcased computer technology spanning many decades. They had equipment like an ancient Pentiums running Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 Plus (My dad still uses one of those, and I always felt it should have been in a Musuem). There also were these game machines where you could answer some trivia. All in all, a really neat place to visit especially if you want to get reminded of the good 'ol days.

That's me, again at the Micrsoft Museum, in a section which only can be described as - cool zone. If you're wondering what the backdrop is, it's water through which air was being bubbled. There were these small MSN butterflies which appeared to "fly". I remember sending out mails to my family back then from one of these machines telling them that my interviews were fine as I knew they would be very anxious and I couldn't wait till I went back to the hotel.

Now this section of the musuem was simply brilliant. It had like a gazillion palm PCs and laptops and showcasing Microsoft's wireless products. Yes, those are palm PCs arrayed on that wall. I don't quite remember whether they formed a multi-screen display or not, but was mind blowing nonetheless.

On my sightseeing day after my interviews the first thing that I went to see was the Space Needle. It's a really tall structure and looks damn cool. Riding the elevator takes about 41 seconds. The really neat trick these guys played was on your way out you pass through the gift shop where you can get nice (overpriced) souveniers. I spent a lot of time getting a panorama shot of this structure consisting of seven parts. At that time I thought taking the snap was tough but later I realized that putting them together was hell. I tried it with the Nikon software but got the best results with the Gimp.

No, I'm not airborne, I'm on the top of the space needle. Here are a few pictures of Seattle's cityscape from atop the Space Needle. Once you're on top you can go out onto this balcony like thing where there are these telescopes to see the different sites and possibly on a clear day the mountains at a distance.

This is a shot of Queen Anne's High School taken again from top of the Space Needle. Used all of the 8.3X optical zoom on my camera to get this shot.

This is Paul Allen's Enterprise Music Project, kind of like a rock music museum. I was too bored to go in and see it but I guess I should go there sometime during my internship later this year.

This is the Pike Public Market Place. This place seemed like a clean Shivaji market. It had the same stench of fresh fish and the crowd and the hagglers. Felt like home away from home in a weird way.

After walking around the market place for a while I walked back to the park. I really wanted to wait and get some good snaps of the sunset but I wanted to get to the Aircraft Museum. If you look at the road in the snap it looks pretty normal but actually it's something like a 30 degree incline. If you really want to test your driving skills with a manual transmission car, then that's the place to show off!

I reached the Aircraft Museum, in a very eventful trip with an extremely rude cab driver, just in time for it's close down so this was the only snap that I could take. Shall definitely go there during my internship in the summer.