October 10th, 2008
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And try to take a bite out of the Big Apple…

Lady Lib

Rockefeller Center

Grand Central

From Central Park

Sarcophagus in the Met

Giant Balloon Animals

Police Line around Wall Street (during the stockmarket crash!)

New York Stock Exchange

Times Square

Durians in New York

Ground Zero

Irony
For some reason an article titled “Charities struggle to spend cash for tsunami”, with a few chunks cut out of it became an art piece in the Museum of Modern Art. I appreciated a certian irony, given that my trip to North America was partially funded by my Rest and Relaxation (R&R) allowance from the charity I work for, using money donated for the tsunami.

Inscription from the foyer of the American Museum of Natural History
A suitable epilogue to my North American Expedition.
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October 7th, 2008
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Visit a friend in Boston, and touch on an childhood dream…

Me at MIT
(I don’t think that I’ll ever do that PhD in Robotics anymore)
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