Raj and Alec cooking.
Alec and I cooking.
Pictures from our office that look like Half Life 2.
A massive storage of sugar for the office.
Adaptavant at a team lunch.
Me and Madhavan at a pretty bad restaurant across the street from the office.
Alec at the same restaurant staring at his fries.
Madhavan and Senthil working hard.
Punjabi Dhaba, a very good north Indian restaurant.
Alec in a sea of people.
The sugarcane juice guy.
Citi Center, a nice mall.
People at Citi Center.
A family on a motorcycle with an adoreable little girl.
Alec, Madhavan, and Mahalakshmi at the beach.
Me, Alec, and Mahalakshmi at the beach.
Charcorn guy.
Me eating charcorn.
Hoops in Chennai!
A cow.
An old cement building.
Bro. Jerome and his family.
A kid in front of a hut.
Random strangers who really wanted their picture taken.
A church.
The Rain Tree hotel.
Outside Sivaji
Alec and Raj outside Sivaji.
Billboards for Sivaji.
Alec, Madhavan, Mahalkshmi, Siva, and Dhivia outside the theater.
Siva and Kalpana in the theater with whistles.
An autorickshaw, our primary mode of transportation.
A replica of a temple here, sideways.
Random strangers that wanted their pictre taken.
Streets of Chennai.
Just a storefront.
Police Officer directing traffic.
Lions gear.
The buffet we ate at my last Wednesday.
Alec at the restaurant.
Madhavan, Prabhu, and Raj at the buffet.
The whole crew except Hema, Siva, and Jawed.
A cute girl hanging on for dear life!
The best coffee I can get. ...actually that's not true, it's just the cheapest (20 Rs or about 50 cents).
Chinese food with ketchup.
It has rained a little bit and there are large puddles everywhere.
Hema, Madhavan, and Simon.
Sambar, rice, sidedish, graby, and paneer (above).
The coffee guy, who told me never to forget him. And I won't! He's very classic.
Madhavan, Sastry, me, Alec, and Velu at dinner.
My dinner, Paratha and a chicken gravy.
What they give you at the end of every meal.
The group outside the restaurant.
Milk in a bag! ...never thought I'd live to see the day.
Another auto rickshaw, this time empty.
Raj cooking breakfast.
Alec and Raj, holding a banana leaf, which we later ate off of.
Raj's backyard.
Raj's bike.
Raj's living room.
The feast Raj prepared for us.
A butterfly, which Bala may have severely wounded.
Raj and Bala.
Alec and me.
Me and Alec eating questionable mango.
Me pretending to like the mango, wishing I had some water.
Raja and Bala, laughing about me not liking the mango.
Ladies get their own parking here. You know, like the handicapped...
Raj eating a Cherry Caramel Surprise.
Me eating a Banana Choco Caramel Surprise.
Alec in front of a tree at the Rain Tree.
A display on top of the Rain Tree Hotel.
The sign for the Rain Tree.
The security guard at the building, who really wanted his picture taken.
Me and Manu at the Park Hotel.
Manu just about to leave for his lodging (or "mansion" as it's called here).
Just a street.
There is rubble everywhere here.
A bike.
A car.
Alec and Raj waiting.
A popular mode of moving things.
Raj looking confused.
Sambar, rice, and sidedishes.
A restaurant we went to.
An overturned cart.
Lookout!
A nice scene of a woman and child at the lake.
Alec, Raj, the driver, and a stranger who kept talking to us but I couldn't tell why.
They're throwing ice on the fish. Alec brought up the question of where the ice comes from.
A village boy who wanted his picture taken.
People putting the ice on the fish.
People getting the fish out of the boat.
The village boy closer up.
Water buffalo.
A boat leaving.
The same boat. The kids on the end waving were very excited. One of them blew me kisses emphatically. Cute kids.
The security guard, this time dressed down. He's from Mudrai, Raj's hometown. It sounds like a nice place.
Banana tree.
Raj getting curry leaves.
Our meal.
Alec trying on Indian clothes.
Alec eating what he thought was mint but it turned out to be blue caramel.
Mahalkshmi with a Mixed Fruit Surprise.
The sign from the lake.
Alec taking pictures at the lake.
A map at the lake.
These bricks were stacked up at the lake in big piles, I thought they looked cool.
Water buffalo I think.
Footprints int he sand/mud stuff.
My messy room.
More of my messy room.
My relatively clean bathroom.
The office building I work at.
The view from the office.
Raj and Madhavan.
Temples at Mahabalepuram.
Me petting a pig
Alec, me and Raj at Mahabalepuram.
Madhavan, sideways.
Me in the Bay of Bengal next to a guy bending over. He looked very awkward. So did I; I didn't want to get that wet.
A statue of a very old poet.
Me in a temple.
Me with an elephant.
Very old temples.
A stand selling something.
Me in front of a rock that is not having any supports.
A gold globe that is supported by hundreds of pot smoking hippies.
Me in front of a weird tree.
At the beach at Pondicherry.
Me, Madhavan, and Alec on the boardwalk.
Me, Madhavan, and Raj in Pondicherry.
A statue of Ghandi.
Pondicherry festival.
A cow-powered vehicle.
Me, Alec, Madhavan, Sastry, and Velu at a Thai restaurant.
The pool at the flat, which I never went in.
The weight room at the flat (which I did go in- seriously!)
Alec, doing exactly what he'd be doing if he were in Portland.
The Ocho! ...actually it's regular ESPN but in India.
A very American coffee shop. But you can't get a White Chocolate Mocha there....
Shots from the office.
Senthil.
A five story drop.
A decent fast food restaurant.
Meeting at Adaptavant. Katie, Mike, Neil, Hema, and Madhavan.
Me holding a water for some reason.
A guy just holding onto the bus. It's common to see it overflowing.
Ponagle Park, next to the office.
Spencer's Plaza, a shopping mall.
Nike Store.
Saravana Stores- packed!
Me in a temple again.
Me very sweaty from the day's heat. That's disgusting.
Me eating with my fingers.
A shot from Spencer's Plaza.