Celebrate the moment don’t click it

Celebrate the moment don’t click it - this is the word that’s being spread around the world for 17th July 2006.

Becca Bland has launched "non-photography day" - planned for 17 July - through a website together and other means of campaign in various cities in England.

From my personal feeling any person can be a good photographer; it’s just another art you need to perfect it. I have seen many people carrying camera and go on clicking without admiring the subject. I’m of the opinion that we need to admire and then after registering that in your memory you if you click then you would get a nicer picture. The moment you wait is worth it. This picture is taken in Singapore zoo by Prasanna.

Evening pictures of Singapore - by the bay

One wonderful weekend spent. Lazy saturday & sunday was spent. All done over the weekend was catching up a friend of mine whom I'm meeting after a long time. Spent time with his kid and learnt ways how you should hold a kids hand. They dictate u when u how to hold thier hand and the way they want :-)

Watched Cars movie very nice one. Lightning McQueen, a hotshot racer car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs.

Once in a while we need to make such detours in life and discovered what we have missed in life.

It's always not winning that matters in life.

Gift from a loving friend

Can't spot laughing while reading these line

Picture was taken in Singapore zoo

I will take bricks and write on that how much I miss you…
I will break it on your head to show how much it pains when I miss you …..

Singapore Zoo

This is one place I would recommend u all not to miss. One whole day is need with lot of careful planning for the visit, Just make sure that u don’t miss the shows which are there.

Wonders of the Wild is such a nice one where in this program aims at educating the people. Carlos- the sea lion there stole the show with her activities. People in the first 2 rows watchout - there will be a lot of water spilage.

The other shows that are worth watching are ELEPHANTS AT WORK AND PLAY & ANIMAL FRIENDS SHOW.

Plan u r route in such a way that u don’t miss. Every thing is worth visiting during the feeding time. If you are lucky u get to feed them as well.

Night Safari
A very nice one worth visiting if you not from India. You would get a glimpse of all the wild animals which wander around in Indian roads during day & night.

Nexgen

All pictures here are taken in the mobile camera. Just wanted to test this sort of publishing.

While walking in one of the streets by the river side I discovered a pub which was displaying some sort of funny captions and small jokes. There a note that says if u have any objecting to this message being displayed here you can raise and objection with the person in the cash desk. For registering your objection you need to pay S$5.65, Who will dare to do that?

Can this happen?

After an exhausted day in work, with some wrong updates, while you rush back to hotel and taxi the drives makes a wrong exit, what you would do? Just sit back and watch what he upto. The taxi driver cuts the meter and then hands over the bill to you saying just pay me this, I shall drop u back in hotel without any additional cost. Oh God in this world such people also exit. This happened to me in Singapore yesterday late evening, added to this the taxi driver apologies and says I don’t want to cheat. As a reward we gestimate how much more we need to pay and tip him for that. The sweet driver doesn’t want to accept the additional money given to him but after a lot of persuasion accept that. Long live such people. This is a picture of a building taken in Singapore.

Thermodynamic law of romance

love can neither be created nor destroyed, only be changd from 1 girl friend to another with considerable loss of time & money.

IMAGES OF SINGAPORE

Last weekend watched Da Vinci Code movie - A very fast moving one when compared to the novel. R dropped in on her way to US.

Went to Sentosa island not to miss are Under water world – this showcases all crabs, all varieties of fish, some interesting thing is the angel fish, I suppose this is one of the very smallest fish in the world and it looks like an angel only.
Then the dolphin show, most amazing one

Then the musical fountain with a laser show at 7.40 & 8.40 pm – too good one.
This is a view of the hotel I stay from the river front.
One of the numerous bridges which is there in Singapore.

Some grown up people were playing with the illuminated gliders there. Each of them cost S$600 and care should be taken so that its landing is taken care properly.

Singa Pura

Had been busy with work for a while after landing here in Singapore. First is first - Food no problem at all. Last weekend managed to visit Jurong BirdPark. Wonderful place to visit. Not to miss are the shows that happen. More detail later. Not to miss is the the world's highest man-made waterfall, standing at 30 metres.

Way to get started

It’s been a long time since I had done something in life like this – sit in a house that holds memories which makes u think, laugh or cry, sitting in the terrace thinking of unknown, gazing at the sky & counting the stars in them, looking at the possessive things which u own for u r self which bring many endless memories. Have I lost them all? I have been on the move for a long time and it’s been a while since I did all the above things mentioned. I just hold my coffee mug where ever I go. When I went to Pune last week to my uncles house I got coffee in this mug, I was looking for this mug for long. Can anyone tell me where to get hold of one like this.
Now my work takes me to Singapore on a short trip in the middle of not knowing where to get settled in life. I have accepted life as it offers. Ok the only consolation is now I’m out of European projects and getting into APJ projects. mera number kaab ayega?

Vigeland Park - OSLO

One of the main highlights of Oslo is the Vigeland sculpture park. I’m still to post my Norway travel log, will have to write about it soon. Here are my thoughts on this park, I found it very disturbing one. I don’t know how many people would like it. So the picture I had shot boils down to just one. This park contains 192 sculptures with various figures. Expression in all walks of life can be found here in the 600 figures which represent one life right from rite from the new born baby to death. Every expression is captured with the minutest details.
Gustav Vigeland single handedly managed to model the entire work just by himself.
He also designed the architecture of park so that these take u through the rite path.
There is one thing which attracted me the most is the The Monolith & The Wheel Of Life

The Monolith column is 46 feet high and is carved out of a single stone and it consists of 121 figures and was completed just before Vigeland died. The column is completely covered by humans. There are various interpretations of this one – for me its everyday life and how you over come the same.

Read more here about other pictures there

Nice once from Delhi School of Martial arts

Thanks to Nidhi for sending this

6230

No this is not the hot counter number or something like that. Just discovered that the laptop model I have and my mobile model number and one and same. I have Compaq nc6230 laptop and my mobile is 6230i. What a coincidence.
Any guess on the attached picture? This is a clock which I like a lot. This was gifted to me by my client when I went to UK for the implementation. The line indicates the reference point and then the hour, minute & second slices. Many people didn’t understand what it was at the first look. It took sometime for them to understand what this is. Here is another one which I liked, its called a binary clock. Read on more on Prabhu’s site

24 till I die

There can’t be two Venkat’s in the same city, Bangalore. Venkat came to B’lore so I moved back to Chennai.

Happy birthday to me. Thanks to all for the wonderful wishes. Got some really nice gifts from Indu & Reuben. Here is the gift from Indu, we both always end up only fighting, and this girl see what gift she gave, just to tell the world that she is the one who wins.


I’m also called as 24 as Venkat (vingt quatre) means 24 in French.
Girls are always like this. See the other t-shirt she got for me, now do I need to say something else.

One of the world’s costly coffee, anyone for it?

Civet coffee is one of the world's most expensive. In the Philippines, only 500 kg are produced a year and the roasted beans sell for more than $115 a kilogram. Find out the reason why its so here

A for Apple

How many instance we find this one fruit has greatest mention, Starting with Adam & Eve, Sir Isaac Newton’s Law of Gravitation was inspired by Apple and finally we say An apple a day keeps the doctor away. So what do I say now ….

that 20 minutes

I'm surprised to observe that a friend of mine calls me and talks to me exactly 20 minutes, to be more precise its always close to 19.23 or 21.23 minutes. Every time i wonder how is that possible to speak exactly the same duration of time.

On a different note only in Chennai there is something called a sada dosai & a special sada dosai (correct me if I’m wrong)

Super bulb

When was the time u felt really relived after giving u r bike for service or let’s be precise for water wash? Umpteen number of time this has happened to me. No matter which time of the year u give u r vehicle for service and bring it back home to watch it next & clean, Then the next day u get up and just to discover that u r joy just short lived one. I don’t know under which Murphy’s law to classify this.

Out of action

Due to the injury I had in Nov’05, I’m still unable to go for a normal walk. Doctor has advised me to undergo for some Physiotherapy for some 7 days. I hope this would get me back in action soon. During my recent visit to Chennai just ended up meeting only doctors more than the people, was supposed to go on a bike trip to some place with Kaatss aka TheMottaiBoss but could not make it due to the appointments with the doctor.