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The theme of Chai Photos needs to have inputs from Archana, who takes brilliant chai fotos and with a consistency that amazes me to the core !!!
Enjoy !!!
And do visit her stream on flickr for more pictures from her…
Monthly archives for August, 2008
Chai..चाय (by चायबाज़ Apurva)
Nothing like sweet cloying milk tea or Chai after a rainy day in the open.
{Strange Brew at a dingy chai shop at the roadhead in Mana Village above the shrine of Badrinath, Uttarakhand.}
What is a Chai Ki Dukaan which does not have chai ki chuskies from all over ! So this is a start of a series of pictures that will have chai ki photu that I come across
Special thanks to Apurva for allowing me to blog this ! and the thought of having a series like this comes from a fellow blogger and a brilliant photographer Archana
"For you, a thousand times over…"
It was only a smile nothing more. It did not make everything alright. It did not make anything alright. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird’s flight. But I’ll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting….
For who have read it, they would remember these lines from The Kite Runner, and for those who have not read it (I doubt if that is going to be a large number anyway) I would recommend reading this brilliantly written tale of human relationships and emotions.
I am not a good book reader, and I started this book really long time back but just could not finish it for some reason or the other… and today when I read the last 50 pages, I felt relieved to say the least…
Will go back to the Essential Calvin and Hobbes now, which I might have read atleast 15 times over if not a thousand times over !
oh and enjoy a picture preview of my trip to Utah the last weekend, below…
I am a lucky winner !!!!
I never won an online lottery which was less than $5000 or lets say less than $10000…
Almost every email that I have got so far ever has more than 6 digits worth of money !!!
$ 534344
$ 654223
$ 500000
and so on and so forth…
How much have you won in online lotteries by the way?
phlipp side…
The problem with being funny is that not many can take you seriously anymore !!!
Buuuurrrrrraaaaaaah
I think Marijuana word comes from the popular Punjabi phrase : मर जावां ….
There is a lot similar about them if you think about it !
goes away singing… MariJuana MitJuana Marijuana !!! 
Comes back with a new Sher he just wrote
दुखी होते तो नहीं , मगर फिर भी हो जाते हैं
काश के वो शाम, रात मे डूबती नहीं !
Anti-Gravity Handle
A friend of mine asked me a few days back, if I had ever felt weightless ! I said yes !
Though that does not happen more often these days, however everytime I listen to the music with the handle you see below, it just lifts me up and the mood alongwith !
And something that I am listening to these days :
Well I started out down a dirty road
Started out all alone
And the sun went down as I crossed the hill
The town lit up the world got still
Im learning to fly but I aint got wings
Comin down is the hardest thing
Well the good old days may not return
And the rocks might melt, and the sea may burn
Im learning to fly but I aint got wings
Comin down is the hardest thing
Well some say life will beat you down
Break your heart, steal your crown
So I started out for God kno ws where
But I guess Ill know when I get there
Im learning to fly around the clouds
But what goes up must come down
Im learning to fly but I aint got wings
Comin down is the hardest thing
Im learning to fly around the clouds
But what goes up must come down
Im learning to fly
Im learning to fly
A beautifully written, sung and videographed song by Tom Petty… Check it out here.
A friend in Need is a Friend Indeed…
प्रशांत, आपने कभी कोई Business Plan बनाया है?
नहीं यार !
कपड़े धोये हैं कभी?
हाँ!
अच्छा तो आकर Help करो !!!
Say Cheese…
When was the last time you asked
- A Writer about the pen (s)he uses? Oh, so you use a Mont Blanc? No wonder you write so well !
- A Painter about the canvas and the brush (s)he uses? Oh, so you use the brushes made of rosewood? No wonder your paintings are great !
- A Blogger about the keyboard (s)he uses? Oh, A Logitech ergonomically designed split keyboard? wow !!!
- A Chef about the kitchenware (s)he uses? Oh, reinforced plastic with titanium knifes, no wonder your dishes are great !
If you don’t remember that, then do you remember when was the last time you asked a photographer about the camera he uses?
Oh, a Nikon d200 or a Canon 40D? Wow !!! Is it a dSLR? Yes! WOW !!! no wonder the pictures are fantastic !!!
I think a lot of us would remember that!!!
While I am not in disagreement with the fact a good camera has the capability to make a picture look better, OK much better a lot of times, I personally think this is not the question that should be thrown at a photographer to start with !!!
Photography is as simple and complicated an art as the rest of the them, and only because it involves holding a camera, pointing at something, pressing a shutter which everyone can do, does not really take away the effort that a photographer puts in !!!
I think the above lines look a li’il more harsh than I would like them to be, but I am not really sure how to put them in a softer way across !!! apologies if you are reading it and found it offensive !
