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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Out Of the Office Window

In earlier times photography was not what it is today. I may sound like a centenarian but the fact of the matter is that the world has changed a lot in the past 2decades. When we were in the college photography was a celebration like life's many other trivial things in today's perspective. Today the world is moving towards a single gadget .. a gadget that is everything to him and does everything for him. A notebook, a digital diary, a calender, a camera a navigator, a radio, a music player and also a phone to name only a few. Its only after 2004 that I have started to click pictures on the go..... not to mention the effect it had on the quality!
A have posted a few pictures which records the view out of my office window over the past few years. Some of these are directly out of my seat and some are from colleagues'.

Dubai

Kuwait

My present office is in the Project site in Doha and unfortunately does not have any external window!! But when I go up to inspect, I can see the whole of Doha ... well a lot of it actually.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Language

"English is very Funny (pronounced Phunny) Language" is a famous dialogue by one of the biggest superstars of Hindi movies in one of his super-hit film.
This most definitely is a language that binds the whole world together with a medium that all want to understand and accept. Well the world that I am aware of! But with the progress of technology more and more of us have started to use English alphabets to write our own vernacular languages. The outcome of this mixing is a product which most of the times are very funny to the third person.
And when you encounter something like this in a supermarket notice board, you are left wondering if this was a spelling mistake or another language using English characters!

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Never fight with an idiot

As I was driving to work this morning I remembered a similar morning in Kuwait many years back. It was rush hours and a single lane connecting up to the 5^th Ring road was conveniently converted into 2 lanes and with no consideration to the term “right of way”. I was driving a saloon car and a rugged 4 wheel drive was pushing me from my right and forced me to stop as the metals clinked.

I lowered down the window and before I could open my mouth the other guy said … “I agree I am an idiot! But what is wrong with you? You should have stopped.” I was dumbfounded. The only answer that I could have given was "Hey, I am a idiot too." But was forced to leave the scene as hundreds of cars behind us was getting restless and had started to honk in a way which could easily give the vuvuzela South Africans a good run for the money!

Later on I asked myself … was I competing with that idiot in idiocracy?

Unfortunately the answer was YES!

Lessons learnt: Never fight with an idiot even if you are right. It’s a No Win situation or should I say a LOSE - LOSE situation. You are either defeated by an idiot and if you win you end up being a bigger idiot!

Picture courtesy: The internet

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Architectural Photography At The Amber Fort

I attempted at some Architectural Photography at the Amber Fort using an ordinary digital camera.

Amber Fort (Hindi: आमेर क़िला, also known as Amer Fort) is located in Amber, 11 km fromJaipur, Rajasthan state, India. It was the ancient citadel of the ruling Kachhawa clan of Amber, before the capital was shifted to present day Jaipur. Amber Fort is known for its unique artistic style, blending both Hindu and Muslim (Mughal) elements, and its ornate and breathtaking artistic mastery.^[1] The fort borders the Maota Lake, and is a major tourist attraction in Rajasthan.^[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Fort