Tid Bit from My Diary

I came  across  a few photographs taken during a visit to an exhibition in Abu Dhabi a year back. The exhibition was to showcase the current and future developments planned for the  real estate  sector in UAE in general and Abu Dhabi in particular.  They also showcased something they are passionate about. The mighty bird of prey and the fastest machine in the track.  Focusing on the objects of desires  I got drifted away into reflecting into LIFE. We put a great deal of emphasis on our desires and chase designers' clothes, branded watches, exotic  jewellery , other expensive hobbies. At times we get very selective about  our likings and  disliking. We seem to forget that we got this opportunity to lead a healthy and peaceful life which is a priceless present in todays world when we look around and compare us with the less fortunates!! Are we doing justice to this gift! Think about it ...... If you look at what you do not have in lif...

Anyone nurturing the idea that a man loves to shave would be grossly mistaken. This is one hardship he has to routinely undergo every morning. I do agree that as teen aged boy, he might be counting days to step in to the new world of grownups, but when the realization finally dawns it is too late!   Today while I was in the act, old memories suddenly rushed in. I remembered as a child watching my father shave in the morning. During the early days he used to have the saving soap in the form of a bar packed inside a round container which subsequently gave way to present day saving cream. All Through my adulthood I never noticed a shaving bar in the regular super market shelves. Growing up in the north eastern corner of India I can boast of experiencing things which had then become obsolete in other parts of the world.  Though a state capital it could not be in termed as a city in the golden seventies. I graduated into the ranks of shave-able person and got started with a ...

On 11 March 2011 we woke up to the devastating news of a massive earthquake striking in Japan and that was followed by massive Tsunami waves. As we sat in the comfort of our living rooms and watched the news break in our TV screens, we were terrified. We were awestruck as we watched buildings, cars and ships thrown around as if they were pieces of LEGO toys. I heard the news commentator mention repeatedly that cities, villages and towns have been washed away by those 10m high waves. I did not realize the extent of the damage till I saw these set of satellite Photos which compared the images taken after the devastation with the ones taken before the Quake and Tsunami .

There are turmoils occurring around the world starting from the later part of 2010 and it looks like it is going to continue through 2011. On one side there have been natural disasters in New Zealand, Japan and Myanmar and on the other hand there are plenty of manmade disasters going on in many countries around the world.  I would not make any political comment or put forward my personal opinion on any of those conflicts here in my blog. In this post I share two incidents as narrated by two individuals through their emails. This gives an insight into people’s life that happens to be inside the conflict zones. Libya - February 22, 2011 “This was a great evacuation from Libya.... its horrible experience by all expats. My passport which was in Libyan immigration, Misrata (300km from Tripoli) which was with protester was destroyed as the immigration office was burnt down. I was asked by my company at last minute to request Indian embassy for a paper. February 22, 2011 is unforge...

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 Dubai Dubai Dubai Dubai Dubai Kuwait Kuwait Kuwait Kuwait Kuwait Kuwait Kuwait Kuwait Kuwait Kuwait Kuwait Kuwait My pre...

"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!

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 i...