Friday, September 29, 2006

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Kishore tagged me ...

I am thinking about what all I should in the next three days of holidays :) !
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I said ..Keep Smiling and they grin :D !!
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I want to go on a World Tour !
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I wish I could fly... [I wouldn't have to daily travel for one hour to my office ]
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I hear the rustle of leaves when wind blows by ..
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I wonder why God decided to make two genders...
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I regret that I cannot go back to my college life again.
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I am Sodankur Ramakanthan Srividya !
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I dance when I am alone in the room .. [I hope the ground floor people don't think of it as an Earthquake! ]
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I sing and everyone asks me not to sing ... Haaaa haaaa
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I cry for very silly reasons..
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I am not always eating chocolates and ice creams...
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I make with my hands weird faces and designs on the paper and scratch them ..
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I write because others read... [ok ok i know i don't write so well ..but still i am trying at least]
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I confuse myself many a times and seeing me confused others cry :( !
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I need a looooooong paid vacation ;o) !
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And since people hardly read my blog ,i am not tagging anybody. If you are reading this ,then you are automatically tagged . If you are not a blogger ,you can still get self tagged and mail it to me at srsrividya@gmail.com...

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

A Weekend with camera ..

A Chill Saturday Morning at 7:30 A.M ..Near Anjaneya Swamy temple ..intersection of K.G.Road and Avenue Road ..14 of us from the Bangalore Weekend Shoots group with cameras joined together for a session of street photography . All of us from different fields and background but the common thing which got all of us together was photography .
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It was my first time with the group but i really enjoyed it ! I didnt know anybody and had not even met any one of them. I had known few of them through the online group where all of us share photos.Intially it seemed like I was the only girl but later 4 of them joined ! Everyone with Big camera bags with all their camera gears and some others with point and shoot camera .Everyone had different cameras but the objective was the same !!!
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Early morning Bangalore has got lot of activities going on .People praying from across the road ..People picking up the road side garbage ..elderly people having a chit chat on the stone bench [wearing the monkey cap to protect them for cold ..People sitting and reading newspapers on the pavement..People eating hot steaming idlis and dosa on the road side ..Vegetable Vendors selling fresh vegetables.Flower Seller ..school kids in their colorful uniforms.. road side Tea ..all sorts of activities.. It was good time capturing some common people in our cameras ..
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Although common people but they were surrounded by so many colors (from photographic point of view) .14 of us with big cameras and gears attracted lot of attention .. Lot of questions asked as to whether we were from Times of India /Press or Shooting etc ,etc .we also had our part of fun telling them we were students .we were from chitraakala parishad etc ,etc .Everytime someone asked me a question i had a different answer and i was enjoying it ! As we entered the interiors of the K.R.Market there was lot of hustle bustle ...People opening their shops..People setting up their shops ..Some of them having their hot cup of tea (Even i had the road side Masala Tea ..it was good i must say!! ).
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All of us entered the flower Market which was underground .flower market as the name implies was filled with flowers everywhere It was most colorful site i had ever seen in my life .Sooooo many flowers everywhere and so many colors . The smile on my face never got diminished that day .. And when people were hesitant about the camera ,i tuk a snap and showed it to them ..they were really happy to see the result so fast. The smile on their face was really wonderful ..i had the same smile on my face .I managed to get one red rose and one chrysanthum from two of the flower vendors as their token of thanks to me ..i was thrilled !!!!! It was nearing 12 in the noon ..although my legs were aching i didnt want to stop clicking ! I took around 400 shots that day and most of them came good !! It was lovely day at the street of bangalore with common people who made my day really worthwhile !Last but not the least ...a Slideshow of the outcome of the shootout ..

View slideshow

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Home Effect

No snoozing of alarm ..no need to think about what to prepare for next day ..no need to get up early and quietly enter the kitchen in wee hours of the morning .. No need to lock the 3 doors . Instead ...
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'Vidya ,yelu . 5:30 aithu !!" [Mom telling me in Kannada to getup ] [First Alarm]
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After sometime
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'Beta ,Getup its 5:45!!!" [Dad asking me to getup]
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Hmmmm .. Benefits of staying at home with the family :o) !!
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Planning to go for ' Lage Raho Munna Bhai ' this weekend with Mom and Dad .
I think its two decades that I went for a Hindi movie with Mom and Dad . It is going to be fun .
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Friday, September 08, 2006

The One way communication...

I stay on the first floor ..As i was getting ready in the morning..i could hear Dad's voice ( he doesn't need a mike ,obviously , an Army man u c !!!) . He was telling somebody something .
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Dad :Chalo ,Chalo ..utto ..niklo [Hindi] [ Go Go ..get up ..get going ]
After sometime
Dad : Hogu ,hogu ..yelu [Kannada] [ Go Go..get up ]
After sometime
Dad : Go go ,get up !!! [English ]
Again after sometime
Dad : Manasaliylla ? [Malayalam ] [Don't you understand ? ]

And finally the Dog which was sitting near the staircase went away after listening the same command in 3 languages ....

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

After effects of being in Singapore for 1 year..

* Pressing on the tap instead of rotating it !!

* Taking the water directly from the tap for drinking

* Missing the Microwave and Fridge in the office

* Searching for Tissue papers everytime

* Taking the id card sideways to swap only to realize you have to tap !

* Converting Rupees into SGD and finding it cheap only to realise later that the rikshaw fare
was damn 50 bucks !!!

* Seeing the time and adding 2.5 hours to see what time it is in Singapore

* Seeing stagnant water and remembering the fine which my friends paid for breeding
mosquito eggs :D !!

* Telling my mom and dad to eat Brown Bread

* No Low fat milk !!!! only Nandini :) !!!

Hmmm... will take time to get into the Bangalore life again .. till then enjoi maadi ..

Saturday, September 02, 2006

I am Back

Singapore to Bangalore - 1st September 2006 - IC 958