Hey! I still blog!

Looking forward to nothing is not something I like looking forward to. That's the state I am in and what a life saver, I blog!

No - Trust me I still like to do! Admit I've disappeared for a while. But I've missed ya bunch.. all you err...fictious readers...

Here's a lousy analogy to amuse some of you real life readers - my act of blogging is like bathroom singing. I mean normally bathroom singing is a way of entertaining self right... well yeah I used to do that to annoy neighbours in the past ...but this is not part of the analogy - am not trying to annoy anyone here.

Anyways if this has sounded like a generally happy bloke trying to moan in vein - how abt ya all leave me some sweet comments? If not this ramble hope these pic make you *welcome to my blog revival*

....a good bye to winter 07, well hopefully

Editing unleashed

This post is to mark the beginning of a series of highly edited pictures. I’ve never been good at digital editing but the missus has taken over (following a new found interest in graphic design), this one being the first of the makes-me-wanna-blog kinds

Is the candle prettier or the chrysanthemums?

After a nail biting competition Neil takes the first place in the opening episode of my ‘name the flower’ contest which featured the passion flower in my previous post, and Dave misses narrowly to become the runner up. Congratulations both of you. more to follow

What flower is this?

Whoever guesses it right will get a special mention in my next post :-)

False bridge, Kenwood house, Hampstead Heath

(I am hoping this picture will get my blog a few hits from google)

Indian Clay Pottery

Cultural Colours of London

I made a casual evening visit to the Trafalgar square after work last Thursday and watched some performances that are ongoing as a part of this year's summer festival that 'sets out to express London’s creative connections with India'. Below are a couple of pictures of this performance called JUGGERNAUT. It was truly spectacular.

Panaromic Roma

Aerial shots of the city of Rome

British GrandPrix 2007 - Who am I cheering for?

Isn't the joy and glow on my face obvious?

Random clicks at Edinburgh

Moto GP

My first time at any motoGP or any international level motorbike race for that matter, was exceeding my expectations. To add to the fun, I had the chance to ride up to Donnington with 3 friends from work. In the fleet were 2 cbr 600’s including mine, one hornet 600 and one brand new gsxr. I recorded my fastest time ever on a motorbike but that was 20mph less than what my friend on another CBR clocked. He was 4mph below the top speed of CBR 600 on road!

However the ride back to London from west midlands was worse than ever, with rains that’s flooded the whole island in the last few days and of course, the traffic from hell.

Spot the fumes from this Kawasaki

Stoner celebrating

Dave is presenting a series of updates – so watch his space for more.

Lost in music

This is a pic of Dr Jyotsna Srikanth’s lighting speed fingering in action on the violin

I felt rejuvenated like never before by Sindhu Bhairavi raga on violin. Is that a particularly well-loved combination?

Context – Carnatic Music
Artist - Dr. Jyotsna’s myspace - the link contains an embedded piece of music by her.
More about this eclectic, multitalented, renowned artist and an inspiring individual in another post.

a pigeon in focus

Vatican city

Scottish wallpaper pics

Venice

My guess is most of these pics are self explanatory. A few things that just the pics themselves don't necessarily say

• Water water everywhere, not a drop to drink.
• Obviously Venice is truly a wonderland. If you don't fall in love with the place the first time, well you're really one critique who’s out of his mind - but go again, you'll deffy love it. This is exactly what happened with me.
• Vegetarians not catered for - well almost.
• Indians not welcome - in most posh pizzerias! Surprised? Furious? Well yes even I was. Yes I am saying there is some racism unless I got it totally wrong basing things on few incidents. Hear you say that can't be right in a tourist hot spot like this?? Well, it is in the posh riverside pizzerias. Here is one possible logical explanation I have. Most Indian tourists are vegetarians or not famous for meat eating. Venice is known for sea food (?) and the pizzerias serve just Margarita on their veg. menu. So Indians turn away most times checking out the menu exhibited at the entrance. The waiters in most occasions pounce on the tourists checking the menu's out almost making it an obligation to go and try something. But they fail to persuade vegetarians. Seems like they’ve developed a culture of ignoring Indian (or Asian may be) tourists instead.
• See the lobsters in that pic up there – they were alive. Moving! Waiting to be killed! FFS! How is that appetizing?
• Venice is b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l in rain and after dark. Romantic is the only word to describe how it feels.
• Venice is one expensive place
• The glass industry deserves a special mention. The pic of the glass bird in focus may also need a special mention, only because it may not be clear – that is a picture of glass art factory in function.

We then traveled to Rome – my favorite European city as a tourist – but only until then. Coming up next.