Experimenting with my new Canon 50mm prime lens... Just another random click. 

"Flowers are without hope.  Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow."

  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Having clicked many pics of a monkey with my earlier camera. With my new DSLR, I decided to shoot this pic with monkey in the foreground. ;)

Couldn't think of a better title. :D

Having experienced frequent shut downs on my laptop which I described earlier, formatting Windows Vista  and installing Windows 7 did not help. I decided to visit a Sony Service station who thoroughly did a root cause analysis and found that the processor fan was not functional any more.

Here is a list of Sony Service Stations in Karnataka, I found on their website:

1. Bangalore
2. Belgaum
3. Davangere
4. Hubli
5. Mangalore
6. Mysore
7. Shimoga
8. Udupi

In Bangalore:

SONY SERVICE CENTRE

743. SRI KRISHNA TEMPLE ROAD INDIRA NAGAR 1ST STAGE INDIRA NAGAR   BANGALORE - 560038
T:25211050
**Phone no does not exist


SONY SERVICE CENTRE
NO.S-1760/G DR. RAJKUMAR ROAD RAJAJI NAGAR 2ND STAGE 2ND BLOCK RAJAJI NAGAR BANGALORE - 560010
T:25211050
**Phone no does not exist

AUTHORISED SERVICE CENTRE

PENTAGON SERVICES
64 MISSION ROAD SATHI COMPLEX BANGALORE - 560027
T:(080) 22234570


RMS TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD.
NO.13 11TH MAIN 5TH BLOCK JAYANAGAR BANGALORE - 560041
T:(080) 41301816-18


BENCHMARK INFOTECH
NO.5 10TH CROSS CBI ROAD GANGANAGAR BANGALORE - 560024
T:(080) 23331173


SAIRAM SERVICE
534/A DR. RAJKUMAR ROAD RAJAJINAGAR SECOND STAGE (OPP. ST. THERESA HOSPITAL) BANGALORE - 560010
T:(080) 65584958


VIGNESWAR SERVICES
NO:659 GROUND FLOOR 17TH D MAIN OPP. KORAMANGALA CLUB 6TH BLOCK KORAMANGALA BANGALORE - 650095
T:080 25525400


R.L. PROPERTIES; INVESTMENTS
606 80 FEET ROAD 4TH BLOCK KORAMANGALA BANGALORE - 560034
T:080 25505132


PENTAGON SERVICES
NO. 443 15TH MAIN ROAD 1ST BLOCK III STAGE BASAVESH BANGALORE - 560079
T:(080) 3228567

I am, now, installing the drivers for Windows 7.

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Drafted May 29th '10

If you are thinking I am 50, no I am not! Then what does the title relate to? :)

Like I said here, three years ago, how I begun to click owning Canon S3 IS. I pestered my teammates to pose for me and they were generous enough who always had a cheerful smile. :)

For more than an year, I was sketching to upgrade to a DSLR. After much confusion and hesitation to decide on the camera and lens. Finally, became a proud owner of Canon 50D, today. Thanks to peevee and A~ who accompanied to Foto Circle and spend hours together at the ever crowded shop.



Now, again like a fresher I am waiting for my salary to be credited after an account clean sweep. ;) ***cough cough***

Yet, on the greener side of 50. :D


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Y2k is a very special and a memorable year. The reason being:

I stepped out of the school with flying colors and entered a PU college. I also got an opportunity to fight with my dad that I would not take up *PCM"B" as an optional since I had hated and even now hate Di-section/killing cock roaches. You shouldn't blame or even scold me if I flunk in Biology. :D And landed into a *PCM"Cs" class learning "What is a computer, PASCAL ....." :) I still have the notes!

I got a chance to create my first email id using rediff.com which offered 2MB Inbox storage. A cousin who was newly wed and flew to US would send loads of photos often which I would store in a 1.44MB floppy disk and clear the inbox from flooding. ;) I still use rediffmail.

You should start preparing for II PU exams, book for tuitions and CET exams when you are still in I PU. The whole class would accompany you in bunking during II PU classes which eases the lectures job. You would study the tuition notes religiously without even bothering to check the text books. Language classes like English, Sanskrit are taken for granted unless your English faculty is a good looking lady with an excellent command. ;)

Last but not the least, I miss summer vacations. :(


*PCMB => Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology.

*PCMCs => Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science.

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It has been a month that my dear laptop with whom I spend wonderful moments of connecting to you all is going on continuous shutdown, forcing me to login Safe mode with networking with minimal features.

Initially, I guessed it was a problem with Microsoft Vista operating system I came across a discussion on this forum.

Today, installed Windows 7 Operating system and yet my laptop shuts down after half an hour.

RAM is perfect. I am clueless, what to do! :(

Edited on 29th June:

Thanks for all your valuable inputs. My lappie is perfectly working. The issue was dust accumulation. :)


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My laptop is going for continuous shut down. I find the following messages in the Application Log. Current Operating System is Windows Vista.

Any pointers to this issue would help.

Activation context generation failed for "C:\Windows\Installer\{67E03279-F703-408F-B4BF-46B5FC8D70CD}\WksWP.exe". Dependent Assembly msadctls,processorArchitecture="x86",type="win32",version="1.0.1801.0" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.


Event filter with query "SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 WHERE TargetInstance ISA "Win32_Processor" AND TargetInstance.LoadPercentage > 99" could not be reactivated in namespace "//./root/CIMV2" because of error 0x80041003. Events cannot be delivered through this filter until the problem is corrected.



The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 8007043c from line 45 of d:\vistasp1_gdr\com\complus\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.

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It has been close to four years that I have been commuting to Electronics City via Hosur Road. Initially, even before joining the company, the message on orkut was "Ready to rock n roll at ... ". Now I feel, it is the other way, "Rolling over the rocks", due to the time taken to reach the office, spending long hours at office. I, sometimes, wonder when the place Bangalore can be changed to Bengaluru then why not change Hosur to Holasuru ?

For those who are not aware of Hosur Road or never commuted, please do visit once a lifetime. It would make your journey to office, a memorable one indeed!

PS: Holasu in Kannada means "dirty", ooru means "city". :)

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April 8, 2008:
Bought myself a 1 year Flickr Pro Account for unlimited photo upload. Being photography obsessed, uploaded every possible photo I clicked, be it good or bad. I, constantly, submitted few snaps to various groups on flickr and received positive feedback and a great scope for improvement.

April 8, 2009:
No longer photo enthusiastic. Lost in my own world of work! Damn. Flickr pro account expires and I don't care to renew it either.

April 8, 2010:
Slow migration from flickr to facebook pages. It is much easier to maintain a photo set at a single site and have a huge fan followers. ;)


I am lost thinking I would upgrade my gear to a DSLR; visit new places and revisit the old ones, click 'em with a brand new lens as never before. How I wish I would get back to flickr!!!

Do visit my facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/manasa-photography/241583639839

My photo-blog: http://colorful-moments.blogspot.com/ Not updated any more.

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