Sandur: April 1999

The summer of 1999 was a get together with cousins of my age. I had spent a fortnight at my uncle's house who was a doctor. My cousins, K~ and S~ excelled in paintings. The duo whould spend hours together projecting the best talent using brushes, canvas and fevicryl. And I would sit watching them even without a blink with my chin on my palm. :)

"Why don't you try this?" K~ suggested.
"No. I am not good at all these like you both," I replied.
"Unless you try, how can you say you are not good at it", S~ motivated.
"I can draw only an AMOEBA," holding a brush and dipping it in one the colors.

Here is what I did after I returned from summer vacation. It has been more than a decade and I smile when I look at these caricatures I made. The pages have turned "yellow". I have to preserve them!














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I began sowing on a tiny piece of land which I never dreamed of.






I bought the seeds which grew fast, in a day or two and sowed them.















To make my task easier I invested on the Tractors for seeding, ploughing and harvesting made my work easier.


















Capsicum























Pine apples















I wish I own a farm someday. :D

It was a rainy day and P~ was back to from Horanadu that morning, still tired. Horanadu is 100 kms south-west of Chickmagalur district in Karnataka state. The holy place is known for Goddess Annapoorneshwari who is an incarnation of Goddess Parvati. In Kannada language, "Anna" means rice; "poorna" means full. Hence, Annapoorna known to be feeding without one being hungry until your tummy is full. :)

My friend, P~, narrated the hospitality one could receive at the Annapoorna Temple, the way the premises are maintained, lunch and breakfast served with hot steaming coffee, sleeping mats and blankets provided in the night, one would never want to come back. The crystal clear water at the hola (river) where visitors would bathe during the dawn.

The temple is never short of devotees coming from various parts of the state. Some pray with offerings they promised to the goddess when their mannat( or wish) come true.

Unlike, other holy place in the whole of India, "photography is prohibited" here, too. Huge boards in Kannada and English are hung in temple premises reminding - "You are not supposed to click here. Be it with a mobile phone or a soap box camera. You would never know the consequences." P~ narrated one such incidence which stunned me. A well-educated guy just came out of the sanctum, took his mobile phone, zoomed in and click!.
A security personnel, in his mid forties, noticed and came to him, "show me your mobile phone."
Guy: "huh? why?"
Security:"It looks good. I wanna see it once."
**Security sees the photo of the idol.**
"Sir, photography is prohibited here. You look well-educated, can't you read Kannada or English?"
Guy: Looks shocked.
"I was checking some sms on my mobile phone, it was clicked by mistake."
Security: Grabs the mobile phone from him and drops it into the huge HUNDI. ;)

The best offering the goddess would have received. :D

Now, guess who the loyal devotee is! ;)

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Today, I complete four golden years of my career. A couple of months, I wasn't motivated to goto office. It was a boring routine. Though, it was a different situation during the initial years of work.

My status message on Facebook and the response I received. ;)

~me~ i dont wanna goto office....................!!!!
January 28 at 9:31pm · Comment · Like
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1. bunk dear... bunk... :P
January 28 at 9:46pm · Like ·

2. call in sick :D
January 28 at 10:01pm · Like ·

3. work from home :) :)
January 28 at 10:09pm · Like ·

4. Hire someone to set the office on fire!
January 28 at 11:21pm · Like ·

5. Good one!! Can u see fb at work??
January 29 at 5:01am · Like ·

6. aaahhh great....we're closed today...snow-day! why cant we have something lik this in B'lore - pollution day or traffic jam day haha!
January 29 at 8:01pm · Like ·

7. i must say...ur friends have IDEAS!!! hahaha :D
January 29 at 10:12pm · Like ·

8. ~me~ Thx for all your wonderful responses ;) feeling much better after hearing all this :P
January 30 at 8:10pm · Like ·

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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.

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. 

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!!!

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