Category Archives: Travel and Photography
The journey begins !
The lack of change… how on earth am I supposed to get the three 10 rupee notes, and the two 5 rupee ones, and the other change !
Anyway, the ticket is in my hand now ! The white grey dot-matrix printed Indian Railways ticket ! Hey, but I cannot read it properly… what time is my train? and from?
oh wait, it has been printed on the line just above !! OK, well, the information is there… Coach S4, Seat 30 (wonder who would be sitting next to me)
I wish its a beautiful girl 🙂 and without her parents or the boyfriend!
Last minute Auto rush !!! and the bugger is driving so slowly that I could walk faster to the station.
Sir ji, late hai train !!!
Oh thank Gawd !!!
take it easy !!!
But hey, where is the train?
Oh, they are still shunting the bogies… will be here in a few minutes… and there it is !!!
A1, A2, …..A4, S14… what the fkk… now run !!! S4 S4 S4 S4 S4… uncle sambhal kar zara…
S4 S4… haan yehi hai s8… peeche likha hai…
S4 S4 S4… saali itni lambi train…
S4… kaash ye wala S4 hota.. this group of girls would be sitting somewhere near me then…
S4… arre auntie jaane do…
phew !!!
The reservation chart finally….
So lets see.. how many girls in my compartment today…
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ah !!! F – 56 — darn !!!
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F F6… sweet…
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23.. ah… Vaijanti Devi !!! crap !!!
F F
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24 Kalpana Arora… hmm…
M27 Aakash Arora… inki to !!!
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F…
uff.. sabse sada hua dibba mera !!!! CRAP !!!!
anyway !!!
Lets just get on the train !!!
Auntiji ye meri seat hai !!!
Oh !!!
Wahan baith jaoge beta?
umm… ji…
Mera bag hata do wahan se… idhar de do.. aaram se baith jao !!!
ji auntiji
bleddy hell… inko kaise bolun I wanted the window seat !!!! I WANTED THE WINDOW SEAT !!!
anyway… that probably means I will sleep better at night.. the top berth is not that bad afterall !
So the bags are sett, the walkman is out !!! the tapes are out too ! what do we listen to? Wait… save the battery !! aise hi baitha reh abhi…
Magazine !!! haan.. get some !!!
Chai? haan ek cup wo bhi ho jaye!!!
Auntiji main abhi aaya…
haan beta
ok… , chacha chauhdhary, billu, pinky, archies, apna bhavishya badlein, kismat aapke haath mein, competition success review, manorama, sarita, manohar kahaniya, limca book of records, reiki kaise karen, phew.. too many… just pick up a few random ones…
oh.. paani ki bottle… ek wo bhi… aur biscuit? haan parle ji… do packet…
chalo beta bhago before auntiji calls the police thinking you left a few bombs in the train !!!
back on the seat… all set with magazines, food, music, a lost window seat, people…
5 things you (might not) know !
1. I can never get over how beautiful mountains look… Every single time you see them, you can see something different, some more majestic and grand than every before…
2. I can still not figure out what is my favorite element from the PanchTatva… The Fire, The Water, The Sky, The Wind or the Earth… Is my love for my village related to Earth, or The way I can keep looking at the sky for ages, represents my love for the Sky? or the fact that I feel Fire is one of the most exciting things to look at, proves that I love FIRE !!! not sure… But the fact is all of these elements can feel so delicate, so pure and harmless at one point of time, and at the other make you feel like a nothing in front of them !!!
3. My love from photography comes from my love for people… I enjoy getting involved in conversations when I am travelling more than taking pictures, and these conversations make me click !!! the mood at a tea stall, the people in a bus, passengers at a railway station… are the people that I like to first, before taking a picture of them…
4. Joy in my life comes from the small and simpler things ! talking to kids on the streets, walking around with a friend, getting a call from a friend i have been missing, doing something for someone i like, and so on a so forth…
5. I don’t know how to react to surprises… Even if I am very happy, I cannot really express it if I am surprised at the same time.. the Irony is that I might look totally blank and speachless when a surprise is thrown at me !!
Done Dana Done Done !!!
Khush Vinnie the pooh?
Fall of Winter !
Wake me up when september ends !
Yes, because its been like a dream 🙂
50000 visits on Chai ki Dukaan
4 years of Chai Ki Dukaan
and
today
50000 visits on my flickr page !!!
This September has been a very good month to me !!! and I am glad!
Very !!!
Thank you EVERYONE !
Say Cheese…
– A Painter about the canvas and the brush (s)he uses? Oh, so you use the brushes made of rosewood? No wonder your paintings are great !
– A Blogger about the keyboard (s)he uses? Oh, A Logitech ergonomically designed split keyboard? wow !!!
– A Chef about the kitchenware (s)he uses? Oh, reinforced plastic with titanium knifes, no wonder your dishes are great !
If you don’t remember that, then do you remember when was the last time you asked a photographer about the camera he uses?
Oh, a Nikon d200 or a Canon 40D? Wow !!! Is it a dSLR? Yes! WOW !!! no wonder the pictures are fantastic !!!
I think a lot of us would remember that!!!
While I am not in disagreement with the fact a good camera has the capability to make a picture look better, OK much better a lot of times, I personally think this is not the question that should be thrown at a photographer to start with !!!
Photography is as simple and complicated an art as the rest of the them, and only because it involves holding a camera, pointing at something, pressing a shutter which everyone can do, does not really take away the effort that a photographer puts in !!!
I think the above lines look a li’il more harsh than I would like them to be, but I am not really sure how to put them in a softer way across !!! apologies if you are reading it and found it offensive !
White Falling…
Its snowing outside right now…. not too heavy but i can see the soft cotton falling on the road and the cars and all over…
beautiful…
I was waiting for this to happen 🙂
I just told a friend a dream I had sometime back… and right now its seems that I am in a dream myself… well minus the laptops, and people and the cars, and the roads and the buildings outside 🙂