Sweet Moments

Sometimes , a few pictures stay in your head and evoke the same emotion every time you look at them.Am posting one of it here.I bumped into this picture while I was reading somebody else's blog on OCC (Open Coffee Club for enterpreneurs and wannabe entrepreneurs) and I immediately felt like posting it here and writing about it.

Marriage is all about syncing with your partner and doing things in tandem.We had the lovely opportunity to create Muziboo and work on it together.We have had our share and still have our share of fights about whats wrong or who is right.But in spite of all that, there is the fun of creating something and making it grow.Muziboo is just born and is trying to find a footing.

The picture is a shot of us discussing muziboo with the audience.Sweet picture.Sweet moment.

well at last...green day cover

atlast i recorded the green day cover..not perfect , but something for a start..

:-) ...Please click below to listen to it.

Sophomoric Literary Inclinations...

Everybody takes a fancy for poetry at some point or the other and i took it a bit more seriously in college and created a few.Felt dumb when i read them years later when i decided poems have obnoxiously high levels of romance and exaggeration.i dont write anymore, but wanted to know what people from the poetic fraternity felt about my sophomoric literary binge and hence posted them in a few forums. nice to see so many of them, young and old , still alive with passion for poems while i strangely felt i grew out of the fancy wonderland of poetry!!

Smitten by the musical bug...

been practising "Yellow Submarine" and "Jambalaya".trying to get the chords and the notes and the pitch right!!..hopefully i do a decent recording of both atleast tomorrow!!

A whiff of vintage romance…

A bunch of chivalrous 40 plus “salt-pepper” haired men , rock n rolling away Elvis and Beatles and an occasional Jazz of Louis Amstrong or Miles Davis to entertain the real hip twentyinsh and a scant fortyish audience sipping away iced teas n caffines….Dats “Java City” for Bangaloreans on Saturday n Sunday evenings!!! The strong flavor of coffee n tobacco suspended in the air with the crowd going ecstatic chorusing “Tequila” sorta makes the place addictive. Dont they play the historical “Tequila” number better than “ The Champs” themselves !..well, it is no wonder, considering they being the only seven piece Jazz band in the whole of Bangalore , completing the picture with trumpet and sax…well, I sincerely miss a dance floor where one can waltz away to their Jazz like the 70’s shown in movies, a bit of romance..vintage romanceJ

Hmmmm…That was a nice Sunday !!!

Sometimes one cant help lazy Sunday mornings slipping into exciting afternoons, what with a hyperactive husband and with his sudden penchant ( substituted with obsession sometimes ) for wildlife fotography !!! With the thought of Ranganthittu and migratory birds just cropping up in his mind over morning tea, myself and my MIL were made to down our teas n biscuits, skip bath n breakfast and pack up n get geared for the foto camp. A quick reference in the net about storks n cormorants n egrets induced enough curiosity in me to greet them face to face n hence not complain about the rigour of last minute packing n travel. Geared with cameras n lenses n books on birds n other paraphernalia , the trio felt confident enough about the day ahead.A filling breakfast at kamath n a reasonable buy from a pottery shop nearby , found us women all the more energized for the trip.

The pleasant weather , the sweet smell of earth with the slight drizzle , the cool breeze on the face, all this accompanied by the assortment of Elvis Presely n Elton John was quite exhilarating. To top it all our Zen was zooming at 90kmph …I always wait for the light vehicle to take off at such speeds…atleast there should be some levitation of sortsJ.At one point , to beat the strong yearning for a siesta , I started a random discussion on DSLRs and how baffling and confusing they can be after appreciating the simplicity of a point n shoot camera n blah n blah, and to make the conversation sound important , read out an instruction from the manual on why one shouldn’t try looking at the sun through the lens which might actually burn the lens and result in loss of vision. Prateek didn’t bat an eyelid before quipping “ It is still fine to lose vision but the lens can take quite a toll on your wallet” ….errrr…so much for sympathetic husbands!!!...

One more leg of uneventful driving and then a dearie truck kissed our dearie zen and my dearie hubby got into a heated discussion with the locals , while I just sat through the cacophonous spate of Hindi n Kannada ! With a grim face (cos of the dented boot!) and a few more arguments and justifications , we reached Ranganathittu.Well, one should acknowledge that , it indeed is a pleasant destination for the city-dwellers after the drabness of just crows and sparrows . Our elaborate accouterments , widended a few pupils in the crowd and also threw a few questions towards us , on whether Prateek was an ornithologist. One has to have borne the brunt of being the wife or girlfriend of an hobbyist experimenting with cameras n lenses to chuckle at such loaded questions!!

A boatride around all the islets gave us enough time and proximity to capture all that we wanted.Storks and egrets and cormoratns all over the place!!!..So many of them…It helped us come up with some brilliant pictures.A perfectly timed rain gave us enough time and some sweet milky tea , enough energy to get into the car and head towards a brightly lit Brindavan gardens.



In all it was a great trip, but for a few close shaves on the way back too!!

just got started....

Joblessness at workplace(!!) drove me into getting started with my online jounal...thought of having an inky-pinky-girly background for the journal..but without much effort settled for the dark n wicked black!!!... i guess am done for now!!