One of these nights 

One of these crazy old nights 

We're gonna find out 

Pretty mama 

What turns on your lights 

The full moon is calling 

The fever is high...

Nopes no connection between the song (This one by The Eagles) and the pic. No apparent connection other than the fact that its a picture of the night.. and there is a full moon peeping out near the top. Yeah full moon in calling.

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This brings us to the end of this wonderful experiment. Kudos and thanks to Sfurti and Ritu for hosting this. Loved all the topics and all the numerous entries. I may not have commented on all of them, but I did try to check out most of the entries to the best of my abilities and availabilities.

I do rue some of the "Shutterbug of the day" decisions but in sportsman like swagger, I shall leave it to the hosts. No hard feelings its all in the game. Would request the hosts, Sfurti and Ritu to post a summary of the month - in academic interests - so that all winners (including me) can strut and flex our existent or non existent muscles.

Would like to say that I really liked looking at Puneet, Priyam, Pravin's entries. Nonetheless, all participants had some excellent photos to show. I had a lot of fun doing this and would definitely wanna do something like this again.

Look at the dusking Sun kissing Sea, so divine

Oh blushing Sea, turning into blood wine

I wonder how long this rapture will last

For how long Sun upon Sea its spell will cast

And soon might crimson turn into embrace tight

When Sun will love Sea away from everyone's sight

Night that's absconding over Sun's burning cast

And Sea will melt in Sun's shadow surpassed

- Poem by Dave Tanwar

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Update: This post won me "Shutterbug of the Day"

We're all going on a summer holiday.

No more working for a week or two.

Fun and laughter on a summer holiday.

No more worries for me and you.

For a week or two.

We're going where the sun shines brightly.

We're going where the sea is blue.

We've seen it in the movies.

Now let's see if it's true.

Everybody has a summer holiday

Doing things they always wanted to.

So we're going on a summer holiday

To make our dreams come true

For me and you.

I am all packed up and ready to rolllllll!!!

Anyone else game?? But just a small query.. 

where do we 

where do we

where do we GO!!

where do we go.. 

Oh oh eh oh!!!

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A dark grey day

A sad bleak day

A sweet couple seeking solace divine

Parked behind a no parking sign

I shot this from a moving cab and the camera decided to focus on the couple of all things in the frame. A lovely bokeh effect thanks to the moving cab and the bleak atmosphere

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Here's a bit of GYAN for all.. Take it, it's absolutely free

Want more Gyan??

Laugh and the world laughs with you...
Cry.. and the world laughs at YOU!!!

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What is this?

Sign of beauty..

Sign of pristinity..

Nature's touch

Or a sign of civilisation..

sign of dirt..

Human touch!!!

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I was really at a loss today cuz this is a really very very open ended topic. So I am playing safe with ROUND.

Now the shape Round reminds me of Ricky Gervais - ROTUND stand up comedian. He hated when the added any kind of adjective related to his plump avatar. But the height was, once he was jogging with his music on. Next day he's all over the papers. Plump man jogging with the headline

IPODGE

Please note, the IPodge pic is not clicked by me. Its just for rhetoric effect or whatever you may call it effect for enhancing the effectiveness of the little joke that I cracked. The pic is picked off Google. Not sure which site I landed on but its definitely phal of Google Devtaay Namah. Please note once more that the joke itself is picked up from one of the comedian's acts.

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Rain rain.. 

go away.. 

come again.. 

another day.. 

Little Johnny wants to play??

Nawww.. We prefer playing in the Rain :D

Look at the glistening drops of rain

And beautiful colours through a frosted window (rather a window with condensation)

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Update: This post won me "Shutterbug of the Day"

Ring around the rosie

Hopscotch, Monopoly

Red light, green light

G. I. Joes and Barbies

Hide and seek, kick the can

Cowboys and Indians

Wiffle ball, paper dolls

Hacky sack and hangman

Do you wanna play with me

Do you, do you

Wanna, wanna

Play, play with me

Play with me

Do you, do you

Wanna, wanna

Play, play with me

Play with me

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Lyrics taken from the song "Play with me" by Extreme. This pic is shot in an old school in Mumbai

Lets look at something healthy... err.. It was healthy till I "finished" it :D

X-Y-

Oh, I was thinking of posting the nice little Sandwriting I had done when I was on VGP beach in Chennai.. but then I saw the Post by Pade Host :D and changed my mind.

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What is this? 

May be... A puzzle..

May be... An illusion..

of frame within frame..

of door within door..

or a Labyrinth.

And what's there at the end of this labyrinthine maze?

A market place in a frame.

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Update: This post won me "Shutterbug of the Day"

Don’t talk like one of them. You’re not! Even if you’d like to be. To them, you’re just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don’t, they’ll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it’s a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They’re only as good as the world allows them to be. I’ll show you. When the chips are down, these… these civilized people, they’ll eat each other. See, I’m not a monster. I’m just ahead of the curve.

Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it. You know, I just… do things.

You know… You know what I’ve noticed? Nobody panics when things go “according to plan.” Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it’s all “part of the plan.” But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds! Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It’s fair!

This post is a tribute to Heath Ledger. A great actor who brought the Joker to reality and died before he could even watch his masterpiece of a act.

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Angry Birds in a glass case.. ready for consumption :D

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Update: This post won me "Shutterbug of the Day"

Snap of the Bandra Worli Sea link

But before you say, "Oh what a lovely panorama!!" Take a look at  the original picture :P

Picture of the bridge taken from a newspaper :D

And here is a pic on the bridge.. with a faint reflection of a speeding car as well

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An oasis in the middle of the Mumbai Concrete Jungle.. My Piece of PEACE... in HDR

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Sometimes its tough to find a work of art as beautiful as that of Mother Nature

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Here's my attempt at producing a snap with the Bokeh effect. Too bad I don't have a decent camera to do this experiment :( You will have to strain to see any kinda Bokeh effect :D

And presenting to you.. my all time favourite.. The Passion Flower.

And here is a purely synthetic bokeh experiment I learnt (My blogs name with all the fancy lights blurred out in the background :D)

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Click here to know more about Bokeh

What came first - The chicken or the egg?? Nah I ain't gonna tell a PJ like "Whatever you ordered first!!" 

I'm thinking serious. Need to seriously reconsider all this evolution business.. shall I say Monkey Business!!

Been thinking about Darwin's theory of evolution. Here's my version...

There's the:

1. Monkey: Living in trees. Eating fruits and plant and animal lice. Totally incapable of doing intellectual tasks like blogging or PJ maroing. One scientist had argued that about a 100 of these banging their feet/hands.. or whatever part of the body they take fancy in.. could create a literary masterpiece of the magnitude of a Shakespeare. Who knows - may be true!!!

2. Ape-man: Nothing much to say bout this one. Just a monkey tryin to stand up straight.. occasionally.

3. Homo-Erectus: Slightly straighter version of the ape-man, having discovered better balance on 2 feet. Apne pairon par khada hona isiko kehte hain. 

4. Homo-Sapiens: The so-called thinking man. And then IBM says.. stop thinking start doing. So who do we follow Darwin or IBM??

5. Homo-Sapiens-Sapiens: An alleged anomaly in Darwins theory. Once man starts thinking about everything and everything else and everything other than everything and everything else.. what remains to be thought of?? Duh more thinking man... Poor Darwin.. needed a break badly.

To quote my dear friends and great philosopher pair Calvin & Hobbes

Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak.

Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice!!!

So we could probably modify Homo-Sapiens-Sapiens as Twice thinking man.. but that wud be predicting the future or may be even science fiction... Really how many of us really do think twice.. before sending that extra irritating PJ to a poor soul begging for mercy... before that extra slice of cheese in the sandwich... before that extra dose of Shanepanti in return for pj sms's...

Let me just take a breath here.. and scratch my big toe.. damn it really itches when I'm thinking hard and fast.. now dont gimme that crap about "Dimaag being in Ghutna".. its a proven fact that its a superior state of evolution... Every part of the body being capable of taking over the part or full functioning of the brain so that the brain can think of more intensive and engaging activities like day dreaming.

Taking this evolution forward, the human race now has couple of more branches according to genetic and neural scans.

6. The Homo-Techno-Nerdus: Highly adept whizkid able to operate simple calculators to complex missile defense systems with equal ease. But as a certain well know physicist or mathematician or something...lets just say thinker.. no.. lets just not say thinker as that would put him into the Homo-Sapiens Phyllum.. and that would make Einstein really angry... I wouldn't wanna be differentiated with respect to my root and then divided my infinity before being partially integrated along with the hyperbolic cosine of my square and then operated upon by an unfriendly Laplace function. So coming back to what EInstein said about this phyllum of the human race: "they find it extremely confusing to use separate soaps for bathing and shaving"

There is a complementary (I hope I got the spelling right) phyllum to this.. the Techno-Turdus (9) which is exactly opposite of the techno-nerdus.. unable to distinguish between an derived class and an inherited class... now what is that supposed to mean.. nah forget it.. lets move on

7. Homo-Workus: Nothing special about this one.. the normal human being..

8. Homo-Idlus: The couch potato man... short and stout.. high affinity for fast food and aerated drinks.. and a highly well developed thumb for operating tv remotes.

I am thinking of putting a separate phyllum for legal professionals... as it is not very clear as to which race have these creatures evolved from... though it is highly rumoured to have descended from the Homo-Erectus (non-thinking but apne pairon par khada) species

Ohh.. and one of my doctor friends has earnestly requested me to add another phyllum The Homo-non-Erectus... no comments on that one.

Reposting a really old post from here

Gotcha.. message on a bottle :D

A little bit of blur in the background and a little lens flare on top.

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26-11-2008..

These windows were eyes.. 

Eyes that witnessed a gruesome act..

Eyes that could not close..

Eyes that could not shed tears..

But Eyes that saw it all...

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What is this madness

That makes my motor run

And my legs too weak to stand

I go from sadness

To exhilaration

Like a robot at your command

Look what you've done to me

I'm utterly at your whim

All of my defenses down

All I can manage to push from my lips

Is a scream of absurdity

Every word I intended to speak

Winds up locked in a circuitry

No way to control it

It's totally automatic

Whenever you're around

I'm walking blindfolded

Completely automatic

All of my systems are down, down, down, down

Another completely unrelated pair - Song (Automatic by Pointer Sisters) and Photos (By Yours Truly)

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Two age old legends of Mumbai captured in one frame - the black and yellow Taxi and and The Asiatic Library building.

It's said books are food for Life.. Then this building up here is a multi-cuisine restaurant... CHOW TIME

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Tell us what you're gonna do tonight, mama. 

There must be someplace you can go 

In the middle of the tall drinks and the drama, 

there must be someone you know. 

God knows, you're lookin' good enough, 

but you're so smooth and the world's so rough. 

You might have somethin' to lose. 

Oh, no, pretty mama, what you gonna 

do in those shoes? 

This song by the Eagles has no relation with the pics that I'm posting this time. It just a catchy song.. to go with these catchy pics :D

Wish I could have had a corny caption for these pics. :(

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The pain that cuts into you

It starts on the surface

A tiny prick

One you barely notice.

And then in increases...

It is an excruciating pain

A pain you feel deep in your bones

A pain you feel deep in your soul

A pain you can do nothing about.

The pain becomes part of you

It lives within you like a beast that will not flee

It takes hold of you and controls you

It destroys you.

Yet you bear it every day

You bear it with a fake smile

And the world believes you

They know nothing of your pain.

-A poem by Lily J.

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Update: This post won me "Shutterbug of the Day"

Let me take a more literal approach to this one...

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Lights.. for that matter LIGHT.. a single globular street light

And something creeping on it. Wanna take a guess what? and why?

This image has been taken using a Nokia Smart (or not so smart) phone with a lil' bit of HDR toning using Photoshop.

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Lovely layers of colours...

Beautifully overlapping colours...

Disjointed by names and shades...

Conjoined by mind...

Mingled by hand...

Scattered to form...

this form of art...

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The first thing that came to my mind when I read the word FRESH was fruits/vegetables... So here goes... a Papaya... Nature does wonders doesn't it... Imagine having a 5 pointed star inside a fruit

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Across the miles

It's funny to me

How far you are but now

Near you seem to be...

Cuz our hearts are unseparable!!!

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Lyrics courtesy: WestLife