as useless as it gets...

How useless can your day really be, I ask you...I have been really really unproductive lately and now its starting to get to me. For example, this is today...

Got up late 9am (office starts at 9am)... bad hangover.... had been to Firangi Paani yesterday...yes it was a weekday...so what ...drank like a fish anyways....
Junked breakfast and chai...too bored...had a litre of water... told myself...no more drinking :P well, its a ritual I follow post any heavy drinking session...y change now???
Decided to "work" from home again...boss made a few nasty comments and sounds on the phone...negotiated on half day working. The #%$^&%* doesn't mind the fact that I play games in office but has a problem if I do that at home...weirdo!!!
Decided to pay a visit to my ex-CEO...horrid market + carnage on campus this year@ISB= time for desperate measures, backups and solid networking.
Horrified to hear, that my Mumbai office (ex company) is shutting down...gossiped with ex-colleagues about transfers and screwed-up suppliers and absence of orders...aaaahhhh....I like the industry, way better than consulting!!!
Took a rickshaw to work...reached the south entrance of my office only to realise that the shuttle had stopped fr the day. North entrance was an additional 60 bucks. aaaagggggghhhh!!! Finally reached office @ 2pm. That was 2 hrs later than ...well...late. Was greeted to a sickening smile from my boss...preped myself up fr a gyan session...did not get it...guess the @#%$$## no more cares since I have resigned.
scratched my bald head for some time...yes, that's an "event" in my work-life lately...had a cup of coffee, then a cup of chai, then played games on wellbored.com (a fine site I must say), and now blissfully blogging.

yukkkk!!! WHEN WILL SCHOOL START????

2009 starts with a bang!!!

Desire

I couldn't think of a better followup post. My group met at Chor bazaar last weekend. There I came across this shop selling old Hindi movie posters. As I spent a few minutes looking at those posters, I saw this one kid come up to pull out one of them for a customers. The writing on the poster was "sabse bada sukh" ("the greatest pleasure"). Being short he didn't get it in the first attempt. Seeing the kid reach out for those words, the pervert in me couldn't help but smile .That's when this pic happened. Even Sharmila Tagore's eyes (poster below) seemed to line up just right :)

The perfect picture

Its been some time since I took a good pic . Infact, in the last year there are only three such pics (displayed below).

Both the times I saw my subject and I instantly knew it...I had been put in the right place and the right time!!!

My heart beat faster, my fingers got all messed up on my camera controls and I had to literally calm myself before I took the shot. I knew how the pic would look like when I developed it. The aperture and shutter settings were a piece of cake...no bracketing the shot. It was all spot on. Infact the feeling is so overwhelming. The closest feeling is that of an adrenaline rush when u rest after a good workout.

Hoping for many such this year :) :)