Unicorn

Noun: unicorn 'yooni'korn An imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead. Though the popular image of the unicorn is that of a white horse differing only in the horn, the traditional unicorn has a billy-goat beard, a lion's tail, and cloven hoofs, which distinguish him from a horse. Interestingly, these modifications make the horned ungulate more realistic, since only cloven-hoofed animals have horns.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Feeling like August

Been an year on the job! Does that sound elated? No, I think it is more like "Been an year on the job ... Hmmm ..." - a sigh rather than a shriek. I completed one year and chugging along. It has been a complex one year where I learnt and unlearnt many things. Nothing excites me anymore and I don't do the things that excite me anymore ... Perhaps it was a case of too much too soon. I seem to be unsure of everything. Nothing seems to work to rejuvenate my zest for life. Life starts or rather starts dragging on a Monday morning every week only to end on a high every Friday night and the weekend seems to have whizzed past while the weekdays seem never ending. I have made as many visits to the doctor this one year that I have made in my entire life. May be I am feeling lonely - but then again, I enjoy being the master of my remote control! Life is not all that rosy that it seemed to be in the fall of 2005. What might have gone wrong? I am not sure of that either. Every time I see a man riding on a bullet thunderbird my heart cribs in pain that I didn't buy it when I wanted to because I had the engagement coming up and it burdens my heart still further now that I am debt ridden in EMIs and I know for a fact that I will never be able to own one as my marriage is coming up. I have bought many of the modern day convenience contraptions that did make life easy but something is missing in life ... Life has become hollow. Happiness seems to elude me. On the upside, In the last one year I have learnt to cook better and faster, turned unfit to fit and unfit to fit again (If you take the measure of waist as the index), discovered a new pastime called trekking which kept me occupied for most of my weekends last year, discovered a writer called Jeffrey Archer, Finally bought a copy of "English August" after searching for it in vain in the Sunday markets at Koti, Hyderabad and also at the leading book stores in Pune. I just want to leave all this rat race and go home ... i just want to sleep to my hearts content without about bothering about anything else!

Friday, February 23, 2007

2-Wheelers on express way!


With blatant disregard to the safety of others and that of their own - two wheelers driving around on the Mumbai-Pune express way (2-wheelers, 3-wheelers and pedestrians are not allowed on express way). Caught this on camera from atop Rajmachi point in Khandala with N73. One of the two wheelers is circled in red.

Friday, February 02, 2007

Vaasthushastra

During the "Rang De Binary" dance competition - In the court yard of Residency club there was a huge banyan tree at the back ... All the lights combined with the twilight gave this tree an eerie look and I captured it with my N73.