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  • Goddess of Love Venus

    Venus (Greek equivalent: Aphrodite) was the Roman goddess of love. According to tradtion, Venus’ son, Aeneas, established the city of Rome and for this reason Venus was regarded as the ancestress of the Julian clan. The clan claimed descent from Iulus, Aeneas’ son. Thus Julius Caesar (died 44 BC), his adoptive successor Augustus (reigned 31 BC – AD 14) and other emperors could claim divine ancestry.

    December 01, 2007 - Venus at British Museum-8856

    Text courtsey : http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/articles/r/the_roman_goddess_venus.aspx

  • Portobella Market, Notting Hill London!

    Portobella Market is a visitor’s delight! and when I say visitor, I mean locals and tourists both! It has some of the best antiques on display and sale… and for street photographers like me, it provides one of the best opportunities to soak in the energy, and shoot to your heart’s satisfaction!

    November 04, 2007 - Vintage Camera-8708

    November 04, 2007 - Silver Kettle -8679

  • People in Camden Town, London

  • Crossing over…

    From a bridge on River Thames, London…

    August 02, 2007 - London Crossing Over-6648

     

     

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  • Scottish Christmas

    Memories from a Scottish Christmas back in 2007… Took a bus from London to Glasgow, and then was on a roadtrip for a couple of days….

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  • London Times

    Some photographs from my trip to London a few years ago…

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  • Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays…

  • Need of the hour…

    is some more time !!!


    and Mountains…


    mostly Mountains actually… I can manage the time with a bit of tweaking… but no amount of tweaking can make the mountains appear as of now !!!

    I need to get out of here… when is the next weekend please?

  • English, whats the big deal?

    One of the best experiences of working in a foreign country is the way your thoughts about English, change !!!

    In India, it still stays a BIGGGG deal, and in the UK or US, its just another language… We still look down upon people who cannot speak english and are more comfortable in their own languages, but here I really do not see people judging you by the language you speak !!!

    There are people who speak English ridiculously, and some who have a horrible accent, or have a very very very heavy MTI (Mother Tongue Influence) but guess what !!! It does not matter, till you can “communicate” well !!!

    I say, forget about how well you can speak English, and how many bigg words you know… just think of how well you communicate… rest does not really matter !!!

    One of my meetings today was chaired by a lady from China, had 5 Indians from Gharwal, Punjab, Maharashtra, UP and Madras, and all the Americans had a different accent too !!! still the meeting went super well !!!

    English, after all, is no BIG DEAL !!!

  • An Evening Alright !!!

    My first visit to a 5 star hotel’s restaurant in Central London… Called the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park.
    Amazing service for two reasons…
    Thats how it is in the Park
    and it was the Pastry Chef’s birthday
    So we ordered our starters and the main course…
    In addition to the Chinese Spring Rolls, The French Asparagus Salad, The Thai PakThai, The Indonesian Nasi Goreng which we ordered, kitchen made some “not on the menu” dishes only for us… The Arabic Pita Bread with Humus, and the Chinese Dimsums… very interesting food this was… 
    And I was asking Abhishek to tell me the best dessert in his kitchen, and when we checked for desserts we were told that we cannot order it because the kitchen had prepared something for us… again not on the menu… So we had something made of Hazelnut cream, black berries, strawberries, raspberries, blue berries, and choux… suppa duppa… 
    Thanked the people around for the amazing dinner and then walked to Piccadilly for my so far favorite club in London, the Strawberry Moons… the inhouse DJ plays amazing music and even with my very limited knowledge of songs I enjoyed the beats that make you move… and to add to icing on the cake, he played Summer of ’69, Jump, You Give Love a Bad Name, Wake me up before you go, Grease and a few more that I knew… 
    and now time for the highlight of the night… Picture this.. 
    A platform for pole dance…
    lovely young women dancing there (no these were not performers, these were the guests at the club who could do their 30 seconds or minutes to fame)
    and my friend Abhishek decides to enjoy his birthday doing some pole dance with a girl there… comes down of there after 15 minutes and then is dragged up again by a blonde who literally takes all his clothes off doing the pole dance with him… So my dear friend cheers the crown up with some topless dancing for sometime and becomes an instant celebrity !!! This should be good for a birthday 😀
    And we left only when the music stopped which would have been around 0300 hrs… 
    this does not look like and end to the post… 🙂 its not… the weekend is still on… two more days to go… lets see whats happening… It might just be like all the other weekends… Ghar, Movie, TV Food and a relaxed time….