Took a few of them sometime back and put them in a little pot we bought… And a few weeks later, after some regular watering, and sunlight, I got these little beautiful small plants!
Tag: green
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2009 in Pictures – May
May is expected to bring Spring season! it did.. though it was pretty cold and unusually cold for that time of the year, it did not stop the flowers from blooming, it did not stop the birds from coming out and singing, and it did not stop me from going to Holland, Michigan to enjoy the Tulip Festival.I had rented a Nissan Altima for this trip, and I loved driving it… had not driven a car so smooth and so responsive yet! Totally totally loved it… and had just the right company in Joy along with me… Pritam, Sunil and Golu joined us from Minneapolis later in the evening after we checked into our motel near Holland!Photography would have been a challenge for sure, because I do not know what to do when I am supposed to take pictures of flowers… I personally came back satisfied with the pictures I took that weekend though! enjoy the moments and some photographs from Holland below… This might just be one of the most colorful months of 2009!
The right set of people makes a trip so much better! I am so grateful to have good travel companions all the time (I also take credit in that though! I chose who I travel with, most of the time)
Artist’s tables are one of the most interesting things that I know of… they shout out loud of creativity!
I have also been fascinated by wheels and rims for a long time… but I do not have a liking for such loud rims! I like them subtle… like Radha!
Holland in addition to the Tulips, is also famous for wooden shoes! And yes, you can wear them!
I also drove a Jeep Commander… Big SuV… loads of space! and Jeep ЁЯЩВ
We managed to find a lovely local Italian restaurant for lunch and then a decent Indian restaurant for Dinner… had to rush and drive fast to reach the Indian one in the night before it closed, but we did manage… 
Another very interesting thing we did in Holland was go on a Sand dunes safari… it was a crazy sand ride with adventurous twists and turns in a 1979 dodge truck!
The Big Red light house in Holland… This place was exactly opposite to Milwaukee on the other side of Lake Michigan…
We also managed to check out a local market in Holland before we headed back to Milwaukee.
I love huskies! Period! This one had such beautiful blue eyes!
Also visited a winery on our way out of Holland… Experienced a bit different US there… very quiet, non-concrete, natural America… lovely it was!
And more flowers near home!
The third car I drove in the month of May was a Mazda 6. Radical design, but another beauty to drive! I had rented it to get Ma Pa from the Chicago airport! Cannot explain that feeling in words… going to an airport to pick up mom dad after their first ever flight! very precious memory!
In May itself, I drove to Minneapolis and Chicago with Mom Dad!
This is a view from the 14th floor apartment in Minneapolis… my home away from home in America… the famous or rather infamous 1409!
See you with some pictures from June soon! -
Let the kids stop the melting !!!
Targetting kids has been a strategy that ad-makers have been following for a long time now… and I am sure it works, because when a kid decides to get something, it usually is based how impressed (s)he is with what has been told and how it has been told to him !!!┬аConservation is another thing that needs to be sold this way… There are things happening already ( e.g the Smoke on Diwali in Delhi has considerably reduced after the Kids in schools have been told about the pollution and told again and told again )Looking forward to the schools making a biiiiig difference in the way the world lives today !!!Amen !
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A POST One Too Many…
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Have you seen Johny Gaddar? No? !!!!! You must… one of the finest movies I have seen multiple times in the recent past…
Ok now, mudde ki baat !!!
Friday and Saturday, witnessed an event that I had been working for, for about 3 weeks now… and it turned out just right… with a few minor errors, that I should have taken care of… but never mind… All is well, when it ends well !!! It was a two day workshop for the members of the Process Consulting Group, who are currently in Europe… a total of 25 participants. Had loads of fun with some serious brainstorming…. It felt really good to play an important part in organizing, and participating and getting recognized for what I am… and my team also won a quiz by a considerable margin ЁЯША ye !!!
Oh, and you can write a compliment NOW in comments and continue reading the rest of the post ЁЯША NOW!!! :D.. hehehehe…Though the weekend was super tiring, there was a lot of satisfaction that I was carrying with myself… I should confess that I love attention when I know I deserve it, and have worked hard for it… rest of the times, its not important…
And now introduction to something that I am going to call my own for a long time to come… My new Lens, in fact the second of the two I have bought after I came to the UK…
The first one is the Canon 50mm F1.8 Prime… not many people, who know about dSLRs, would need an introduction to this one… This is a must have in your kit, thanks to its lightweight, excellent optics and remarkable picture quality…
The second one that I bought, came after loads of reading… I wanted to stop using my kit lens and step up to a lens which would give me a wider aperture, and better optics… something that I would be able to use as a walk around lens… And I finally zeroed in on the Sigma 24-70 f2.8 EX DG Macro… This is the closed that I could get to the 24-70L Series at one-third of the price of the God of Lenses… Read at least 500 odd reviews and finally bought the lens about 10 days ago… Did not click much during these 10 days except a few experimentals to make sure that I had taken the right call, and this lens did not disappoint… Beautiful colors, nice grip, and pro looks… It comes with its own disadvantages, but I have a feeling I am not going to feel bad about any of them. This lens looks like something I am going to be very very happy about… Already am, to be honest…
What follows are a few pictures from the New Sigma that I have and then some from the Prime… Enjoy !!!
The green line is a Laser Beam that is initiated from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich after dark… This runs above the Prime Meridian of the World…And now the pictures from the Crazy Canon 50mm Prime…
Let me end the post with another song that I have already for about 3 times while I was writing this post…
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рдмрд╛рд╣рд░ рд╕реЗ рднреЛрд▓рд╛ рдЧрд╣рд░рд╛ рдЕрдиреНрджрд░
рдЗрдВрдбрд┐рдпрд╛ Sir рдпреЗ рдЪреАрдЬрд╝ рдзреБрд░рдВрдзрд░
рдЬреЗрдм рджрд▓рд┐рджреНрджрд░ рджрд┐рд▓ рд╣реИ рд╕рдордиреНрджрд░And now is the 5th time I am listening to this one… and I guess its going to repeat for another 5… love the happy mood of the song… For your information, the Song is Des Mera by Indian Ocean and is from the Album Jhini…
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A Few New Colors…
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Some fade away, some are new…
A few come back, the ones that stay always are few…
Have a blessed week everyone…
Hope you turn out to be a winner Smart Ass like the dude in the picture above !!! Have fun !!!
