A day to remember

A very pleasant evening etched in my memory forever....
      the gentle cool breeze, the glow of moon visible from a canopy of pink and orange bougainvillea, the sounds of the temple surrounding us... the light banter and the more serious assurances..

A friend's birthday celebrated with grandeur...
      lights and colors, chocolate cake, talking and playing the entire night without a wink of sleep..

the chill early morning weather, good morning wishes, drive back home with a bunch of sleepy-headed friends..

touchwood!

Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisi

Sudhir Mishra's direction..Powerful acting by Kay Kay Menon, Chitrangda Singh and Shiney Ahuja. What I liked the most is the song - Baawra mann

wonderful lyrics and soulful singing by Swanand Kirkire. [ full lyrics here]

baawra mann dekhne chala ek sapna..
baawra mann dekhne chala ek sapna..

Kehne ko Jashn-e-bahaara hain....

On the way to Point Reyes Viewpoint.

Calm seas ahead?

Warm Glow

Sunset captured?

Light house and the sea

ChhoTa sa ghar hain yeh magar...

And to end it, a macro ;-)

Note: I know I said the sunset was awesome, but none of the snaps did justice to what I saw.. so not adding any sunset snaps here. Just one, but probably won't classify as a proper sunset pic.

Moments

Few of the snaps taken during the trip to Pt.Reyes National Shoreline. The place and the drive was very beautiful.

The below two snaps were taken in a picnic area on the way.




The other two on the walk up and down the path leading to the Pt.Reyes view point. And I must say, the view of the sunset was just mind-blowing. One of the best (of the few) I have seen so far! More pics of the sunset in later posts.

Neela Aasman...

One of the pics taken from one of the view points of GGB. Of course, this was a lil far off from the bridge! Loved this snap for many reasons. Few of them: Loved the glow of light at the horizon, the vastness, the blues.

Ajeeb daastan hain yeh...

A birthday full of highs and lows. Thanks for all the wishes and surprises.

The lows just indicate how life is...

Hmm..philosophical at 25?? God save me! :-)

Las Vegas-2

More snaps!



Vegas in the night!


Musical fountain in front of Bellagio.








The above two pics were taken at 12.00 in the night. Unbelievable right? False ceilings again.. this was inside 'The Venetian'.

A peek into the other side of the Venetian.








Two more theme-based Casino.





And finally, some more pictures :-)


Does it remind you of Gladys (Phoebe's work of art)?


Bizarre!


Disco82???

Las Vegas

Probably the blandest title ever. But that's the exact opposite of what Las Vegas has to offer! The Sin City- full of vivid colors, bright lights, impressive architecture and a perennial flow of money.
The highlights of the trip were the Musical fountain show in front of Bellagio, the Blue-Man Show, and the amazing architecture of the casinos. You can't help but admire the unique experience this city has to offer; it does help if you are lucky and end up not losing money!!

The casinos






New York-New York


Caesar's Palace


Paris


Stratosphere (This has a roller-coaster ride on top of the 108-storied tower!)

Inside the casinos



Colors




Elegant


A closer look at 'Paris'


Not a picture of people gambling in broad-daylight ;-) Look closely, that's a ceiling! Inside 'Paris'!

More pictures of Vegas in the next post. Cya for now!

MeeTi Yaadein…. Savi nenapu..

Jeevan ke safar main raahi

milte hain bichchaD jaane ko

aur de jaate hain yaadein

tanhaayi mein taDapaane ko

One of the guys from our office 'gang' is all set to pursue higher education and has quit officially today!

Strange how friendships just form and stay on like forever! I still remember the chap from companyL who joined dev team and went around introducing himself. :-) That was the first time someone actually broke the official-intro-session-rules@office. The fact that he was a junior whom we could bully around, grew up in some cities, knew a certain language did help him too ;-)

A farewell was planned with the guy treating us to a game of bowling and dinner. It was awesome fun (Wait a minute, weren’t we supposed to give him a sendoff or something first???). The icing on the cake was the Live singing (by a group visiting the restaurant for singing Christmas carols) "I hate to go" especially for him. Brownie points? A certain North Carolina phone number!!

The next day Sudks meticulously created a collage, with all of us giving our own 'smart' comments! ‘Savi Nenapu’ it read, with all our snaps in between. [Rings a bell?? Clue: The title of the post!] The greeting card, the cakes (including the egg less one) and the magic candles did brighten everybody's mood and we were off to treat ourselves to some bajjis! Change of plans and we landed up in V.V.Puram - a place supposedly famous for the amazing variety of food the stalls offer - dosas, chaats, rasmalai, gulkand, golgappa, lime soda ( I also saw a stall making fresh hoLige!) ; and also the amount of calories one will have to invariably consume! Lots of gossip, teasing each other from petty things to major ones, some flash-backs - all made a wonderful evening to remember!

It will definitely feel different, walking to my cube every morning and not greeting him with a "hiiiiiii", the afternoon walks and the crazy ideas/plots we come up with, the endless discussion of how-good-pritam-is ( in-lifting-other-tunes , of course!), bollywood movies/music updates (to name a few), all of which will be dearly missed. Thanks for everything :-)

Have fun dude wherever you go and be as charming, enterprising, enthusiastic, as always!

Kaleidoscope

colors, calmness, chaos, complacency, aggressiveness, rain, sun, home, office... feels good to be back in namma Bengalooru!!

at the same time friends and conversations@SJ will be missed...