So, I'm in New York City, about to take the metro and go downtown, sittin in the chair, i get up realising, my jeans gets stuck to this nail in the seat! It doesnt matter! its jeans hello! they are strong! I get into the train, thankfully im seated, come to the 34th street, when i get off, and walk 12 blocks when suddenly i realise the a/c vent in my pants start working, and i have cool air comin in to me...A quick check on my zip tells me its workin fine, and a quick check on my butt tells me i have a 20 cm hole in my pant! damn nails in seats!!! Oh and no undies make matters worse!!!
What do i do?
Huff! Puff! Sweat!
Relax, its New York City baby! Walk another block, take a cabbie to the hotel and all's well, now only have to wait 2 months and pray no nerd made an mms clip of that! and then life is all good!!!
Friday, October 06, 2006
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Sex, woman and rock and roll!
Reading books and travelling can you give you a lot of insights about people, places and obviously snippets to write about, given below are a few one-liners i have heard, cherished and saved.
* The average man can fool the average woman, if only he will let her have her own way at the start
*The angle of the dangle is directly proportional to the heat of the meat provided the urge to surge remains constant!
*Dancing is the vertical expression for a horizontal desire.
*There are only two infinite things - space and human stupidity.
*There are two areas where new ideas are terrible dangerous: economics and sex. By and large it's all been tried, and if it's really new, it's probably illegal or dangerous or unhealthy.
* The average man can fool the average woman, if only he will let her have her own way at the start
*The angle of the dangle is directly proportional to the heat of the meat provided the urge to surge remains constant!
*Dancing is the vertical expression for a horizontal desire.
*There are only two infinite things - space and human stupidity.
*There are two areas where new ideas are terrible dangerous: economics and sex. By and large it's all been tried, and if it's really new, it's probably illegal or dangerous or unhealthy.
Friday, August 04, 2006
Aurora Borealis - The Northern Lights
Through my flying career, i have seen some amazing sights, sounds and signs, but i can tell you, none have been as splendid or spectacular as the Aurora Borealis, also knows as the Northern Lights. Northern lights is a result of our atmosphere shielding against solar particles which would otherwise make our planet uninhabitable.The aurora is a glow observed in the night sky, usually in the polar zone, but its the nature and shape of the glow which makes it so beautiful to look at. The biggest mistake i made was i never photographed it, i will...Till then the memories will do. Oh and i also saw a rising Venus, but then thats another story!
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Woman shouldnt be talking balls!
I'm so fed up with woman talking football! And I'm not a MCP nor a woman hater! its just that it kinda bugs me when they talk football. (I'm not saying I'm Raymond Domenech now but i definately am the average football fan and we do discuss players and strategies) and then one goes::
:oh yea Brazil will win.
Why?
They have Ronaldinho.
Hmmm, you a Brazilian fan?
Yes, I love their team!
Who else do you know in their team?
Ronaldo, ummm Roberto Carlos.
And?
(Long Pause) Brazil will win! Ronaldinho will score and he is cute too!
sniff!sniff!
I have already decided never to define what an offside is to them!
In the end of all that someone comments, "Fine, and remember next time we go out shopping, we will never call you"!
Yaay!
:oh yea Brazil will win.
Why?
They have Ronaldinho.
Hmmm, you a Brazilian fan?
Yes, I love their team!
Who else do you know in their team?
Ronaldo, ummm Roberto Carlos.
And?
(Long Pause) Brazil will win! Ronaldinho will score and he is cute too!
sniff!sniff!
I have already decided never to define what an offside is to them!
In the end of all that someone comments, "Fine, and remember next time we go out shopping, we will never call you"!
Yaay!
Friday, June 16, 2006
A picture is worth a thousand words!!!
"We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them."
Gene McSweeney, Grey Water Photography, 06-04-2006
What you will see below are a few images, etched in our hearts forever. Most of you would have seen them before, I am still puttin them up here as a sad reminder of how war, hurt, and nature's fury can destroy every effort of mankind to make this world a better place to be in.
Indira Mariyappan (by Arko Dutta)
The fateful day of December 26th, 2004 the great Tsunami struck the coasts of Cuddalore. Indira mourns the loss of her sister-in-law, her only source of support. Deserted by her husband, she lives with her brother, struggling for her survival.
Winds of Change (by Cheryl Diaz)
Standing proudly, 10-year-old Uniss Mohammad Salman was among students returning to Al Amtithal Elemtary School, one of the first in the city of reopen after the invasion of Baghdad.
The Afghan Girl (by Steve McCurry)
She was one of the world's most famous faces, yet no one knew who she was. Her image appeared on the front of magazines and books, posters, lapel pins, and even rugs, but she didn't know it. Now, after searching for 17 years, National Geographic has once again found the Afghan girl, Sharabt Gula with the haunting green eyes.
The Food chain (By Kevin Carter)
Visiting Sudan, a little-known photographer took a picture that made the world weep. What happened afterward is a tragedy of another sort. The image presaged no celebration: a child barely alive, a vulture so eager for carrion. Yet the photograph that epitomised Sudan's famine would win Kevin Carter fame - and hopes for anchoring a career spent hounding the news, free-lancing in war zones, waiting anxiously for assignments amid dire finances, staying in the line of fire for that one great picture. On May 23, 14 months after capturing that memorable scene, Carter walked up to the dais in the classical rotunda of Columbia University's Low Memorial Library and received the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
Two months after receiving his Pulitzer, Carter would be dead of carbon-monoxide poisoning in Johannesburg, a suicide at 33. "I'm really, really sorry," he explained in a note left on the passenger seat beneath a knapsack. "The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist."
A heartless city
The raging mob burns and pilages all that which comes its way. This soot-stained , terror ridden face of Naseruddin Qutbuddin Ansari, a 29-year-old tailor, was the defining image of the horror of the worst religious riots in a decade. He firmly believes Muslims and Hindus will unite in Gujarat on Thursday to build a better India.
The execution (by Eddie Adams)
With North Vietnam’s Tet Offensive beginning, Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnam’s national police chief, was doing all he could to keep Viet Cong guerrillas from Saigon. As Loan executed a prisoner who was said to be a Viet Cong captain, AP photographer Eddie Adams opened the shutter. Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for a picture that, as much as any, turned public opinion against the war.
The melting girl (by Nick Ut)
Nick Ut : " The picture shows Kim, when her skin is burned so badly. Behind Kim, you see all the South Vietnamese armies running with her, together. She looked ever so bad - I thought that she would die.You know, I had been outside the village that morning and I took a lot of pictures. I was almost leaving the village when I saw two aeroplanes. The first dropped four bombs and the second aeroplane dropped another four napalm [bombs]."
P.S: Kim Phuc now lives in Canada
Lost Souls ( by Caroyln Cole)
Kinny Kanneh, age 9, was wounded when mortar rounds landed in a Monrovia refugee camp run by the American embassy. Refugees descended on the capital to avoid fighting, but the violence followed. Pulitzer Prize winner in 2003.
Each of this image is a story in itself, and though not every story has a happy ending, these images ensured that their endings would change, if they haven't already been done. They will be. Oneday. Someday...
Gene McSweeney, Grey Water Photography, 06-04-2006
What you will see below are a few images, etched in our hearts forever. Most of you would have seen them before, I am still puttin them up here as a sad reminder of how war, hurt, and nature's fury can destroy every effort of mankind to make this world a better place to be in.
Indira Mariyappan (by Arko Dutta)
The fateful day of December 26th, 2004 the great Tsunami struck the coasts of Cuddalore. Indira mourns the loss of her sister-in-law, her only source of support. Deserted by her husband, she lives with her brother, struggling for her survival.
Winds of Change (by Cheryl Diaz)
Standing proudly, 10-year-old Uniss Mohammad Salman was among students returning to Al Amtithal Elemtary School, one of the first in the city of reopen after the invasion of Baghdad.
The Afghan Girl (by Steve McCurry)
She was one of the world's most famous faces, yet no one knew who she was. Her image appeared on the front of magazines and books, posters, lapel pins, and even rugs, but she didn't know it. Now, after searching for 17 years, National Geographic has once again found the Afghan girl, Sharabt Gula with the haunting green eyes.
The Food chain (By Kevin Carter)
Visiting Sudan, a little-known photographer took a picture that made the world weep. What happened afterward is a tragedy of another sort. The image presaged no celebration: a child barely alive, a vulture so eager for carrion. Yet the photograph that epitomised Sudan's famine would win Kevin Carter fame - and hopes for anchoring a career spent hounding the news, free-lancing in war zones, waiting anxiously for assignments amid dire finances, staying in the line of fire for that one great picture. On May 23, 14 months after capturing that memorable scene, Carter walked up to the dais in the classical rotunda of Columbia University's Low Memorial Library and received the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
Two months after receiving his Pulitzer, Carter would be dead of carbon-monoxide poisoning in Johannesburg, a suicide at 33. "I'm really, really sorry," he explained in a note left on the passenger seat beneath a knapsack. "The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist."
A heartless city
The raging mob burns and pilages all that which comes its way. This soot-stained , terror ridden face of Naseruddin Qutbuddin Ansari, a 29-year-old tailor, was the defining image of the horror of the worst religious riots in a decade. He firmly believes Muslims and Hindus will unite in Gujarat on Thursday to build a better India.
The execution (by Eddie Adams)
With North Vietnam’s Tet Offensive beginning, Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnam’s national police chief, was doing all he could to keep Viet Cong guerrillas from Saigon. As Loan executed a prisoner who was said to be a Viet Cong captain, AP photographer Eddie Adams opened the shutter. Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for a picture that, as much as any, turned public opinion against the war.
The melting girl (by Nick Ut)
Nick Ut : " The picture shows Kim, when her skin is burned so badly. Behind Kim, you see all the South Vietnamese armies running with her, together. She looked ever so bad - I thought that she would die.You know, I had been outside the village that morning and I took a lot of pictures. I was almost leaving the village when I saw two aeroplanes. The first dropped four bombs and the second aeroplane dropped another four napalm [bombs]."
P.S: Kim Phuc now lives in Canada
Lost Souls ( by Caroyln Cole)
Kinny Kanneh, age 9, was wounded when mortar rounds landed in a Monrovia refugee camp run by the American embassy. Refugees descended on the capital to avoid fighting, but the violence followed. Pulitzer Prize winner in 2003.
Each of this image is a story in itself, and though not every story has a happy ending, these images ensured that their endings would change, if they haven't already been done. They will be. Oneday. Someday...
Saturday, May 20, 2006
I can't be your superman!
Everybody wants to be superman, and yet no one is, and this is a guy who wears his underwear outside his pants, and when i did that in my college, the girls went ewww and the teachers asked me to take a day off from my tiring schedule. hmmmph life cant be fair at times!!!
But there is onething I admire about superman, he rescues and helps people when they need him the most, and that incidentally is the topic of conversation...
It makes me think of all the times people have helped me and i question myself to find out, if i have ever done enough to justify the faith they have entrusted on me.It's true we dont really know what we have lost till its gone, leaving things for tomorrow and taking things for granted have made me lose the most important person in my life and i will always regret that i could never do more than what i did to make her life happy. Why can't i just have some superpowers to see that all are happy and i'm there when they need me the most. I guess i can never be anybody's superman and the more i try, the more the expectations would grow, this is one flaw i will always carry on just like the sailor did, when he had to carry the albatross across his shoulders when he shot it....
But then ofcourse everyone has his own flaws, just like superman does...I'm sure you have read reports about how he is spending time in jail now for killing his girlfriend when she commented "Superman you came faster than a speeding bullet"
But there is onething I admire about superman, he rescues and helps people when they need him the most, and that incidentally is the topic of conversation...
It makes me think of all the times people have helped me and i question myself to find out, if i have ever done enough to justify the faith they have entrusted on me.It's true we dont really know what we have lost till its gone, leaving things for tomorrow and taking things for granted have made me lose the most important person in my life and i will always regret that i could never do more than what i did to make her life happy. Why can't i just have some superpowers to see that all are happy and i'm there when they need me the most. I guess i can never be anybody's superman and the more i try, the more the expectations would grow, this is one flaw i will always carry on just like the sailor did, when he had to carry the albatross across his shoulders when he shot it....
But then ofcourse everyone has his own flaws, just like superman does...I'm sure you have read reports about how he is spending time in jail now for killing his girlfriend when she commented "Superman you came faster than a speeding bullet"
Friday, May 05, 2006
Of Birthdays and growing old!!!
Hmmm its 12:00, the date reads 04 - 05 - 06, what day is it? Its my birthday!!! where am i? On flight all the way from France...the crew kicks my ass real hard infront of the passengers...the passengers are shocked...the inflight supervisor announces its one of the crew's birthday and they present me with a Davidoff Coolwater...suddenly its all cool...the passengers wish me too...and life comes back to normal....touchdown...Bombay...switch on my cell...i have 42 messages...calls from kuwait london and france...life sure has taken a turn for good..(period) a lot more calls a quite dinner and a tired and satisfied day later its nearing 12:00 in the night now and i am in the train goin home...welcome 24!
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
What time is it? Time to party!!!
Ok who apart from Paris Hilton parties in london, shits in new york, drinks in frankfurt, parties even more in paris and makes a fool of herself everywhere else!!! ME!!!!
Been partying so much, and what tops up is that i get to drink all the best brands of wine, whisky, beer, you name it, they got it kinda!.
I met up with this film director from Finland, and while I havent bagged any role, sleazy or other, it was a very interesting hookup...
Went to Frankfurt this time, where a few captains and some senior hostesses called me for a party they were throwing, and what a party it was, we danced, well ok they danced, drank and the hotel we are put up at the Inter Continental is close to the uhh lets say gentleman's club areas....went to this shop called Dr. Meuller, a sex shop, and was amazed by the things they kept to make mankind horny!!!
From there I went to Chicago, and couldnt go out a lot there coz the weather was a lil too cold for comfort, so confined myself to the hotel room, the internet parlour and the swimming pool!
Adios
Been partying so much, and what tops up is that i get to drink all the best brands of wine, whisky, beer, you name it, they got it kinda!.
I met up with this film director from Finland, and while I havent bagged any role, sleazy or other, it was a very interesting hookup...
Went to Frankfurt this time, where a few captains and some senior hostesses called me for a party they were throwing, and what a party it was, we danced, well ok they danced, drank and the hotel we are put up at the Inter Continental is close to the uhh lets say gentleman's club areas....went to this shop called Dr. Meuller, a sex shop, and was amazed by the things they kept to make mankind horny!!!
From there I went to Chicago, and couldnt go out a lot there coz the weather was a lil too cold for comfort, so confined myself to the hotel room, the internet parlour and the swimming pool!
Adios
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Friday I'm in love with you.
Ahh, another few weeks of flying, more experiences, parties, ceremonies...one of the flights i did recently was to Haj, though everyone will probably know Mecca is the most pious and religious of places of visit for muslims. Any Muslim who can afford has to make atleast one visit to Mecca, and this made me salute the passengers on the flight, clearly there were a lot of people in this flight who have never been on an airplane, and cost of the total journey is steep and yet these people save up everything they have to make the trip.
Apart from that this week also happened to me my mothers 1st death anniversary ceremony or whatever you call it, and when I think of all that my mother must have done for me at every stage of my life and how I now will never be able to make up for it ...it kinda saddens me....
I am thinking of buying me a laptop, so if there is someone who accidentally bumps into my blog and can offer me a suggestion, I'd appreciate that...
Nothing else really, I am not in the best of moods now and I might publish a few of my pics if I feel they are worthy to look at.
cheers.
Apart from that this week also happened to me my mothers 1st death anniversary ceremony or whatever you call it, and when I think of all that my mother must have done for me at every stage of my life and how I now will never be able to make up for it ...it kinda saddens me....
I am thinking of buying me a laptop, so if there is someone who accidentally bumps into my blog and can offer me a suggestion, I'd appreciate that...
Nothing else really, I am not in the best of moods now and I might publish a few of my pics if I feel they are worthy to look at.
cheers.
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