The Fourth One- Of Photographs and Charmed Work

Ah, another month goes by. Like millions of other people, when I started writing the blog, I decided to update regularly. Then I discovered two things.
a. My life is boring- no wild parties or hot drunk catfights to mention
b.I'm very lazy

Sad but true. I have spent the whole of last month doing work and studying. There have been lots of times I have itched to come onto my blog and bitch about my life, but then nobody is interested in knowing about messed up XS and S size T-shirt orders, right? :)

Early this month, the year-long efforts of hundreds of people at BITS-Goa paid off when QUARK, our Techfest came around. For some strange reason, Quark went off relatively smoothly, with minor glitches. The external crowd seemed to be happy, and it was fun all around. But for some reason, I was feeling empty and blue throughout the festival. I had done a decent amount of work for the festival, and QUARK was everyone's baby, so I was glad when it went well. But everyone, including me, were too busy making it a success to have any fun. Seriously, at some points I felt it was like a proper job, with plenty of job satisfaction, but no fun, and no pay (in some cases negative pay!!).

I hope I feel much better when WAVES, the cultural fest comes around. I'm working for it as well, and won't get to have much fun either, but maybe I will shake a leg at the DJ night. In my pretty bleeeew dress (anyone understood the Jeff Dunham connection?). Coming to Jeff Dunham, please google Achmed, The Dead Terrorist. Please. He will 'keel' you.

Now back to my very happening personal life. I had tests. And now they're over-yaay! That's actually the most interesting thing I could come up with about myself. No wait- there's my new hobby to talk about. I have developed a taste for phtography. It's mainly due to my amazing new Digital Camera, and partly due to Flickr.com and Rasagy Sharma(http://irrashonallyurs.blogspot.com). An extremely talented guy who advertises his blog a lot, I decided to actively start taking photos which were 'artistic' after I saw his post on photography.
Thanks Rashie.

My father is an amazing photographer, and sadly I have not inherited his talent and maybe not his Nikon SLR. So I'm trying to get there, keeping an eye out for great moments and great things to click away. As I click more photographs, I realize how one moment makes all the difference. How one flicker of sunlight, how one smile, can change a picture. Strangely like life, when you lose that one special moment, it's gone forever. That one perfect moment, you either capture it, or it scurries, and disappears into the hurried motions of life.So that's why I choose inanimate objects more than people. There are no moments with them, they just lie there, waiting for you to shape their moment (no, that was not a physics joke). So here are a few pictures that piqued my interest as I shot them.

Floodlights in the BITS-Auditorium. Standing in a row, quietly.


My watch with the streetlights reflected on it.

My very creative friend Liza in her room. You can see the origami and the

decorative tree she made out of a dead branch, by painting tiny acorns and

sticking them onto it. Happy 20th Lizzie. May you forever score full marks in

TP.

Self-explanatory. Taken with the cam's auto-mode in a dark

room.

Please feel free to comment on them (concrit is welcome). Now I want to say many more things, but I shall keep that for another hour, another day. I'll leave you with a list of songs that you must definitely listen to. This is artist, song and what makes it special.

1. INXS- Suicide Blonde- Michael Hutchence's husky voice, and an old west feel.

2. R.E.M- Everybody Hurts- Slow, and soulful.

3. Dario Marianelli-The Atonement Album- Lovely, lovely classical music.

4. The Who- Baba O'Riley- Simply great music

5. Elton John- Tiny Dancer- A romantic ballad about a ballerina

6. Brad Paisely and Alison Krauss- Whiskey Lullaby-A short, simple song about pain

7.Incubus- Megalomaniac- Why Hitler can never be fuckin' Elvis

8. Judas Priest- Electric Eye- A superhero song!

9. John Mayer-Slow Dancing in a Burning room- Lovely words

10.Pink Floyd- Coming Back to Life- Pink Floyd

11.Iron Maiden- Dance of Death- A nice, powerful song

12.Eric Clapton- While my Guitar gently weeps- Eric Clapton at his best

13.Porcupine Tree- Arriving Somewhere- A long, rich song

14. Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood- Summer Wine- A very addictive song

15. Richa Sharma -Choro more Baiyyan (from Zubeida)- Go back to the world of the 19th century courtesan

Adios for now! Listen to these songs and tell me what you think!