Happy Friday!

Fill in the Blank Friday

stolen from Lauren @ the little things we do

1.   My favorite new blog of the moment is      Kristin @ Confessions of a Graphic Design Student and Bella(non-Twilight,don't panic) @ One Sister's Rant  (go say hi) .

2.   Something I am thankful for is  the internet- can I ever emphasize it enough?Also, the Bug and my few but wonderful friends.

3.  Something that made me laugh this week was    Boys and their commitment phobia-you think that's because some zombie  woman ate his heart out?Think again-it begins young.Proof.[click]   .

4. An item that is currently on my wish list is    droid,droid,droid!

5.  I am excited about    growing and building up my portfolio!All hail graphic/blog design

6.  If I were a color I would be    Prussian Blue.My love affair with Bismark in a previous life left a lasting impression.G'nnnuh(weird noise I make after awkward statements or moments of confusion)G'nnuuh.

7.  My favorite way to spend a chilly fall day is by   Coffee-black.amazing book/amazing movie/amazing blogs .

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Wordless Wednesday but with words:Bazaars of Calcutta

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Yesterday,my bestfriend and I(I often wonder if that sounds too puberty-ish?Then I'm like,who the hell cares?Who else has your back?)  took a sudden and utterly unplanned to our favourite part of the city-New Market in Esplanade.If you ask around in this part of the world,the men on the street hardly know the meaning of the word,but,to them 'splanade is the place for all things cheap,shady and occasionally good.New Market (or less popularly Sir Stuart Hogg Market) is over 200 years old,has been burnt twice in whole or partially,yet it still stands as the busiest and the most cherished shopping district of Calcutta.It was built at the time of the British Raj and inspite of it's antiquity, nobody blinks an eye about the word "new" still forming a prefix..I guess  it's just one of those places that never looses it's charm no matter how old.Some of the oldest shops of the city are in this district-and if you look around under those huge Victorian ivy-laced buildings you may see the foyer of the Oberoi Grand is still cobbled, though with  no hooves to strike an archaic symphony.The clock-tower ,you would be glad to know,has chosen not to run off  -horses or no horses,evening rides or not- and still tolls faithfully at each hour.

rookie attempt at perspective

After some time of usual public embarassment(crazy lady says whaat?) and aimless roaming- we slunked into a narrow,barely there lane and found these beauties.


This has to be my favourite shot of the week.Reason?Can you guess?5 points to Slytherine if you guessed "bokeh".

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The bazaars in my city are noisy and often too crowded.But at the end of that jostling is a thing of beauty-the colours,the deliciously spice tinged aromas,the people and their niceties -you just want to get lost in it-even if you have  nothing to jingle in your pocket but a lone rupee.







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In which my friend goes LUMOS!

That thing in her hand which looks like something they would sell at Olivander's?That's a cracker.Fizzle,pop!

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This is my favourite shot from this year's Diwali.For all my overseas readers,Diwali is an Indian festival,popularly known as the "festival of lights" and celebrated around mid-October or mid-November for various reasons.However,in modern times the return of Lord Rama after 14 years of banishment in the forest is held as the principle cause for all the ladida.Thousands of diyas(purdy lights in earthen vessels with oil) were lit and lots of hot Aryan women thronged the streets to welcome him back to civilization .On Diwali light triumphs over darkness as good over evil and everybody ushers peace and prosperity into their homes.That,friends is only the tiny curled corned of the 's' in shabang!In India,fireworks and crackers are legally available to the public(yaay?).My friends are avid cracker enthusiasts and they had bought a butt-load of them to be sent scampering into the sky over to my place.Frankly speaking,the hiss and spit and the crackling scares me(you have to pay me to go anywhere near naked fired,water or high places-dear lord,what else did I leave out?) and I just usually stay out of the way.While they were busy doing what they were doing, I scoured the skies for pretty lights with my camera in vain.Turns out you need a hot damn bit of luck to predict from which direction somebody is going to light up the sky,position yourself and take a decent shot.The Calcutta Diwali night scene isn't really similar to Sydney Harbour bridge on New Years.Tragic.Back to Earth,when I first took this shot of Andy's I was kinda impressed with myself(amateur,yo!) as she was moving a lot(like a hell lot,down girl!) but her face seemed to be in focus with a nice blurry movement about her hands and body.Also,I'm bad with low light pictures(remind me to buy a tripod) but this has turned out to be a nice candid shot of hers as she usually is-buzzing,bubbling and popping with energy.It was just today that I noticed how "lumos"y this looked and at times-happy and beautiful as she looks,(here) she could give Bellatrix a run for money with that insane laughter tugging away at her face.My second favourite is quite the unimpressive one-but as it is I'm obessed with bokeh.I'd exchange my pants for some decent ones.No,really!

I might make this my wallpaper one of these days!(you want?)

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