Free Falling

The past week was particularly hectic. It started with a working weekend and featured a night out to boot. There were also a number of 'professional' ups and downs - lotsa learning was had.

I also met Ashi and Austere on Thursday for an eventful lunch at Bombay Blue in Bandra. Ashi got me my digicam - the Canon Powershot A95. Now my colleagues know what snap-happy means :) I am currently experimenting with it and learning.

For me, the best part of the digicam is the learning. The sucker for SLRs that I am, I love photography in manual mode where I can fiddle around with the settings (aperture, focal length, shutter speed, flash et al); the drawback with a normal SLR being that I would have to wait till the roll was developed to figure out whether my judgement of the settings was right or wrong. In a digicam, I get to see the results INSTANTLY. So I know how right or wrong I was. That really accelerates the learning. And of course, there's no real restriction on the quality and quantity of the pictures that I can take here. I can click really high quality pics almost endlessly (provided I have the right memory card). Given the fact that this particular model also supports fitment of a wide-angle and/or telephoto lens, apart from the tripod, that really did the deal. Last but not the least, it can be kept in a special case which will allow me to go at least 40 ms under water and shoot photos. A colleague muttered that there wasn't much he could do at that depth coz he would be dead. I opened his eyes to scuba diving in Dwaraka...

So you see, I got a real good cam :) Okay, I am NOT trying to convince myself :P

Next, I will get myself an EOS model. But before that, maybe I will start a photoblog. Hmmm?

A few trips seem to be happening this month (on the professional front), won't really get time to go out elsewhere.

Hima, I am reading 'Selections From The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda' right now. That's what I read before going to sleep each night.

I am reading Porter's Competitive Strategy while travelling to office in the mornings. Once that's over, I will move on to Kotler's Marketing of Nations unless I find something better.

Though I really couldn't read either book this week.

I have signed up for yoga classes, so that will take up my time between 7 and 9 every Sunday morning for the next thirteen weeks. The gym follows after that.

Oh yeah, I am free falling.