Runnin' Around

Leaving for Bangalore on Sunday morning on an official trip. When the admin lady called up to ask me which airline to book, I said - Kingfisher! I hope I don't regret that decision. The newspaper ads seem quite promising however the actual experience will be the true test. Flying back next Saturday (by Kingfisher again). This will be my first trip to Bangalore. Hope to 'see' the city a lil bit.

Again on Sunday, I will be flying early morning to Delhi for a short 'day-trip'. Will be returning at night. This is a personal trip however.

So it's gonna be a tad hectic.

The sinus is really screwing my happiness just now. The cough has subsided though. Oh well, c'est la vie!

Ups N' Downs

It's not the best feeling in the world when someone you have protected and nurtured stabs you in the back and you get told by others on how to lead your life.

I agree, it's a part of life. Learning to let go.

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.