Thimphu
has just opened for clear sky after a rainy week. It’s a beautiful day here! I
hope you all are enjoying the bright monsoon day as much as I am here. So, to
treat you, I bring to you, once again, pictures of a handful of flowers that I took
recently from my office garden. Have a wonderful day!
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Sunday, June 22, 2014
The photography lesson
I don’t know exactly since
when I’ve nurtured this passion. Photography. To tell you, I just love taking
pictures of almost everything. One clarification here though; I’m not a certified
photographer. But hey, should one be certified to take pictures?
I don’t know.
Initially, I began taking
pictures of nature. Snow-capped mountain, cerulean skies, the sunset, rain,
prayer flags, leaves, trees, and flowers - so much more. Perhaps all the beginners
do start shooting nature. It could be, at least in my case.
I found divinity and beauty
in nature, and felt feelings, warmth and hope. So I intended to capture and relive
these things on my lens as briefly as possible.
Sometimes I would look at
my own pictures and like anyone of you, I marvel at it. And to my own
amazement, I stand in disbelief. Because some of my pictures seem unreal to me;
it’s as though I had made it up.
However, photography and
writing really complement each other. The digital lens does write stories,
photographs do tell stories – sometimes better than my handful of words. So incapable
of writing forward, for my blog, I look at my pictures and do I derive
inspiration, get stories.
Quite wondrously, it is through
my digital lens that I started to see the world around me differently. And
ultimately I became a nature lover. Most importantly, it helped me to learn to
find beauty and pleasure in the simple things. It changed my life’s outlook,
for better.
Someone rightly stated
about the photography and our life,
The greatest of
inspiration, isn’t it?
I can add here a few lines,
but my own lines. You can, in life, fork out your problems like the way you
crop out the unwanted parts of images. And if you want to make your life more
attractive, learn to apply effects to images of your life. Whew, it’s that simple!
As I’m still learning to
take good pictures, so do I still learning to understand the life’s essence.
Note: Second picture downloaded from google
Note: Second picture downloaded from google
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Thimphu all set for Modi’s visit
I
went around Thimphu City this evening for a casual walk. And wow, I am hugely impressed
with the new looks of the City. The Street and Town look strikingly beautiful
and dazzling.
Thimphu
sets all ready welcoming Narendra Modi, the Indian Prime Minister, who will be
arriving in Bhutan tomorrow. The highway and the Street all dressed in the
flags and posters of both the prime ministers flaring on the poles and
buildings.
Everything
- in and around the City - looks perfectly organized and clean. Flowers well
watered, and all blooming. All waste and trash disappeared. One feels as if you
were in the City of Tokyo and Singapore.
The
security personnel are everywhere. I hope the Indian PM’s visit would be a successful
one and the Indo-Bhutan would last forever, ever stronger.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
The shopping mecca
Whenever I travel here in
Bangkok, I do this again and again. Shopping. Quite a lot. Actually, I’m not a shopaholic,
maniac. But once I’m here, in the shopping malls of Bangkok, I become a different
person. As I shop like crazy.
Quite surprisingly, this capital
city has quite a huge number of popular shopping malls, centres and complexes
with over thousands stores. Very convenient and attractive, they provide all
kinds of shopping opportunities, plenty of entertainments and artwork.
The amazing thing about the
malls here is that they have almost everything you could possibly want. From fashionable
garments to footwear, home decorations to foods, jewelries to electronics,
craft items to entertainment (cinemas, karaoke, 4D, games, bowling alley).
Like you or any visitors, I
also spend most of my free time running from one shopping centre to another, exploring
new items, trying on different schemes and of course buying. Only once you are
in here, ah, how you wish that you were a rich man.
Interestingly, here, you
can bargain like hell on almost everything and you would be just shell-shocked
at the rock bottom prices they offer you.
Moreover, the city provides
very convenient transportation services and delicious street foods. I just love
travelling by the skytrain and tok tok, always new experience for me.
First picture courtesy: googlesearch
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