Thursday, December 27, 2007

Bheja Fry!!

Post- dinner walks are generally relaxing and help catch some fresh air before I hit the bed and slumber off till the next morning. My walks are generally till the end of the road and back, and I let my mind wander off into a lot of muses( Of course, I don’t wander off to the extent that a vehicle would leave its skid marks permanently tattooed over my forehead!). It’s during some of these walks that I meet Mr. Dingoo (Ahem…not at all related to a similar sounding Australian wild dog!) The history of the name some other time maybe. Now…Mr. Dingoo is a septuagenarian who is still as fit as a….a…a…ahem…lets say dingo.

He makes it his worldly duty to impart his hard earned, most impressive, gleaned-from-all-sources infinite wisdom to anyone who dares cross his path! And that anyone so happened to be me!! (Don’t mistake me. I’m in no way repulsed by his talk. After all, it’s given me some blog fodder, no?!)

That fateful night I was in no mood to continue talking to Mr. Dingoo and to my luck I got a call. Well, as you might have already guessed the call was not from a human, much less an alien, it was from the phone company warning me to recharge my prepaid credit. Call it co-incidence a dog started barking at the same time.

So, after I attended the “call” Mr. Dingoo looked at me and said in his most convincing voice ever, “Do you know why the dog barked?” Of course I didn’t, besides it’s none of my business, as long as the dog isn’t chasing me! I didn’t know what he meant so I looked at him, a look I had perfected through 5 years of medical school…a look to show you’re paying utmost attention and a look that meant you cared about what was being said more than a mad dog biting off your posterior! He continued, “The dogs go mad because of the cell phones.” As much as I stood bewildered I decided to listen! (I knew a blog post was brewing!). “Yes…” he continued, “the cell phone towers sends waves that drive the dogs mad.”

Yet, here I was thinking all the while that dogs were mad and furious because the towers replaced a lot of telephone poles and now they were getting the shock of their lives trying to pee on electric poles or because of a particular miscreant virus of the Rhabdoviridae family! (Call me ignorant!! Sheesh! I was in total awe of this mans infinite wisdom!!)

I ventured to say that cell phones also use microwaves. He paused to clarify if it was the same waves that heated his dinner every now and then. Knowing where this was going, in a vain effort to say something else and venturing all the physics that I had so easily forgotten after PUC I prayed to Dear Mr. Einstein and said, “...uh...well…yes it’s the same microwave and…uh…aa…a…its different, as in it doesn’t have power…and…uh..”. My voice trailed off as I realized what I had just said. I looked at him with my foot firmly in mouth. Mr. Dingoo has got the upper hand here ladies and gentlemen…he quietly said, “See, that’s what it does, it cooks the brain…now, that’s why I don’t use a mobile.”

Another incoming call on the mobile, I just quietly cut the call. After this conversation I was convinced…bheja fry!!!

Monday, October 08, 2007

Venkat's quote of the day!

"Its better to be single than sorry!!" :D

Thursday, September 06, 2007

Fingering the issue...

Heres another SMS conversation thats worth mention.

Another almost normal day was passing by while I made a few last ditch desperate attempts at studying and trying to salvage of what ever was left of that day...
At that very moment breaking news flashed across all TV channels... (Yes, one might ask what I was doing watching TV when I trying to study...) Bomb blasts in Hyderabad. Somehow ,more than being appalled by the loss of life and the whole stupidity of whatever terrorist organization that would willingly come forward to claim responsibility for the issue....the voice at the back of my head said, "here we go again". I decided to break the news to all my friends who were all..I'm very sure busy studying...of course other than a few people on the train on their way back from Schumi's marriage. Am happy that Hutch did not decide to charge Re.1 per SMS that day saying that it was a national tragedy...Messages flowed back and forth...some expressing contempt..some anguish...some sorrow...some surprise and few echoing my own thought, "bomb blasts AGAIN??"
...In the midst of all this came an unexpectedly humorous moment with Krishnan.
For all those who are wondering who's this Krishnan dude...He is the co-founder of the famed and much acclaimed Dept. of Femurology, where I bide time as a professor, with the likes of Dr. Mujahid ...Dr. Krishnan along with Dr. Mujahid are the brains behind the phenomenal mad-ad team also called the FEMUR team.

Ok..now moving on...heres the transcript of the SMS's:

Me: Hey bomb blasts in Hyderabad...check the news NOW!

Kris: Just saw it dude...sad! We need to put an end to this terrorism!

Me: Dude, maybe we can make a mad-ad on this issue. Humor has no boundaries.

Kris: Dude...like the Lashkar-e-toiba is gonna understand language...

Me: Hmmm...yeah...but dude..thats what sign language is for... Besides, who doesn't understand the finger... They obviously cant bomb the finger as a part of their campaign against non-believing infidels!!

Kris: Yeah dude...no race, no religion, everyones got one...uh...two... Dude we have been raising the finger for all pointless reasons...Lets now join fingers and raise it for a cause...(I mean the masses...not the usual cause!)

Me: Haha...yeah maga...one small finger for man...is a giant cause OF mankind!!

My heartfelt condolences for all those who lost their lives in this tragic incident. This post here means no disrespect. Everytime we fall we need to rise...just like the Phoenix... Humour in the issue is only a way that we can look forward with hope rather than look back in sorrow.

Cheers

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Of free speech..

I got a SMS recently that said:

"In a country of free speech...why are there phone bills?!!" (Gizmo thanx maga!)

Out of impulse and knowing that it wasn't free....I forwarded the same to friends in my phone list...I dint expect people to reply...amazingly they did...here are a few pearls of wisdom from replies to this forward:

Sadass said: Phone companies are not Indian bob!

Shilpz said: To keep you and me apart!

BP said: To make sure I talk less...

Here's d best one from them all....

The Rogue said: ...because there is an entity called phone sex...and in our country we have entertainment tax!!

You're right bob...whoever said "no country ever taxed itself to prosperity" would surely be squirming in his grave!!

What would you say????

Cheers


P.S. more SMS conversation coming up soon...stay tuned!!

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Random nonsense!

A Scottish old timer in Scotland, in a bar, talking to a young man.

The Old Man says, "Lad, look out there to the field. Do ya see that fence? Look how well it's built. I built that fence stone by stone with me own two hands. I piled it for months."

"But do they call me McGreggor-the-Fence-Builder? Nooo..."

Then the old man gestured at the bar. "Look here at the bar. Do ya see how smooth and just it is? I planed that surface down by me own achin' back. I carved that wood with me own hard labour, for eight days."

"But do they call me McGreggor-the-Bar-builder? Nooo..."

Then the old man points out the window. "Eh, Laddy, look out to sea...Do ya see that pier that stretches out as far as the eye can see? I built that pier with the sweat off me back. I nailed it board by board."

"But do they call me McGreggor-the-Pier-Builder? Nooo..."

Then the old man looks around nervously, trying to make sure no one is paying attention.

"But ya screw one goat.........."

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Venkat's quote of the day!

Too old to believe in fairies,
Too young to believe in god!!

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Sony DSC H5 V/S Yashica Electro 35 GTN

Warning: Post is long and geek content ahead!

Film cameras have more or less given up their share of the camera market for their new cousin – the digital camera. Be it the ultra compact, compact, high zoom prosumer compacts or the digital SLR’s the digital revolution has taken the camera market by storm and got down photography to common man...With digital cameras you are not forced to restrict the number of photos and having to spend enormous amount of money on processing it before you even have a look at it.

Before I got the digital camera I used 2 film cameras...

The first was a small Olympus PhD (Press here dummy) camera...no frills camera...just point and shoot.

The second camera I used was the Yashica Electro 35 GTN. It’s quite a marvel for a camera manufactured in 1976. Its exposure settings and focusing options were (are) regarded superior to many SLR’s which were produced much later in the 80’s. The Electro 35 is a rangefinder camera.

Have a look at my previous post: http://confusedrantings.blogspot.com/2007/01/yashica-electro35.html

More info on rangefinder cameras: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangefinder_camera

Of course, it is needless to say, the features of this camera were vastly under utilized by yours truly...and the photos which came from this camera made everyone’s jaw droooop!

I never got to use this camera much and I never learnt much about photography eventually. Of course the enormous costs of developing and printing were another considerable constraint.

I finally graduated to a digital camera recently. The DSC H5 is among Sony’s Prosumer range of cameras. It has more features than a compact but lesser than a SLR. But, essentially it remains a point and shoot camera.

Read my previous post on this camera: http://confusedrantings.blogspot.com/2007/03/new-camerayipeeee.html

I’ve compared both cameras below...read on...

Of course this comparison means nothing, as each camera is from a different league altogether. This is only out of interest.


Yashica Electro 35 GTN

Sony DSC H5

Format

35mm full frame rangefinder

Prosumer Compact SLR like

Type

Film 24x36mm

Digital 7.2MP

ISO rating

ISO 25 (DIN 15) to ISO 1000 (DIN 31)

Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1000

Lens

Color-Yashinon DX 45mm f/1,7 (6 elements, 4 groups)

36mm – 432mm (6-72mm)

Carl Zeiss Vario Tessar f/2.8-3.7

Focusing range

0.8 m to infinity

Normal focus range: 50cm

Macro focus range: 2cm

Aperture

1.7 to 16

F2.8 - 8.0 (wide), F3.7 - 8.0 (tele)

Shutter

30s ~ 1/500 sec., B*

1/4 - 1/2000 sec. (Auto), 1 - 1/2000 sec. (Program Auto), 46-step 30 sec – 1/1000 sec. (Shutter Priority, Manual)

Shutter speeds of 1/2000th are only available at apertures of F5.6 and higher.

Exposure meter

Single CdS cell, programs shutter selection

Multi-pattern (49 zone), Center weighted, Spot metering

Exposure compensation

EV -3.4 (f/1.7 @ 30 sec.) to EV 17 (f/16 @ 1/500 sec.)

+/-2EV, 1/3 EV steps

Viewfinder

Bright frame line, Overexposure and underexposure warning arrows

Electronic with same display as the back LCD

Focusing System

Superimposed rangefinder type focusing with automatic parallax compensation

Manual (with focus aids and magnification), Single, Monitor, Continuous. AF area modes: 3 Area Multi-Point AF, Center AF (selectable), Flexible spot AF,
Contrast detect

Flash

Built-in "X" synchronization Hot Shoe

Pop up flash- Auto, On, Off, Slow synch, Red-eye reduction
• Range (ISO Auto): 1’ to 29’ 3" (0.3-9.0m) (Wide)
• Range (ISO Auto): 35.5 ’ to 22 ’ 4 " (0.9-6.8m) (Tele)
• Range (ISO 1000): 2’ 11" to 52’ (0.9 -16m) (Wide)

Storage Media

Film easy loading- Single-stroke, Built-in double exposure prevention

Memory Stick Duo / Pro Duo compatible, 32MB internal memory

Self Timer

~ 8sec

2sec, 10sec

Battery

One 6 volts battery PX32, with Battery check**

2 AA NiMH batteries

Adaptors

55mm ring, Hot shoe flash with sync, macro lens, tele and wide angle converters available, separate viewfinder for converter lens

Filter Diameter: 58mm (with supplied Adapter Ring)
Optional Slave Flash units, wide tele and macro converter lenses, filters

Dimensions

180 x 84x 73,5 mm

113.2 x 83 x 94 mm

Weight

750g

554g

Continuous Shooting

No

Yes: 7 Shots at 1.1fps (7.2MP JPEG fine), 100 Shots at 1.4 fps (640x480 JPEG std)

  • *In B mode shutter remains open as long as the shutter released button is pressed. Ideal for long exposure time shots and needs a cable shutter release (separate accessory).
  • **The original 6V PX32 battery is no more available because it’s a mercury battery and is banned to prevent pollution. However the Yashica camera’s electronics are capable of working well between 4-6volts.This allows us to use an alkaline battery which can be easily adapted by using a small spring.


There you have it. The Yashica takes wonderful pictures. Once I make my way up the photography learning curve I’ll surely have another go at the Yashica. Till then....shoot!

Adios Amigos

Saturday, July 28, 2007

IDEA!!!

The best ideas come when you can’t do anything about it.

-Venkatdeep,Circa 2007

Am sure many of us have gone through a situation where we’ve had ideas popping off our head like pop corn bursting in a microwave. There sure have been times when you’ve said “damn! Why dint I think of that before?!”

When ideas pop off at those ‘moments of inspiration’ one of the following happens....


> Someone has already thought of that idea!

> There is no paper!

> Ahhh! Here is the paper....damn! The pen ain’t working!

> I’ll record a voice clip...oops! BESCOM has graced our lives...there’s no power!

> If there is power the recording software ain’t working!

> If it is, and you finish recording, you will have to format your hard disk before you can backup the information for reasons mankind cannot perceive or justify! (Maybe the guys at Microsoft know!!)

> Now that the computer ain’t working how bout the mp3 player? ...oops again! Forgot to replace batteries!

P.S. If you were wondering if I never thought of the cassette recorder...I did. That ain’t working either!

> I’ll call my girlfriend....

You: Hey sweetie......

She: Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.....baby I missed you sooooooo muchhh...I was out shopping the whole day with Div, Akshu..... I saw this cuutttee pinkish yellowish greenish blue black stuffed elephant...you’ll get it for my birthday na...and guess what we saw your friends brothers ex-girlfriends third boyfriend today...my god! What a jerk! Heeeeyyy and you remember that pink top you got me last week...I showed it to my friends today and they were..wow! You should have seen them...And guess what there was this cute guy at the chocolate store...he was trying to so badly hit on divs...and.... (After sooooommmeee mooorrree time!) ...baby...why you sooo quiet?? What happened?? Are you ok?? Everything ok? Are you sure?

You: uh...nothing...glad you had a great day..

She: Thanx soo much...acchha now I’ll go and try on a new dress I got today..byeeee...muuuahh! CLICK!

You: ??

> I’ll call a friend...THE HUTCH SUBSCRIBER YOU ARE TRYING TO CALL IS NOT REACHABLE AT THE MOMENT!!!

> If it is.... You: Hey man...I just had a great idea!

Other side: huh?? Hello? Who’s this?

WRONG NUMBER!!

> You finally get the right number and he says... “Uh! Dude...am with my girl here...I’ll catchya later...”CLICK!

> Ditch it...what are moms for....

You: Mom...

Mom: You know what, in that soap the heroines, third sisters, fourth boyfriends, dog’s new owners, sons girlfriends ex-boyfriends, fathers, mother-in-laws, sisters, ex-husbands, third wife’s, son tries to........

You: huh??????????!?!?!!!!!?

> Well dads and sons always share a special relation...

You: Heeyy Dad.....guess what...

(Before anything else is said) Dad: NO YOU’RE NOT TAKING THE CAR TODAY!

>Grandpa.....yeeeahhh!

You: (Starts and finishes saying the idea...pauses for a breath...feels happy!!!).....ajja super idea right!!

Grandpa: aahhhhh??? What?? I forgot my hearing aid....

Gets up disoriented...feigns a fainting attack, picks himself off the ground and heads out of the door!

Gets a call on the mobile: hello? “Do u wanna partner...o partner.... (Song playing)...this caller tune for you just at rs.30 per month!”


So, what’s your story?

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Boob tube......

EDIT: I did receive a few comments asking why on earth I even chose this topic to blog on. Add a bit of slandering to that...A very pissed off Bip's fan I presume. A small clarification...I was just wondering how page 3 columnists can make a fuss about nothing and this post was just a 'vain' attempt at writing like a page 3 person..nothing more and nothing less!


DISCLAIMER: THE FOLLOWING POST FEATURES ADULT CONTENT. VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED. HATE MAIL NOT ENTERTAINED!


Caught you...didn’t it...it sure did catch my attention in the editorial column of a newspaper. I mean any article in the editorial titled like that ought to have much more right?

The article was about one of our tinsel town damsel going under the knife for an augmentation of her assets and not paying for it...

Hold your horses before you call me a MCP for pointing this out. The article wasn’t only about poor Bipasha being more bustier...it was also about the doctor who decided to leak the news to the ‘celeb friendly’ paparazzi because he wasn’t too pleased about not receiving the bill. Of course who’d be happy, after all its always about bigger assets isn’t it?!! And did a magazine do any better by splashing before and after pictures of Bipasha??(Haha!! Yeah right...don’t even think about it...the pics were with the clothes on!)Before she went under the knife and after she acted in Jism (After all Jism was a big assets movie!)

Besides the article struck me more, being a part of the medical fraternity! Where was the doctors’ integrity?

It reminded me of a dialogue from the movie ‘Scent of a woman’ where Al Pacino hollers out, “...he wont sell himself and he wont sell out others... and that is integrity!”

So is the doctor’s integrity heading for differentiation?

This nation need no more scandals, the celebrities are already doing enough!

Besides, the doctor is supposedly well known among celebrities by changing their name in medical records to protect their identity.

Also the staffs of the hospital were also more than happy to reveal that poor Bipasha also got a ear job done too...guess that’s called waxing eh?! Or should we say de-waxing?!!

Considering that the doctor changes the name of his patients I just wonder if it isn’t Bipasha at all!! Its actually Rakhi Sawant and the ear job is for the actress who got her ears chewed off by Emran Hashmi in the excuse of what was supposed to be steamy on-screen chemistry?!

So a shot of ‘censor’-caine for a shot of fame???

What say you??

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

The A to Z of MSRMC!!!

Another post to reminisce the days at MSRMC... (if ur thinking what other post...its the one before this called 'mixed emotions')...call it an old fools rubbish or call it the ranting of a poor soul...hell yeah I’m way too stuck up to all the things that have happened over the past few years that I’m not too sure if I’d want to move on...but as they say 'the show must go on..'...the same way 'life goes on'. Nevertheless read thru for an A to Z of life in the past 6 years. Many things I’ve mentioned here may be quite specific to us medicos but what the hell...read on...

A: anatomical snuff box...the eternal ragging question and something that many still have difficulty finding!


B:Bailey and love eh??! Nooonsense I say....B for bombat...chindi...Also for BABA..the one and only Correct Baba!!


C...coffee day where life exists for many couples


D...demolition brigade....digital divide?


E...exams and more...


F...the one and only FEMUR and the one and only department of FEMUROLOGY...founded by Dr. Mujahid and Dr. Krishnan..


G...ghanta...dedicated to one and only shaan patti!! Also for Ganga....


H...for Hari Sadu?? Nope...here H for Hitler!!


I....kuchikoo at the indology centre...


J...for Jaadoo of krish fame(in our class??!!)


K...for KRISHHHHHHHHHHHH (Baby Krishhh....call for friums and badam milk)


L...Lambesh...dedicated to the tall chaps Sada and Krishnan..


M...Mahadeva tea stall...tea stall for some...hang out for some....kuchikoo(!!!?!?!) for yet some others!! Either way most of us cudnt hav gone thru a day of coll wid out mahadevas tea, coffee and lime juice!!


N....nim ajji loafer!! Bloody Gibbs :)


O....oro-anal fistula among other things....mayb u cud add OBG too!!??


P....parking lot...park...pavan...??


Q....queen of mischievous ladies....Our one and only Vidya Narayan


R....rooftops at Ramaiah...an eternal porthole into the unending mystery that is ramaiah architecture....R also for RED...(Yes Sada...thats just for u!!) R also for Ramaiah anthem and Ramaiah Salute!!


S....sacromandibular joint...another anatomical milestone in the history of femurology...S also for Sambamurthy the big man of ENT!


T...tambakasura


U...ups and downs...Ramaiah Roads!


V: Vicky’s canteen


W...Whitfield’s ointment which was fun preparing...among other things we had fun preparing were purgatives and turpentine liniment.


X...X rays r harmful...learn and let the technician kno...


Y...yaaaro bhupathi


Z...nothing...its the last letter...ZZZZ ZZ ZZ Z Z Z ZZZZ

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Discharge Summary!!!!!

Hey ppl...
many ppl were wonderin wat the hell i meant by my orkut profile name "venkat-discharge summary released!"...
with no more cribbin... i'll get down to the point here...discharge summary is the name we have given to our yearbook!!
And I thot i'll put up an image of the coverpage v designed and my profile in the yearbook to giv u an idea of wat our discharge summary looks like!!!!
heres the coverpage......

and the megalomaniac that i am and that dirty habit i hav of blowin my own trumpet too much heres my profile in the yearbook.... ;)


Its bin a topsy turvy ride to get ppl to pay for it...to get sponsors to cover our total budget...to get ppl to fill in a questionaire...to get them to submit a pediatric age photo...to finalise a design...page layout....blah...blah and then to go into print and bring it out within 3 months!!
Am happy that v made this souvenir that we will cherish as a part of our stay in MSRMC and more over we'll reminsce the times v spent here...
Vishwas has been the graphics designer for our yearbook....he has done an AMAZIN job!!!!!
cheeers to the batch of 2001-02!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Mixed Emotions

It only seems like yesterday that i stepped into the portals of Ramaiah. Time flies by so soon...the past 6 years have gone by in a blur.
The days spent singing, playing antakshari and chinese whispers in front of the cadaver....
the awful days we tried pricking our hands to squeeze out an eeny-weeny drop of blood....
the days we stood in a queue to collect piss in beakers to perform some god forsaken experiment of it...
the days spent in Padmanabhan's classes throwing things around even footwear at times!!
the times in Vicky's canteen..
the times spent imitating Dr.Shivaramu-dev anand as if he were teaching sexual offences....
the times spent in the food court pulling each others legs like there were no tomorrow....
lunch breaks in the canopies...
performing some more god forsaken experiments which by now must have made the rabbits blind....
getting bitten by rats trying to catch them and inject them...
focusing shit under microscopes ever in search of elusive cysts and parasites...
solving lakshmipuras eternal water problem...
imitating all the commed staff and getting a cheap thrill out of it like....
getting nauseated watching butchery in the name of autopsies....
getting jacked for coming late and wearing sneakers...
getting blasted for not having a torch and tape...
trying to figure out what part of the eye was a cataract on a TV....
searching for tonsillitis and whatever-itis with an ill focused bulls eye lamp...
going to BK and MK nagar searching for a co operative slum family and having to ask for a detailed account of how many kgs of vegetables they consumed every week....
walking around in the hot sun immunizing kids with polio drops....
in between all this taking time to mail the one of a kind mailing group and flooding the then 'just 6mb' inbox....
waiting for the ever elusive lakshmikanth to take ortho classes...
coming to know we hav ortho for 50 marks and not knowing anything...
sleeping through classes...
drawing caricatures in classes...
figuring out what the 'chi square test' actually was....
walking around in the hospital finding new short cuts...
discover ramaiah....
once every now and then go for a treat with friends...
party often...
bunk clinics and classes and catch a movie....
giving proxies in class....try the proxy challenge....
sitting outside the class in the shade of the trees and yakking to glory...
be one anothers comforting shoulder...
have long long telephone conversations over nothing....have longer telephone conversations over nothing at all again...
catch a coffee with friends....
playing an intra class cricket tournament and winning it as the underdogs...
playing the only badminton tounament in history to have involved the entire class...
organising thanksgiving days for the staff....
participating in intro...
cheering the participants till voices went hoarse....
dancing till wee hours of morning on the last day of intro....
come internship....chikungunya ahoy!! work in an epidemic emergency camp....
inject...inject....inject...inject....diclo 2cc....pct 4...rantac 6....
trek trek and trek...pig out on dosas,chats, nannari and mosaru boondhi after a tiring trek..
cooking bondas and pakodas on a lazy sunday afternoon in kaiwara...
cooking for 20 people on the last day in kaiwara for the party....
getting drenched in water balloon fights...
playing uno and card games till unearthly hours of morning....
listening to kaiwarada hosa thathaiah gopinath's classes....
waking up thru the night during night postings in ICU's....
running around for free signatures and 50% concession signatures...
learning the fine art of communication to deal with patients....declare deaths...and what not...
running around for free signatures and 50% concession signatures...
lazing around in ent opds when we finally learnt to use the bulls eye lamp...
running around for free signatures and 50% concession signatures...
doing corridor postings in a few other postings...
running around for free signatures and 50% concession signatures...
pushing stretchers...wheel chairs...
running around for free signatures and 50% concession signatures...
shifting patients to the new hospital for a CT scan...
running around for free signatures and 50% concession signatures...
writing investigation requisitions...references...
running around for free signatures and 50% concession signatures...
progress notes....progress notes...progress notes.....
running around for free signatures and 50% concession signatures...
geting elusive consultants to see references....
running around for free signatures and 50% concession signatures...
having a hot coffee outside the casualty at the dead of night...
walking along the quite calm roads of ramaiah at the dead of night...
Being a part of the revival of the newsletter after a 'brief hiatus' of 20years...
Being a part of the yearbook...
Being a part of the editorial committee....
Being a part of the organising committee of introspection...
In between all this trying to learn to use the computer and learning to build electric violins...
still trying to get back to sketching...
and they still ask why i dint study???
Learning a very important lesson i.e........
u can sleep in class...
u can bunk classes...
u can flunk in internals...
u need not study for exams...
u need not be tensed....
BUT U CAN DEFINITELY PASS IN EXAMS.....
Soon internship is going to end and i cant help but look back at all the things i've done and not done so far...all the good and bad times i've shared with so many...all the ups and downs i've been through...and still there is always so much to wish for...how i wish i had been a better friend to a few people....how i wish i had said so many things i have not said to some poeple.....how i wish i get a second chance to say it...how i wish i could go back to 14th february 2003 the day of the kodai trip...how i wish i had.............
But thats just wishful thinking and nothing more....I'm happy to have been here and have had all this as a part of my life....given a chance i'd surely relive these 6 years again...

Friday, March 30, 2007

New camera....yipeeee!!!!

I was always dreaming of a nice lil digital camera...I did get it now...not a small one though!! ;)
Just bit the bullet and bought the Sony DSC H5....an SLR-like semi professional high end compact camera!!
For some tech babble.....
The specs of this li'l beast....yeah yeah i kno u'll be sayin who the hell cares...... ;)


Its a 7.2 Mp with a CCD chip with 12x optical zoom and a carl zeiss vario tessar lens...
I'll post a few pics after experimentin wid this new li'l gadget....
cheers

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Motorcycle Diaries 7

Well call me a novice at blogging!! I tried publishing the posts in reverse order thinkin it wud reverse the order...and yet it seems part 7 is published first!!! :(
Nevertheless i dont kno how to change this order( and i'm not inclined to learn that either...so..) so enjoy it the way it is....cheers!








Motorcycle Diaries 6





Motorcycle Diaries 4





Motorcycle Diaries 5

Motorcycle Diaries 3





Motorcycle Diaries 2

Continued from the last post.....






to be continued....

Motorcycle Diaries 1

Well..Che Guevara makes a big impression if one happens to read about him.
Personally, the fact that he is (was) a doctor mattered a lot to me....(obviously duh!!)
I thot i'd put up a picture essay wid screenshots of the movie taken at significant turns in the movie...there r a lot of pics so guess the page will load slowly...
Heres to Che.....cheers!







Saturday, January 06, 2007

The Yashica Electro35...


Well I've mostly shot with a PHD camera (Press Here Dummy)...Most of my photography was limited to taking snaps of an outing or a party or the like...
The graduation to an SLR happened on one of those occasions when i finally decided to empty out my wardrobe and put things into order when i chanced upon this yashica camera lying unused from the early 80s... I always knew the camera was there but i never had the inclination to use it...
This time around i tried fiddling around with the camera...of course it was just an excuse to stop cleaning the wardrobe for some more time!!
I got hooked...it was fascinating to use it...and i decided to take it along for a trip to sringeri...most of the photos came out decently...i got bolder and decided to take it along on a class trip to kodaikanal and ooty (uh!! the results were...err..ahem! dissappointing....i had a lot to figure out in tht camera b4 i cud do better!!!) but on the other hand when ppl saw me lugging around such a big pro lookin camera they were of the impression tht photographer = Venkat!! (oh boy...the look on their faces when they saw the photos was just priceless!!! lol)
Anyways i thot i'll add up a few interesting things about this wonderful camera....