Me, Myself & My Journey

21-07-2009 Gurgaon After using my Sony DSC W50 for more than 3 years, I knew it was time to upgrade. But there was a confussion! Whether I should move to the SLR-Likes or the SLRs itself. After googleing a lot and asking many 'friend'ly suggestions, I was still wondering what to do. I knew very well that I am no big photographer and all, as some people thought. It was all W50's perfection and the beauty of our incredible India. I was really afraid of the SLRs and hence concentrated more on the middle range camera's or the Mega zoom waalas . I asked my brother in the US to checkout a few models and told him everything. Luckily one of his friends happened to be a photographer himself and he advised my brother to forget the Mega Zooms and go for SLR. In the last Thanks Giving sale (2008) when they saw a good deal on a Nikon D80 , he bought it right away! It took almost 6 months to reach my hands and now I am slowly trying to 'tame' it. I am hoping that before the ...

Gurgaon 30 Jun 2009 At last... it rained in Gurgaon. If you would call drizzling as ' heavy rains ' then the weather man was right. It rained heavily! Heavy rains...! " When was the last time I was drenched completely in a rain? " Not the sprinkle of water on the neatly pressed Arrow shirt while going to office. I am talking about getting drenched to the skin and realizing that there is nothing you could do about it! As far as I can remember it was in 2007 during the Ratangad Trek in Maharashtra. I was trekking in the rains for two whole days! Then just a week later during the Valley of flowers Trek in Uttranchal! Before that.... during my days in Bombay (2001-2003). Bombay Rains is altogether a different story. It starts all of a sudden, rains heavily for sometime and then it stops suddenly as it started. Its just unpredictable! But it's always heavy rains and not like the drizzle here! And then there is this another rain, which I will always remember; the ...

Day 4 19-05-2009 Gangotri - Haridwar ' The End ' of another trip. Its time to go back. However this time, there was one difference. This time we all were eager to get back to the concrete jungle, to our homes, to our office, and back to our safe zones. From the beginning things were going wrong. We were either running after something in the last moment or waiting somewhere for hours together. Everyone we met were focused on ripping our wallets off! (well.. not everyone though!) The climate was also unkind to us. Unwanted and/or unexpected expenses at every corner. Disappointments and bad luck were with us from the start till the end. And now its come back once again! When we woke up, we realized we had a problem. We had around 7000+ rupees altogether when we reached Gangotri. Now we have just 1100/- rupees ! We never thought we would end up spending around 6000 in just 2 days! That too in such a remote place where you are not treating yourself with 5 star facilities. However, ...