I have written about Eric Boutilier Brown and his website Evolving Beauty before but this image of his really had me entranced by its sensuality. (Has nudity – discretion advised)
This man is a genius with camera.
In other things Nagpur is such a dump that they don’t even update the METAR reports. Thus I cannot use any of the applets like wmWeather, KWeather, phpWeather and gkrellmWeather to name a few … … Even the TAF is not complete.
Yesterday was one of those days which once in a while the small quirks of fate serve up.
Yesterday I had to attend the funeral of my eldest aunt who died after having been paralyzed for past 6 years and in semi-coma for nearly a year. The quirk of fate was that her grandson was getting married yesterday as well. It is a huge joint family and it was an arranged marriage. Thankfully sense prevailed and the marriage was delayed by a couple of hours rather than canceled. Since I attended the funeral it would have been rude to not attend the wedding.
Came back at 4:30pm and read that friend laruth is in the midst of the Canberra bush fire There is no news of her since yesterday. We hope she is safe.
It is kind of strange how concerned you can get about people who are just your LJ friends.
Yesterday was also the day SANIsoft turned 5 years old 🙂
Continuing on the Java Sux theme….
Throughout the day been reading a lot on how to optimize the performance of Java. Found a few things on Developer Works IBM site. It is amazing how easily your server RAM will fill up with this thing if you don’t take a whole lot of precautions. Oh Well! I am talking about operations on 1000,000 files over WAN, so actually the whole concept SUX!!!
Yikes!!! Java suxs big time in string handling – If I have to remove whitespaces from between a string(Buffer) I have to write my own method
Duh!
A little bit more – Dr Hook 1973
When your body’s had enough of me
And I’m laying flat out on the floor
When you think I’ve loved you all I can
I’m gonna love you a little bit more
Come on over and lay by my side
I’ve got to be touching you.
Let me rub your tired shoulders
The way I used to do.
Look into my eyes and give me that smile
The one that always turns me on
And let me take your hair down
Cause we’re staying up to greet the sun.
And when your body’s had enough of me
And I’m laying flat out on the floor
When you think I’ve loved you all I can
I’m gonna love you a little bit more
Got to say a few things that have been on my mind
You know where my mind has been
I guess I learned my lessons
And now’s the time to begin
So if you’re feelin’ alright and you’re ready for me
I know that I’m ready for you
We better get it on now
Cause we got our whole life to live through
And when your body’s had enough of me
And I’m layin’ flat out on the floor
When you think I’ve loved you all I can
I’m gonna love you a little bit more
When your body’s had enough of me
And I’m layin’ flat out on the floor?
Thanks to vaibhav I also caught the bug 🙂
I first heard this song when I was 13, my elder brother had purchased the LP record for the album. Then, I remember, having thought of the song as a bit scandalous. By 15 I wanted to find a soul mate for whom I could play this song. Since that, been there done that, have her as my wife and had almost forgotten the song… …
Guess time for playing it again – since past 2 days have been feeling very grumpy, irritable and pressured for no distinct reason 🙁
BTW read more about Dr Hook here.
Sooner or later your son will be better at doing most of the things that you do now.
Aasim already is at it – He can fly a kite better than me and almost as well as his mother
Here are some pictures that I took of him yesterday. They are really funny because he is not allowed for reasons of safety to stand on top of the car.
To world whatever she might have been, a poetess, an author, a teacher, a social worker, to me she was just my mother and how so ever lagging behind my peers in every respect , my being her son was enough for her.
Life was so simple and so good. There were very few rules to follow
1) Don’t tell a lie
2) Don’t fail in final exams.
That is it!!
Point (1) I was never reprimanded for not following it. Point (2) I was always the one to be given grace marks.
What do I thank my mother most for?
For teaching me how to cook at the age of 14, this not only made sure that I never went hungry, it also laid the foundation to respect women, whatever and where ever.
Had she been around she would have been very proud with what I have done with my life BUT most likely had she been around I wouldn’t be what I am today. A satisfied man is not the best person to ask or expect ambition from.
It was 21 years ago today, that fate decided that I am to grow up in a single stroke. I don’t regret the hurt I went through at 15 but I do feel that at 45 years she was too young to die from a cardiac arrest.
In most of the ways I just grew up that day, but in some ways I am still a teenager.
I still miss her, I still want to show her everything I do with the same glee as the crabs and snakes that I use to catch. I still want to hide my head in her lap shut my eyes and sleep off when the pressures of this world get too much to bear, but again I know, some how some where, she is there for me, I couldn’t have walked so far life without the help of my mother who insisted that I, all of 12 months old, walk with her to the podium when she got her MA degree… …
I however have still not fulfilled one of her wishes. She wished that I should learn how to read and write Urdu.
Was a nice weekend. Went to a book fair and picked up a lot of books for Aasim and a few to be gifted to friends growing old 😉
Swati picked up the latest by Vikram Seth.
Yesterday dinner *we* made Chicken Dilkush, Chicken in a spicy gravy of cashew nut and poppy seed paste.
qt after an initial bad tummy has really adapted well. The best part is that she is already toilet trained – actually goes in the toilet and sits on the water trap in corner!!! She is too conscious to let me take a pic. Give a look of “you pervert” 😀
Bah!! Am an antisocial
These Britons are crazy – I know they have Royal Societies for everything but Tit Watching!!!!
Dont believe me? – take a look at https://www.nice-tits.org/ and it was formed in 1824, by Lord Roylott of Stoke Moran, Surrey. A great site too. Has links to pictures and a section on different types of … ..