Not so sucky after all!

Saturday I wrote to someone
(06:47:09 PM) Tarique: life SUX – it is weekend and I am dreading it

After the *adrenaline and endorphin high* from foss.in of the past week waning, I was feeling kind of lost… Had planned to hook up with some friends to go a nearby village and see the Bar-headed geese but that fizzled out. So decided to sleep late…. 

Woke up at 9 which is late by everyday standards but still early enough to go bird watching – by 9:30 we were out, much to the annoyance of Swati’s hypothetical mom in-law. A three kilometer drive and we were walking the catchment area of Ambhazari lake. Seeing that the number of migratory arrivals has increased was heartening. We spent the next two and a half hours there and racked up a massive count of 104 species! including a pair for Bar-headed geese. Got very few pictures though as my D70 is now nearly dead and refuses to focus, doing a manual focus is too frustrating to be worth its while.

Between all this Swati could talk to her cook at home and we knew that there will be hot aloo parathas waiting for us. On the way we stopped at the DVD shop and picked up some DVD/VCD among them was 8 VCD set of “Yeh jo hai zindagi” and much to our delight Aasim is absolutely loving the series. Watched 2 episodes… post lunch time was spent watching the movie “Mumbai Salsa” an ok movie to watch once….

Evening? – thats best left out of a public entry….

  • Where is the analysis of Mumbai Salsa ?

    Without an analysis how am I supposed to figure if I want to watch the movie ? Please be specifically explicit 🙂

    • Re: Where is the analysis of Mumbai Salsa ?

      Manjari Phadnis! pity there are no explicit pictures of her anywhere on the net which I can paste – it would be QED 😉

      The movie is, as the reviews say, about a group of slightly dysfunctional relationships and a pub – unfortunately we could identify some real life people with the movie characters so in that sense it is *real* and the end comment is also “oh so true!” but I won’t give any spoilers on that.

      So while everything in the storyline unfolds very predictably, it would be unrealistic if it did not.

      There were a couple of scenes where I felt the lighting was something that I would like to achieve in my photos, a shot of Maya in front of her notebook and a red coffee mug on the edge of the frame. The last freeze of Xenobia dancing. An empty arm chair in Rajiv’s home…

      So while I will not go to a theater to watch this I am not sorry for wasting my time either.

  • 102 species!! can I come ? 😛

    • Sure any time you want, hop over to Nagpur!