Here goes 2009!!

Making way for HOPE, hope of peaceful times ahead.

May peace prevail in coming times!

Clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D. (Specifications on request)

DTT - detour-to-toilet

Delivers beyond what you ask for!!

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Chameleon

We say that the chameleon changes colour every moment. And it changes the colour of its skin so that it corresponds to the colour of the surroundings. This helps the creature to hoodwink its enemies and protect itself.

This is one of the numerous wonders of nature and creation. That is the instinct of self-preservation of life. But when it comes to the human beings, the instinct of self preservation extends beyond a limit and takes bizarre proportions.

There is a distinction between the humans and the rest of the animal world. That distinction is in the sphere of the human values, principles, ethics and morality. When man compromises on these for his narrow interests he is compared to chameleon, though it does not do justice to the chameleon. Like all comparisons, this too suffers from a limitation. But it makes us understand the phenomenon.

Many thanks to this lovely creature that makes us simplify the complexities of a "human".

All of these are clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D. (Specifications on request)

Man - The Animal

I thought I must post a few pointed observations for you to ponder. I would say enjoy the truth, but often enough, the truth may hurt...

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion -- BUT several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbour as himself and cuts his throat if his theology is not straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe. The higher animals have no religion. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste...

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

We disrespect all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the scope of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to annihilate his kind. He is the only animal that helps to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for 'the universal brotherhood of man' - with his mouth.

He is the one who goes around saying that the world owes him a living; unaware is he that the world owes him nothing; it was here first.

Finally just to add “Man is the only animal that plays the ape to his ideal."

The Indian Harley

Only a Hyderabadi can give a tough competition to Harleys Davison

introducing

Luna Divedson

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Light More Light

Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry, “More light.” - Sunlight, Torchlight, Candlelight, Neon, incandescent lights, that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerator, Big floods for the night games at Cricket stadia, Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we’re supposed to be asleep.

Light is more than watts and foot-candles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light.

I am happy, just because..

Some things are done. And these cannot be undone.

Throughout years I have become what I am. I would like to think that what I am is not just about what I am now, but what I have stabilized to be. But, it is not always like that. I am a constantly changing being. Everyday I surprise myself with things I say and do. Everytime I seek to understand if there has always been something I hid deep down inside and something is always bound to push it out of me.

We shape our own perception of happiness. We remember our sense of happiness based on moments that stand out amidst the chaos in our everyday life. Whether it’s in the shoes we wear or the earth we walk on (or the shoes we wear vs. what shoes other people wear), we can always say “I am happy, just because”.

Am I really happy??

Clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D. (Specifications on request)