Wanderlust.

Hi. How are you? I got back to ze city a couple of days back. Overall, my summer has been mildly pleasant. (Ugh! I never get the spelling of 'pleasant' right.) I'm sort of too exhausted to talk about my holiday. Good thing, right? It was too quiet, refreshing, much needed and beautiful to talk about. I even gained 0.25 kgs while on vacation. That lovely.

I just can not seem to write the beauty of it out.

South India is fucking farking holy shmoly beautiful. It's a shame I don't get to visit my native too often.

I'll shut up and let 'Cow meets the Camera' take over?

Empty beach! *squeals*

Look what I found! They were all over the beach. Dead, obviously. They all now sit pretty in my house.

She used to be my nanny everytime we visited the native as kids. Too bad she hardly remembers me. *sad*

I do realize I am extremely lucky when it comes to beaches. I find them empty at all times. Told you earlier I'm a cool drink to hang out with.

In all honesty, I'm finding it real odd to blog. Like, you know how it gets awkward and quiet between two people? Like that. I'm not being dramatic. I guess my head's still stuck in vacation mode. I'm never short of things to write about usually, y'know?

Okaythenheresanawkwardbye!

You own them shooting stars.

It's creepy how quickly I fall in love with empty places. According to the mother, it is a matter of concern.

I must have said it a million times and I'm going to say it again: The next World Cup is going to be held in Australia and New Zealand. And, I want to be there. No kidding. I am an Australian supporter and nothing would make me happier than watching Australia play the World Cup on their homeground. Nothing. So, the plan is to plan it out, graduate (hopefully), post-graduate (hopefully), work, save plenty and when I am 23, pack off to Australia around the same time as the World Cup. I got 4 years to work on my genius plan. It's almost like I can't stop thinking about it!

Anyway, somebody found me this: Stereo mood. I think it's cutely funny. Music gobblers, check.

I miss my bestie so fucking farking frigging much right now, it isn't even funny. One of those days when I want to smack Earth's ass and place India right next to UK.

What country would you want to be neighbours with?

I just found it in one of my folders! Clicked it while in Darjeeling. One of those pictures where people aren't really aware of being clicked? This picture makes me so happy! They're siblings. Must go share the picture with them. And then, charge them for it.

=P

The rolling vagabond.

I inaugurated my summer break at a beach. Because I am cool like that and I'm allowed to be like that. Three of us randomly packed ourselves off to a beach around Alibaug and the rest is now a part of my history. We had almost a 6 km long beach all to only the three of us-selves. No kidding. Beaches are not over rated. :)

A couple of pictures from there. Be jealous.

This guy, I wanted to help him bag a role in the movies. With all that filmy horse riding on the empty beach and all.

This one is a personal favourite. The prints on the left belong to Cow. I walk like such a duck. :[

See, see! Not a soul apart from us for miles.

And, the best bit was, it din't feel summer-ish at all. Anyway, you know, they say that the sea pulls you towards it? It's very true, very. Now I want to pack my bags and jiggy off to Gokarn. Anybody been there? My maternal native it is. I can not wait to get there. :(

Do you loveth the cow and her camera? Show me love, sponsor my trip. :|

I refuse to wake up.

Courtesy: Cow meets the Camera

You know how people like being busy only because it sounds all important? I used to be one of them. Then, I got busy for real and I don't like the sound or smell or sight of busy anymore. :|

I hate hate hate hate hate having to give back to back exams. I gave three of them in the last three days. All important subjects that are heavier than my tiny head. *sad face*

Then, I flopped on my bed and fell dead. Like a cat.

Today, while I was cramming up bits and pieces of Sociology into my brain an hour before my exam in the train, one aunty, overtly curious, kept popping her head into my notes. I did what any good helpful kid would do. Changed the angle of the book and made it easier for her to read. Pulled out my ear phones and head bobbed to music. Study, aunty, if that's what you want. I love nosy aunties. I can't wait to grow up to become one of them. ^.^

That picture up there, I clicked it. She's a friend. It was for a photography event. What say? The thought behind it was about tradition being a dying trend. Anybody wants to buy it? Hahaha I'm kidding. *nervous laughter*

Honestly, one more week and then I would have completed a whole month of not blogging. Seriously, you guys ought to learn to miss me and hit me with 'we miss you we will die if you dont blog' mails, man.

*frowns* Bye.

I respect my awesomeness.

Quick post. Hi. How are you. Oh, I am doing very okay. Quick question: Aren't you guys fed up of having lived on Planet Earth for so long? I am. Bye.

What why? I have my exams starting in precisely 18 days and DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH I WANT TO CRY AT THE THOUGHT OF THEM EXAMS?

Bye.

Oh, wait a moment. I have a couple of pictures from the same bowring planet. Clicked them all while we pigged out at a friend's place for a movie marathon.

When Cow meets the ... you know what. Camera!

I am a sucker for such things. I love love love love them. (Basically, if you feel too generous, gift these away to me.)

Look closer. Spot the reason why I clicked the picture? :D

No? Whyareyouevealive?

It's a flower vase. Tall, dark, sexy. I should have raided my mate's place. I should have.

Okay, finally, BYE.

A short coffee mug

I miss writing to myself.

I'v had an overdose of socializing with people. Almost feels like I had people for breakfast, lunch and dinner. (Insert any other meal course if there ever is.) I'm sort of switching off. And, it is not simple, man.

Oh, UK English or US English? You prefer? Just asking.

I do not intend to sound like a show off, but, I won this travel-blog related event held in college. Judged by the editor of Lonely Planet. Feels fabulous. Finally I got something to tell my grandkids, y'know?

Also, It's the end of January and I'v neatly wrapped up a lot of things. My internship, submissions in college, and submissions in college. And these days, (rather, beginning from today) my schedule for the day is: Attend class super regularly, eat super healthy, sleep super baby like, spend super quality time with the family, watch super trash television and be the super boring girl next door. Day one: Check.

Do you believe in Tarot? I am not sure if I do. But, the tarot card prediction for the year made by this friend are coming true. Already. (insert dramatic music)

Anyway. Cow meets the camera, guys!

Wake up, Sid.

Hands of stone

Mating?

That's enough for today. Too much I'v entertained you. Whew.

Hilarious days, rain upon my readers :)

I have cold palms.

You guys see me almost as often as India sees Obama, man! True story. No apologies. *throws bricks at herself*

I find myself at a complete loss of words every single time I begin to write. Therefore I decided I'd rather do a quick 'Cow meets the Camera' post :)

WHAT IF BLOGSPOT DECIDES TO ELIMINATE THE BLOG BECAUSE ITS OWNER'S BEEN LAZY?

Anyway. Melodrama aside.

These pictures are from this place I went to in Bombay. Details shall be posted sometime later.

Tough on Life.

I love clicking pictures of old people. Mostly because it leaves them all confused and feeling important x:) This uncle here, he kept looking into the camera for God knows how long! And then when I finally managed to get him to talk, he wouldn't stop. He insisted on taking a walk around the place even :s

Me against the light.

A very usual tree. Only, you don't find many trees around the city with those shoots hanging down.

The local adda.

I love the picture. It's filmy. It's filmy. AND, it's filmy. And they aren't posing.

Bricks or biscuits for the Cow?

How goes it on your planet, people? Anybody got married by force? Anybody choked on chocolate and fell dead? Anybody got run over by an airplane? No? Ah, boring.

You are like Jelly. Yuck and Bwak.

Image Courtesy: Cow meets the Camera.

I desperately want to be able to talk intelligent. Like a couple of you may desperately want a lover, a maid, lose weight, money, a kingdom, chocolate, a pet donkey and other such things. I want myself to be intelligent. Can't even say 'more intelligent than I already am'.

I realized that if you can use fancy sounding words and join big big long sentences (OMG my spelling of 'sentences' was just corrected by the spell check on blogger. Damn.) Okay whatever, I'm in no mood to talk about it now. I feel insulted.

The mother was out on this teeeeeny vacation with her friends down South! She got me such colourful gifts :] She got me a wooden spinning top :D Poor thing still thinks I'm a kid! I love her. But, the pwettiest and cutest and colourfullest gift she got was for that neighbor's baby. And the thing is, I like it better. So, one of these days maybe I'll walk into their house cool-ly and walk out with it :/ I'm cheap like that.

In other news, I'm meant to be on the behind side of cameras. Rather, I want to be.

Also, exams are coming up. And I'm as chilled as ever. I told you, I'm a cool drink to hang out with.

Train journeys are boring these days. Mostly I sleep through them cause it's so early, cow feels sleepy :(

Bye.

Where are you going to go?

Cow meets the camera

Wheeeeeee! Khandala happened :] And between going on real real real real early morning and equally late night walks, discovering graveyards and aimlessly sitting on the railway tracks, we presented papers. Acting all intelligent. But that's not the point. The point is, I was *this* close to nature! Like,close. And it was what it always is: beautiful. Cheap beautiful. And now I know whom to marry. A forest officer. Anyway, pictures, can't share them all, only a few. I'll put up bit by bit :]

Khopoli

Where: On the road somewhere.
I have a thing for the Devanagari font :]

Dare you to move

Where: In the convent.
Well...

Standing tall.

Where: Right behind the guesthouse

Speak.

My Blueberry Nights.

When the cow meets the camera

I'm planning on watching 'My Blueberry Nights' today. And I think Jude Law is cute. So just before the movie, I thought I could storm in, vandalize this place with a couple of pictures and then disappear for a while.

I'm more of a Jude Law person. I think my neighbor looks hotter than Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Never got the hype that surrounds them two people.

Anyway,

Fire and Ice

Where: Himachal Pradesh
It is 4 am. Dark. And it was cold. So cold, I couldn't keep my hands still to click the picture. And hence the blur!

Row, row, row

Where: Dal lake.
Adorable local sibling-pair I met! They were out 'shopping' for groceries. By the way, that is how you shop in Kashmir!

Loo-nely.

Where: Leh's border (??)
It's a loo!!! And right behind is a river! I wouldn't mind spending my life in there! We were bored. Waiting for paperwork to get done just before entering Leh.

Stones or milk for the cow? :]

Wobble Topple Gobble. What not!

Cow meets the camera

I'm unwinding. Slowly. At my own pace. Backwards. It's all so beautiful :)

And, I'm a little lost. Ever seen a spinning top? Like that! It'll wobble at first, spin and spin some more before it goes off track, and then topple down.

I make myself look funny. By comparing myself to a 'spinning top'. Gah. And it's used for gambling and all it seems. Sheesh No!! I'm human only :/

Colourful and Caught

Where: Rajasthan
Puppets...the colour says it all :]

Phone booth

Where: Dadar (Bombay)
I don't know, one of those times when I'm looking around, stare at something for less than a minute and just click. No rhyme no reason!

My 'Car'avan

Where: This tiny village 120 kms away from Gangtok
This car was being washed. And the passion with which the guy kept scrubbing his car clean amused us all to no end :] though he disappeared when we clicked! Odd.

Thinking? Speak up!

Stuck in Reverse.

Cow meets the camera.

I am going to miss work :]

And the free coffee from the heavenly coffee machine. Okay, heavenly is too big a word, but anyway.

And I'm going to be yet another wasted college student for a while until I pick something else up :] I'm going to scare my juniors away because just like any other senior, I already hate them. They stare way too much. And they crowd the corridors and they speak loudly. And they all have such high marks and annoying Blackberry phones that I want to yell at them.

BLACKBERRY IS A BUSINESS PHONE you elephant brains!

Gah. I hatings them.

In circles we will go...

Where: A monastery in Ladakh.
That thing up there, you just turn it round...and there is a bell that keeps ringing. Something to do with your wishes coming true.

Smile Please? For how long, maam?

Where: Kashmir
I was inside a bus when I clicked them. They were selling cherries and agreed to look up only if I gave them a 'toffee' !

Mist, valley and green eyes

Where: Darjeeling
Tea gardens. Filthy thanks to the tourists, fresh, windy, cold and beautiful, thanks to the altitude.

What say?

On a Trash Treasure Hunt.

When the cow met the camera...

I was out for one whole day, had trash-food, had more trash-food, hung out with people who watch trash C grade trash movies at 50 bucks just for the kicks, discussed such movies in depth, in detail, like U break my heart...I break your bones ,went hunting for trash movies in the Fort area for my birthday movie-marathon, read out loud names of shady porn movies and had a trashy-laugh-time.

I am very cool that ways. I hang out with people who define 80 percent of my coolness.

Okay please excuse the scandalous poster I shared up there.

Anyway, go have a look at 'When the cow met the camera' part deux.

In the land of snake charmers

Where: Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
Yet another 'firangi' family out on a vacation. All of us girls couldn't take our eyes off the men in the family...4 of them. Adorable as hell.

Like a star

Where: Rajasthan
It was a fort. And after having gone through *so* many of them, I was bored. And thirsty for certain.

Bleedy Pose-star

Where: College campus
One of those very very very rare occasions when the campus is empty and we go mad-click! I'd rather be behind the camera on such days. Yus sir.

Cow needs love, milk, biscuits and everything you have to say...

When the cow met the camera.

And when I'm not eating or blogging or checking random people out or attending class or meeting deadlines at work or watching trash television with much curiosity or observing aunties and uncles or struggling to keep my neighbor's baby from falling off my hands, I dream of being a photographer. I am a wannabe photographer actually.

I thought of an idea!

And this is what I have for you to see! When the cow met the camera :]

Twirl

Where: Rajathan.
Those dancers were supposedly eunuchs. Trust me, they looked fabulous, they looked beautiful and they danced like no mans business!

Laugh Out Loud

Where: Opposite Fashion street, Bombay.
A couple of you must have seen a picture of these adorable kids I had earlier put up! This was more impromptu because those kids couldn't decide on their 'pose' :]

Cry me a river...

Where: Lachung, Sikkim.
It was cold and extremely windy! And clean! And clear! And blue! I don't remember much of it otherwise because we were all brain-frozen!

This is only a part of the movie 'When the cow met the camera' :]

Cow needs love, milk, biscuits and everything you have to say!