2006-11-06 : 29 and 12 months (and 5 months)
Having a birthday party (in conjunction with Roie) in Adelaide on Nov 25th. Mail me for details. Would love to see everyone.
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2006-11-04 : There’s a chap who knows the art!
Photographing landscape and scenery is one skill which has always evaded my grasp. I'll give it a go, but it always ends up as being a washed out facsimile of what I'm actually looking at. Or the shots come out flat & 2 dimensional. Sometimes, with a bit of effort, they're not *that* bad. So…
2006-10-31 : Kripa karke mendak phenkne ki pratiyoghita kahai he batanye ?
Inspired by a post at Flashpackers, it occurred to me that having been in Shimla a couple of weeks now I'd kind of developed a tendency to get on with life rather than being a tourist in a new place (although having made that outlandish claim, I suppose I'm still photographing anything and everything that…
2006-10-30 : Optimism
2 things strike me as overly hopeful about the ambulances here: 1) I sincerely doubt that should you need to get into one that you'd be able to lie in the back – they're essentially Suzuki Carryvans, which like its stablemates the MightyBoy and the Sherpa, seems to have been designed for carting individual cartons…
2006-10-26 : w00t!
OK, that's another exam out of the way. 2 down, 6 to go. Although for some stupid reason I'm considering rushing the last two and tacking on another 9 day course. Maybe I'll wait til I get this exam (shaping up to be trickier) out of the way on Monday or Tuesday and then see…
2006-10-26 : How to win friends & influence people
The other night we dropped in to Barista for our post-lecture coffee, and there were these two blokes sitting in there chatting away. When we sat down, they said – with great big friendly smiles on their faces – to Rob (Dutch), Ricardo (Colombian) and myself: “You are English, yes ?”. We made it clear…
2006-10-23 : Some slight turbulence
The stuff I posted earlier today – which is dated from a few days back – I actually wrote before, it's just the pace of this course has been so flat out I hadn't had a chance to edit the photos and get all that organised. But as I take a brief break from study…
2006-10-18 : From the mezzanine of the world
On Sunday my learned colleague Rob & I elected to get the hell out of Shimla and see some of the surrounding countryside. To wit, we forked over the hefty sum of 1125 Rupees each (about 12 pounds) and hired ourselves a 4WD, driver and tour guide for the day, and set off to the…