This was taken in 1993. When I was 10. And I am the one hiding behind, was a terrible camera shy. But the one next to me, she is my best friend. The one who is in Australia right now. happily married.

Love you Jilu.

This is cheers to all the years. it will be 15 years now, you know.

Memories. Of old times. The times those are gone.
The times those are not there anymore.
But the times which you fondly remember.
Well, social networking, if it has done nothing else, it has at least made a world a bit smaller place.

And it’s not bad, not always.

I mean, I could never imagine being in touch with my old college friends, after I left college and lost touch. It sounded almost insane to be able to find those few people in billions of people in India. And trust me, I know they would be all scattered all over the place. And now it’d been 7 yrs. And I had almost lost hopes.

But then some days before, an old friend found me out.
And then it began. The chain of events. Of finding more friends in chain. Finding more details, calling up people, meeting people, and more or less getting back in touch. At just a click of a button.

Something that made me happy.

Now there is a lot to catch up, lot to know, lot to say, and lot to share.
Even though orkut was a medium, now I am back in touch real time.

And it couldn’t have happened otherwise.
Credit goes to this wide web.

Well, on a lighter note, now this is what I call six degrees of separation.
That every one on earth, are connected through a chain of six friends, who are on orkut.
Lol.

I am on a trip right now, to my native place, and as much as it makes me happy, all this driving around, is giving me a backache as well. Anyhow, one of the most interesting part I’ve seen in this trip is my sleep during this trip.

So far, as usual, I’ve been able to sleep less. Yet, every time I’ve slept, I’ve consciously made a choice to sleep on a sofa. At my Grandfather’s place, At my Uncle’s and At my Aunt’s, all the places I’ve been to, i have had this special connection with a sofa to sleep. All of my relatives, they keep on bugging me, telling me that they have arranged for a bed for me to sleep on, though I just prefer a sofa somehow.

probably, its just the comfort and small space yet the coziness of the sofa that I have learned to love.
or may be i just have way too much memories attached to it, to feel good while i sleep on a sofa.
so yes, I would, even in future, prefer a small sofa than a bed.

With this baby this time! lovely camera. This is Nikon D40. The DSLR that is cute and compact and filled with all the necessary things without being too expensive.

Of course, photo above is taken with a mobile

The first one below is the first photo of my new camera. [ funny thing, clicked without opening the lens cover. lol ]

Here comes the very first photo from my camera. Taken in Auto mode, with Auto Focus. And I love the color an details, also the fact that the flash was used, even in this macro mode, it has not over exposed the image.

I used to do a lot of photography too. Just reliased I had not taken a single photo in last 4 months with my old COOLPIX P2 camera [the one i loved so much as well, buts time it retires. Its already more than 50000+ photos down, in last 2 yrs] .

.. Cheers to the new beginnings. This is my early Birthday Gift for my self, and I would say, its worth every rupee.

Lot more activity is about to start on my flickr here . http://flickr.com/photos/epaneri/