Author: ektz
cappuccino or kepucheeno?
Coffee is not just a drink, its a way of life for me. Thus the quote in the photo. I’m not a regular drinker, though I love my coffee. And Won’t Tread it for anything not even a chocolate now. that should say, how much I started loving coffee.
Anyway the title of the post is what happened to me. The other day I was at my favorite coffee shop, and the new waiter came to take the order. I ordered my usual, the “cappuccino”. And he asked me back, “kepucheeno, right?” And that even in a tone, that would so innocently imply that I was the one who was spelling it wrong. lol. I smiled and nodded my head, why making a fuss, whats in the name anyway, right? 😀
Anyway, apart form the above other Great but unusual Coffee Quotes :
- “Men should be like coffee, hot sweet and strong”
- “If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.”
- “Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee”
- “Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love”
- “Coffee and love are best when they are hot”
- “A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship.”
- “Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.”
- “Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.”
Flickr Account Active Again!
New camera has done this to me! 🙂
The camera is less than 10 days old, yet it has reached frame count of 2000 already.
but well, that could also be credited to the trip to my native rajkot and porbandar for ceremonies.
Anyhow, I have acquired my flickr pro account back, and so am back to putting photos for my portfolio.
here are a few thumbnails of the pics I have recently uploaded..
Turning 25 – Happy Birthday to me!
25. Silver Jubilee.
What changes? A lot of things, and actually nothing.
Although I have received less birthday wishes this year, I think the forums and websites that I have registered in, has sent me enough wishes to fill up the void. 🙂 take a look.
Anyway, Last night, for the first time ever, I was not really expecting a JINGBANG about midnight surprise party and cake and all. Not that it doesn’t happen and all. My younger sister Aagna, the biggest culprit in all plans, always make sure I have my birthday party at midnight every single year. I’m sure she knows how much it really means to me. I mean, there was a funny incident few years back that I just remembered, along the same lines.
Its was my birthday, and a night before, I was absolutely angry, sad and frustrated. Well, it was a usual deal, due to my temperament and nature back then. And That time, I was not in mood for cake/candle etc. So a day before I had warned my sister strictly that I do not want a cake, or candle or anything this year around! And I also made it pretty obvious how serious I was when I told her that. She promised nothing like that would happen. With a sigh of relief, I had gone to my favorite place in the house just before midnight. I actually thought I wanted to be left alone. But you gotta trust my little sister, she is a smart ass, capricon btw, so she did came upstairs, with my surprise birthday cake and candle. just that cake was not cake, and candle was not candle.
She used a 500 grams bar of vanilla icecream, used chocolate syrup to write “Happy Birthday Sis” on it, and then had a small diya along with the icecream bar. 🙂 then she came to me as i was sitting on the terrace, sulking. she told me she didn’t break the rules as she didn’t bring cake or candle 😀 and then I had the most irritated yet happy smile on my face. She did know how much it meant to me.
Well, in fact last night as well, she did it. 🙂 This time the partners in crime were elder sister and my brother in law.
They arranged for cake and to my surprise, also a nice small “Teddy” candle. Well, i am sure joy is happy when he reads this.
And so celebrated yet again. With my loved ones near and dear. Missed a few people who I wished to be there, but then again, such is life.
Now, don’t I look like the one about to kill, rather than cut a cake ? 😀
Long Friendship
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.
Nostalgia
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.
Sofa
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.
In love again…
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/
Coverage in DNA – Page 3
oh well, this happened in last week of july. that interview that is. And let me tell you, after that I actually realized how journalists can twist facts to their likings to just make the write-up look more interesting and masalaa.
I mean, in the interview, the female journalist for a Sunday- DNA, Page 3, I remember I have said those words which are written in the article, though she might have just eaten words out from the sentences and within the context, they started meaning something else altogether.
Like in the first few lines, when its written that I left my career to be a Film-maker. She absolutely missed on the point. All I had said was that I had taken some time off from my work to take a part in this project called “Sigma51”.
Lets move to the part where she has implied in the second para, that I got bored of still photography so moved into film making. That’s one thing even my father wouldn’t believe. My first love would always be Photography First and then anything else. All i had said was, Through photography I developed my interest in film making, and she twisted it to sound like I got bored of photography.
The funny this is yet to come. Where she has described about one incident I faced while making movie, a few words changed and now it means exactly opposite to what I meant it to be! When she asked me about an incident that i remember which was best or worst. I decided to tell her a best incident, which was like , Me and my unit had a shoot at 2 am on the road for a fiction horror short film, and we were shooting there. Now out of the blue, there were two policemen who came on bike and interrupted. All they did was to ask some questions, and after they got satisfactory answers, they actually stayed till the end of the shoot, to actually help us out with it, to save us from notorious onlookers who might try to create problems in night shoots. they took care of it! now what she did, you can read that in coverage. “policemen” became “policevan” and then the fact that they helped, came out like they ‘interferred and gave us problem’
phew! There is more.. but well, am just tired to point it out now!
journalists, can’t help their ‘masala’ brains to make this simple interview terrible.
or just may be its not the general problem of journalists, its was in specific her, who was probably slow at understanding my words.
may be, may be not!














