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Happy New Year….

Posted on January 2nd, 2010 by YoGi

Happy new year… to everyone!!!

So another year has passed… now that’s an understatement. Another year flew by, that would be the right way to put it. The time really flies. It just feels funny, to remember things you did and feeling like “oh gosh, it just feels like yesterday”… and I’m not talking about just one year, this whole decade felt like ran it’s course on steroids. I moved out of house, I started working independently, I went to safari in jungles of MP, I went to long desired vacation to Ladakh and I’ve been to Seychelles and it all just feels to yesterday. Looking back at my life in this decade, every moment feels so clear and vivid it’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 freaking years.

Everyone should really do this, just sit quietly in your window (or wherever you like) with large cup of steaming coffee (or your favorite beverage) and rewind. Remember the last holiday you spent with your family, remember the last holiday that you couldn’t spend with your family, remember the great and awesome things you did, remember the stupid and mean things that you did, remember that friend you had in your last office, remember than grumpy and khadoos colleague that made your work life less rosey. Your findings may vary, but I remember both sides of the coins I flipped in my past, and it brings great feelings in my mind. It’s hard to describe, but it’s sort of a cocktail of satisfaction, relief and good, crazy chuckles. God bless, for he has given me enough clarity to see through myself and enough courage and ability to carry my decisions and mistakes in my own hands… because I’ve yet to come across any serious regret about anything I’ve done in my life. Looking back also gives you great insight about people around you, and your connection with those people. Some have gotten closer while some have drifted apart, some may have even gotten lost in the dark depths of forgotten memories, while some may been just reduced to memories.

It feels nice that some things have changed and while many things are still so same. It helps one to keep their feet on ground, not to be drifted away in the strong flow of stream called time. Few things have changed though, probably not for good. I’ve gained weight (yay… finally!!), but in wrong places. I’ve gotten slow and lazy. I’ve finally managed to grow long hairs, but now I’ve hardly any time to manage them properly and bad hair day seems to be almost every day of the week. In short… I’m not looking old, but I AM growing old and these things remind of this fact, in not so subtle way. Plus my smoking has increased instead of lessening, and it’s not helping at all. I know it’s not good for me and I know should be really exercising more regularly, but I am knowing these things aren’t helping either.

Now we enter 2010… end of the decade, two years before the worlds end (supposedly, not that I believe it). Twenty-ten… a funny number, I can’t explain why it’s funny… it just feels funny to say, twenty-ten or two-zero-one-zero or two-thousand-ten. I just hope to go through this year better than last one, especially on personal side of things. I hope I finally get the wisdom to clean up my ways and start taking better care of myself. Hey god, if you’re running short on wisdom (judging by the state of the world these days), a smack on my head would be great too.

And to all my friends and everyone else… don’t just wait for god to smack my brains out, get real and start paying some attention towards yourself. Have a happy new year ahead and may god grant you the wisdom (remember god, I’m first in line) or the smack on your head, to remind you about yourselves.

Once again… Happy New Year… a Happy Fuckin’ New Year indeed!!

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Birthday wisdom…. I’ll be…

Posted on December 17th, 2009 by YoGi

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Remember, reclaim your life

Posted on October 15th, 2009 by YoGi

There is reason I love this ad. Every time I watch it, it just makes me feel like packing my backpack and go somewhere. I was an impulsive traveler and it just makes me feel jealous of my former self. What the fuck happened? What changed my life? I must remember. I must reclaim my life.

Tags: ad, life, Travel
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Asia IT Expo ‘09: a minor disappointment

Posted on September 26th, 2009 by YoGi

So I went to Asia IT Expo ‘09 and I came back…. I can sum up the experience in that one sentence. But I won’t because, it wasn’t that big of disappointment as last year. At least it wasn’t office furniture expo.

Truth be told, it wasn’t any different than Asia IT Expo ‘07… it had some hardware, it had some software, it had more software than hardware, it has some brands and it didn’t have some brands. Some part was improved but it didn’t amount to much.

I’ll show you a picture story.

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Tags: Asia IT Expo, Expo
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Upgrading MacBook’s storage… the easiest way!

Posted on May 14th, 2009 by YoGi

I’ve got late 2008 model MacBook, and it’s a great little machine. In fact, I bought it quite fully loaded… with 4 gig of DDR3 1066MHz RAM and 250GB drive. So it wasn’t really required for me to upgrade the drive. But space, as you know in computer world, is never enough. Since I’m planning to use this little thing as primary computer for my photographic and traveling needs, I figured it was only logical to have as much as space possible. Those who, like me shoot in RAW mode would know how easy it is to fill up empty space after long photography sessions. So I bought the currently largest available notebook drive, that is 500GB. Unfortunately I couldn’t find Seagate momentus 7200RPM drive as it would have been better from performance standpoint. Neverthless, I was pretty happy to score WD Scorpio Blue 5400RPM drive at really good price of Rs. 4900 (approx $97).

Now here starts the real fun… these new MacBooks have very easy drive replacement facility, but something struck me as I sat down to replace the drive…. my currently installed softwares and data. I don’t want to re-install every fucking thing again and copy and re-arrange the data afterward. That’s too much of a waste of time. Well, well… it’s true that they say that Google is thy friend. Going through few sites, I came across couple of drive utilities for backup and restore. While most of the people were mentioning Super Duper by Shirt Pocket, there was this one software that caught my eye… Carbon Copy Cloner by Bombich Software. Off-course if you’re Time Machine user and have large external drive for backup, Time Machine let you restore entire system from backup. But since I don’t use it I’m not covering it in this article. So if you’re like me and you don’t use Time Machine then read on about how to do it with third party app like mentioned above.

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Tags: Apple, backup, hard-drive, Macbook, OS X, upgrade
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I Wonder……

Posted on May 14th, 2009 by YoGi

Something is up for this weekend…

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Stand by Me… around the world

Posted on April 29th, 2009 by YoGi

I’m hardly keeping tabs on popular music these days… because it’s more popular than it’s music. I’m sorry, but I can’t get my head around this pop-icon-contest-winner-singer-trash culture of music that these music industry bastards is trying throw on us. Everything is about fucking money. It’s getting more and more about marketing, selling, glamor and numbers, than it’s about music. What the fuck? Numbers are for nerds… that’s not music.

I can go on and on, because it pisses me off to no end. But that’s not the point. Because there are still some people who do it for love of music… not for fame, big money or stupid music videos with gang of girls in bikinis. These guys never made it to the big scene and probably never will… but they still do what they do best, they play music. These, street musicians like few other things helped me today to keep my faith in music, in today’s world.

Just came across this amazing video, on Vimeo (via Gizmodo) and I was really touched. These days we all talk about collaboration and convergence and communication… but THIS is synergy, this is symphony. Watch it, feel it and I’m sure you’ll love it. I think this is probably the best cover of Ben E. King’s song, after John Lennon.

Like Jesus Diaz of Gizmodo rightly said…

If this video doesn’t bring a tear to your eyes and makes you smile for the rest of the day, you are a cold hearted bastard. Watch it from beginning to end—you won’t regret it.

Thank you, to everyone involved in this video for making my day.

Tags: Gizmodo, Music, Street Musicians, World Music
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Ladakh Chronicles, Part 1 – Intro

Posted on April 5th, 2009 by YoGi

a land with soul

When you have a dream, a desire, a wish for something; you are driven by it, you want to achieve it, get it. You do everything you can to make it come true, and when it does… that’s when it happens. You did it, you got it, you made it; now what? When the desire is fulfilled, when goal is achieved, do you get this unsettling feeling? I’ve been having this feeling ever since I came back from Ladakh.

I love to travel and it’s been my dream to visit Ladakh ever since I discovered the joy of travelling. Now that I have been there, I couldn’t get over it. I did what I wanted to do, but now I don’t know what to do.

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Tags: Ladakh, lake, Leh, mountains, Tso moriri
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Ladakh Chronicles, part 2 – Prologue

Posted on April 5th, 2009 by YoGi

From City to City, from City to Mountains

4^th July
Exciting morning. Finally I was going to Ladakh. After years of dreams and wishes, finally I was going there. I did not sleep in the night. I was counting hours, minutes and seconds. It was all so overwhelming that I couldn’t feel any excitement for the fact that I was flying for first time in my life. I’ve always been impulsive traveler. When I felt like going away, I would pack by bags and catch a closest train to my destination. No reservations, no booking and no planning. As Maggi was in-charge of our travelling arrangements (for that matter all other arrangements) we had booked plane tickets and everything. So this was my first time flying and for some reason I wasn’t feeling anything amazing about it. I had much bigger excitement in my heart.

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Tags: delhi, first flying, Hidimba, Himachal, Ladakh, Leh, manali, Mumbai
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Ladakh Chronicles, part 3 – Manali-Leh Journey

Posted on April 5th, 2009 by YoGi

Mountain Roads, Changing Nature and one incident of AMS

6^th July
Early morning 5′o clock. Cold atmostphere. Hot cup of coffee and Ashok’s warm good morning. Our journey started with only one little problem. The weather was rainy and clouds were covering most of the view. The road was wet and foggy, slowing down our vehicle. I usually like to photograph rainy season, but we all were hoping for bit clearer weather. Prateek said that we should get clearer weather past Keylong or at max Baralachla pass. We had nice filled breakfast before Rohtang pass, I relished on nice double omelet, while Maggi and Jaimin feasted on Parathas and Bhutta (Corn Cob)

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Tags: Acute Mountain Sickness, AMS, Baralachla, Bharatpur, clouds, Debring, Ghata loops, Jispa, Keylong, Khoksar, Ladakh, Leh, manali, Morey planes, mountains, Pang, rohtang, Sarchu, Suraj tal, Tanglangla, Zingzingbar
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