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| Wednesday, 3-Nov-2004 00:00 |
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Lonely Cloud!!
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Lonely Cloud
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This entry is a bit of a fun entry, inspired by one from Adrian's fotopage. [url]http://adrizufe.fotopages.com.
I had taken this picture, on the same day that I had taken the sunset pics in one of my recent posts but, had left this pic out.
I was waiting to see if cloud would move, to be positioned right above the spiky little tower but, my patience ran out. I figured that this would have been pretty symbolic.
So, it seems that Bush will win  . I'm pretty sure Hillary Clinton will be secretly happy. My guess, is that she will run for president in the next election. Let's wait and see. 
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| Thursday, 28-Oct-2004 00:00 |
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Two Years and Going.....
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The Forbidden City. A view.
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It's two years since I came to China. Two years to the day. I figured that I'd kind of celebrate by putting up a single picture of the GuGong or, the Forbidden City.
I'd always wanted to come to China, ever since I was in my teens. And, I have to say that I have enjoyed every day living in this superb country, with it's marvellous people.
However, I need to apologise to all for not keeping up with everyone's pages for the last week or so. The last week has been so damn busy and, it will be this way till the 6th November. I have a huge backlog - of pages to view and, of pictures to put up.
I'll be back!!
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| Wednesday, 20-Oct-2004 00:00 |
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Sunset over Shanghai
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This entry is pretty much in the Fazizaid mode, I think!! October is a great month in Shanghai. Beautiful weather. Lovely skies. A bit of haze, yes but, all in all a great month.
On Saturday, while walking around in the evening, I saw the beautiful colours in the clouds and then, on Sunday, I clambered up to my rooftop to see if we had a great sunset again. And yes, we did!! For me, personally this was a great sunset. I'm also grateful to the gentlemen to invented and popularised photography. On a philosophical note, I wonder if I would have been this sensitive to God's great work, if it were not for photography.
I'm pretty pagan in my belief, in the sense that, for me the world around me is religion. And for me, photography is a means to the end.
Wow!!
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| Wednesday, 6-Oct-2004 00:00 |
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Tiankong Li Xiao Huo
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Okay, the above is lousy Chinese. I was trying to translate 'Small Fire In The Sky' into Chinese but, I could not get the correct translation. And. there was no concensus amongst my friends either, on what the correct translation should be. Ah well, that's the life!! 'Yanhua' is the word for fireworks, by the way.
We had the fireworks show again, on the 3rd October. This time, I went up to the rooftop of my house to look at them. My home is about 2km from Century Park, where they had the fireworks show. Just to give you a better idea of scale, the small, almost parallel purple lines, is the light down the length/height of a 15 storey building that is about 100 metres from the fireworks show!
I am going to take this chance to apologise in advance! October is going to be a lousy month for me. In fact, right until the 6th November. So, I will be in and out of fotopages. But, I will keep surfing your pages!!
Finally, Liz did get it right. The 'Waterfall' in the last entry is my favourite picture.
And, from the entry, I will get back into some of my more normal stuff.
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| Friday, 1-Oct-2004 00:00 |
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Fire In The Sky
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Today is the 1st October, the 55th Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic Of China. This must have been a great day for Mao ZeDong all those years ago. Yesterday, I went to the Century Park (Shi Ji Gong Yuan), near my home in PuDong, Shanghai to watch the fireworks display. It was, I have to say, pretty spectacular and, this was the first time in my life that I have ever photographed fireworks. using my new toy - the D70. Great camera.
Of all the pictures that I have posted in this entry, one remains my great favourite. Let's see how many can guess which one!! 
And, this morning, the President of China talked about how the proposed unification of Taiwan with China is one of the great missions of the government. Wow!! 
And, you have chaos in North Korea, in Russia. You have Bush chasing the Iraqis and the Afghans. You have trouble beteen the Tutsus and the other guys. You have some who are the eternal poodle. You have shit hitting the roof in India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Whatever happened to Flower Power? 
Politicians, the world over are the same. Sophisticated Neandetherals, with primitive territorial instincts, expressed in a sophisticated manner. We all have these instincts, actually but, politicians have more power to express it 
There is no discrimination amongst them. They are the same, irrespective of colour, caste, creed, religion, age, nationality, education (or, lack of it), sex (and, no matter with whom and, how often). 
But you know, what the hell? The sun will rise tomorrow and we, as a breed of animal, can still light up the night sky. 
And, we can choose to make the world a better place.  .
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| Monday, 27-Sep-2004 00:00 |
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Prelude
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We went to the Forbidden City or, the Gugong, in BeiJing on our way back from the USA. A stopover on the way back home to ShangHai. Pretty gloomy, humid and crowded day. The Forbidden City was the old home of the Chinese Emperors, dating from the Ming Dynasty. Ordinary folks like you and me were forbidden from even approaching the place.
I call this a prelude, because I will go there again. Maybe, a couple of times. This time, I could not do too much. I went with my young kids and, the place is infant unfriendly!! And, it's huge. With an estimated 800 buildings and 9,000 chambers.
This time, I concentrated on trying to create a sense of the crowds that were teeming through the place. Seemed like half the population of China was there that day. 
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| Monday, 20-Sep-2004 00:00 |
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Sometimes I Feel So...
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Shadows
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More Shadows
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I was in Morristown recently and, this is a place that you go to when you want to find God!! Not for fun!! And, I was so uninspired that I took only two photographs. And, these are what you what you see up here. Two photographs of evening shadows on a fence.
It reminds me of that old song by Traffic, which starts "Sometimes I feel so uninspired, Sometimes I feel I've had enough...."
But, not that bad, really!!
Anyway, I will soon, show you guys some more stuff soon. And, apologies for not surfing your pages often enough in recent times. I've been swamped with work but, I shall try and rectify that soon enough.
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| Thursday, 9-Sep-2004 00:00 |
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Fisherman's Wharf
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Okay, this is the last of the touristy stuff. Fisherman's Wharf in 'Frisco is one of the biggest tourist traps that I have seen. But, at the same time, I think that the sea front is beautiful.
I suppose it's the old combination of sea, sun, skies, clouds. Tourists or no tourists. But, you know, I really debated with myself about this particular entry. Whether I should make it an unpopular entry or, a really unpopular one!!
This was the first point in my trip to the USA, not the last. But, here I witnessed some stuff that I had read about but seen for the first time. First, the good. The extent of ethnic 'variety' that I saw here was amazing and, I think that this is one of the greatest strengths of the USA. It's ability to assimilate different cultural streams and, grow. To lose this would be a tragedy.
The bad. I am overweight and, now I cycle and watch my diet to lose the extra few. But, I felt slim compared to the people I saw there. I was amazed and, shocked. God, this was crazy. People are going to have to watch how much they eat and, get out and exercise. Forget the fab diets. That's marketing crap ( I am a marketing guy!! ). Just get back to basic truths and lose the weight.
Well, I've said it. I was tempted to put up pics of the people I saw but, I decided against it. Why?? Dunno.
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| Monday, 6-Sep-2004 00:00 |
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Beautiful California Sunshine - Evening Shadows
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This is the second and, last bit on the great California sunshine. I loved the way that the houses looked in the evening sun, especially in those long summer evenings. And, of course, the shadows. Normally, I have always shot sunsets but, you know, things look different from different angles. And, evening shadows have their own charm.
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| Friday, 3-Sep-2004 00:00 |
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Beautiful California Sunsine - Mid Morning
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I think most folks associate California with beaches and bikini clad blond bombshells . Well, I did not get to see a single beach while I was in California. But, my God, was the weather beautiful in Redwood Shores.  The sun, the quality of the sunlight is amazing.This was early August, by the way.
In many of the places I have lived in, in India especially, the sun is very strong and, can really beat down upon your head in summer. But this was amazing. Very soft, very gentle, very soothing. A great place to meditate, or, sit back on a bench and read a book. If there are any crazy people here, they would have to have worked really hard to become crazy  . Would I love to go back and laze in the August sun here?? You bet!!
These shots were taken around the area where my sister lives around 11 am.
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