Canon SLR!

Guys! I got a new (old) Canon SLR (Film) camera from e-bay for a very cheap deal. I played around with it during my last two weekend trips in Belgium and Versailles. Its not as economical as digital, but I learnt a ‘cheap’ trick from my photography guru Arjun, to scan the negatives using the scanner, so I just develop the Film and scan it to the computer without printing it. But it took almost a week to learn it, here are some scanned to my flickr...Click..Click.. and that’s an ugly self portrait using my SLR.

Weather update!

Paris is getting absolutely wonderful, slightly touching 20 degrees, with long days..sun light till 10 in the night, people are just crowding next to the river after the work with bottle of wine and beer and friends to get some chill air from the river, yeah! I took those pictures during my previous picnics last week. More over I can keep the huge window of my 6^th floor apartment open, nice to sleep next to this tiny balcony in the moon light counting stars. Paris spring... short and sweet !

Thirukural Lady!

Thirukural is one of the oldest works in Tamil literature . Its composed of 1330 verses written Thiruvalluvar, I like the one which talks about helping others, the best way to help someone is by comprehend the need of the person, and help them even before the person asks for it and helping without expecting anything in return nor using this deed (helping) to feed your ego. It’s very very rare to see such things happening, in this fast world, if we ever wait to analyze a person, it may to find faults with the him/her. We hardly have time to look into the needs of the person. But in Bruges, I met such a nice lady, living upto Thriukural, the Dutch Lady I met in the ferry from Bruges to Damme, working in the bar in the lower deck of the ferry, treating the people with a genuine smile and coffee and snacks. I had almost an hour chat with her, got to know how much she put her heart and soul into the work, and giving all possible tips about the region to the tourist, to make the best out of place they are visiting.

Beautiful Belgium!

This weekend, I was roaming around in the Belgium. It’s my first Solo trip, It was not that difficult as I was imagining. I started on Saturday morning from Brussels, I was walking around the classical center of the city, visited the comic strip museum, Belgium the birthplace of Tintin and many other comic characters, the museum beautifully shows the history of comics and cartoon. Late in the afternoon I took the train to go to the most beautiful place I have ever seen, Bruges. I was not able to believe if such a beautiful place can ever exist. Canals crossing all over the small town, the buildings built in a classical theme. This several thousand old town had many small interesting stories to tell. The next day morning came took a small ferry to go to the country side a small village called Damme. Hiered a bike and went on biking, I was just asking for directions to explore the beautiful country side, they said if I just follow the canal for 30 min, I will reach Netherlands.(Well this is called cross country biking. ;-) The most impressing part of this country side is the wind mill, which is still functional, grinds Kgs and Kgs of wheat everyday it seems. Check out the photos in online Album! – Beautiful Belgium!

Crazy Weather!

Check this today's Weather forecast in Google! Last few days the weather is completely messy and crazy in Paris, Its June but still the weather refusing to touch two digits! Still with winter dress and heaters on!...Its just Crazy!