Found this nice group on twitter which posts weekly photo challenges every friday. Thought i must check in some photos to see if i can learn more 
and also can some better use of 3000 odd photos i took in 2008 :P. what a shutterbug!
This weeks theme was DISORDER and here is my post. You think its worth a vote?
Started twitterin. First new thing for this new year :P. Here is my home page for twitter
(link also in my blogroll)
Interested friends can follow
Trial of the Weeks 50 & 51.
JulMust is a famous Christmas drink is Sweden. Its so famous that its said that its sales beats that of other drinks like Coca-cola during Christmas time. It tastes more like a berry with Carbonated cola. I liked the taste and so tried it for 2 weeks. Infact, if its Christmas (jul) and you are in Sweden then Julmust is a must for jul 
Useful Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julmust
Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite 61 years and we still have children in India working when they are supposed to go to school and learn and yield as future citizens who build a nation. During my visit to India, I could see a lot of children working and or in situations much worse. They were either living in messy conditions without education or they were struggling to make a small amount of money selling things that they can. Here are a few photos.
I dont know how i could directly help them, than just buy what they were selling. I plan to have a photo campaign of such unprivileged children in India and maybe help them in some way. Suggestions please
People interested or having photos I hereby am calling for the photos and suggestions.
Wishing all of you a Merry Christmas!
The original of the above photo is a part of my Julpyssel album.
Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite “Julpyssel” (Christmas crafts) is the name of the activity on which day Christmas decorative crafts are prepared with friends and/or family. It could be called “Dan’ före dan’ före dan’ före dopparedan’” (The day before the day before the day before the dipping day, i.e. Christams Eve - It’s said that there is a long story behind that name. It was anyway, a nice evening spent doing Christmas Crafts. Thanks for friends Richard, Jannice, Linea & Robert (hosts), Martin & Maxim. We ended the day with some crazy singing on PS3. Here are some photos of crafts that we made.
By the way, Its not traditional to make Harry Potter dolls, it was just the idea of Jannice as she likes Harry Potter and is a fan ficton writer. ( For those interested to read them, you can the link to her writings on my blogroll). I made the Harry Potter ( Frankly, i felt like a kindergarten kid while doing it, but as i did, it just felt better after a long time, but harry here looks a bit lazy 
), Jannice made the nice looking Snape and Hermione and Richard did Santa. We moulded them with clay and heated them so they stay hard.
A couple of butterfly caterpillars i caught in my camera’s eye. They were hairy but very supportive for the photoshoot ;). A close look on them
An interesting time lapse video of a life cycle of theirs is below
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In the middle of my dreams i was when i was shaken, my whole bed shook, i opened my eyes and lights to see whats happening. I could feel the room sway a bit as i live in the top floor of the building. I freaked out and looked out immediately, just to see the student corridors opposite to me having their lights on and peeking out. We had been shaken, an earthquake! My First earthquake experience, definitely shaken. Later the swedish newspaper thelocal.se reported a 4.5-5 scale earthquake with epicentre was 30 kms away 18kms underground from malmo. This is the first biggest in the last 100 years in Sweden.
Detailed report from thelocal.se is below:
Photo courtesy: thelocal.se
Published: 16 Dec 08 14:01 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/16374/20081216/
Southern Sweden was rocked by an earthquake early on Tuesday morning which caused a flood of phone calls to emergency services operators from alarmed residents.
“The bed shook for about 20 seconds,” Helsingborg resident John O’Leary told The Local.
O’Leary said the quake woke him at about 6:20am and that the shaking knocked over several items in his apartment.
Uppsala University seismologist Reynir Bödvarsson estimated the quake measured between 4.5 and 5.0 on the Richter scale.
“It was likely felt in much of southern Sweden. For Sweden, this is a very strong quake,” Bödvarsson told the TT news agency.
Seismologists in Sweden estimate the quake’s epicentre was located 18 kilometres underground, beneath a point about one kilometre east from Malmö’s Sturup Airport, located about 30 kilometres east of the city.
According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake had a magnitude of 4.7, which would make it the strongest earthquake to hit Sweden in more than 100 years.
Back on October 23rd, 1904, an earthquake with an epicentre near the Koster Islands off Sweden’s west coast reached a magnitude of 6.0 on the Richter scale.
Much of the Baltic region, including southern Sweden, was rattled in 2004 by a 5.3 magnitude quake with its epicentre in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad on the south shores of the Baltic Sea.
Tuesday’s tremor was felt primarily by residents in Skåne. People living in Malmö reported feeling strong tremors and buildings throughout the city shook.
“It’s not dangerous for people, but there certainly may be some cracking in the facades of buildings,” said Bödvarsson.
“I’ve never been so scared in my life,” said Tina Morris, who resides in Skurup, about 40 kilometres south east of Malmö.
“The roar of the quake was horrible, but it was the bed shaking that woke me up. I could hear the plates and glass rattling downstairs.”
Residents in Blekinge, just east of Skåne, also reported feeling the ground shake beneath them.
Danish news agency Ritzau also reported that the tremor was felt in Copenhagen and other parts of northern Själland in Denmark.
Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite A few months ago, I noticed a moth laying eggs on one of the walls on my compound wall. I quickly grabbed my camera and snapped a few pics. Here is the result. I checked the eggs after 2 days to see tiny hatched larvae there. One of the Close encounters with nature.
