Aug 9

My entry into Europe made me realise that i had a bigger knowledge about geography (which i usually find is bad) and cultures across the world. Symbolism is liked by everyone and hence each country other than their flag have some souveniers which tourirsts or hobbyists like me could clamin proudly of their collection. A collection of my own souveniers is here and I have tried showcasing them with my other hobby Photography. These souveniers come from countries which are rich in culture. Most of these were got to me by my close friends when they travelled there or some from these countries even. My collection is growing and I am sure this album will be kept updated.
For now,I have souveniers from the below countries:
Albania - Thanks to Kleves Lamaj
Belgium - Thanks to Deepak D
Canada - Thanks to Robin Singh
Denmark - Thanks to Dominic
France - Thanks to Deepak D
Germany - Thanks to Gautham S
Greece - Thanks to Deepak D
India
Israel - Thanks to Prasad MNR
Italy - Thanks to Deepak D
Morocco - Thanks to Nivedita Acharya
Norway - Thanks to Deepak D
Portugal - Thanks to Sofia Olim
Sweden
Slovakia - Thanks to Deepak D
Spain - Thanks to Aram
Switzerland - Thanks to Suneel Cederla
Taiwan - Thanks to Deepak D
UK- London
USA, NY - Thanks to Patrick Sneep
For now, here they are. Comments appreciated :)

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Aug 3

Happened to visit a friend’s Flickr and saw my photostream and oh my gosh are these photos taken by me. I thought for sometime. Hmm, time to delete the one’s that dont anymore sooth my eyes. So i updated some 40 new ones. Also had to delete some coz i have a trial free version :|Need to earn more :D. Anyway, this time my approach to FlickR is new. Comments please. Here is the linkhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mayakar/

Jun 6

A few days ago i had a fun day when i visited Glyptoteket & Tivoli in sunny scandinavian spring time in Denmark with friends. Here are some photos.

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May 10

You are about to embark on a biological adventure that will take you back to the age of the dinosaurs and give you weeks of enjoyment as you grow your very own “living dinosaurs!”

Whats in a name?
The triops name comes from the greek phrase meaning three eyes. If you look closely at this anatomical drawing, you will see that the triops appears to have three eyes! Because they ate back to the time of the dinosaurs, they are also called dinosaur shrimp. Some people all them tadpole shrimp because of their shape, which is similar to the tadpole of a frog.

What exactly are triops?
Triops are crustaceans that look like miniature horseshoe crabs. Larger members of the crustacean family include crabs and lobsters. Smaller members are brine shrimp,fairy shrimp and Daphnia. Triops have a relatively short lifespan of 20 -90 days and grow quickly to heir adult length of one to three inches. How large they grow depends on the amount of
light and food they receive. After hatching, they often double in size daily. The bright colors of the Triops are due to hemoglobin in the blood and dark blue-green pigment in the connective tissue. This amazing animal has shield-shaped carapace, sessile compound eyes and 35 to 71 pairs of leaf like appendages ( legs) used for swimming and respiration.

Mandibles and maxillae ( mouth parts) are present. Triops use abdominal appendages to transport food along the mid line of their bodies up to their mouth. They are called branchiopods (gill floor) because they obtains oxygen from the water through their feet. The young quickly move through several larval stages, shedding ( molting) their exoskeletons
each time. Adults can complete their life cycle in under 30 days. Triops are usually in constant motion. They have entertaining feeding and breathing patterns that include amazing acrobatics, upside-down  swimming and eating.

Apr 29

These nice smiles, fake or real dont make me feel good anymore i am yearning for a cosmic feeling. I am missing all of a sudden many things in life viz., happiness, satisfaction, food, family, lover, hugs, kisses, adventure, friends, geekiness, motivation, direction, determination, dedication, sanity, zeal, trance-filled effects and in the end i feel i am missing myself and living a life of some unknown uncared item that nobody cares what happens to it in life.

I have become my own unattended unthoughtful conscious whose correctness is crushed under careless caricature alike crudeness of corruptness conglomerated with cruel unsure craziness!

Sometimes you get to think that maybe it would have been better if all this did not happen because when you see me now, you feel you have made me change. Change the course of life. As if I was going on my own way and you feel that you have pulled me away of that road and got me on a foggy unsafe and dangerous one. Well let me tell you the road of life is in itself foggy,unsafe and dangerous, yet the looking glass that you have given me has provided me with wider dimensions and made me look at it as beautiful and mystically magnificent, however the glass is so wonderful that my
wandering wonder has captured its fantasy, fantastically involving me in its beauty, your beauty gives me a sight of heavens. And when you feel you are in heaven, its obvious for one to feel to not want anything but that bliss that is generated every time, that makes me fly and nothing new to care. Its not you but me, my mystical mist covered mind that has been so fantasized by the fabulous-ness that i cant seem to see the ground and the ground reality that its all in the end just an unsafe foggy journey, yet i want to take this journey with you, for my mind is probably contaminated but so well hallucinated in this beautiful world of ours that i cant go back to where i was.

I want this bliss to make my unsafe foggy journey a feeling filled final fantasy of life for more than this i dont foresee anything for now. My such fabulously foolish words, i know, would leave you at a point where you have no words to say but just to listen to it and maybe cry a bit, smile a bit and give a warm love filled hug which accompanied with a honey filled sweeter than sweet smile would get me normalized to normal sane man’s language yet heighten my bliss and such craziness hidden yet strong!

This lovely bliss lustrously illuminating my heart and mind and showing me a halo of light around your face making me feel you are my angel of life forever who shall stay that way for i see nothing else as important as that gloom in your eyes when a smile as good as the spring daffodils swinging, spring birds singing is spread on your face like a melody
soothing fills my ears. I see nothing but that smiling face that lovely shiny eye with love filled like the oceans on earth, sometimes i am obliged to admit that it is salty and not enjoyable mostly but that sweet nectar that comes out of the fresh mountains growing in your heart, those small droplets they make me faint, make me die, yet the practicality of this poor world makes me poorer while my richness of bliss fills up my heart ready to showered upon but having no means suffers like the lava in an unsolicited volcano. It just wants to be freed!

Come shower upon me, as soothingly refreshing as the monsoon’s first rain and cool me down with your chilled touch that makes my heart skip beating. I am willingly Wishing to be evaporated but the chillness of your touch and the warmth of smile form a colorful symphony that makes my heart sing before it can melt away. Make me melt away and fade away from this foggy unsafe journey of life, make me wash away all my fears with my non-existence because
my existence being apart and farther has so much fear evoked in itself that i fear that i will be taken over by the fear and fear would be demonise me, for as a demon, my fear shall grow forcing all my love to be lost in your inner mind’s vulnerability which seems to make small waves on the outer but has a larger, calmer yet high potential to destroy the whole path that i intend to carry on!

Keep it calm and yet force my fear away with the strength of that calm patient soothing smiling face which has a potential to make everything seem astounding and feed me fresh air from in forms of small waves, stall me at times yet keep me in the saner world. Keep me cool and wet with the charming rain from your glooming eyes. Give me a small part of you that i can adore and keep with me always. soft to feel cared and loved yet strong to face the unsafe world that i can fight with, one handed!. With the other hand i want to hold your hands and walk with you making the way clearer, prettier, and in the end walk in the beautiful path of life and perish in your arms closing my eyes on cloud nine. Caring for nothing but looking and melting in those shiny pair of eyes which would have been my world till death and maybe after too.Do this little favor for that mistake of giving me a kaleidoscopic looking glass. This is all what i want in return would you?

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Apr 12

Some trials on Tiltshift photography. Used photos from my earlier albums. A good site called tiltshiftmaker makes them.

Apr 11

This was written and performed as the final scene in his first “talkie” film, called “The Dictator”. Of course, he was skewering Hitler and Mussolini in the film, but at the end, he turns to the audience and gets serious, and makes a speech that is strangely relevant almost 60 years later.

Charlie Chaplin - Amazing Speech - video powered by Metacafe

Apr 9

Check out a nice poem by my friend Priyanka on her blog. A nice one indeed. Here is the link ->

http://priyankawasnik.blogspot.com/

Also added her on my blogroll :)

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Apr 8

A Short photo walk to Lund’s botanical garden. A lot of spring flowers had sprung up. A nice view. More to come.

Mar 22

ಮಾಯಾಜಾಲದಲಿ ಮಿಂದು ಮಸುಕಾದ ಮುಸ್ಸಂಜೆ ಮನತುಂಬಿಹುದು, ಮಾಯದೀ ಮನವೊಲಿಸುವ ಮಾಯೆಯ ಮನವರಿತು ಮಂಥನ ಮಾಡಿ ಮುಕ್ತನಾಗಿ ಮೈಮರೆಯಲು ಮನದಾಳದ ಮುತ್ತಿಗೆ ಮುತ್ತಿಗೆ ಮಾಡಲು ಮಾಯದ ಮೇಘಧೂತದಿ ಮಿಂಚಲು ಮನವು ಮುದದಿಂದ ಮಾಯೆಯಾಗಿದೆ!

ಮಾಯದ ಮನದಾಳಕೆನ್ನ ಪಯಣ!

Submerged in the magicalweb mayajaala dusky evening filled heart, digging deeper in understanding this magically heart taking magic’s mind my mind wants to be free, and so my body, at the deepest of the heart’s kiss, kiss i want this magic’s musical message and shine my heart n mind with the ultimate joy of happiness and be one with the magic.

My journey towards this magical heart!

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