Oh My God

You know you're working too much when you wake up in the middle of the night, nudge your wife, point at her blanket and say "Can I get a copy of that please?"

What's worse?

What's worse than taking a 7 am flight to Bombay on Thursday morning?

Taking a 5.20 am flight back to Goa on Friday morning. Groaaannnn.

Jealousy

What happens when you pick up Igloo and pet her?

Jealous Aglee sticks out her tongue at you.

I'm not a cat person..

Yeah right....

Sigh

What I actually want...

What I'll settle for...

Drunk G

I had taken a picture of drunk G in Delhi many months ago.

This week, a TVC featuring a bald guy driving an Indica Vista Drivetech4 was released.

I swear. They look exactly the same.

A perfect end to the week

6 days of hard work, late nights and interrupted sleep followed by a Sunday with a heavy breakfast, a movie, 3 plates of cheese corn nuggets, chicken curry for dinner and the wife for company. A perfect end.

Creative license

Creative output is so subjective.

At a review... 3 people peering at a desktop screen...

Person 1: What do you think?

Person 2: I think it's fine. Looks pretty good actually!

Person 1: (Looking at me). What do you think?

Me: I think it's damn crappy man... GROANNNNN

Goa

Beaches and sunsets are probably the most boring landscapes to shoot. Well atleast if do it often enough. But yet when you see a sunset at a beach, you cant but help pull out your camera.

Taglines

Week 1 - Generated 50 taglines for a client

Week 2 - Shortlisted 16

Week 3 - Presented them to the client

Week 4 (Outcome of the meeting) - Let's not use a tagline anymore.

www.vivekchugh.com

A year and a half ago I decided I'd get a website. I booked domain space. Made a few design attempts myself. Created a logo and shortlisted pictures.

It finally happened today. Version 0.000001 is live.

A big thanks to...(and i really mean this)

Sindhu for developing it and finally getting it online. An absolute doll for getting it done. She wont even let me credit her on my website... Yes, there are such people. Nutty but nice.

Romi for booking domain space and scouting for plugins when I was being a brat by ordering him around.

AK for the profile pic.. he's good by the way. Check out his website. Oh right. He doesn't have one. But when he does, I'll post the link here.

Reva for pushing me when I was too lazy to get off my ass and get this moving.

Need a wide angle

Last week AK came over with his wide angle. I stole it for a while. New found love... I need one.. soon.. A D700 + a 20mm fixed wide angle.

This shot—courtesy AK and his 10 mm.

New found respect

Until most recently I didn't realise the importance of having a significant amount of stash in my bank account. When it was gone I realised how badly I needed it.

I have new found respect for the homeless. They don't even know where their next meal is coming from.

Entertainment

Last year I watched numerous IPL matches from the box. In South Africa where I was freezing my a** off with a large mug of beer in one hand and a blackberry in the other. This year I'll be sitting in front of my mac, logged on to YouTube with a pint of beer in one hand and a bottle opener in the other. Nostalgia beh beh!

Goan eccentricities

2 pm in the afernoon. You walk towards a restaurant for lunch. The door is shut. A hand written signboard is seen on it. "Closed for Lunch"

11 am in another restaurant. Customer to waiter - "Bhai, ek mast wala chai la". Waiter contemplates for 5 mins, gives an apologetic look to the customer and says "Bhai bana na padega".

Beer

If you think you can have another beer, you probably can! My philosophy. I'm five beers down. I think I can have another one. I think I'll go for it!

I just moved to Goa! A shift most people would consider, weird and rash. Why they asked. I said I wanted a change. I wanted to move away from the hustle and bustle. I wanted to live by the beach. I wanted to give my wife a life she always wanted.

I just watched "How to lose a guy in 10 days". I loved it. I miss Reva. Random? Well what do expect from a guy thats 5 beers down?

RIP

Hindustani music doesn't appeal to a large audience. At least not where I come from. I've been raised by a family of businessmen. Naturally I didn't have an inclination towards any form of music. Or any form of art for that matter. 

Let's face it. I didn't understand it. I still don't. But having married Pandit Dinkar Kaikini's grand daughter, I automatically got exposed to music and art a great deal more. I recently heard a video on youtube of Pandit Dinkar singing. You know how sometimes you hear a voice and forget about everything else around you? Your mind blanks out and it seems for that moment you have no worries. You truly start appreciating the beauty of it. You feel a weird connection. And you're at peace. 

Pandit Dinkar Kaikini passed away last week. Even though I hardly knew him, I miss him already. He was a great singer but more importantly a kind man. 

I only pray that Ammama, Rajesh, Aditi, Yogi, Reva and Niyu have the strength to deal with what I'd call the biggest loss for them so far.

RIP

The Cable Guy

Where I work, the IT department is a one man show. What's really great about him is the level of comfort he has with machines. Everyone else's machines. 

I'm there sitting and working on my laptop when suddenly my attention is diverted to my right. I turn back to find the IT guy typing some text on MY laptop. THATS MY LAPTOP. You'd kind of expect him to excuse himself and come up with half a reason for meddling with my laptop right? Anyway this kind of eccentric behavior isn't new to me so I carry on conversing with my colleague.  2 minutes later he disappears with an unsaved document on my desktop. I hit "ALT f4".

Ten minutes of peace. He then reappears with another laptop, pulls out my power cable and connects it to the laptop he just brought. He then places the damn thing on MY TABLE. MY TABLE. Then he disappears again, without a word, into the darkness of his home, the server room. 

Such is life

What do you do when you buy a 30,000 phone? You feel nice for a bit. Then you go ahead and drop it on the concrete.