Why do I ??

When you have knack of something, often your mind will be full of various questions.....

1. How can I do it in a better way?

2. What will make the outcome unique?

3. How better can I serve my interests?

etc... 

But along with these, other thousand voices will join and ask you "Why you are doing this?", "there are thousand other guys in the market who can perform it in a much better way than you" ?

The society in which we live, these questions will often be raised and sometime you will be in dilemma of how to answer them...I have been asked so many times "Why do you do photography? "

This blog is an answer to all those people who asked me this question "Why do you... ?"

Photography for me is more than just capturing an image. It is my way to preserve  joy, emotions, feelings and a moment to cherish it for a life time. I do photography because it gives me a pleasure of living that time again which has passed already. I like to spend the important moments of my life to save the more valuable moments of my life... of others' life..... Photography helps me in finding beauty in small-small things whether it is a flower or a bird.. it helps me to define a meaning of each moment....I do not care if the photos which I capture are unique or I do not care if a similar photo has been already captured by someone else... All I know is it is my way to keep that moment, that picture somewhere safe so that I can live it again.....

That's why I do photography....

Back on the ground

It's been more than a year since last I grabbed that racket. Well I am talking about Squash. Finally after such a long break, today I went to Sportland to play Squash with my Adidas colleagues. Believe me, it was amazing to be back on the ground. I am happy that I didn't loose the touch yet. I was able to win 4 out 5 games...  :) :)

Life in Germany has been good so far and I know it will remain that way, as I am doing what I like.... Work in office is good. Luckily I got a chance to work in HANA which is basically the new technology introduced by SAP. The bad thing is once it is completely accepted in the market, then I will have to forget the technology on which I have been working from the last 5 years. Anyway will think about it later on...

Between I visited International Motor show held at Frankfurt. It was just superb . All the leading Car brands were there. Met Abhiram for the first time... He is a friend of Vinod. But didn't feel like I was meeting him for the first time... He was just perfect as host ..

Anyway time to go to bed now.... its been quite long time since I wrote something... 

But good night for now with a promise to bring something worth reading here soon :)

D - Day.....

Well, I am not talking about some specific date decided by FBI or any other agency to take down some big terrorist group J J. It is actually bigger than that. It is my Birthday. Yes, exactly 28 years before, I was bornJ.

When I look in to the past and collect the memories of my birthday, they were actually quite eventful. I used to get call from friends, relatives at 00:00 on my birthday. It was like everyone joined the race and want to be the first one to wish me. It was amazing fun. First remember birth dates of friends, stay awake till late night to wish them. These days all these have been completely changed. FB and whats app have replaced the calls. People don’t remember birth dates as FB has offered a feature which reminds the birth dates of friends and relatives. It has made life easy but don’t you feel that it was a different kind of feeling to remember the birth dates and wish them. I feel so. It actually makes birthdays special.

Anyway, the start of my birthday was quite good. Few relatives and friends were actually waiting to tick the clock to 00:00 in India to wish me. To my surprise, many of my friends actually remembered my birth date even when I have hidden it on FB. Believe me, it made my day.  My friend Advait realized that it was my birthday next day around 11.00 p.m. so he could not arrange a cake and asked me to cut a muffin. Well I loved it also …. I guess cake size never matters… but feelings does…

I gifted myself a headphones from Beats by Dr. Dre. 

I also joined a gym :) :) …. I also made a resolution that I will visit each and every amazing place in the world and click the pictures to capture the moment for the life time :) :)

So far… it has been an amazing day…. Lets see how it goes J J

Welcome the life :)

Life is full of uncertainty.confused??Don't worry, by the time you finish reading this, you will understand what exactly I am talking about.

That day when I woke up, I didn't know why but I felt “something is going to happen today and my life is going to change”...everything was just so beautiful that morning. Well generally I hate to go to office so early, but I was so much energised that day that I boarded the first bus to office. When I was lost in my thoughts, I got a call from one of my very close friend. She told me about her friend who was going through a rough phase and asked me to take care of her as she was in Pune. I didn't know her friend that well, but I had met her twice or thrice during the training in Mysore. I told my friend not to worry and asked her to inform her friend to meet me in food court. Generally I go to FC with my gujju friends, but that day they were all coming late (it was Monday, so generally everyone comes to office around 11).I was just entering the food court and then I saw her. The only word that came to my mind was “beautiful”.  I just couldn't take my eyes of her. It was not that I was seeing her for the first time, but there was something this time which was working like a magic. I was spell bound by her beauty. I wanted to dive in the ocean of her beautiful grey eyes. Her hair, her sharp features were just so perfect that even a poet wouldn't be able to describe it in words.... all of a sudden, it was not the gravity that was holding me to the planet, it was her. I was so much lost that I didn't even realise when she came to me. She asked me “hey, are you ok? You are standing here like a statue from the last ten minutes”. All I could manage was just to smile. She smiled and said “Let’s go..”.

By that time, I already knew that I was in love with her. I would do anything, be anything just to keep that smile on her face. After seeing conditions of my friends, I was so sure that I will never fall in love, but the moment I saw her I forgot everything. I knew that it was her who would either complete me or completely destroy me...

When I saw her smile, I realised why this morning was so special, why I came to office so early that day, why I got a call from my friend to meet her. This was bound to happen. Life has its own ways to surprise you. It has its own ways to fill a life to your moments. It arranges everything on its own to make your life special...

So keep smiling and be open to surprise. You never know what will be there in a store for you :) :)

wohh... i am still a kid :)

Well, I know the title is bit confusing...

When I was a child, I always use to wear would on one or the other part of my body....Sometimes on knees, sometimes on hand and sometime on face.... well the reasons were different all the time...Sometimes fights with other contributed to it and sometime a great fall from bicycle or my old sunny zip.. I know you all might be wondering why I am  telling you all these. 

Today I went out with my friends for a skate ride. Advait and Mahesh were on bike while I was skate..... Initially everything went fine until I reached the a slop. I was suddenly on the highest speed on skate and due to uneven stones on the footpath in a second I found myself kissing the floor. I was fortunate enough to save my head and shoulder up to some extent. But my knees had a major injuries. I saw bloods flowing out of the wounds and I was like its okay. But when I saw other people who actually were worried seen the blood, it made me realize how big the injury was. Two girls and one aunty was very kind to give the paper napkins to clean up the wound a bit.. I was still not feeling pain, but the worry on other people's face made me bit worried.

After coming home, we cleaned the wounds with savlon and applied the cream, but the blood kept flowing so I decide to visit the doctor first time in Germany. I was bit tensed to visit doctor, not because of the fear of injection but because of the language issue. But yeh somehow I managed it. Well frankly speaking, the doctors were more worried. They were like check this and that. If it is a fracture or not. Do you have pain here or not?? and all sort of questions were fired. I was surprised to see that there was a team of 5 (doctors and Nurses) who were attending me.... Well I can say the first visit of the doctor in Germany was bit scary. 

Well these wounds reminded me of my childhood. When I used to returned to home with wounds, mummy was the who got most worried. I am damn sure if she will come to know about this she will still feel same. I am glad that I am in germnay...

I  feel like I am still that kid.....or may be a grown up Kid ;)

blEssEd I Am tO hAvE yOU....

I strongly feel that some people are blessed with the ability to make the atmosphere lively..when i am around such people, it feels like just to stay with them... I feel full of life...

Yesterday a friend invited me for a dinner... We are kind of friends who don’t meet each other that often, but still we share a special bonding.. At least i think so ;). When I found my name in her list of close friends, I was bit surprised but very happy.  she named me “mega pixel” ... I kinda like that name...well actually what i want to say is we dont meet that quite often, but when we catch up, we end up talking for hours... N same happened yesterday.. We talked about almost all aspects of life... People, friends, work, frustration etc.... First of all let me tell you she is a wonderful host... U wont feel as a guest even for a moment..well let me come to the main topic, she is kind of a person with whom you would love to wander around.. Catch up for a coffee... Not because she is girl n she can talk for hours but because she has a knack to see positive side of everything and so whenever you are with her, you will feel like she is passing the positive energy to you...she can turn a sad situation into a happy occasion... Whenever i am with her I start seeing life with a totally different angle and i feel that everything is now falling in to correct sequence and place.. I feel so lively with her... I have mentioned her quite a lot now in my blogs…n there is a reason behind actually. I was inspired by her.. Her blogs, the way of seeing things everything I found very inspring and encouraging. I told her the same thing yesterday as well…. I hope she didn’t feel that I was buttering………

I consider myself lucky to have such few friends who are blessed with this special quality... Pandu, Popat, Thakur, time table ( i haven’t wrote the name intentionally), bakshi are some of my friends who  has this thing to make things light.. They can make u laugh...smile... N most important lively... Whenever they are around you will feel this is the life i am looking for... Full of fun, laughter, positive attitude and love...

I feel lucky or lets say blessed to have such friends...

Keep rocking guys...

-jai

Is it bad to be selfish?

I was taught that most of the decisions which we take in our daily life affect one or the other person directly or indirectly. Sometimes our decision proves to be wrong and there is a possibility that it may hurt our friends, relatives or colleagues personally or professionally and that’s why we need to give proper thought and time to it.

I have taken this lesson or lets say teaching very seriously throughout my life…. There are occasions when I had to go against my will as the thing which I wanted to do and what I needed was affecting my friends or family. Till date I was feeling very happy that I had given very less chance to other people to get hurt. It has helped me earned respect from my friends , family and my colleagues. They have faith that whatever my actions will be, it will be good for all.

But the incidents which has happened in the last few months in my life made me think whether I should actually think about others or not. The decisions which I have taken in the last few months have definitely  saved me hurting  N number of persons, but I couldn’t stand for something which I wanted the most in life…I lost something which was worth dying.

 What if the decision which you are making is hurting you only….what if you have to suffer for the rest of the life because of it… Now I really wonder about the funda of the life…is it really bad to be selfish sometime? Should we always consider others when taking decisions? What one should do when he knows that his one action or decision which is best for him will have impact on others life??

I am trying really hard to figure out answers to these questions….do let me know if u already have one….