Green view…..thanks to Monsoon 2010

Here are some of the latest snaps of the green view from my house.

Tamhini Ghat and Mulshi Dam near Pune

All new Ravet Bridge in Pune

University of Pune Campus

First post of the year 2010

Coming soon.....:)

Cheers,
Amol

Life…

Truly, life is a complete package of wonderful surprises, painful sorrows, cryptic relations, money, desire to do something, dreams and so on…..One can keep thinking about everyday problems he/she has. There is no end to the list of problems one has to face in this life. In some cases, problems get carried forward to the next generation even after end of the life. Yes, you do the DNA analysis and one knows what are the problems which he/she is going to inherit. We keep on dreaming about so many things. Everyone wants to live the life full size. Everyone wants to do so many things or rather achieve so many things in their lives. But somewhere something always goes wrong. One cannot understand why people behave strangely. Yes, things go wrong all the time. Your closed friend become your biggest enemy. People on whom you think you can rely all the time, become strangers at times and behave differently. Yes, it hurts when you are betrayed. It hurts when you are hit by the person who brought you up. It hurts when you are trying your best but you get blamed for somebody else. The question I have is why do people behave so strangely? We call few people as relatives who you are related to you by blood in some ways or other. In the form of relatives, one should have solid backing and solid platform to rely on. But what do we see these days? Are we meeting our relatives in the functions only just to say hi and bye. Aren’t we missing something as far as Indian traditional culture is concerned? When will we stop leg pulling attitude especially when one has the desire (and probably capabilities as well) to touch the sky. Why don’t we leave that person to achieve what he wants to achieve? Why don’t we support him by not hurting or not disturbing that person.

Why do people just give up when they think about emotions? Why should one sacrifice his/her future because he/she has to perform some duties/ emotional bindings? Why do people blackmail emotionally? Why does everything revolve around money? Can’t anybody see the purity of heart and mind is more important than money? I guess that I could answer these questions.

But one thing is clear…life will be always like this. One has to be a fighter and fight till the end. Never give up…

Cheers,
Amol

Ganpati Bappa Morya (Year 2009)

Ganpati Bappa Morya...Pudhachya Warshi Lavkar Ya!!!!

More Flowers

Cheers,
Amol

Tulsi Katta

Feels like good old days when we used to have Tulsi katta outside Wada (old house)

Rain drops captured on a leaf

Rain drops captured on a leaf

Mango tree planted

Few months back, my fried gave me few mangos from Goa. What I did is that I planted one of the seed just to see what happens....and voila.....Kalmi Amba tree is growing happily. Check the snap below. :)

Cheers,
Amol

Few more Garden snaps

Few more Garden snaps....
White Chapha, Sadaphuli (2 different colors) and Jaswand planted in a Math.

Chapha	Sadaphuli
Sadaphuli	Jaswand

Views from my room

The big mango tree behind....

One more.....

Can you see the big flowers?

Tiger @ Katraz Zoo

Do we really care?

1. Cars stopping on the Zebra crossing?


2. Wasting the water during the water shortage days and no rainfall in sight


Just thinking….does anyone really care?

Cheers,
Amol

Trip to Ajantha caves @ Aurangabad

Creativity in action

Cheers,
Amol

Garden terrace snaps…

Here are some of the snaps taken from the garden on our terrace.

1.View from the terrace:






2. Flowers:


3. And the king of flowers:


Cheers,
Amol

First post in this year

First post in this year.....lot to write....

Coming soon.... :)

Cheers,
Amol

Another year gone……

The Christmas time is here. Soon we will see the end of the year 2008. We all will celebrate in some ways to welcome the New Year 2009. Its time for me take my diary out and see what I have done through out the year. This is appraisal time for me. No, I am not talking about yearly appraisals in the companies but this is my self appraisal and also the supervisor is me. One needs to set the objective at the start of the year and then take a close relook at it before the year ends. This is what I will be doing for next few weeks.

Well, I had set lot of objectives at the beginning of the year and I have accomplished few of them for sure. In general, you can measure your performance in the year based on various parameters. This could be money, power, life style, time spent with the family, important events in the year, social contribution and so on. This list can go on and on.

We have to be in charge of our own destiny. We need to define objectives and set goals for ourselves. We need to periodically revisit the objectives to see if those are aligned or not. And last but not least, we need to appraise ourselves to see how we have performed. Other wise just like everybody else, we will say ‘what the heck….another year gone just like that..’

Cheers,
Amol

Salute to our heroes…………..

Here is my salute to all those people from Maharashtra Police, Army, Navy, BMC Fire fighting department and NSG commandos, who fought the war against terrorists in Mumbai. That was not only attack on India, but attack on our country.

I have no words to say for those who sacrificed their lives for our safety and freedom of common people like us. We are grateful to you and always will be.

Hats of to all of you!

JAI HIND!

Unbeaten 41st Ton……………

He has done it again. Come what may…..let people crib….let them say anything they want to say….but there will be only one Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar in this world. He has scored unbeaten century against England while chasing the victory target of 387 runs.

Incidentally, Tendlya also completed 1000 runs in the calendar year (5th time in his career).


A solid, rocking start was given to the Indian team by Viru and it was followed by brilliant partnership between Tendlya and Yuvi. And not to forget wonderful 66 by Gautam Gambhir.

Great effort guys…………………..

Cheers,
Amol