Indira Gandhi Musical Fountain, Raj Bhavan Road, Bangalore

Today I had a chance to finally splurge on some real good low light night time photography at the Indira Gandhi musical fountain.

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The photos did come out well, but the fountain itself sponsored by the Indian Railways, was too basic, and the effects and lighting repeated many times. For a half an hour show and a Rs.10 ticket fee, this is more than one can ask for to spend a cool summer evening away from the din of traffic.

Decon in Bangalore

Deconstructivism in architecture, also called deconstruction, is a development of postmodern architecture
that began in the late 1980s. It is characterized by ideas of
fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure’s
surface or skin, non-rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and dislocate some of the elements of architecture, such as structure and envelope.
The finished visual appearance of buildings that exhibit the many
deconstructivist “styles” is characterised by a stimulating
unpredictability and a controlled chaos.

One such of these buildings (though where the decon element is only on the elevation rather than the whole building itself) is on St.Marks Road. It looks like an upcoming mall or something, and pretty unique in itself

Original image credit : Addision Godel (https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorcasino/5556359175/)

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Sunlight Copper Swift – a great looking car !!

Now that i ve booked a sunlight copper Sx4 and am eagerly waiting for it to come through, i happened to chance on this sunlight copper swift (yes this and the arctic white are new colours on the same old swift, which give it a totally new found love from all owners!) at a local showroom. Absolutely awesome !! Looks like the colour of the year and the new season.

Image credits: http://www.opitz-online.net/shared/gebrauchtwagensuche/pictures/18965-3685__0__6-110818.jpg

White elephant – the Audi Q7 3.0 TDi Quattro

Was on a real adrenalin rush drive towards office when i spotted this beauty ahead of me. Its so huge that it makes a Maruti 800 like mine feel like a hedgehog going behind and elephant. and what an elephant it was the new Audi Q7 3.0 TDi Quattro

Image credit : http://sritweets.com/autos/wp-content/images/2010/12/2010-Audi-Q7-6.0-TDi-Quattro-Tiptronic-1.jpg
(Sritweets.com)

A truly magnificient one too ! with high seating ultimate interiors and sheer power of 3000cc, and with a CRDi diesel engine that churns out a whopping 233bhp, its a dream machine anyone would want to drive along!!


Time for firefighting !

Its always important to know what you can do to help when there is a fire at your workplace or home, but do you know how many types of extinguishers are there and what sort of materials they use it for? There are water based ones, CO2 based ones, available, and this training at our office only helped us get a first hand view of how to use these extinguishers! Though it was a mock drill, it also helped the fire department understand how casually people respond to fire. So the next time you hear and alarm, get out of the building immediately, fire or not!

Also the security personnel displayed a pump hose which could throw water at unimaginable heights upto 4-5 floors of the building, I must say it was really impressive!!

Faithful friend

Its become the rule these days that people follow to take their friends out. oh yeah, and by friends i meant our dogs! Its so refreshing to find dogs enjoying the ride as much as us! Wish I had a dog at home, but my mom just said either its me or the dog !!

You are lucky doggie, enjoy your ride 🙂 !

GM launches chevrolet spark at 3.09 to 3.89 lacs ex-sh delhi

General motors finally launched their small car (the lovely old matiz) Chevy Spark yesterday between 3.09 and 3.89 lacs ex-showroom delhi. however the south indians have to wait for almost three months even for a test drive as the production capacity will increase slowly and phased launches will take place in all regions. GM expects to sell 7000 units of the spark per month and at this juicy price, one doesnt have any doubts they will achieve their sales figure.

What is disturbing though is that the sales of UVA might completely go down to zero due to its high cost of ownership. Time will tell what happens in the GM circles! For now add a spark in your life! For more see http://www.chevyspark.in