Musings of an Idiot

Better

Feeling a lot better today. There is a short 2 day intro to editing course that I am taking at the school and it is good getting back into the flow of things. The pay thing got sorted out and things are back to normal, paid the house rent straight away.

I am also extremely happy that one of the books that I ordered from amazon.com arrived today. It is titled: The Visual Story: Seeing the Structure of Film, TV and New Media and it is a bloody great book. It is lucid and extremely useful, an essential read for all film makers. I am thoroughly enjoying it.

I will leave for now and here are some more pics from the holiday trip.
Amit

Mom cutting spinach leaves to make them into spinach-cheese dish, which is always yummmmy.... The only minor hiccup was that dad ended up bringing 2 K.G of spinach, so we ended up having enough spinach-cheese dish for 2 dinners (:-)

Lance is amused by the traffic he sees outside and tries to imitate everything he sees - in this case a bull pulling a cart. We are travelling in an autorickshaw in one of the busiest roads possible - which has hand carts, rickshaws, auto-rickshaws, buses, cars, trucks, scooters, motorbikes, tractors and people going on the same road and not necessarily in the same direction as the road.


Me standing in Ramdas' prison in Golconda fort. Ramdas was the treasurer for the last Golconda king and he was imprisoned in that building for 12 years for redirecting tax money towards building a temple somewhere else. The building is absolutely forbidding and is nothing but a huge hall. The food and water used to be passed down to him from holes in the roof, which doubled up as ventilation.

Lance, in the soldier's barracks, trying his hand at lifting the 250KG block of stone with one hand, as some kids look on at his effort. If a person was able to lift the block of stone with one hand, they gained entry into the army. The block of stone also doubled up as weight for weighing grain, which was used as payment for their services {as there were no salaries at that time}.

posted by Amit @ 9:52 PM