For the past 7 months, I have been taking a rickshaw ride to office and back. Except of course for the 6 weeks in between that I was in Hyderabad. It takes about 30 mins door to door.
I used to listen to music through that journey but I like to talk to the rickshaw driver if I can so I can't listen to music. Couple of months back I decided to start taking my camera along everyday.
The 85mm is lovely for portraits out of the rickshaw. I am not all that good at it but here's one that has come out well.
My main problem right now is mis-focused pictures because I take them from a moving rickshaw, but I am getting better at it.
The walls at the side of the streets in Pune are painted with a weird shade of blue. Most of the times it enhances the portraits a lot.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Hyderabad...
So I am in Hyderabad these days. Its an agile enablement project and its a nice change from the usual delivery stuff. But this is not my business blog so...
I have only been here for a week but here are my first impressions and some things that puzzled me in a good way :-)
Airport
What can I say? It's absolutely brilliant. Grand and really well maintained.
Transport
Airport to City was a beautiful cab ride. Get out of the Airport, take a Meru cab, chill out. There's a nice huge road that bypasses the city and takes you to the west side in about 40 minutes.
I have traveled from Airport to City frequently 4 cities. Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai and Hyderabad.
Hyderabad is by far the best. Pune is good as well except its small. Bangalore is OK because getting shuttle buses is a breeze but the traffic is horrible. Mumbai deserves a post of it's own but for now "Totally disappointing management, horrible cabbies and traffic that will make you cry" is enough description
Vibes
Hyderabad has a hi-tech vibe to it. The part I work in is not called Hi-tech city just like that. WiFi is a given where ever you go (with unbelievable speeds by the way). I saw the first advert for a 20MBPS consumer broadband connection in India.
Its a foody city as well. Although I think Pune is more foody than hyderabad. The word "Biryani" is abused a lot so eat it only in places recommended to you by people who don't hate you.
There is also a very welcome sense of this place not being over populated. Maybe weekends are different but on our daily dinner endeavors, not many people are seen on the roads. I think the area matters as well so let me mention that I stay and roam around in the Whitefield and Jubilee Hills area.
And here is the pleasant puzzle I was talking about...
I am actually not a very social person. But having lived alone for quite a while and having to commute by cab / auto-rickshaw every morning to work, I have taken to talking to the driver. I have done this for the past one year continuously but hyderabad is different. Different because the people here actually seem happy.
They laugh and joke and talk about serious stuff as well but all in all they are actually happy. They are not pissed off with life like the whiners in Mumbai. They are not assholes like the Chennai auto guys. They don't jack their meters like the ones in Pune. (They don't have meters which is a different thing). They fix a rate and go by it and don't haggle at the end of the ride like the ones in Bangalore.
I don't know how come they are on much better terms with life but I'm going to find out.
I have only been here for a week but here are my first impressions and some things that puzzled me in a good way :-)
Airport
What can I say? It's absolutely brilliant. Grand and really well maintained.
Transport
Airport to City was a beautiful cab ride. Get out of the Airport, take a Meru cab, chill out. There's a nice huge road that bypasses the city and takes you to the west side in about 40 minutes.
I have traveled from Airport to City frequently 4 cities. Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai and Hyderabad.
Hyderabad is by far the best. Pune is good as well except its small. Bangalore is OK because getting shuttle buses is a breeze but the traffic is horrible. Mumbai deserves a post of it's own but for now "Totally disappointing management, horrible cabbies and traffic that will make you cry" is enough description
Vibes
Hyderabad has a hi-tech vibe to it. The part I work in is not called Hi-tech city just like that. WiFi is a given where ever you go (with unbelievable speeds by the way). I saw the first advert for a 20MBPS consumer broadband connection in India.
Its a foody city as well. Although I think Pune is more foody than hyderabad. The word "Biryani" is abused a lot so eat it only in places recommended to you by people who don't hate you.
There is also a very welcome sense of this place not being over populated. Maybe weekends are different but on our daily dinner endeavors, not many people are seen on the roads. I think the area matters as well so let me mention that I stay and roam around in the Whitefield and Jubilee Hills area.
And here is the pleasant puzzle I was talking about...
I am actually not a very social person. But having lived alone for quite a while and having to commute by cab / auto-rickshaw every morning to work, I have taken to talking to the driver. I have done this for the past one year continuously but hyderabad is different. Different because the people here actually seem happy.
They laugh and joke and talk about serious stuff as well but all in all they are actually happy. They are not pissed off with life like the whiners in Mumbai. They are not assholes like the Chennai auto guys. They don't jack their meters like the ones in Pune. (They don't have meters which is a different thing). They fix a rate and go by it and don't haggle at the end of the ride like the ones in Bangalore.
I don't know how come they are on much better terms with life but I'm going to find out.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Download XCode 3.1 for Leopard
Some of us don't have snow leopard yet. So here are 3 easy steps:
- Go to connect.apple.com
- Log in using your Apple ID (or register)
- Follow the Download link and choose developer tools in the categories.
I wasted loads of time starting with apple.com / google searches and getting nowhere. All you can download is XCode 3.2.1 which only works on Snow Leopard.
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