Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
- Francis Bacon
Where : Fort Canning Park & some obscure park off Potong Pasir, Singapore.
When : 4th April 2009
19 comments:
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isn't companionship just an illusion in the end? i mean c'mon.. we all are alone anyway.. love is pointless, meaningless cause it's selfish, like life... beer anyone? :P
I will give beer a pass, But do pass me the chaknaa. The thing is, I am teetotaler for next 2 month.. until uncle aunty (my faltmates parents) fly back to India :)
I am upholding the great Indian tradition - Good men don't drink (in front of their parents & elders).
these remind me of the motivational posters they frame and put up at offices...they just make me shake my head. on another note - the first picture is spooky, second is nice.
dreamer,
On a drab Monday morning, a comment like yours is just the motivation I needed to start my day at work,with a smile. Thanks for stopping by & shaking your head :)
hell yeah.. good men don't drink, don't smoke, don't check out females.. hell! how do good men live?
abiw,
Arey yaar bracket ke andar kya likkha hein ? "in front of their parents & elders", need I say anything more ?
Aur sunaao sirjee how was that V-Day Bglore trip ?
abey.. i just made a general remark on "good men of india"
v-day bangalore trip was good.. but it could've been awesome.. had i not fallen sick and had i not acted cheap and taken a dubba bus to bangalore.. man.. imagine this.. 28 hrs bus ride, ppl offering potato chips, uncle chips, lays aur saabji beer, whisky, chota bottle-bada bottle-can anything sir, in the bus... some idiots getting drunk... then watching dostana [2 and a half times], ghajini, rab ne banadi jodi, phir golmal, chandani chowk to china.. back to back.. loo stopovers where everyone watches you while you pee, so you end up holding "it" back and relieving yourself only after 22 hrs in a loo, which looked straight from those old war movies, where soldiers are made to pee in 10 seconds in the most horrendous conditioned loos... well.. this was worst than that.. then dry washbasins and food which you could barely touch.. (thank god for blocked nose as i wouldn't have dared smell it)... then stepping down at the wrong place cz u can't speak south indian.. getting in the right bus to go to the right place, but buswalla misunderstands your language and drops you 20 kms ahead.. the ricks robbing you off an obscure sum of money to drop you to the right place.. meeting my friend at 7.30 pm, when i was supposed to meet him at 8 am [he'd arrived to pick me up at 8 am :)].. then realising the only dinner i was gonna have is beer.. having beer with metacin/paracetamol and going off to sleep for the next day concert.. madness resumes as ricks take us for a ride in the unfriendly bangalore city.. god! concert was a saviour but my friend kept cursing cz he couldnt get the "feel", thanks to the cheap quality alcohol [fruit juice] they were selling at the vodka counters... spending the night with a guy in a hotel room on the v-day.. yes.. all in all.. an awesome and memorable trip it was :P
man.. this is a good place to write a semi-blog-post eh :P
Haha .. man you should cut-paste this and post on your blog. It makes a great read. Don't worry, we all do such mistakes when we are young. I too remember once taking Bus from Bglore to Mumbai. Don't remember the full details coz it happened so long back, but faintly remember of being duped by a bus operator.. then managing to get on to another bus in which I was seated right at the back. That was one of the only few occasions in my life when I actually prayed to God. I was dead broke, hungry, bus-lagged, home-sick & a lot more.
My symphathies are with you. Thanks for sharing your misery :) Totally loved it.
haha.. good good.. i shall blog on it.. would love to hear your account in detail too :P
yo.. btw.. had the weirdest of dreams last night.. i was in singapore to meet you.. and you were showing me some weird places man.. a haunted castle, a sever-cum-canal, which i was shocked to find in singapore.. then suddenly we were in india and u were showing me some canal which looked exactly like the singaporean canal.. and then u said.. we are trying to copy them.. then we were back at singapore and there was one more guy with us.. he was apparently your friend.. then we went to some lake to have beer.. this is all i can recall.. but i think there was more in the dream.. damn.. abhi yaad nahi aa raha :P
>> but i think there was more in the dream.. damn..
Some of my online women friends have told me about seeing me in their dreams. I didn't knew I had the same hypnotic effect on my online men friends too. Christ! why did you had to come & tell me about it ?
I am gonna have more sleepless nights thinking that I 'might' be roaming in some guys dreams (or should I say dirty fantasies ?) at that very moment. I am glad you can't recollect the "there was more" bit. If you do, DON'T TELL ME.. or atleast tell me in private na **hush hush** ;-)
hahhahahaha.. don't worry.. i don't have horny dreams about men.. you are safe i can say :P
I ought to be wary of a guy who has watched Dostana 2.5 times ! End of argument.
lol@ur comments.. especially the last one >>need to be wary of guy who saw dostana 2.5 times ;-)
@photos - very nice but pata nahi, i thot u wanted to take something more and just got to about 80% of ur actual vision about the photo.. but nice pics for sure..
justified :D
AB,
More than the Darkness pics I am pleased with these Solitude pics. The Darkness ones, I would classify as cliches. Amongst these two, the tree top isolated against the vast expanse of the sky is my personal favourite. The empty space in this pic speaks a lot to me. The only thing I would have wanted different, maybe the clouds to be bit more dramatic (& perhaps focus the tree more sharply) . But just the way it is now, the muted grey blends well with the muted green of the tree.
As for the bench pic, hmmm I have couple more (of the same) where the shrubs & hanging branches are bit more greener.. (as against the predominant black as seen here). But i liked the strong contrast between the shadows & the highlights (which are a tad overexposed, alright) so i put up this pic where the shadows are aesthetically underexposed.
I will stop saying anything more coz I am sounding more & more narcissistic (about my pics, which I am infact).
So yeah, this is 100% of what I had visualized, lol. That it comes out lacking, is not for the want of trying! I would blame the missing 20% on my inherent creative limitations.
baapre baap.. i wrote such a big comment about my interpretations of the pics but wonder why it hasnt appeared here.. cant evoke the same feelings to re-type it but still will give an outline of it -
pic 1 - for me, it depicts pain, inner sadness, meaningful silence etc..
pic 2 - for me, it depicts mystery.. it's as if a stage is set for something to happen but no one knows what it will be and still i feel that somewhere in the pic there is a clue hidden to what's gonna happen next..
did u c the 2nd one the way it is or did u see it from front and then thot that this might look good if clicked from the gap between branches behind the bench??
so sad about your lost comment. Glad you still re-typed the outline.
About the bench pic.. i did set my eyes on it from behind.. just the way you see it here. There is a small path which circumvents the bushes.. I was strolling along that and chanced upon this frame. Your mystery angle does sounds interesting. Now that you mention it.. I can imagine the scene to open with a clear view of the bench..(minus the branches.. then slowly the darkness creeps in from the top & bottom,, with the band of light (& the view) in the middle narrowing down all the time. The scene would cut with the darkness engulfing the whole screen. [ instert appropriate background score ]
Definitely the first one works for me. It kind of weighs in on you. I'm glad you're taking out that baby more often these days. I hope it's not navyache nau divas.
cheers,
asuph
asuph,
Thanks mate. I don't think this is infatuation. This baby is for keeps. We are already inseparable.
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