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Cardiff is a nice place,Nature is not restricted, not suppressed, it is allowed to flourish.Talybont South , University Residences, Cardiff University, Wales. A memorable time of my life.Lucky Me.

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Just a montage of the different variety of food i was 'exposed' to. Most of them are products of my imaginations and some owe their birth to different cultural entities. Most of them are more than edible, some serendipitous finds, and some essentially spartan - now that's variety for you.CheersHave Fun Always

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...Oh so i reach the security office and present my official papers and am bundled down in a taxi to a hotel called the Sand-Ring-Ham Hotel.now a place where you want to stay a night over, if it has symbols of bondage , and flesh and external environment in it , may not sound very comforting , and i did end up sharing the room with a german, Dominic, who turned out to be more than a nice guy and

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One of the few , 'extraneous' articles i brought along with me, coz essentially i came very light , very spartan . ended up giving it to a 'umm' friend.drew a lot f comments these , not many knew i bought it off the streets of Kolkata for (i don't remember) 35/- or 75/-.now u do :( more aout the 'umm' friend?? maybe later... ;)CheersHave Fun Always

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Not a reference to the decidedly stupid hairstyle of mine.I don't even remember what i referred to.Maybe to asking the person who clicked this pic to pose with usMaybe to the situation i am in , of trying not to tread delicate female toes with my crass and unpolished sense of honest humorMaybe to the level of tolerance required in a social settingMaybe to the food, its nutritional value and taste

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Core of Flat - 1, (apparently) Hmmph!!I once read what Dale Carneige had to say about the power of influencing people - Thrust a responsibility upon them disguised as an honour, title or laurel.I am ever a fun loving guy but somehow the people all around always have been the 'lets-study-or-do-something-equally-boring' type. :) i mean ... hey! ok, so i am a post grad - doesnt mean we shouldn't

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Was walking by, on to lab , one morningand a group of gardeners were cleaning up, one pile i noticed had this startling contrast within it,the brilliant red of the fruit and the dull black and brown of the twigs and thorns , and the rain drenched tar did much to give the entire composition a polished look.

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Why such a title?The Magnitude of the place i am in , glimpses forth only once in a whilei mean for a laid back person like me , i sort of settle down where ever i ambut imagine going to the Bali jatra year after year and the Rama doli and finally seeing a ferris wheel here (around Christmas time) and guess what , the size is equivalent to a 20- storeyed building, damn!!It was big.large.huge.A

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the fact , the privilege, keeps eluding my mind and strikes me now and then onlyand why? coz of me ? nah! not really...we all know better dont we ??obligation and shackles ... damning wordsi am in UK, i am abroad and i have lots to do hereRedemption!! heavy ! heavy heavy!!cheersHave Fun Always

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Almost like my life ...indeed a brief respite...

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One of the best place to saunter about , reallyespecially for a shutterbug..so much scope , so much scope!!damn what a time to lose my digicam!!cheersHave Fun Always :(

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Looks suggestive doesnt it?Money, key, Stamped official looking papers, scribbled notes , photographs!!This is the amount you can earn here working in a hotel bar for a month !!really tempting options and u need to be a resourceful to snag a job as well!!thats a lot of cash , believe me!!cheersHave Fun Always

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I like this shot and the small tale behind it.It was close to the end of the day for me , and i had done a fair bit of walking about and when i reached my room , a friend of mine asked to me accompany him to a relative's pad, to pick up some stuff. i agreed (don't ask me what i thought) and we trundled on... it was quite some distance away but it was in a region i hadn't set foot on before , so

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This is a remniscient post .Its about my first few days here , in Cardiff.My coming up here was never , planned organized and anticipated... (u know like most people do that months and months in advance)typical me , i got the visa and tickets just a day or 2 beforeand since i planned to come back in 2 months i took minimal luggage (wrong choice of stuff, i agree now , but it was then)so i just

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The second picture is actually the first time i drew blood, It was over a can of something (maybe soup) and i went the indianised way of wiping the walls of the contents and i get this smooth deep cut and the blood dripping and all that.it was only later that i got the idea to actually click it and record it for posterity. ha ha .It was a neat surgical , cut and i did get wary of cans after

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This is an unexpected entry I mean most of us didnt know there was a Chinese Entry,But they did have one and it was very good, very very professional .I must confess i was impressed, (maybe it had something to do with the Indian show , which was so obviously amateurish, jus college kids strutting their stuff.)so the bias in judgementbut it really was good, The First Traditional Dance was Awesome,

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Highly Hyped, but with a steep (for me i mean ) £13 entry , i gave the first round a skip.But the shortened version too was quite good, especially since i knew one of the girls performing, Name :Kirsty and a really nice dancer.the show was good, there was a certain professionalism in the execution which was impressive (and sadly lacking in the Indian Show)plus elaborate costumes and excellent

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Actually the only authentically Indian Act that was wortha second show!!The Simple nicely co-ordinated dance moves were a pleasure to watch .And Remo's Song -- Ya Ya MaYaYa ...On that nite we created a ruckus through out the program , to show our solidarity with the performers and i guess our response was the most , most authentic display of Indianness we could have aimed to achieve.Nice going

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Tickets £3we enter at 8:00 , and what welcomes us? Hans Zimmerman's Pirates of the Carribean Performed by an obviously accomplished Orchestra!!!WOW! My first thought!! A totally right choice to come here!!The Music was good, the setting ok, the crowd varied, (not really a crowd really , the Great Hall filled up gradually , and by then the best pieces were over.Obvously the first group were the

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There is not much to say .Just that the vids were rotting, adding to the refuse littering my hard disk and i thought if i dont get a start i will never get to doing it .i would have loved to use premiere on it , since the speed control is asolutely screwed in movie maker , but the damn premiere i had didnt open the file format these files were in and i was so pissed i just exclaimed >> fuck it

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