wise words

Fish, to taste right, must swim three times -- in water, in butter, and in wine.
-- Polish proverb.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be beverage.
-- Woody Allen, Without Feathers.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
-- Mark Twain

Life does not imitate art, it imitates bad television.
-- Woody Allen

I am in favor of censorship ‐ not against what is supposed to be sexy or dirty, but against what is idiotic.
-- Jean Renoir

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein

A work of art has nothing to do with doctrine.
-- Eugene Ionesco

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. 
-- Frank Sinatra

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.
-- Charlton Heston

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. 
-- Luis Bunuel

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
-- Woody Allen

overrated R :: nothing but a mummer's farce.

your eyes meet.. your paths cross..
and all you do is gush and credit it all to "Destiny"..

nothing but a mummer's farce..

and there exists a very logical reason for this.. and i'd require you to stop gushing!

your paths cross because you are moving in opposite directions and your meet because each is looking at the road ahead!
and this has NOTHING to do with destiny.
period.

p.s. relationship is so damned overrated.. all but a mummer's farce..

ode to mobile photography

i like it when i'm praised for my amateurish photography..
and it pleases me to no ends when its all done via my mobile's camera..
agreed that, its one of the high end phones  in the market.. though not THE high end.. but still, it cuts the mark for the tech dino like me..!
agreed that, it boasts of the same MP as that of my digicam..
but it still stays as the mobile photography..
and yes, in the market of all the DSLR shots and frames, THAT praise is a definite lift up!
and best, when it comes from a critic!

and it reminds me of my previous and till date the most cherished phone ever.. and it seems almost like a decade now..
my then ex-boyfriend and me had the same phones.. his was the upgraded version and mine was the older version.. but it was still the same phone.. with the same phone "cameras"..! and this is when the mobile photography got a whole new perspective for the both of us..
it was during his stint as an exchange student in France, when he forgot to pack his camera along.. so, his stay of 6 months, was neatly and extensively captured by the N95 camera..
and THAT was our moment of love, with our phone(s)..

so yes, mobile photography kinda beats everything!
and my current mobile, definitely cuts the edge! fosho!

being "candid"

i'm beginning to develop a strong distaste for all the staged "photography" (running in plural, actually) that invariably and without any mistake at that, goes by the banner name of "candid pre-wedding/wedding/post-wedding shots"..in fact, the distaste gets stronger by many folds and leaps and bounds with each new 'notification' bearing the same said name (sic)..

c'mon people.. you know you have paid a very handsome amount of money to that person to take those shots of yours.. you are asked to "look there", "smile", "make your eyes droop", "ogle" and all the what-nots and the likes of those..

so, how can that be a "candid" shot when there is NOTHING candid about the shot, per se? when the very said shot is being 'sculpted'? structured with the precision of a bone surgeon about the looks/clothes/colors/hairs/ornaments and even smile? and i'm not even going to the hands and legs position/nail paint etc..

i agree.. the shots are good.. the people within the shots are made to look fabulous.. the lens work is awesome.. and the attention to detail is to the point..

but where does "candid" gets to feature here?
or is it a brand gimmick?

PseudoBong diaries

they adorn their wrist with the "Iron"
the left wrist
they
the ladies
married ladies
the Bong wives
a custom they happily submit to.. why would anyone in their right minds give up on the chance of a jewellery?
adorning their wrist, after all
hail custom
good wives.

i wear the "iron"
though not much of an adornment
not married either
don't really get qualified as the 'conventional' good, either
rat's ass to the customs.

so, is this the BongRoots creeping in? getting the better of me? sneaking up on me?