Crazy as ever!

Hey readers, how is it going on with you? I am super-busy here what with having to write an article for the ICFAI Charter magazine, composing questions for FRM 2008 and simultaneously working on 2 top-secret (not defense level) projects! Besides, having to constantly go up against my IT team and the HR guys here at office and I got my hands full! And oh, I forgot to add the bit about me missing out on my reading and the arrival of my cousins, along with their daughters, for the summer vacations! All in all, life sure is super crazy / busy / fun at the moment!

I hope to share with you more on my secret projects in the days to come – provided my efforts bear fruit! Else, it will all go down the toilet with not even a trace left for you to ponder over! Meanwhile, work at office is exciting – got 2 downgrade/upgrade calls right on the button! But heck, this isn’t the place to discuss my work, is it? Oh, and are any of you wondering why I haven’t published any photos from Canon S5 camera that I dedicated so much space to a month back?

Well, frankly, though I do have a lot of photos on the camera, the net connection at home has been nothing short of pathetic – I am using Reliance’s NetConnect and man, the speed is not only super slow, but it also takes an eternity to open a page! I am super tired and fed up of the slow connection – I’ll upload a bevy of photos once I get a new connection – probably sometime next month.

By the way, I have finished reading James Patterson’s Hide and Seek – I might be tempted to write a review of this book sometime during the weekend! ‘Til next time, take care and play safe!

A lazy Sunday morning!

Hello readers, sorry for not blogging for the last couple of days! Slept till 4 pm yesterday after which I did some shopping and of course, collected my cool new specs and disposable lenses! This was followed by a 30-minute wal -- I was trying to make up for the fact that I was not able to visit the gym .. call it my guilty conscience or what ever that was at work...

Had a lovely evening though! After a late dinner, went with a few family members (13 to be precise) for a cuppa of coffee in the swanky Sector V .. However, much to our chagrin, the Barista Coffee shop had downed its shutters -- so we then jumped over to the CCD lounge in the Infinity building adjacent to the building housing Barista. After some lovely coffees and leg pulling, we finally reached home after 12:30 .. the drive back home was pretty amazing too!

By the way, I have finally bought the Canon PowerShot S5 IS camera! N lemme tell you, its a beauty and a steal at the price I bought it for! And do take a look at some of these Harley Davidson bike pics! They sure are sexy and make me wish I'd the fortune of owning one of these. Was initially trying to upload an ad for the Harley Davidson bikes which I got from one of my friends in the media and advertising industry. It was taking such an agonizingly loooong time to upload -- so I then did the next best thing and uploaded some pics!

The Digital War -- Part II

Hey guys finally here is the pics of the Sony CyberShot H10 .. An awesome semi-pro camera for those who want something more than those point-and-shoot digicams .. I mean even those cameras are not bad but these babies are meant for those who take the art of photography passionately and just want to go clicking off the world!

So these are the two cameras which are fitting in my meagre budget of 25k .. To shoot off the common features, both cameras are 8.0 MP and come with a 2 GB memory card! Quite handy, I tell you. Both phones offer face recognition function, with the Canon S5 allowing you to zoom, identify and focus on 9 faces in an image compared to the 8 face-recognition ability offfered in Sony. Both offer optical image stabilization as well.

Sony H10 is fitted with a Carl Zeiss lens and has 10.0x Optical zoom and I think around 2.0 Digital Zoom. I am not sure about the digital zoom bit but I don't expect it to be more than this.

The Canon S5, on the other hand, comes with an ultra-powerful 12.0 optical zoom and 4.0 digital zoom and has 22 shooting modes, pretty neat huh? You can also change the lens for the Canon camera and as per your budgett and mastery, you can fit the camera with sophisticated and expensive lenses. Also, the camera offers extensive movie functions and man, it;s one hell of a buy @ 18.5k when compared to the Sony H10's price of 14.4k!!

So all you gadget freaks, I hope you liked the two-part article!

The Digital WaR

Well as you intelligent birdies can already guess, I have set my eyes and hearts and loosened my purse strings to lay my hands on this latest piece of an entry-level camera for photographers like us who cannot even claim to be qualified as amateurs! But lo and behold, the entire world better watch out as I am determined to carry forward this hobby which I am addicted to! Please hold my father responsible for this hobby as he was the person who was usually entrusted with the camera in most family functions!

The two pics on the left hand side are the front and the back end of the Canon PowerShot S5, respectively.. Looks sexy in black, does it not?? Technology can never bore you and unlike females, you can actually try and master technology! So, all you impulsive flirts, why don’t you try to flirt around with a new gender commonly known as TECHNLOGY? In the long run, it sure will become easier on your pocket and who knows, it might even replace the women in your life! Or so claims my friends who are addicted their X-BOX! Enjoy with the woman and the technology in your life!

-- On a High --

Heylooo guys! Well, today I sure am on a high .. Don't ask me why cozz I don't know myself .. Well, ok so I do have an idea but still, can anything compare to the feeling of flying high on the sky knowing that professionally, the work you do is right bang on the money! As an analyst, my biggest joy is when I see a stock perform in line with a rating I assign to it as justified by the company's fundamentals! And especially when it's a Sell rating, the joy is multiplied 100 times the drop in the stock's price!

Anyways, this blog isn't about my job, so I'll refrain from making any more references to it save for one thing -- I have completed 1 year in Investment Research and there is no better way to celebrate the same!

By the way, I have been doing some camera hunting off late, trying to understand the fine difference between a digital camera (point and shoot types), the semi-pro and the SLR cameras! N to tell you the truth, I sure am bowled over by the variety which is available in the market. My eyes and heart are all set on capturing the entry-level SLR camera by Canon, the PowerShot S5 IS ..