This is a "in between the flower shoot" shot when I was taking picture of some flowers in my garden and and when got stuck, started shooting other things like this tap and this leaf. Although it sounds much better that that is rain water but this is actually not. The plants had just been watered and this is from the hose, not from clouds.

There goes another claim that "brands don't really matter to me" They may not in the traditional sense but in some way or the other they do.

Now it's like this "Its Friday, I'll wear jeans to work, let me see if the jeans I wore last Friday clean enough. Nope. Let's take out a fresh one from the cupboard."

Clothes were a commodity as they are now but not as much a commodity as they are now. If there is a scale on which you can measure it, the clothes at the time of teenage fared better than the clothes of today.

I belong to the generating that has work various kind of jeans. Jeans made in Mohan Singh Place in Connaught Placce, jeans bought from Karol Bagh, jeans by once time famous but now extinct brands like Fu's, Wanted, Smash and many other. Me and my friends have bought jeans of Levi's knowing they were fake, we have bought jeans from small shops who would stitch any label they we wanted. And of-course, I was the lucky one whose father worked for Indian Airlines so I had my share of jeans picked up from overseas trips.

Now we are all grown up, the markets have opened up allowing so many brands in India and the jeans I buy now are the usual brands-like Levi's, Wrangler, Lee and the money we have available for clothes is also higher than what it used to be, a Wrangler jeans doesn't feel as expensive as it used to be in school or college. While it doesn't matter which brand it actually is, it does matter that it is one of the brands I mentioned or something comparable. I won't wear jeans from Karol Bagh or Mohan Singh Place and the reason I have been giving myself is "Quality".

"An inexpensive jeans picked from a street market may turn out to be good and it may turn out to be total shit as well but a brand like Levi's or Wrangler will give me assured quality." This is how I justify my decision. How about you?

I flew to Bangalore on 10th of April and on 5th of May I had the use the same bag I took with me to Bangalore. In that bag I found some fries I bought at Delhi airport. These fries are 25 days old but still look like they have just come out of fryer. While raw potatoes last for a very long time, anyone who has cooked potatoes knows they have a very small life span. Cooked potatoes are the first thing that rots even when refrigerated, very often we have to throw away food just because it has potatoes and they have gone off. But look at these fires! They have not lost the shine even after lying in a bag for 25 days.

Have you wondered how hard your body has to work to digest something that, even after 25 days, dehydrates and dries up like wood but won't get any fungus or smell bad?

Disclaimer - I have nothing against KFC (in particular). I am sure McDonalds and other stores serve the same unhealthy food. You should also not take nutrition tips from an overweight patient of hypertension :)

The super moon is the nature's way of giving us something extra - this time a 14% bigger moon.

This is the third time in the last one year that I have heard about the "Supermoon" which made me wonder what exactly it is ad why does it happen. In short it is an event when Full moon happens at the time when the moon is closest to earth (it has an elliptical orbit which means that when it is closest to earth its about 357,000 kilometers from us as compared to 406,000 km when it is the farthest.

Most of the time I feel that the camera I have is absolutely fine and if there are any limitations, those are in my skills and not in equipment. However at times like this, I feel it would be better to have more zoom to get a bigger clearer shot.

Keeping this in mind, what is the IQ required to include either of these in your soap. And can you please tell me what "other" sopas are using that can only 10% of the germs your soap can kill.

One of the reason Pears is considered to be gentle is its transparent. The automatic conclusion is "Wow! This looks so clear, I can even see through it. This must be made with the best ingredients, with no impurities" This is why most mothers still choose Pears Soap for their kids over other soaps, even ones especially for kids.

I don’t know I this was a conscious thought in the mind of Andres Pears when he invented Pears soap but I am sure a lot of marketers would be willing to give an arm and a leg to come up with a product idea like this.

We live in a world where we look for the rating given to a new release before deciding if that movie is great or bad. I am sure you must have felt at one point or the other in your life that something is completely awful but everyone around you seems to be crazy about it and out of the fear of being called an idiot or an elitist you quietly agree to how good that thing is. I was reading a review of Corona Beer which seems to be written by someone who is appalled at how something as shitty as Corona managed to get the status it has today, and instead of agreeing with everyone else about how Corona beer is, he is very vocal about his opinion.

After all is said and done, I am happy with my Lamy. I also make some sketchnotes and for making some of those I have used this pen as well. You can check out my online Sketchnotes Moleskine.

We all see ourselves as rational buyers but we are hardly that. What we manage to do at best is try to be rational "most of the time". This means that there can be a few things we like to buy but we don't because we have programmed our mind to see that they are not worth the price we have to pay. So while we are able to resist such things most of the times, there are moments of weakness when we drop our guard that small opportunity is what those things need to strike.

One such blow was dealt to me by Lamy. While I rationalized that the Lamy is overpriced and bought "full metal body" a Parker instead of that "molded plastic" Lamy and lived with that decision for more than an year, one moment of weakness at Delhi Airport saw me buying this Lamy.

Lamy Safari was designed by Wolfgang Fabian and Bernt Spiegel of the Entwicklungsgruppe Mannheim in the 80s and Lamy is still producing this pen. The pen had a cartridge/converter for ink and has a body made of ABS plastic. Like Faber Castell and Staedtler, this has a triangular grip section. What I find most appealing about this pen is the bright colours like red, yellow, and blue.

If I have started to sound like a sales rep of Lamy it is because this text has come from Wikipedia.

If you are curious about this shot. This is a close up of Teachers Whisky bottle. Shaken, not stirred.