Episode from "connect the dots"

Something too good happened a month back!! Got a book from a friend..Book named "connect the dots". It has got stories about people (entrepreneurs) who have made their lives their own way!! Way which is not traditional!! i started flipping pages and read story about "crossword" guy!! Amazing!! I was suppose to return da book to my friend same day but i kept it with me!!

I usually get time while I travel to office in office bus! Dats da only time I have on weekdays! While going back home I ususally prefer radio going on in bus! Tired mind, too much traffic and dark evenings don’t allow me to read!!

More over I had a headche that day!! First rain of this monsoon created traffic on roads and as radio was not working people started playing songs on their mobiles!!foooohhhhhhhh!!! I hated that..I hated that music….why can’t people be just quite!! And then I remembered da book!! Inspite of headche I took it out from my bag…

It has got 15 stories…my eyes were searching for something interesting!! And there I found, KALAYAN VERMA!!! A story of a photographer!! I started reading it….one page after another and it continued…and did not relaize when I reached home…still 5 pages left…I went to resturant with my friend (obviously with a book)!!Again into it…she understood somethng going on in my head and did not even interuupted!! We had dinner without many words!!

A tale of crazy, fun loving, curious mind!! As always dad concerned about son getting into engineering and then son is directionless!! Finally understood computer is his passion when he was in 10^th grade while playing with linux and networking stuff. (I know playing with linux in 10^th grade means crazy mind!! I’m with computers since years and still in love with Microsoft…simple and my kinda!!) then less percentage in 12^th and now what to do? But one thing was clear…he did not want to move (just to get into computer engineering???neeehhh!!)He has spent all these years moving around with his dad due to government job!! Finally his dad settled down to one place and so does he!! Ohk, if not computer I will deal with meachnaical stuff!! Simple, isn’t it?? But that’s the scenario…sometimes we just make some decision and don’t know why?? But his passion for computers led him to free lencing jobs for netwroking and security and finally to dream career at yahoo!! (inspite of his meachnical degree) . but when he relaized (after two long years at the age of 25) yahoo is turning into typical indican IT company, he took a break!! Big money, big position & big brand name did not matter to him!! You know I truly believe that when you earn somethng and achieve a power to let it go happily, you are turely a gentle man!!

But now what’s next?? He thought to do something which he has never done be before…photography?? How about this? He had this hobby and ofcourse a very good camrea (atleast big job helps your hobby grow if you are able to find time for them :))but it was not preofession..he stayed three months in national park in mysore(if i remember correctly) and enjoyed wild life photography…3 months stay converted into 8 months journey and he found yet another passion for himself…

Live blogging and his photographs floating on internet helped him caught by BBC. Wow!!!

http://kalyanvarma.net/journal/

and then on he never looked back!!!

Finally I'm back home…still 2 pages…but as I found blog address…I can’t resist myself checking out his photography…something was calling me…I had headche…but then I don’t know…I would not have got sleep without chckeing those snaps!! AMAZING was the word!!! I spend an hour over his blog and thought to drop him an email…I was searching his address and out of my surprise I found him online on his blog…I don’t know I just pinged…"hey…" without hope of him replying back!! But just a second after I was chattin with him!! I was actually chatting with him!!! Wow…

We talked about his current work and mine! Our passion and stuff….short and “to be remebered” chat! Thanks for that kalyan!! Sometimes such stuff makes you to pause ya running life and force you to think…rethink…and change...I completed his remaing story and slept with sense of some sort of achievement!!

I do like photography and I keep taking pictures but yeah without any specific purpose!! The same weekend I went out with a friend and clicked some pics…let me share them here….

i call it as "special collection"