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Friday, May 27, 2005

Remains of the day

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It doesn't get any worse.
<1>A month back I had got a $100 parking ticket in Cambridge(coz I capped the idea of it being handy to park in the handicapped zone)....had appealed against it and today was the hearing. Combo of google and mapquest enlightened me on how to reach 344 Broadway, the court of hearing. Braving the Boston traffic I somehow got there in 3 hours. But the sadistic 'aunty-jee' turned down my appeal.

<2>Came out of the building only to see another parking ticket on my car....had forgotten to put in a quarter in the meter.

<3> The hungry and froost me was looking for a parking spot(which is so rare in Boston) near a Bengali restaurant....caught sight of one but as I was going to ease myself into it ,a 'behen-jee' (also vying for the same spot) banged her SUV into my car. Fortunately no damage.
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so what is this picture doing here in the post.....well this was the only good part..went to New England Aquarium after all this chaos..../*$29 parking fee for 1 hour...what the duck */....this is a sea dragon...did not know anything like this existed on this earth. There was a shark too and a this too and a that too and a.............................................

Monday, May 09, 2005

Pulitzer prize winning pic

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....stumbled upon this photograph...of a girl in famine striken Sudan crawling towards UN food camp located a kilometer away and a vulture waiting for the girl to die so that it could lay it's beak on the prey. This photograph won Kevin Carter Pulitzer prize in 1994 and this great(?) photographer, instead of helping the girl, left the scene immediately after taking the pic!!! No one knows who got the food....the girl or the vulture.
On similar lines....I remember seeing a photograph of (Princess) Diana with two kids in an African country with one of the kids having to fold up his trouser so that the photographer could click his artificial leg. I HATE people who show off their charity work.
...and in the case of Kevin Carter I think instead of handing him the Pulitzer prize he should have been shooed and 'chappal'ed for doing what he did.