Photo Challenge Part 2

In continuation to the last post

Day 8: Something you do everyday

Day 9: Small

Just a pair of tiny clothes hanging in the balcony looked cute and grabbed my attention

Day 10: Can't (won't) live without

Day 11: Night

Our balcony all lit up for Diwali

Day 12: Drink

Traditionally boiled and made Tea with ginger/cardamom

Day 13: Where you slept

Day 14: Man-made

Gandhiji's spinning wheel I got from the Gandhi ashram in Ahmedabad (India)

Day 15: In your bag

is a mess of everything I need

Day 16: The view from your window

Day 17: The last thing you bought

Day 18: Happened this weekend

Watched Jab tak hai jaan (Bollywood movie), and the movie was so long and boring that felt like I just did that the entire weekend!!

Day 19: Something awesome

Photo Challenge Part 1

I am sure I have got wiped off the memories of the treasured few who follow my blog :(
Squeaky Corner - My corner to squeak, scream and share but 'silently' went completely silent for 5 months!! yes 5 months that's like half a year and around 155 days. (The number 5 makes me feel more worse, damn!!) OK. I am guilty as charged. Don't ask me the reason of disappearance, its the same obvious reason!
Lets talk about the big comeback.... ;-)

Well its called the 'Photo A DAY Challenge'. But firstly I am too late to take part in it and secondly I can't manage clicking and uploading a photo daily on a working day. To top it I have challenged myself to click the picture only from my SLR camera!! Basically just to get my hands off the phone and the addictive Instagram. Maybe another photo challenge just for phone/instagram pictures ;)

So the November photo challenge list is here on Fat mum slim. Well more than half month is already gone so instead of putting one picture each day I will start with putting first weeks photo now and the later next week...

Day 1: Something beginning with 'C'

 

Day 2: Colour

  Day 3: Breakfast

This is the expression I had when i read breakfast, because I did not have one! :-/

 Day 4: TV

A TV is nothing without a remote, just thought of giving him his fair share of credit ;)

Day 5: 5 o'clock

It starts getting dark at around 5:30 these days and clouds in Dubai is a rarity,

so capture it when you can!

 Day 6: A favorite thing

 Simply addicted to this, Samsung galaxy S3!

Day 7: Reflection

The light from the bedroom

World Wide Famous

Well I know I am blogging like after a month and I am really guilty about it, but I am too delighted and excited about sharing something else right now that being guilty can wait for sometime!

Well the story goes like this, I got a mail from Dinah - Editor of 72M magazine few months back saying that she came across my blog and would like my interview to be published in their magazine's 'World Wise Women' section. For a minute I thought somebody is playing a prank, Me and World Wise Women!! Still makes me giggle.
Reading the title itself and thinking I am going to be feature in it suddenly made me wise enough to grab the opportunity, anyways a fool would question it! Thanks once again 72M and its your anniversary issue, makes me feel even more special :)
Click on the image below to read the interview. Turn to Page no 40 if it doesn't open the particular page.
 

My 'WIN'some Weekend

I have been missing from my SqueakyCorner from quite sometime. Reason being the new job but I am not complaining at all because its been good so far. Some random clicks from my last weekend lunch which I won in our office's internal staff photo competition, in the first week of my joining itself! WIN is a WIN, small or big! Right! ;)

And by the way i enjoy participating in those random contests! Its like my favorite pastime.

The weather was perfect

Butternut Squash soup

Seafood! Raghu's favorite

Above pic was clicked by Raghu

A buffet dessert, so you eat to your heart's content..

Exactly what Raghu did, all 3 for him!

This was something Mango, dont remember the name

The Winged Beauties

Winter is the perfect time to pass by the Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary and have a look at the long legged pink & white beauties in the middle of the hustle & bustle of Dubai. Its not just the flamingos but the sanctuary acts as a stopover for around 67 species of migrating birds of the East African–West Asian Flyway. More than 500 species of flora and fauna and is one of the best-managed arid zone wetlands in the region.

I have come here thrice in last 2 years, and finally managed some shots of few birds pretty close. There are two Ramsar sites (wetland reserves) properly fenced and monitored by cameras with birding hides open for the public viewing. Hides are equipped with binoculars & telescopes for better viewing as the hides are quite far from the birds. If you are lucky enough and the water is closer to your hide, the birds would be closer too, making it easier to capture them. Secondly, clicking the perfect shot would mean having huge cameras like the ones the National Geographic or Discovery guys carry! Twice I have returned unhappy, wondering whats the point if you can see the beautiful birds through the binoculars but can not capture them in your camera just because they are too far. Luckily this time on this particular hide water was closer and it was their feeding time. Fishes were left in the water for them. So we spent some time trying to capture the best I could. I would not mind going there again, for more and better shots now :)

The Great Egret flapping hard

Eyeing the fishes

Catwalking!

Get,

Set,

& off I go!

Catwalking again!

1, 2 & 3.

Got it, finally!

Punished are you?

A call to the rest

A Reef Haron

All take a bow..