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Saturday, December 31, 2011

ADIEU TO 2011




Once again, we say adieu to a year that seemed to have just passed by us so quickly and it is time now to usher in yet another. Each year we wish and pray for peaceful days ahead, free from turmoil, war, natural disasters. Some folks happily attend parties, family get-together, large social gatherings in communities irrespective of caste or religion to celebrate the new year. Some may be thinking of their loved ones who were with them in the last year, and as fate has it, many of us do not with us today those that we loved to share in those happy moments of yesteryear.

We cherish the good old days when we attended New Year’s Eve Ball and house parties that followed. That was the norm. Today as we are much older, we can’t help but reminisce about the good old days, and the good times we had then and those that we shared with our friends, some of whom sadly are not longer with us. Some times I tend to ask myself why we refer to those days as the good old days. Conversely, I believe that the days are the same, the only difference being that we are getting older.

Poignantly though and quite aptly, some of us may reminisce once again in forming a circle with our friends at the Ball, waiting for the count-down at the stroke of midnight and singing ‘Auld Lang Syne’.

At the same time, in true fashion of “Old Long Ago’ we take time to re-kindle cherished memories of our loving Fredrick and Benny Barboza and all other dear departed relatives and friends.

Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and days of old lang syne.

CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

Friday, December 30, 2011

CHANGING OF THE SEASONS, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada


CHANGING OF THE SEASONS

~ A BUILDING'S PROGRESS ~

This is no trick photography, but the changing scene of a lone building through the course of the years 1998 - 1999 in Mississauga, Canada.
Digital photography wasn't in vogue yet, hence the dim and faded glow of a decade-old scanned photographs, shot on film with an SLR Camera from the 12th floor window of an Apartment Building on Mississauga Valley Blvd., Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

SPRING

SUMMER

EARLY FALL

FALL

LATE FALL

WINTER

Please listen to 
Glen Campbell singing
Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall

Kindly click on the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_U56pFysXk


Thanks for listening.


Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Friday, December 23, 2011

CARTOONIST MARIO MIRANDA

Mario João Carlos do Rosario de Brito Miranda (2 May 1926 – 11 December 2011), popularly known as Mario Miranda or Mario de Miranda, was an Indian cartoonist based in Loutolim in the Indian state of Goa. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2002, and Padma Shri in 1988.

Miranda had been a regular with The Times of India and other newspapers in Mumbai, including The Economic Times, though he got his popularity with his works published in The Illustrated Weekly of India.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Miranda

Friday, December 16, 2011

Excellent Job

WHAT A FINE ACCOLADE:

Customer after trying about a thousand samples,

(and after an unsuccessful sale) had the following to say:

You’re doing an excellent job!

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Resilient Artisans at Craft Shows

THERE”S ALWAYS SOMETHING:

Artisans somehow have always been resilient to the brunt of adverse conditions: If it’s not a bad spot, then its floor. If it’s not the rain, then it’s the blistering heat. If it’s not the low turn out, then it’s the gale force winds that blow over tents, and at times there's everything combined.

Bring it on!