Pongal bird count

I participated in the Pongal bird count today. I went to two places by my bike for noting names and counts of the birds in our neighbourhood.

My father created an account for me on ebird.org so that I can enter my observations. Here is the list: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21394172

From now on I will write my own blog posts. Please do leave your comments and keep visiting my blog.

My experiments with truth ... err ... Microsoft Lifecam

Nana was showing me this new webcam he bought and all the cool things it can do, like making me a tiger. :D

Sadhu vs Shaitan

This is me at Megha atta's home in Jan 2011.

This is me at Lakkur in June 2009.

Fan contrib

This is my first fan contribution. :) Thank you Gokul appaiya & Rahul appaiya! :)

The Flying Rava Idli ... oops ... Om Shreshti

Its a bird!

Its a plane!

Its a ... Flying Rava Idli?

Om chose "The Flying" from the left column and "Favorite Food" from the right column of the super hero naming page. And it came out to be "The Flying Rava Idli". :D

I thought it was very cute, but he thought it was silly, so he chose the other option in the right column - first name. And since he doesn't know whats the fuss about first name & second name ... he just calls himself "The Flying Om Shreshti". ;)

My own real camera!

Thank you all for your patience, but dad has been very busy all these months & he forgot about my blog. :( But he has now bought me a new digital camera for me! It does not show the photo like the other cameras but this is mine!

My toy camera

Pogo branded toy camera with a pin hole projector.

I like taking pictures with a real camera, but I also have a toy camera. Here is one of them. :) It shows pictures of various animals when I press the shutter button. There is a switch too which lights a bulb within the camera & shows the photo on the wall!

My butti

I had already given you a glimpse of my "butti" (basket) long back. Now I show where it is kept, out of the way. :)

The "butti" is kept in a shelf with a broken door.

A closeup of the contents of my butti.

A butterfly

This is a "home"work I did with my amma's help. :) Hope you like it? And the photo was taken by nana, not me. :( Mine did not come out well.

My Lalbag Visit!

Lalbag glass house with the lights lit at dusk

Hello all! I am back after a looooong time. Do you know I go to two schools now? Prayag Montessori (where they have broken my room & building new) & the new Summer Camp where there are two slides to play! The Summer Camp has a Lion resting its head on its paws. :)

Nana's note: Om's regular Montessori is being expanded during the summer vacations & the other he is talking about Plant Kids where we have admitted him for the summer camp. The Lion is the one on their logo.

My grandparents, Chitra avva & Chennai thatha, have come here & they take me to the new park (it also has a slide) & temple every evening. They also took me to a big park called Lalbag, which does not have a slide. :( We also took Gokul appaiah. He also likes photography like me. He also teaches me to draw. He draws me Noddy, cars, trains, buildings on my slate. So I took their photograph in the big park without the slide.

Gokul appaiah, Chennai thatha & Chitra avva, clicked by me :)

Now some other photographs taken by Gokul appaiah. I was too busy playing & roaming around to take more pictures. :)

Me with my grandparents in front an uncle on a horse.

Do you like my elephant savaari? :)

And my bull savaari?

Thats it about my Lalbag visit. Only one photo by me in this post. :( But please do keep visiting for more photos clicked by me. :)

Of cameras & Om's new learnign curve

Thank you all for encouraging us to keep updating this fledgling blog filled with photographs taken by our photographer kid, Om. :)

Om the Photographer - fixing his toy camera to my mini tripod. ;)

This blog has already seen its first 20 posts and more are certainly on its way. But may be a bit slower.

Because of the loss of my mobile SE K750i, which was Om's tool of choice, I had to buy a new C702 phone (little bro of Bond's C902). Without his old trusty K750i, Om is facing a learning curve all over again. I let Om try out my Sony point & shoot camera DSC W60, but it was too big for his hands. Poor fellow could not properly press the shutter button. It just didn't come in his grasp. :(

And now am allowing him to take his own time with the camera in my C702. It took me some time to get to know all the features in it! Its a full fledged camera to the core, not at all like the sorry contraption thats fit onto more expensive phones from the Nokia stable.

The below one is taken by my wife's cousin with my C702. Some more pics taken with the C702 are available on my personal blog too.

Jedi Om ;)

Am trying to filter out presentable ones from the old repository in parallel to Om's new experimental shots. I will keep posting them whenever I find something of worth and of course, when am free enough too. :(

Until then, keep checking & pls do spread the word. :)

My feet's protectors

These are my feet ...

... and these are its protectors :D

Note by Nana: Footwear are called padaraksha or padarakshaka in Sanskrit, litterally meaning protectors of the feet and thus the title of this post is so named.

Our fan!

My laptops

I have so many laptop to play on. I had one blue laptop which does not work anymore. New cell also doesn't make it play the music. If I press "i" in it, it plays "Happy Birthday to You" song. That laptop was given to me by nana's cousin, Deepa aththa.

Shaliamma got me a new laptop, a yellow flower laptop. It plays animal sounds when I press the different alphabets. It has new music too. :)

My flower laptop's top portion.

I have another laptop, well its Shaliamma's actually. :) I play TuxPaint on it. Nana tells me it is called eeepc. He has put a photo of mine with it in his blog too.

Shaliamma's eeepc playing my "worm" video.

And of course, I play a lot on nana's laptop too. I like GCompris very much. He has given it to a school in Ramanagaram too. I also showed them how to play. :)

Our morphing drawing room

One of my earliest snaps. Diwan from nana's chair.

TV from nana's chair & part of nana's table.

Fish bowl after Shaliamma moved nana's table to the room.
TV in its new wall panel. How many of my items can you see here?

Different moods of Shalimma

Taken on 11th August 2007: Shaliamma and Chittavva

Shy Shaliamma

Shaliamma with her old phone

Shaliamma with her new phone, in Ramanagaram

Different moods of nana

I caught nana while he was trying out something on his camera. :)

Nana posing for me inside his Indica

Nana having his kaapi before leaving for office.

Arjun appaiah's wedding - Day 3

Today was the actual wedding ceremony of Arjun appaiah & Vaishnavi pinnamma. It was not very crowded today and I also made a new friend with Harshit anna.

My view of the wedding dias seated on nana's lap.

My cousin

Shaliamma with my cousin

Arjun Appaiah's wedding function - day 2

Lord Balaji

I took this picture yesterday in the marriage hall. Nana made me stand on a chair to get a better centring of the Lord Balaji's photo.