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this is the volcanic sunset at Tioman, Malaysia. same island South Pacific was shot on in 1958. March 2008.
i reckon this was our first practice dive at Tioman. i was nervous, but as i sank, while the sea bed was pretty barren, the silence and the blue that blossomed around me was madly calming. i am too a water baby.

At the Singapore Zoo. we were lucky we kept out heads craned. i love this shot so much, the baby orangutan looks like he's saying "holy shit!! holy SHIT!!!" and the mother is like "freaking paranoid monkey."

Also, a little fact. orangutan, doesnt mean orange monkey (like a friend very confidently proclaimed). in malay 'orang' means man and 'hutan' means forest, thus man of the forest. now, remember the book/movie a clockwork orange? well, anthony burgess wasnt talking about a well wound fruit. it was a play on the malay word 'orang'. clockwork man.

there you go, a story to tell at the zoo.

EDIT: ok, so apparently anthony burgess was talking about a fruit. HOWEVER, this orang-man thing was an interpretation of the book i had read when i was studying literature, so. oh well. no ones perfect.

every single time i see a hippopotamus (which is pretty regularly since im an unofficial guide to singapore (fucking irritating) tourist hot spots) i think of Mitch Hedburg: "is a hippopotamus really a hippopotamus, or is it just a cool-a-potamus?"

hahahahaha, never fails to crack me up!

DICK FACE!

'nuff said.

I wish this picture hadnt come out so grainy, the grees were delicious! also must not miss the croc lurking in the muddy waters.

LOVE the colors on this magnificent bird!! hes so cool i want to hang out with him!

this is the morning following Spains win at the world cup. it was around 6 am, we were on our way to the airport for breakfast and money change, and we had to change trains at Tanah Mehra. the sky was so pretty, it caught me well by surprise. i also really like the very lace-like silhouette of the cranes against the orange to blue sky.

This was taken earlier in the year at a friends wedding. after a very quaint and beautiful marriage ceremony, the bride and groom gave out to the guests pieces of paper on which to write a wish for ourselves and a wish for the newly weds, and each paper was stuck on a balloon. i got this shot just before we all released the wish balloons. that was a very lovely day.

my extra large hands, my extra large fingers, my blue nails, my wrist, my beads.

this is ludwig. ludwig is my dog. i do not like picking up his poo. but i love him madly.

this is shady, shes a rascal of a dog. chick is WHACK out of her mind. but ive seen her since the day V brought her home, when she would let me play with her and cuddle her for hours without trying to claw me, ruin my clothes or take a snap at my face. well, i love her anyhow.

this is ale-HAAN-dro. he is a latin lover.

this is yours truly. at a lily pad pond. i very seriously considered trying to sit on one to take a "meditating on lily pad" pose (as jim also very seriously suggested). but like i said to him too, what to do? too much junk in the trunk.

fire rain in singapore.

and this, well when farrah and i saw this guy, i thought it, but she said it; "look! srikant! spraaad your laaagss!!!"

hahahahah!