high drama

u know sometimes u read news n u go.... Hhmm wonder what it was like there?

well yesterday there was a peaceful rally in London against the cuts , so there was a march, some talks ... all in all a rather festive feel to it.

of course when people flock together, they end up becoming a mob. a bunch of folks decided to do a Bahrain n occupy Trafalgar Square. alls well, nothing wrong with a sit in.

then another bunch of people decided to start targetting certain establishments , blaming them for avoiding taxes etc hence some vandalism in Oxford Street.

and where were we in all of this? no no, not the march but we wanted to do some shopping , n ended up in regent street, somewhere in between the fun mob n the yobs. so day went on mostly without drama , there was even some bagpipers n folks in costume.

late about 6 pm ish things started to get edgy. could somehow feel it in the air. so we thought of making a last stop at a sport store in Piccadilly, lo n behold there was a large presence of riot police.

we were still in the store when the fire alarm went of n we were evacuated! drama. noise outside! smoke in the air! we were part of news!!

once outside the police actually directed us away from the mob n we passed an alley right behind the store. some idiot had set fire to a vehicle (eavesdropped on a bobby for this juicy bit :p) n there was a crowd of morons busy taking pictures with their phones(!!!) ... we made a dash for it though. did consider stopping by tesco for some milk , but decided otherwise.

Jas n me then hightailed it outta there. headed towards the tube station at green park, yup after a roundabout way.

funny thing though, after reading about budget cuts n peoples plight , the only outcome of the rally n the mob that I perceived was more expenditure by the goby in cleaning up the mess left by these folks.

learn a new thing each day...

went out for a TT session with Mex...and while messing around with the cam.. realised that i had forgotten to use a simple technique that i had read about early when i started fiddling around with me cam....sigh... guess this proves that there's no stopping learning as long as u keep pluggin' away!

going for a St Patricks Day parade today, with initial hope that i'd be able to garner some cool parade-y shots.. but woke this morning and the damn sky is overcast... siiggghh.. mother nature pulls another one over the bbc weather team again!

well, lets see if i can get some kind of result later!

update : bloody hell... not only overcast it rained for about half an hour n still very gloomy, skyline was actually obscured during that time... boo so no point heading into the city cos by the time we get there, the parade would be at it's tail end... talk about a dampener.... in more ways then one.

guess it's plan B then.. look for an irish bar n get some Stout to celebrate St P day!!

tale of two world cups

tis was not long days past that i was sitting in a pub with me mates n bro watching the footie world cup, and somehow while it doesn't too long back, as i sat watching the cricket world cup matches last sunday... it somehow feels weirdly similar yet hugely different... not making much sense am i?

hehe .. well for starters never had much chance to follow cricket on tv as the local satelite tv provider (read : ASS-TRO) charged and still continue to charge unworldly amounts to subscribe to major events. hence, lack of coverage mostly equaled losing touch with the sport. but here, with most chances to watch it (on tv when i get the odd chance) on broadband over streaming websites (since i don't own a tv) i've re-kindled my shool-days connection with it! woohoo...

there have been some awesome matches so far... the Irish giving the English proper beating, the English drawing the Indians with a thrilling game, New Zealand upsetting the Pakistanis... will there be more? i hope so!!

on another note, hey it's St Patrick's Day celebration and Parade in London this weekend! woohoo... prob got chance to get some pics of some cool party-scene or even floats (dare i hope) at the least some drunk tourists probably competing with the locals over who can be more Irish! :D hopefully this weeks sunny weather holds!