Forever and ever plugging my You Tube video.
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My most commented shot and I think it is interesting that most of the comments are about aging.
I replaced the over-processed shot with a more naturally processed shot.
When I first posted the shot I was in my 'must add grain to everything" phase apart from 'square format' phase.
I have grown :-)
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One of the biggest lessons in life I have learnt is;
“Every day good things and bad things would happen to you.
Which you focus on is YOUR choice.”
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...is the name of this gypsy, one of the many gypsies in the city of Pushkar, India. The first time I met her, she asked me to take her photo. As I knew that they would ask for money after taking the photo, I said to her “Pay me. You pay me then I would take your photo. And I’m not cheap.”
That took her completely by surprise and made her and her friends remember me. Since then, each time they saw me they would look and give me amused smiles. I would smile back.
A few days later I ran into her at a chai walla where I took this and a few other shots.
Free-of-charge, of course.
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… was shot at McLeod Ganj, home of Dalai Lama.
I first came here in the middle of 2009, about four weeks after I left Varanasi where I endured a month of heat. In fact, every day I was there, the high for the temperature was above 45°C. I kept staying because, “If 1.5 million Indians who stay here can handle this heat, so could I.”
I am from Malaysia where the temperature would never go over 38°C but I’m just a stubborn person who chooses what to give up and running away from Varanasi wasn’t one of them.
When I was in Varanasi, I saw and felt the Hindu faith. I wanted to feel faith again and that was what that brought me to McLeod Ganj, to see and feel the faith of Tibetan Buddhism.
I didn’t stay at McLeod Ganj but a village about 2.5 kilometres away called Bhagsu. Why? Higher altitude and a lot cheaper.
I thought I would stay there for about a month and move on to see other parts of India but I ended up staying 3.5 months there and used up my Indian visa.
I have been there 4 more times spending about 18 months there in total. But, on my last trip there in 2016, when I left, I told myself that I would never come back.
When I first started travelling in 2008, I met a seasoned traveler who told me he would never go again to a place I wanted to visit. When I asked why, his response was, “Because I wanted to remember the place the way it was.”
Same case for me with Bhagsu and quite a few other places in other countries.
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