old friends - eli at kanchanjunga, john in the car. fish tanks

on the way back from another ordinary jury day at jj, where the same old kind of projects were seen- nothing new there.. anyways, thats not the point of the post… i met eli at her fabulous new apartment in perhaps the most famous residential skyscraper in the city. kanchanjunga is correas masterpiece and its odd shape is spectacular on peddar road. the apartments are these duplex things with overlooking balconies and coloured walls. the bathrooms are miniscule but then all of correas bathrooms are miniscule. it is so much more than a mere paratment and eli has made it home and seems to enjoy life in it with anna and angela running around madly on the marble floors.

picked john from his worli office on the way back and it was good to talk to him after so long. somehow we don’t seem to have the time for each other anymore in spite of living two lanes away. but it was good driving back talking about the old times with stories about the badminton court, rajeev, isaac, mamta, usha, and all the people who formed part of my childhood growing up in lic colony. i miss him.. and all those stories that we shared… and miss the stories we could share if we made the time and space for each other.

anyway, enough sentiment for one post.

some photos? and in todays selection – some from the dassera party on monday, some kanchanjunga and eli and the kids, and some from the display of a hole in the wall in bandra filled with exotic fish and birds where johnny bought some for his house.

fish tank displays need a research paper on them. the water becomes air, air becomes water and fish become birds. even as scuba divers swim around looking for exotic fish, fishermen sit below them fishing for something to eat. the exotica within is for some reason east asian is origin and reference. japanese gardens under water where little white stones gush down pretending to be a natural stream. the vinyl wall paper behind the flitting fish through japanese homes is overgrown fir trees. pink red pebble stone ground cover.

dassera

kanchanjunga

fish tanks