Diya’s Birthday Photographs

Here are the photographs from Diya’s birthday party in November 2010 :)

Waiting with a friend for the others to arrive



Here is the cake, its a treasure chest  and no I didn't make it, lol

 

Settling down at the party room with my friends.

Then the cake arrives with the girls singing the happy birthday song )



I blow out the candles and then cut the cake



Then we have games





While the girls cut the cake.

They were telling us how to dance

Listening to the instructions





Another complicated game, lol

Some other game which involves quite a lot of jumping up and down and other stuff.



toothy grin

We all got balloons



Mamma crying? no, something in the eye. Here are the videos

Here is the slideshow for more photographs.

Contrails

Autumn Photographs

Lines on the road

The trees are turning yellow

Beware, the man cometh



Piled up leaves

Flowers in Canary Wharf

New flowers were planted on the flower beds in Canary Wharf, here’s some pics of one of the flower beds

 

 
Just found the arrangement perfect and wonderful. I so wished I had my bigger camera with me so that i can take some more macro pics.

One of the most beautiful libraries in London

I was invited to attend a lecture by Professor Richard Taffler from my old Alma Mater to the Reform Club. Forget about the lecture contents, it was where it was held which was the most eye catching. It was in the library. Mind you, I took the pics using my dinky little iPhone camera without a flash so the quality is crap, but hopefully it will show you the absolutely brilliant place. Photography is forbidden but me being the bolshy kind, decided to take pics and beg forgiveness later . 75,000 books, mainly on politics, biographies, and general reference books are what I spotted.

Walking up Pall Mall, lovely doors and porticos.

A massive mirror.

You can see the library. And the chairs where the audience was sitting. And at the far end, the bar, where most of the people were congregating. Typical, I was near the books while rest of the world is at the bar. Why am I so stupid?

Lovely leather furniture with tall heavy bookcases.

Check out the columns

A typical set of heavy leather bound books on a variety of topics.

If you wanted to grab books from the top, then you will need to climb on this ladder. I dont think it is made for corpulent people like me and if its as old as the library, I will definitely give it a miss.

 

The screen where the presentation was shown. With more books. Did you know that the reform club was where Phileas Fogg establishes his bet that he can go around the world in 80 days?