India 2007 - Day Three, Part Two
I spent more than half the day speechifying to the group I'm here to train. (To those who know me, calm down and stop shuddering). We were in a small conference room examining training materials projected from a PC onto a screen. To make matters worse, I prepared the training materials too. (Ok -- you can start shuddering again). It went well although my throat felt hoarse at times. I don't know how I got through two days of similar presentations last year when I had an awful cold.
We broke up in mid-afternoon as I hit the jet lag wall again. And now it's 11:00 PM and I swear I feel so tired I must be crazy. Or it could be the magic elixir energy drink I consumed with engaging conversation over dinner.
Anyway, I went outside for a short walk in the scorching heat carrying my oversized camera and at one point tried to take a shot of the building where the office is located. The complex consists of several buildings, each of them extraordinarily colorful by US standards, but then much of India is like that. I thought a shot of the building might look good and was stopped from taking a picture by a security guard who told me photos were not allowed for security reasons. I wanted to explain that it's ok -- that I'd keep the photos in a small zip-locked plastic bag, but thought better of it.
But at the end of the day we were late in leaving the office, late enough to catch the sunset lighting up the sky. So here's a shot I took from across the street.
Now the open land across the street isn't especially pretty -- it's undeveloped and used by buffaloes to graze and stray dogs to do what stray dogs do. But if I can make it look like that, maybe they ought to let me take a picture of the buildings, eh? Click on the image above for a larger sized picture.