About yesterday and today

 Yesterday I got up early in the morning and headed straight to Humayun's tomb. I usually head here to review a new smartphone as it provides great opportunities to test the camera, a nice environment to test the video stabilisation during a walkabout, and great backgrounds for product shots themselves. Unfortunately, I did not find a particular patterned tile that I had used on the S22 Ultra review three years ago now. 

I went precisely where I wanted, got the shots I needed, and was done in an hour. I then headed to the Delhi zoo. Most of the zoo contains only deer and herons. The bird enclosures have views and walkways. Finding the two lions is a struggle, and I discovered in the end that one of the lions were sick. Apart from the deer, there is not much else to see. The Rhino spends most of the time submerged, the hippo likes a spot close to the fence that makes him impossible to see, the Gaur and Nilgai are cool but hidden away, both the tigers like to relax in spots hidden from view, did not find the hyena enclosure, the crocodiles and gharials are cool though. Did not expect the gharials to have such big nasty jaws, I thought they were smaller from photos... these are not dainty little animals lol. 

Also saw the deer headbutting, both the black bucks and the barasingha. The leopards were also cool, and rather fat and well-fed, larger than even Big Daddy at SGNP back home. The Silver Pheasant was the only cool-looking bird, and I did not find the reptile enclosure. I really wanted to see the lion, which is the only highlight I remember apart from the heronry from an earlier visit in my youth. Did not get to see the lion, the guard told me the wrong beat number (19), and I found out from a worker that it was hurt and not being brought out into the open for visitors. I had to retrace a significant portion of my walk looking for the lion. The bears were sad and hiding. I got some good shots and tested out the zoom capability of the smartphone though (Nothing 4a Pro). 

Then I went for lunch at Carnatic Cafe. It was a bit crowded. I then came home and slept, exhausted from all the walking. It was not painful so I must be recovering from Bronchitis. Today morning, finished off my stories at work rapidly and went home. My timings have almost synced up with the astronauts on Artemis II, my days begin and end with them. This is funny, because when they get time off, I get time off as well. At work, the editors wanted me to write about the toilets. Guess its only human, that when NASA is testing out a brand new spaceship capable of going to the Moon, most people want to know about the loo. Going back home early today and crashing.