Evening and its Channa Chur time with the vendor calling out in a loud voice through his tin mega phone - «Channa Churrrrrr!».  His first customer took one mouthful, spat them out and so the Channa Chur chap sat down to have a nice chew himself...

Channa Chur for the uninitiated: Puffed rice, boiled black chick-peas, chopped onion, green chili, coriander leaves, chopped tomato, salt, squeeze of lemon juice and a few drops mustard oil all shaken up together and served in a paper cone. Yum! And oh, the chopping-up is done with a rusty old knife - adds to the special flavor!

Parasailing at Batu Ferringhi [Foreigner's Rock] Beach, Penang Malaysia.

 
Mannat and Anil airborne..... and coming back to a perfect landing. We went straight up on an updraft.... a beautiful «flight» until the speedboat chap decided to have some fun and drop us to the water and skimmed us with our legs trailing on the surface for a a few seconds - we had seen the jellyfish in the ocean a few minutes earlier and it was not a very pleasant thought to be dumped in teh sea with those creatures. Yikes!

  
The kid yelling in the background was being teased by the other guys, they were threatening to send him up to accompany Jyoti. Cant show the «landing» photo.... the instructor who accompanied Jyoti made too fast a side-slip and they came crashing into the sand in a jumble with the ropes.
On second thoughts, here it is. LOL!

And this is BALAA, a great guy who runs the informal water-sports company on Batu Ferringi Beach.

Usability as a teapot? Unlikely. Visual gratification? Very much so. Deep cobalt blue and steel gray. Tactile pleasure? High. Just look at that cane covered handle!
A large collection of  teapots exist at home... many [a lot!] of them are IMHO unusable for the purpose intended... but visually a pleasure none the less.
The evening sun was casting a warm glow on the edge of the handle of this particular teapot as I was cleaning out lenses and the camera sensor was getting a squeaky cleaning too, so here is the first of a series I plan to do. Teapots.

Getting out of the rut that I thought I was in, too.