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I have been away for a long time, more than a yr as someone pointed out! U'll be hearing a lot more often from me ..
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Wall Paintings!
The pictures you see on the right are wall paintings made by my bro n me (primarily by the former :))
They are life sized and made by hand!! I'll explain the method used and you can use it to create own masterpiece. If you think you need great artistic talents to pull this off, then you are wrong. Trust me if i could do it, then so can you! :)
The process:
1. Take a black and white printout of the image that you want to paint on a transparent A4 plastic sheet. (The one we guys used in between our BTech Project reports.)
2. Choose an appropriate wall where you want to paint it.
3. Use anything u can get
from which you can hang (or make it stand) the picture at a resonable height (waist high would be fine) at a distance of about 3 feet from the wall.
4. Take a bulb and put in a box (a shoe box would do fine.) Make a small hole at one end of the box through which you can get a point light.
5. Darken the room and place the light behind the picture so that you get its image on the wall!
6. Use a pencil and outline the picture.
7. Remove the whole apparatus and now colour it up!!
Here I have showed a couple of drawings I have done, as i make more I'll upload their pictures here!
If anyone does follow these steps or has any improvements then please mention it in the comments
Enjoy !
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They are life sized and made by hand!! I'll explain the method used and you can use it to create own masterpiece. If you think you need great artistic talents to pull this off, then you are wrong. Trust me if i could do it, then so can you! :)
The process:
1. Take a black and white printout of the image that you want to paint on a transparent A4 plastic sheet. (The one we guys used in between our BTech Project reports.)
2. Choose an appropriate wall where you want to paint it.
3. Use anything u can get
from which you can hang (or make it stand) the picture at a resonable height (waist high would be fine) at a distance of about 3 feet from the wall.4. Take a bulb and put in a box (a shoe box would do fine.) Make a small hole at one end of the box through which you can get a point light.
5. Darken the room and place the light behind the picture so that you get its image on the wall!
6. Use a pencil and outline the picture.
7. Remove the whole apparatus and now colour it up!!
Here I have showed a couple of drawings I have done, as i make more I'll upload their pictures here!
If anyone does follow these steps or has any improvements then please mention it in the comments
Enjoy !
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Monday, March 05, 2007
The poem game ..
Its this game I played once with a friend of mine. The rules are pretty simple and the result is quite colorful. All you have to do is write a poem; you write one line then the other person writes the next line and so on.. So the next time you are getting bored in office use gtalk to get poetic!
Here is our result,(All good lines and big words are hers :))
~~~~~~~~~ The Rising ~~~~~~~~~
In horrors of darkness, bright sunlight evades,
Bursting through the cracks darkness prevails,
The abyss of emotion this journey creates,
Trying to fill the void, but alas! Darkness darkens and doesn't vacate.
Lost in translation, fear engulfs,
Transcending through time, like empty skulls,
A feeling so pristine, nothing but, visceral,
Hoping with belief for life's a sabbatical.
From chthonic depths, rises the soul,
Beyond reason it searches for thee, thy light is what brings darkness to heel,
The powerful beauty unleashed on the world to feel,
It cleanses the aura making nefarious forces kneel!
Learning's of life, from darkness to light, is god's way,
Awakening the dormant spirit, from a world so grey,
Comes from within, it's the mind that's got to slay,
For a beautiful life, we have to live each day!
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Salsa - My first class !
'Vem Magalenha rojão, traz a lenha pro fogão, vem fazer armação.
Hoje é um dia de sol, alegria de coió, é curtir o verão.'
Those are the lyrics of 'Hey magalena' , the OST of the movie - Dance with me. If anyone has seen that movie knows exacly what salsa is all about. Those graceful seductive moves performed on foot tapping numbers; it can be pretty alluring!
When asked by my cousin if I would like to learn the dance, my instant reply (very unlike me!) was 'yes' ! Soon i found myself in a medium sized room walled up with mirrors on all sides and a bunch of people chatting about. After customary hi's n hello's the class was called to order. I was asked to just see and follow, if possible. As music filled the room people formed groups and started moving in a synchronised and graceful manner, leaving me to just gape and move about as if i was a chicken caught in traffic while crossing the road!
What seemed like eons, the music finally stopped, and my grinning sister said the we will not be joining this group but a beginners one! Phew , i let out a sigh of relief and followed my sis to a corner of the room where few other people were waiting.
Pulkit, our instructor started explaining that salsa was basically a 4 beat dance comprising of 4 basic steps. You can watch this video below to see what its all about :
After an embarrasing half hour, (in which i realised that i have two left feet and wondered how on earth do i even walk!) i saved some face and picked up the first 3 basic steps!!!
I am still a long way before i stop looking like a clown, but I will keep practicing! I will also advice all you guys to give it a try, it's a lot of fun!
At the end of my first class I saw a small demo by a couple who both knew salsa and man it was B E A Utiful! Trust me this is one dance, you want to share with that someone special! So people who already have partners, get enrolled ! n others who do not have partners have all the more reason, coz u just might get lucky there ;) !
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
College Life
An unorganised list of incidents, things & phrases which were highlights of our college lives:
DCE!
Canteen
BCH
BMH
VVS
CVR!
Negi's lounge
Shadys cafe
IFFCO Chowk
2280
8882
Metro
RPM
Quizzing
Placements
DP
CAT
Bansal
BC,MC,BKL
EngiFest
Jam's
LHMC, MAMC, IIT
fight marna
Admin Block
Transit hostel
T5
mess food
Baba
Bercos - crispy chilly potatoes
amma
'the holy kaand'
sunny n bharadwaj ka Bhenc...
chichora
Raka,DRC,Goldy
End Sems
Football
TT
Bawana Boys
space travel
SentiTalks
Books
Sleep!
Hostel loo's
'Shady n Birla'
'Thakur n kari'
Bunking
CellPhone
BigChill
Movies
Friends
P*rn
Assignments
Photocopy
ED Sheets
NJ, Hot 3rd yr, hot pants
sexo (sec-16)
Apsara, Somji Som
CP
Oops n pabu
Night mess
Masti ki pathshala
Aanti reservation march
Cbat's, KNags, MadC
Cyber campus, Entech, DC Book shop
Rock music
Bakers Bite
Pilani
Goa - Mambo's, Titos, beer, Satish ;)
In the end, where did u sleep last nyt
Farewell, grad party
The list is endless .. a million memories ..
Ps : If i missed anything worth mentioning then please add to the comments I will update it here :)
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
The Seagull Effect
'One flap of a seagulls wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather forever.'
The above quote is the origin from which the more poetic quote emerged - the butterfly effect which stated that the fluttering of a butterflies wings can cause a tornado in another part of the world ( i guess even scientists like dramatization!) , well I'll stick with the first one.
I would use an example from my life to prove the above quote. we'll rewind about 6 years, when we all were good boys (and girls) and were preparing religiously for IIT. Then luckily (or unluckily) I didn't reach the target I had set out for but scored a 393 in my CEE test.(note: not 392 or 394) . I joined NSIT - ICE and for the first six months, waiting in the hope that I might get upgraded to DCE comp by the next sem. But slowly I began to settle in that place and was having second thoughts of making a shift instead wanted to freeze my current branch. Thankfully (i guess!) I did not choose to do that and as fate would have it I was the last person to make it to DCE comp.
Then the first day of DCE arrived and i knew only one soul there - Kartik ! (We guys were together in FIIT-JEE) He introduced me to his group- vicky, anshul, saraf, shantanu! and not long i got to know a lot many others.
The above quote is the origin from which the more poetic quote emerged - the butterfly effect which stated that the fluttering of a butterflies wings can cause a tornado in another part of the world ( i guess even scientists like dramatization!) , well I'll stick with the first one.
I would use an example from my life to prove the above quote. we'll rewind about 6 years, when we all were good boys (and girls) and were preparing religiously for IIT. Then luckily (or unluckily) I didn't reach the target I had set out for but scored a 393 in my CEE test.(note: not 392 or 394) . I joined NSIT - ICE and for the first six months, waiting in the hope that I might get upgraded to DCE comp by the next sem. But slowly I began to settle in that place and was having second thoughts of making a shift instead wanted to freeze my current branch. Thankfully (i guess!) I did not choose to do that and as fate would have it I was the last person to make it to DCE comp.
Then the first day of DCE arrived and i knew only one soul there - Kartik ! (We guys were together in FIIT-JEE) He introduced me to his group- vicky, anshul, saraf, shantanu! and not long i got to know a lot many others.
Like everyone else even my college life played a leading role in defining the person I am today, especially the friends i made during that time. So now when i sit back and think what if i had marked just that one answer from (B) to (D) in the CEE test. I wouldn't have met anyone one of you guys. Then how different my life would have been ?
PS: I have been a believer of the saying 'A man makes his own destiny' but as years are rolling by i am beginning to get inclined the other way.Maybe there is something like 'destiny' and our roles have already been written, and all we are doing is just enacting the script. (I know Anshul would def agree with that! :) )
PS: I have been a believer of the saying 'A man makes his own destiny' but as years are rolling by i am beginning to get inclined the other way.Maybe there is something like 'destiny' and our roles have already been written, and all we are doing is just enacting the script. (I know Anshul would def agree with that! :) )
Monday, October 23, 2006
Social suicide
This topic was brought to my knowledge by a friend of mine, who knew someone who had committed suicide.I will not elaborate on that but it was the biggest shock to me, I was accustomed in reading such articles in the paper and never paid any heed to them, and never thought that I will ever meet a person who could do something like this. But my throat went dry and couldn't believe my ears when I heard the incident.
I did a little study over the net about this and the figures and reasons connected to the act were unbelievable. An article quoted that more than one lakh people take their own lives every year in India! The figure was mind boggling, upon reading more I found certain very strange things. One would think that these acts are committed out of sheer helplessness, possibly poverty or the lack of education. But astonishingly the highest rate of suicide in India is in its southern parts which boasts of almost cent % literacy and high per capita incomes, so then why?
It stated that the biggest reason is expectations, it could be from yourself but largely from the society. The same society or culture that has evolved over thousands of years...
Is this what it has evolved to that a person is not allowed to live peacefully and forced into leaving this world permanently. Human race is said to be the most advanced life form on the planet,but tell me have you ever seen a dog or any stray animal jumping of a building or killing itself? Funny as as the thought may seem, but it never ever happens. Then why are we the more advanced race, who cannot even handle to keep its own hands of its own neck.
This is the type of society we live in, and sadly this is the way its going to be. If we cannot even provide ourselves a reason to live how on earth are we going to help someone else?
Tell me is it more important to score 90 % in boards or is it so important to get a multimillion $ job? These are just parameters which have been set by the society and it gauges you on that, it doesn't care whether you are happy in whatever position you are in, it wont let you be you, and will never miss an opportunity to judge you even once. I am quite sure one wasnt born on the planet just to satisfy these so called norms, thats not the reason one lives for.
I did a little study over the net about this and the figures and reasons connected to the act were unbelievable. An article quoted that more than one lakh people take their own lives every year in India! The figure was mind boggling, upon reading more I found certain very strange things. One would think that these acts are committed out of sheer helplessness, possibly poverty or the lack of education. But astonishingly the highest rate of suicide in India is in its southern parts which boasts of almost cent % literacy and high per capita incomes, so then why?
It stated that the biggest reason is expectations, it could be from yourself but largely from the society. The same society or culture that has evolved over thousands of years...
Is this what it has evolved to that a person is not allowed to live peacefully and forced into leaving this world permanently. Human race is said to be the most advanced life form on the planet,but tell me have you ever seen a dog or any stray animal jumping of a building or killing itself? Funny as as the thought may seem, but it never ever happens. Then why are we the more advanced race, who cannot even handle to keep its own hands of its own neck.
This is the type of society we live in, and sadly this is the way its going to be. If we cannot even provide ourselves a reason to live how on earth are we going to help someone else?
Tell me is it more important to score 90 % in boards or is it so important to get a multimillion $ job? These are just parameters which have been set by the society and it gauges you on that, it doesn't care whether you are happy in whatever position you are in, it wont let you be you, and will never miss an opportunity to judge you even once. I am quite sure one wasnt born on the planet just to satisfy these so called norms, thats not the reason one lives for.
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