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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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!

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 ;) !

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 :)

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.

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! :) )

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.

For more facts and figures visit : -

http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1821/18210960.htm

Sex

This probably is the most talked about topic in town, but at the same time no one dares to speak it outloud. It's still a taboo in our households. Some say this ensures that our cultural heritage is preserved. I would like to know how does not talking about a subject which is the basis of life preserve our moral values?? Not talking about it does not mean that it is not happening! Instead its creating the largest population of HIV-AIDS infected people in a single country.

Well am not trying to propagate sex here, and neither am I suggesting the practice of it as taboo. Over my years in college I have met many people who have had different views over this topic, but there was one thing common- everybody wanted to do it. Just that for some people their conscience didn't allow and for some others it wasn't a matter of conscience. One of my friends (Name withheld) actually used to encourage people in doing it, and many a times actually convince the strongest of characters into believing that sex wasn't bad! Kudos to his marketing skills!

I am differing from my point. Coming back to the topic of sex. Discussing the delicate issue that whether its right or wrong. On this I will state a very simple thing, "If the two people involved in the act are totally aware of the consequences and sure about their decision then they should not bother about others and what they will think !!"

Practice safe sex :)
-- This article is written by a virgin!

Breaking the shackles

Life begins and as you grow up, you develop dreams and like everyone even I did. I used to love looking at the stars and hoping one day I'll be between them , really wanted to be an astronaut. And as I grew my aspirations sometimes grew and sometimes they changed. At one point of time I really wanted to be a cricket or a football star! I guess till a certain age one does not see his career option or what he wants to be in terms of money (though being a cricket star would earned me pots of money!) , instead one sees what he wants to do. But as one grows up he starts to see things differently and slowly he becomes a part of the rat race. And even before one realizes that, its already too late. He or she is already burdened with so many responsibilities that it's impossible to get away.

Now when I look back at my life I realise that I am not so different , going through school and engineering and taking up a job in the software sector. I sit here all day in front of the computer and punch keys in the keyboard! ...Is this what life is about? I am not suggesting that I have a bad job, I am luckier than many to get a job like this. But at the end of the day it does not give me any satisfaction. And the worst part about this is that now my mind cannot branch out in any direction it wishes, because it has been stereotyped through the years to think in a defined manner which the society has preached. I no longer possess the imagination I had when I was a kid.

I just don't want to sit here and crib. Instead am hoping and trying to gain enough energy to cut across this defined path and drop the dogmas taught to me by society. I hope I am successful.

I also want to ask you all, whether you are all happy and satisfied in doing what you are? Or you are also hoping to break free? And if you are then what is stopping you? There is just one life and one is not just supposed to live it as a compromise or in a state where one is working for a better tomorrow and compromising the present. Just think what if that tomorrow never comes?