December 31, 2012

Flight of Dreams - Learning Aircraft #1


The discussion on Airbus™ and Boeing™ led my mind to wander to my childhood days of flying on an aircraft. Visualised it and drew this simple aircraft shape.

December 28, 2012

December 15, 2012

Fire & Water

A Water Droplet

The Eternal Fire

The Flower of Life

November 22, 2012

Learning to Draw Shapes #3

Leaf and Side Face of Professor Snape (Harry Potter Fame)

Countryside Landscape

Today during the class discussion on Colombian Economy and policy, my mind wandered off to a typical countryside and I thought of drawing it.

Need to improve, definitely... but who will teach me?


November 19, 2012

Shadow and Vase

A Flower Vase in the Window, shadow on the sill
A Chef
Feathers of Peace

July 18, 2012

Water Droplet

Learning to Draw - IV

Learning to shade and draw a liquid drop with reflection was a fun experience. The most enjoyable part was, how to shade the droplet so that it looks natural and the direction of light seem uniform.
Water Droplet
Random Petals

June 22, 2012

Oil Lamp

A sketch of an oil lamp. Efforts during Business Intelligence Class ;-)

June 21, 2012

Leaf Designs

Learning to Draw - III


Heart Leaf
Random Drop Shapes

Tried the leaf designs. The love leaf and other random sketches. The logical curves on the drop shaped object took some thinking.

June 20, 2012

Learning to draw shapes

Learning to Draw - II

In a cold classroom on 20th June, a professor was explaining something about the Business Transformation. The mind was wandering and a word struck... "Gem" and I thought of drawing it out.
The first thing which came to my mind was a diamond. To complement it I drew another shape of an Emerald.

June 18, 2012

My Sketches

Learning to Draw - I

During classes, the professors and the environment inspired me to take some time out of my classroom time and invest into something which would make it worthwhile.The sketched these on my notebook during some of the classes.
I would like to take this up as a hobby and improve my sketching and draw something nice.

Love
Love
Human Face (Attempt-1)
Human Face (Attempt-2)
Vines & Leaves
Random

February 22, 2011

February 3, 2011

ईदं तुभ्याम, ईदं न मम


12
Idam tubhyam, Idam na mama
(This is yours, this is not mine)


There was a King. He was wise and just and loved by his people. After a few years he got bored of being a King, and would get tired very fast.

To solve this problem he went to his Guru in the forest and said, "I am tired of all these problems and tensions; if I solve one problem another erupts. Every day there are new problems and new tensions. I am tired of all this ! What should I do?"

The Guru said, "If such is the case, then leave the kingdom to your son and live a life the way I live."

The King said, "My son is very young and will not be able to handle this."

The Guru said, "In that vase you give me the kingdom and I will handle it."

The King was very happy and said,"Yes! this is acceptable to me."

The Guru gave him some holy water and the King took it in his right hand and made a promise in front of the sacred fire.

The King got up and started to leave.

The Guru asked, " Where are you going?" The King said, "I am going to the palace to take some money from the treasury and I will go to a foreign land where I will do a small business and lead my life."

The Guru said, " When you have given me the kingdom, the treasury is also mine and you have no right."

The King thought for a moment and said, "That is true so now I will have to take a job somewhere else."

The Guru said, " If you have to do a job, come and work for me. I have such a big kingdom and I need somebody to run it, You have the right experience, will you do this?" The King said, "Yes !"

The Guru said, "Then go and from today run the kingdom on my behalf. Please remember that nothing is yours. You will only get a salary."

The King accepted and went back and started running the kingdom. After one month the Guru came to the palace and asked theKing, "So how are you? Have you got bored, have you got tensions? How is life with you?"

Smilingly the King said, " I am very happy. I am able to sleep well in the night. I work hard whole day, I have solved the problem and have no tensions ! I try my best and leave the worry to you! Nothing is mine. I only do my duty."

(FROM: Stories from Here and There, compiled by Sunil Handa: ISBN: 978-81-908299-7-7)
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This story really puts into perspective that a man should only do his duty and leave the worrying to the almighty.

Tees Mar Khan


The Movie was rated by Times of India at 2.5 stars, and anybody in there right mind would not dare watch a movie of that rating...

But, I was not one of them; I dared the movie solely on encouragement from Arun* and went to watch at Drive-In Cinema with my cousin. The ride to the theatre was quite an adrenaline rush not because of the horrendous traffic we were stuck in, as if the whole nature was begging us not to go. but anyhow we reached there in time for the movie and somehow secured ourselves and my car a place to park. The theatre was a bit more crowded than expected, probably due to Sheela's Jawani #@!*

The movie was a torture for the mind and body the only respite was the chitter-chatter with friends.
Anyhow after grueling 2.5 hours finally the movie was over and we could ease out of the place with our heads held low.

Overall a very bad experience. 

January 9, 2011

God's Hands

I heard this story in the movie "The pursuit of Happyness",
Once a man was drowning; a boat came by and asked him to come aboard for which he replied "god will save me.", after some time another came by and asked the man to come aboard and again he replied that god will save him.
Finally he drowned and was at the Pearly Gates.
He asked god, "Why did the god let him die and not help?" to which the god answered " I sent you two boats, why didn't you get onboard?"

God helps everyone who asks for it.
It is upto us to see his greatness and not be adamant/foolish and keep an open mind.

December 31, 2010

The Call (Chronicles of Narnia)

It started out as a feeling 
Which then grew into a hope 
Which then turned into a quiet thought 
Which then turned into a quiet word 

And then that word grew louder and louder 
'Til it was a battle cry 

I'll come back 
When you call me 
No need to say goodbye 

Just because everything's changing 
Doesn't mean it's never 
Been this way before 

All you can do is try to know 
Who your friends are 
As you head off to the war 

Pick a star on the dark horizon 
And follow the light 

You'll come back 
When it's over 
No need to say good bye 

Now we're back to the beginning 
It's just a feeling and now one knows yet 
But just because they can't feel it too 
Doesn't mean that you have to forget 

Let your memories grow stronger ans stronger 
'Til they're before your eyes 

You'll come back 
When it's over 
No need to say good bye

November 21, 2010

Failure is NO Excuse

In day to day life, we come across many instances, where we think, we are failures, we are nothing in comparison to somebody, OR somebody is so great; all the Blah! Blah! stuff. We treat ourselves as if we are condemned, we are worthless, and this world is better without us.
Such thoughts cloud-up our minds, our thinking is restricted and we can't help ourselves get out of these choking thoughts...
In such times, all we need to think is...

Failure is no excuse, failure is no end
but a beginning to a gratifying morrow,
but a fact as it should be, failure is a fact.


Facts do no harm, facts do no good,
but facts do help understand the error.


Error as everybody commits, today or the other,
no one in this world, has ever leaved without one.


So wakeup, and be on heels,
to identify and rectify,
the error, as it should be,
So using the fact not to loose morrow,
So using the fact not to fail
So using the failure to succeed morrow,


But! morrow is not in my hand,
so work today, to enjoy morrow,
But don't forget,
if you had failed hitherto,
know that it was yore,
today is yours,
use it, to forget yore and build future,
and Remember,


Failure is past,
hard work is present to make
comforting future.


(Jun 2002)