what the heck!

i was in a good mood 2day. and actually normal unlike the times i come home and hide in my room.
but the happiness dint last for long.

isaac was home. me, him and mum were talking about college and the crowd. now, its quite an established fact that my college sucks. we talked about ghasu and all the other hopeless creatures who only know to sit and warm up their seats. then we got into the whole partiality thing. like some students get all the privileges and special treatment and ofcourse good marks. somehow, i have totally given up on college. like officially officially given up! i dont bother to participate in any college activities like i did for the last 2 years.

m not an enthu in college anymore. the subjects i am interested in dont have good faculties, and 3d is not my cup of tea. m more into print media. thats probably why isaac is doing my 3d asgnt. its like a returning favour kinda thing. i did his flash and dreamweaver asgnts in 2nd year. i think we settled for a good barter :)

november rain

..hm..lovely song - guns and roses.
as the title suggests, it rained 2day. i was working late. it was 7.30 and finally we packed up. and in the darkest blues of the evening as we walked out, we heard lightnings and thunders! wow! in no time the rain showers hit us. obviously, i wasn't carrying a raincoat. so i had this chance of getting wet and biking in that climate. it was windy....and very cool. on the bike, all i thot of was , what if i was on a hill at this time or at a sea shore.. or how about the lovely times me and mohini wud go out in the rain, or how yash wud take me out and be glued to the camera to take pictures of the lightning instead of actually being with me.. :)

i was all drenched by the time i reached home. i was super hungry. hadnt had anything after lunch and a cutting chai at 3.30. dad got this new stove that works on coal and 2day had to be the day to experiment! sadly, after letting the dal cook in that twice, it hadnt! mum had to put it in the cooker and make it the usual way. dad bhi na! he just gets creative and excited about eco-friendly living. like how hes used solar energy at manavli..thats awesome! sometimes it works, but sometimes(like the coal stove-like thingy)..!

keep up the spirit dad! i mean we are already facing nature, getting back at us after all that mankind has done to it mercilessly. the unseasonal rain, the sudden changes of climate is all a proof of it. so i always appreciate eco-friendly approach. i hope more ppl take it seriously.
go green dah-lings!!! oh that reminds me of some wall paintings in pune that read- see green, see life. in a city that breathes in pollution, its like a 'must read' and a 'must think about it' situation.

blissful climate

i am reluctant to get out from under my blanket early morning... how wish the whole day was like one winter dawn! and guess what....today was! not exactly dawn..but there was no sun!
i reached college a lil late 2day, all wrapped in sweater, socks, and scraf. lecture had already begun. we had texturing class 2day..it was fine..the prof has actually got better after the vacs. hm..looks like he did some homework! at the end, he declared he wanted the submission on Wednesday, YES!!! 2 more days :)
left college and came home for lunch. cudnt believe i was wearing a sweater at noon! it was breezy too.. and the best part...it began drizzling! mild water drops on cold skin feel so wow!
walked to the studio after lunch. worked till 5.30 and coming back home was a good brisk walk since mum called up on the way and i had to rush. so burnt a lot of calories 2day! ah, feels good.

max is max enough!

ok. so m working really hard on the book illustrations. things are going good. eating more fruits than eating out or junk. walking everyday for about an hour. so reducing weight is going the right way. patiently working at a slim fit. isaac teases i shud be size 0 like kareena did! i only give him the 'shut up and let me be' look. dad is home for 2 days. we talk! also me n sidd have found out yet another common interest- table tennis! so, we play tt when m back from work.

and in the middle of all this gaga going...comes 3d max! duh, submission on monday... i havent started on my assignment. i know, sucks! m affraid i'd fail if i dont start working on it. aur sir ke saath toh apni jamti nahi. hes anyways asking me sarcastically- so, have u started? and i only smile.

no, serioulsy, i dont feel like turning to 3d now. i love 2d. but i 'have to' slog for 3d max, i cant be picky, its the syllabus! rest other lectures are toh totally cool...teachers dont turn up! mohini is in her ' i dont care a damn what u guys are upto, i only wanna focus on my work' phase. m more with sumit and onkar these days. and ofcourse, mr.newton! hes gonna learn 3d from smone and teach me. hope it goes well and hope i end up with something worthy to submit till monday.
days are going so fast..its mid november! i mean, its like close to year end! once i want to just sit and think about how the year has passed.. days, events, phases, changes, lessons, experiences....wow..aww..year end!?

take a chill pill

me n onkar caught up yesterday, and made plans for sketching at swargate. just the 2 of us in pune, rest all are vacationing in their home towns.
as decided we met there at 8. it was a good change for me. i traveled by pmt after a long time! it was fun. after all the eating and chilling for 4 days of diwali, i needed to get active.
we sketched for a good 2 hours.. i was supposed to get to the studio by 11. so got another pmt to raja ram bridge and walked from there. returned the vcd first and then went ahead to the studio. lot of corrections to be done before the next time sir decides to turn up. but 2day, i was sneezing more than working..! yes, one day in cold talegaon and my nose is running. but i managed to work as much as i cud. we had lunch 2gether 2day and ma'm had some garnishing tips for me! hehe.. garnishing comes easier to artists than adding taste to food!
i wanted the next weekend off, so i cud finally go to bombay. that was approved when i said i wud work 2moro-thats sunday! duty calls baby! but i have fun..sometimes it gets too much but chalta hai..! i was sleepy by 3. thankfully, the chai wala came on time. had a refreshing chai and back to sneezing...or working...or what ever...duh! i was so not into one thing 2day. ma'm left at 4. i was working till 5. anything is better than getting bored at home.
finally left for home..i was so hungry.....but i am determined not to eat out now. cant believe i had all those sweets and oily things... forcibly ofcourse! :) sab itne pyar se khilaenge toh koi kaise mana kare! :(( loook at my cheeks... gotten circular by atleast 2-3 mm!
a long walk home was accompanied by light breezes, green trees and nice nice thoughts..and i think i was also talking to myself in between..silly girl..! ..it feels good to talk to oneself...very relaxing! " feeling blue, feeling blue..my heart says cant be, cant be true......

harmony

it was 12 pm. i came home after attending a surprisingly interactive 3d lecture. i changed and left for work. had lunch on the way at gypsy. reached studio by 12.30. the curtains were closed 2day unlike everyday.
i stepped in to find one of the two dogs sleeping inside on the floor on a doormat stretching her legs upwards..wow! ma'm informed me that she'd spoken to a community that works for street dogs and they were coming to take the two dogs that we' had almost tamed. hence she'd managed to get blacky inside so that she doesn't not turn up when they come.. creamy(the white one, as the kids in the building have named) was missing tho. so when i came in, ma'm asked me to keep an eye on blacky so she'd try n rescue creamy. but as she walked out, blacky followed ...so she cudnt go. she asked another colleague from the neighbouring office to go look out.
we continued working... the maid came by then so we had to take a break. 2day she'd come with her 'three' daughters! they had lovely names which i dont remember. one of them was 'savera'.. yes. really nice and bright. so ma'm was chatting with the kids as blacky lay on her lap for some pampering.. it was cute. i shud have had the cam!
after the maid had cleaned the floor, we went back in. within 10 minutes, the girl who was supposed to look out for creamy came back all sweating and full of worry. she was panting..she said she'd found the pup lil ahead on the same lane. it was lying down..it wasnt moving...and it was not sleeping... it was 'dead'. our pup was dead. ma'm got off the chair and ran to see him. sir joined her. i was only keeping my fingers crossed. but they came back with a bad news. blacky was still inside. our landlord's daughter whos also fond of the pups, came down to hug blacky. the atmosphere was like we'd lost a family member. all were quiet.
we got back to work. i was thinking about this lovely bond between two very different forms of life. how our studio is full of harmony and love for nature. we work with pups in and around, kids playing in the compound visit us to catch up, we are surrounded by dense trees and fruit and flower plants... and we'r working on a project for children books...it feels great to be a part of it, all of it. i feel blessed. m learning so much about how every minutest of things is filled with life, its only up to us to realize and celebrate it. keep your eyes open, life is indeed beautiful..!

i hate afternoons!!!

its way too sunny to go out and land up with a head ache. cant even keep the eyes open. m bored at home. dint go to college either coz its as good as not functioning! continued working on the comic book. but then the room is so bright. theres light in every corner showing me a hell lot of things around me, distracting and confusing me as to what do to next..? my room in itself has become a heap of things complete and half done, nice and ugly, needful and useless...just occupying space in and out.
every afternoon draws my attention to all those lil things and its difficult to not feel restless and helpless. may it be a piece of incomplete art work or something that reminds me of things i dislike, or just the mess around. no wonder i prefer to keep the room dark at night. its very relaxing and peaceful and much better with only one light focusing on what u r doing at that moment and u get to choose and highlight what is prior or important over the other stuff. that makes it systematic and things start falling in place. may it be working on the drawings, or computer, or sleeping or listening to music...i can create just the required atmosphere at night , the most important asset being absence of extra light.
bright light is essential for only certain activities like photography or sketching and of course getting sun burns and red spots on the face..!