Flying Colors

Making rangoli is one of my favorite Diwali rituals. This art that I picked up not long back is one that has not only turned out to be one of the most engaging and peaceful activities that I have ever pursued but has become a curious case for eye specialists. When making rangolis, I face a strange physical problem in my eyes. They start watering and turn red when concentrating on colors for long. An hour into coloring, and boundaries start getting blurred. I start to see things in multiples! The weird part is, I have no problems reading, writing text(no matter how small the font) for hours non stop. It's only with the colors! Regardless to say, I face the same problem when painting, making mehendis and of late cooking colorful dishes!What next? Problems in laptopping too? Nooooooo!!

No, I haven't been negligent about it. I went to couple of eye specialists and tried to explain my problem but they got me tested for color blindness. I have perfect eye sight and I am NOT color blind is what has been diagnosed. Wow, what a discovery! And now being clueless on what to do about it, my hobbies have taken a back seat. If someone understands my problem or has experienced it and has some useful advice, please call/mail/talk to me, you ;will be a God-send! Or if by chance some crazy medical practitioner comes across this blog post, please consider this as a topic of research. I'll pray you achieve some break through and come up with flying colors :D

Coming back to the Rangolis. No I am not an expert to give tips on how to make Rangolis. I have heard use of sieves to make neat rangolis, but haven't tried out myself yet. But guess will have to try it out soon, as they say it's quicker. By the way, this post is entirely for record purpose. My page of rangolis. My drop in this vast ocean of digital space :)

Time pass

I made this using MS Paint...Zuzu Vodafone...Tried to give the 3D effiect...:-)

You can paint wonders

Have you ever thought how effective and powerful a tool MS Paint is? Many sophisticated graphics application programs such as Photoshop are based on the same basic principles that can be learned using MS Paint. Don't have Paint Shop Pro? Don't worry, MS Paint can be as effective for drawing and editing pictures and cartoons. All you need to do is use the tool bar smartly. Numerous shapes, complex pictures can be drawn easily using the menu bar, tool bar and color palette trio. Add a bit of imagination and MS Paint will dazzle you with its capabilities !

Just to get the hang of things you can try out the following figures that I have designed especially for this post. 

Yes, MS Paint is neater than what you think. Just use the curves, the shapes, the eraser and the palette intelligently and you can paint wonders:-)

Ad-diction

Axecution

Here are few more creations of my idle head:-)
Have mailed them...hope to get a response...

Howzatttttt!!!!

Yeahhh,,,,World Cup fever has got me down...infact it has gone into my head and wreaking havoc this way :-D

All eyes set on the ICC World Cup 2011 semi finals between India and Pakistan in Mohali.

This Diwali...removing dust from turepics !

 

So all your fears come true...the devil is back again and as always you have no option but to fight your reluctance to go through another slow but sturdy wave of random thoughts of a "rumti jogan". This year, I had made up my mind...no crackers on Diwali and trust me I clung to the resolution till that one isolated but obnoxiously appealing box cast its magic spell on me. I could no longer keep my hands off it!!! Out of the window went the resolution and thad thid thadak thidik thidik went the dus hazaar ki lad! "Fatake fatake pe likha hota hai fodne wale ka naam". By the way, I think the word patakha should be replaced by fataka...it's much easier to pronounce plus it is truly representative of its inherent nature...kaise fatak se nikalta hai fataka and kaise fut fut fut-te hain fatake!

I love the festival of Diwali especially the preparations for Diwali. The fragrance of mom-cooked gujhiyas and mathris and barfis and chaklis...my dil goes mmmmmmmmm....Dusting, cleaning, brooming, mopping are never so sought after tasks and my insistence to let me handle the job leaves my mom gaping in thick air. It's like a treasure hunt...searching for something that I never knew existed or something that I knew existed but had completely forgotten ! And this time guess what the warrior lay her hands on - her sketchfile ! Sketching is like a fad to me, once I am into it, I am completely into it ( this one is from my chum...Love you Monika...mmuuaahhh). Every object becomes a model, every face becomes an inspiration and every expression on every face becomes a priceless pearl to be stashed in my sketchbook for ever. Felt like sharing some of them with you.










Once upon a time...

when...

star posters adorned the walls of my room.

Age no bar...

Innocence !
What does it want to say?

Sunshine !

  
Mystery !
You can never make out what lies within !



















Prestige !
















Wrinkles?

Naahh

Experience !

Now this one is a failure.What I wanted to show was Serenity, but what turned out was Oomph !









And guess what ! Standing on the stool, with the dusting cloth on my shoulder,  looking at the sketches, I was so much lost that I didn't realize when my mom came, quietly clicked a pic of mine and then just like an original murga chhaap desi sootli bum exploded, "Agli Diwali tak toh safai ho jayegi na?"

Rap-a-round

Prezzzening before you laiezzz n genlmen, "Tu Hi" volume 1 !

मैं हूँ चाट चटपटी तू है बोतल किंग, आजा करें मिलके दोनों डिंग डोंग डिंग
तेरे मेरे बीच में न हो कोई दीवार, चढ़ा पारा मेरा यारों हुआ इश्क का बुखार

है तू ही ..है तू ही.. है तू ही तू ही तू ही
तू ही.. है तू ही.. है तू ही तू ही तू ही

समझ समझ न मुझे तू किसी से भी कम, दुनिया नचाऊँ मुझ में इतना है दम
तेरी bike पर तुझे पीछे बिठाऊँ , आवारा सड़कों की तुझे सैर कराऊँ

पी पा के दोनों डोलें पहाड़ों के पार, बेधड़क चकर चकर करें लगातार

है तू ही ..है तू ही.. है तू ही तू ही तू ही
तू ही.. है तू ही.. है तू ही तू ही तू ही

मेरा राजा मेरा हीरो मेरा राम घनश्याम, भाड़ में जाए दुनिया, तेरे लिए हो जाऊं बदनाम
तू कहे बन जाऊं सीता कहे तू तो रिटा, हजारों को पछाड़ तुने दिल है मेरा जीता
आजा खोपचे में बैठके सुनें और सुनाएं, जिन्हें हमारी कद्र नहीं उन्हें ठोकर लगायें
सुनूंगी तुझे मैं निकाल तू अपनी भड़ास, style है अलग ये पर नहीं बकवास

है तू ही ..है तू ही.. है तू ही तू ही तू ही
तू ही.. है तू ही.. है तू ही तू ही तू ही

बजा है guitar इधर , हिला है उधर भी एक तार, ध्यान से तू सुंन , नहीं मिलेगा chance दूजी बार
मान मेरी बात आजा बना मेरे संग जोड़ी, ज़िन्दगी है तीन पत्ती ले risk थोड़ी थोड़ी
जीते अगर तो होगा धमाल, तेरी मेरी जोड़ी होगी जोड़ी बेमिसाल

तो यूँही... तू गाले... तू मेरे संग तू भी
है तू ही ..है तू ही.. है तू ही तू ही तू ही
तू ही.. है तू ही.. है तू ही तू ही तू ही

Inspired by Anu Malik , I am way ahead of him ...hehehehe