Vrishchikoltsawam

Vrishchikoltsawam It happens on Nov-Dec, this year I'm planning for it(for those who do not have any idea of what I'm saying, here is the link Vrishchikoltsawam. It's a great source of inspiration, filling up with positive energy for rest of the year. In fact its a going back/remembering my old days, when I was a kid, used to travel holding tight around the neck of my uncle standing on his bicycle. To experience the concerts, panchavadyam, chendamelam, the view of Caparisoned elephants the heat from the pandams(you may not get this pic in google :)) held next to front of elephants and of course the smell of dust and dung :)(even after returning from the temple, that smell remains on the cloth). This time if I'm lucky enough, I'll make a blog marathon on this for sure :).

Inspiration

I was just going through drawing/sketching in about.com, there I found an interesting basic thing about how to hold pencils while drawing(yes its very important and here is the link how to hold pencil). While scanning through, I thought of my uncle who told me about this once,"see when you hold a full length pencil to its mid, you can move your wrists freely and have a more easy sketch than when you hold it in the writing position, for more control and detailing go for the writing position" when he told this I was not that mature enough to grasp it, he was not an artist, (I've never seen him even doodling anything) but I think he had a better understanding of 'how to do it' about almost anything.

Captain Jack Sparrow.

This work 'Captain Jack Sparrow', in total, has taken up more than 15hrs. And I'm happy with the way it came out. This was done in my sketchbook with pencils ranging from 2h-8b grades.

I'm searching for my next subject, needs to start one so that I can finish it at-least by next month

cute girl

she's special.
This is a sketch with ball point pen in simple paper.

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wants

1. A good friend, it doesn't mean that I don't have any friends now, of course I do have friends. But most of the times we adjust to keep going. But this friend I'm talking about is something special.


2. To go for ride/trips once in every month in a Royal Enfield Thunderbird(with my friends :)).


3. A vacation in some places filled with 'natural' atmosphere (4-6 days at least). By natural I meant the people and the surroundings.


4. A room nicely ventilated in midst of trees, with a good music system and with right ambience to
   
   
   • work on my art.
   
   
   • read books.
   
   


5. One more room (:) ) well ventilated, cool, quiet and a calm one, with mud tiled flooring, for meditation.

these are the wants that I've in my mind now. Obviously, there are many more.....

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8 fears

It's almost 2 weeks since last post. I know I broke the rule of 10 day challenge...no explanations this time, anyway nobody is going to hang me :) and after all "rules are meant to be broken".
I've thought a lot to come up with fears and I couldn't count it to 8(again, rules...), so here is the list...

• I feared about loosing someone dear and near, I've lost my uncle and grandma couple of years back, it was tough but somehow I overcame that.


• Snakes, they scare me. I don't know why. Might be because of the conditioning from my childhood.


• Stage fright, of course I've it. It doesn't matter how well I prepare, I'll stammer in front of the crowd. Hope I can wipe it off by attending some workshops.(Don't think I'm giving quick fixes to the problems, when ever I think of stage fright this workshop idea comes to my mind :)....).


• I fear dependency not financial or emotional, but physical. I fear being bed ridden or living a life where I've to depend on others for everything. It's better to burn out than fade away. I would prefer death rather than being a vegetable.


• I'm not afraid of death, yes you read that right, I'm not afraid of death. Everyone dies, today or fifty years from now. so what does it matter. Its not about how long you live, its about how you live.

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Necessity is the mother of invention!!!

Necessity is the mother of invention, and its true guys!!!

First of all I would like to introduce you to the famous breakfast recipe of "gods own country". Yes, most of you have guessed it right, and of course some might have got their mouth watered at the mere thought of it. For those visitors who are not familiar with this delicious thing please go through this link
Priya's Kitchen: Puttu or simply skip this post :).


Hope you've got an idea...


This was the puttu maker in our home, as we lost the perforated plate (chillu-which is an essential part that separates the dough from falling down) this poor thing was lying somewhere unnoticed for sometime. But one day we had a great urge to have puttu.


Man here comes the most used utensil in our room :) the 10 liter pressure cooker. From now on I'll say it in steps

• Filled 1/4 of the cooker with water and heated.
• We took one half of the coconut shell with the hole, filled it with some grated coconut first and then with the dough, closed it with the other half of the shell. 
• Carefully fixed the dough filled coconut shell to the cooker where we place the weight. Bingo!
• Waited sometime for the steam to come out in full swing. done!

The chirattaputtu is ready....



This was the final result. Our master chef was ready with mutton stew parallely. Even though it was late, some 12:30 or something @ night, we had a nice time and had a heavy dinner(we can have puttu as dinner also :) there's no harm in it even though it gets listed first in the breakfast list)

ps:I don't know whether we can patent this technology :(.