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 :(.

9-loves

I can say hundreds of loves in my life, but as the count restricts me to nine, I've done a little bit of sorting...

1. Home:I dont feel that good when I'm in my home. I prefer to be in my maternal home with bro, mom, dad, grandma, (grandpa expired before I was born) uncle, aunt, cousins.....
   This was the condition before some 4 years. But I still cherish those memories.....


2. Food: I was almost done with the editing for this part. But the 6th day of 10 day challenge says about food, so thought of posting it on that day :).


3. Movies: Yes I like movies, and prefer any thing that makes me laugh.(Why to spend money to cry?).


4. My art: It will be a repetation if I say something about it here. But even then I can't stop it, I love to hold a pencil and scibble something on a white sheet. I just love to do it :)
   Pencil : its one of the most familiar 'thing' in this world, for me as I'm handling it from my Kindergarden- oops its almost more than 20 years now!!!
   pls dont think too much, I'll share a list of familiar things in a post later.


5. Books: Nothing can replace a good read. I love to read books which can be easily understood and enjoyed... and again I dont like to waste time on reading some tragic stories hah....


6. Friends: I find myself in a stable energy level/state. And want to keep company of people with excited energy level.


7. Travel/Riding: Love to travel, not the artificial theme parks or concrete jungles... just to mingle with nature.


8. Music: Oh most of my loves are there as a days post in the 10day challenge, anyway I love to listen to soothing music.


9. I love to go for fishing not to get a big catch, but just for the fun of it...

And that was a bit about my loves....

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here comes the 10 day challenge

Yes its true :) I didn't post anything yesterday as I've boasted. But I can explain, for the first day challenge, the topic was '10-secrets about you' as Preeti has mentioned. And I don't have any 'secrets that can be shared' and its better to take those with me to my grave. After all if we share the secrets, they are no more secrets.
Confused!!! To make it simple no secrets as of now that's it :)...


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