Wallpapers

I'm actually amazed at having made these with just a mobile camera, torchlight and some help from photo applications.. I think I will boast this as my original :D  Its actually an ice cream bowl all of this set!!!

Anastassia Elias' Miniature Art On Toilet Paper Rolls!!

The toilet paper tubes are Anastasias Elias' tiny stages for her miniature artworks and she claims it takes only an hour for her to complete each one. Using of paper, similar to the roll itself, it gives an illusion of the scene taking place inside the walls are actually part of the roll itself. The detail and depth of each piece is neat and beautiful.

sms love poem

This is one of my favourite sms..Hope u have a good laugh at it too

PS:  This picture is originally from another blogger, Nise (though i actually googled kid eating sand first and landed there next) I could not msg her to get permission to use this pic but the kid was so adorably apt for the msg so I'm just hoping it's fine on their side too. Fingers crossed

The Krishna Key by Ashwin Sanghi - A good non-boring history book!!!!

Finished this book today..Pre-ordered it online in the hope of getting an author signed but sadly one of the less lucky to get the unsigned book :(

The story is simple..  Something that had come into (Lord) Krishna's possession and then had been passed down through the generations is being searched for by a descendent of a descendent of Lord Krishna..finding it is the story which is made interesting when the one who wants to find it turns out to be the villain and the one who is trying to find it before them is the hero of the story!!

Like every good book has there are few negatives in this one too:

1. Right from page #1 the story sounds like Da Vinci Code with an Indian touch.. It starts with a murder too of an important person (like Father Sinclair in DVC) by a hired assassin! Then there is Ravi Saini's intro where he is lecturing to a group of students showing some clips of archeological findings..rescue scene..then the bank stuff.. and so on.

2. For a bestselling author there are some silly typos which I have not seen before in other novels.. In places the character names are mistyped eg.. Instead of Radhika the name is Priya who is actually a negative character in the story.. Its like the story plays out like a movie in your mind while reading it and then suddenly Radhika becomes Priya and you pause the movie in your mind and wonder "huh Priya? Radhika right?" and then press the play button again :p

3. Its obvious that Ashwin Sanghi has done so much work in collecting so much details about Krishna, Dwaraka, etc, but he has tried to put it all in the book and it ends up with Saini talking so much like a chatter box almost non-stop.. If there is a find he starts chattering away with all the history around it.. There is just a hunch and Saini goes off chattering again.. Ashwin makes Saini look like a human Google+Wiki!!! Saini gets a bit irritating by the end of the story when he keeps saying "let's go back in time for a moment SHALL WE", Let's look into this in further detail, SHALL WE"
    The funny part is Sanghi seems to know that readers are going to feel this and so at one point he says through Priya "Oh shut up and spare me the lecture....I'm fed up of your persistent whining..."

4. I feel this is the biggest flaw in the story:  There is a Raja Mann Singh who inscribes something about where to find the 'thing' that Saini, SK, etc are looking for..the flaw is that the place (which is a monument) came into existence after Raja Mann Singh's time.. Even if the inscription was supposed to refer to the Tejo palace that preceded the monument, still it does not fit the details mentioned in the riddle such as the seven storeys and stuff..Still wondering how Sanghi missed this one!

Being the third book with anagrams that I have read, it felt like "not anagrams again" I even managed to guess that the name plate was an anagram :p

The story actually is like a number of pages of proof that Krishna was not a myth but a real person, an incarnation of God Vishnu...So much of findings and the author has put down I suppose everything that he found in the novel...Its more like teachers taking 10+ chapters of your 20+ chapter history book in one sitting, like they do before your final exams (it happened in my school and this is what i remembered while reading the book) But it is not boring... in fact i ended up googling the links given by the author in the references section. I was even wondering if we have magazines related to archaeological finds in india at least a yearly one to be updated with such finds..

+s: A lot of archeological updates, insight on Krishna, Dwaraka, etc, a novel purely that happens purely within India giving you a number of places worth taking a trip to titled "Krishna Key Route" (like the Da Vinci route) a crash course on Mahabaratha for ppl who have not read it before (like me) with the story given at the beginning of every chapter!

-s: If you have read Da Vinci before this you cant help comparing the two stories because of the similar scenes. The confusing thing about Mann Singh's inscription referring to a place that comes into existence after his time, the silly typos which make you put a brake to an otherwise fast paced story

Forget the similarity to Da Vinci Code and the silly typos, this book is definitely worth the time & money you spend on it :)

Personally I am all excited to finally to have some good novels (by Indian writers) about ancient India in my historical fiction books collection. Fact or fiction I am happy to be another citizen of India where a person like Krishna (The Krishna Key) and Shiva lived (The Shiva trilogy by Amish Tripathi).. Going to read more in this genre by Indian writers..

All in all this is a history book you won't want to sleep on :D I mean you its a fast paced thriller that you wont want to sleep without finishing :D

Lost love #1

Could not sleep tonight..so much was crossing my mind and suddenly these lines came in a flow thinking about someone..its always best expressed in our mother tongue so this one in thamizh for now.. will translate it sometime soon.


உறக்கத்தை நானாக தள்ளிப்போட்ட இரவுகள் பல உண்டு
இன்றோ என்ன முயற்சித்தாலும் உறங்க முடியவில்லை
எவ்வளவு தான் படுக்கையில் புரண்டாலும்
எத்தனை இறுக்கமாக இமைகளை மூடினாலும்
என் எண்ண அலைகளில்
பிரகாசமாய்,
மின்வெட்டிற்கு பின் மிக வெண்மையாய்
ஒளிரும் மின்விளக்குகள் போல
பளிச்சென்று
உன் (பெரு) உருவம்!!

"லூசே!! கண்கள் மூடினாலும் என் நினைவில் நீதான்
வந்து தொலைக்கின்றாய்" என்று உன் உறக்கம்
கெடுக்கும் விதமாய் அலைபேசியில்
அழைத்து சொல்ல விருப்பம் தான்.

அந்த தருணங்கள் எல்லாம் கடந்து விட்டன
என்று உணர்ந்ததும் உன் உறக்கம் கலைக்கும்
எண்ணமும்
கரை தொட்ட அலை நுரையாக
கரைந்து மறைந்தும்விட்டது.

எனினும் இப்படி தோன்றியது என்று உனக்கு சொல்ல
உன் முகநூளில் என் மன தாளை செருகி வைக்கிறேன்.

படித்து விட்டு "போடி லூசு" என்று திட்டுவதோடு நிறுத்திக்கொள்.
"இவளை இப்படியே விட்டால் எதுவும் பிரெச்சனை கிளம்புமோ"
என்றெல்லாம் முட்டாள்தனமாக யோசித்து என்னை விலக நினைக்காதே

என் ஒரு தலை காதலேனும்  எனக்கு எஞ்சி இருக்கட்டுமே

மழையே மழையே வா வா...........

முதல் முத்து துளிகளில் எழும் மண் வாசனை, தெரு பள்ளங்களில் தேங்கிய மழை குளங்களில் 'தளக்' 'போலக்' என்று தண்ணீர் தெறிக்க நடப்பது, ஒரு சொட்டு பருக நாக்கை நீட்டி வானம் பார்ப்பது,  பேய் மழை பெய்யும் போது சன்னல் திறந்து சாரலில் நனைவது, மழை தினம் பார்த்து எப்படியோ கொடை எடுத்து செல்ல மறந்து விடுவது :-p  ... யாருக்கு தான் மழை பிடிக்காது?  தரை கடை வியாபாரிகள் கூட வியாபாரம் கெட்டதை எண்ணி வருந்தினாலும், ஊரில் போட்ட நெல்லுக்கு இன்று நல்ல யோகம் தான் என்று மனதில் மழையோடு குளிர்தான் செய்கிறார்கள்.

ஆகவே எனக்கும் பிடித்தமான மழையை பற்றி எனக்கு தோன்றிய வார்த்தைகளை வைத்து 2 சிறிய கவிதைகள் (அது போல் இல்லை என்றால் பிழைத்த போ என்று மன்னித்து விடுங்கள் :-D )

That earthy fragrance with the first few rain down, the plopping sound when jumping into puddles, hanging out your tongue for that one drop of fresh chillness of a raindrop, opening the windows when it is raining cats and dogs outside just to let some of that freshness brush past you, purposefully forgetting your rain shields… who could hate the rain? May be the streetside shopkeepers but even they would be happy that back at home in the village their crops would get a good supply of water for their growth..

So this is for the rain that I also love like you :D the translation is going to be sillier than the original (tamil version above) still you could bear with me because it is about the rain :D

1.

When I am happy

You kiss me drop by drop

And your chillness cools my heart

When I am in tears

You wash away every drop

And wipe them from my cheeks

Melting the sorrow that burdens my heart

2.

Like a brother

You knock on my head

Like a mother

You kiss me with tenderness

Like a friend

You are there when I am happy or sad

Like a lover

You touch me ______ (don know what to say :p)

When I ask how only will you say I am related you

You spread your rainbow smile across the sky

And disappear

My second post

. Just testing to see how the blog looks. Previous to this my page looked like a butcher's knife with a small handle and the entire knife being bordered by two colorful ribbons?? the header & the header bar that is haha.