My First Ever Clay Animation

This is my first ever clay animation. OK, it's not clay. I didn't have clay. So I used BluTack. There's no theme, no meaning. It's just a random experiment that I did with the BluTack that I had since years, but rarely used. I'm thinking of making more 'nicer' and 'neater' ones next time. I already a tiny man I call Liliman. I'll post his pic soon (in a few hours)

My study table again..

After my table was cleaned yesterday. Feels clean and good now. I can happily start studying now.

My study table

The messiest my table has been since a long long time. It also means that I haven't studied since weeks. I never learn. *sigh*

Happy Diwali!!

I'm so *HAPPY* I'm celebrating Diwali at home!!! Yay!! So, here are some pictures for you.

A rangoli my mum did near the entrance of the house..

A rangoli the maid did near the gate (visible in the next pic too..)

My dad, sis and mum..

My Musical Taste as on October 25

Musical Taste
pop 28.21%
female vocalists 13.65%
rock 11.33%
latin 6.25%
Soundtrack 3.35%
irish 3.25%
alternative 2.98%
Hindi 2.53%
indie 2.31%
bollywood 2%
Major tags > 2 % 75.86%

Other Tags <2% 24.14%
rnb 1.45%
dance 1.35%
britpop 1.21%
Love 1.09%
wizard rock 1.08%
world 1%
british 0.98%
boybands 0.87%
folk 0.82%
new age 0.72%
Hip-Hop 0.69%
celtic 0.64%
alternative rock 0.63%
Canadian 0.59%
christmas 0.55%
The Good Stuff 0.53%
punk 0.52%
Gothic 0.48%
music i am curious about 0.46%
male 0.45%
sexy 0.45%
favourite artists 0.43%
punk rock 0.43%
90s 0.43%
bolly 0.43%
latin pop 0.43%
Disco 0.4%
spanish 0.37%
indie rock 0.34%
Bollywood Soundtracks 0.32%
comedy 0.32%
cabaret 0.32%
seen live 0.32%
Nu Metal 0.31%
swedish 0.28%
vocal jazz 0.27%
mysterious 0.26%
singer-songwriter 0.23%
Bhangra 0.23%
piano 0.22%
Classical 0.18%
Scottish 0.16%
desi 0.16%
Punjabi OST 0.15%
classic rock 0.15%
instrumental 0.14%

Dignity of Labour

I received a letter from Melanie, my friend from Germany. It's a beautiful letter. I was amazed by the way she's written it. Anyway, what amazed me more what the profession of her father - he is a truck driver, and inspite of that he owns a car. Which truck driver in India would be able to own, forget a car, a two-wheeler? It made me realise what exactly standard-of-living meant. The standard of living in Germany is high. And that's why Germany is a developed country, and India is developing - It forever will be. Inspite of her parents' low-profile jobs, Melanie has travelled wide. I'm impressed! I wish I could do that. But I can't, even if I want to, and that's because there is NO dignity of labour in India. If my father were a truck-driver, I would have had no respect here. People would've called me 'that truck driver's daughter', and would've sniggered. That angers me. So what if I'm a truck-drivers daughter. At least, the father's working hard to raise his family. Everybody here wants a white-collar job. People with blue-collar jobs are looked down upon. That's bad. That, in my opinion, is not right. And that is one of the reasons why children are not allowed to work and earn some extra money during their days of study. The children obviously cannot do white-collar jobs, and hence would've had to do blue-collar jobs such as baby-sitting, or lawn-mowing, or watering plants, or cleaning a library or any such stuff (that my friends abroad are doing). And since there's NO dignity of labour, we can't do such work and earn. Even if the child forced, the parents would say, "We're not such a poor condition to go work as such low-class people". *sigh* India will never improve. Children would HAVE to depend on parents until 21 years of age, or, in a few cases, 17 years of age. I'm happy I'm going to turn 21 years of age in a year. I, probably, will not have to depend on my parents so much, that is if I opt to work. But if I opt to continue further studies, I will again have to depend on them. But, most probably, I will work.

Scene of the Anthill

Here's the picture that I was complimented about:

Beautification

Yesterday I was trying to beautify photographs on my computer. These are my favourite. Mahima says it's a bit extra-blurred, I suppose it is too. Anyway here they are..

Outre Pixels

My first ever digital modern art

Sight-Seeing - Chennai

On Sunday, we went to Chennai and did some sight-seeing finally, after three weeks of home-arrest. Gosh, that was such a relief and a welcome change. We enjoyed loads. We first had sandwich and black-forest in the Chennai station, and then we climbed a dirty Chevrolet and drove to some museum. When we reached there, we found it closed since it was a Sunday. From there we went to the San Thome church. Along the way, we also got a glimpse of the Reserve Bank of India. Then we had a tough time deciding where to go (there were so many places to visit), so we finally decided to have lunch (at Spencer Plaza) and then head to Mahabalipuram. It was a beautiful place with monoliths, truly I enjoyed the visit to that place. I'm glad we didn't go to the boat club and crocodile park etc.. I'm sure we wouldn't have enjoyed as much as we enjoyed in Mahabalipuram. We saw a LOT of foreigners there, which was cool because it made me proud that they feel the need to come and visit India. The driver of the cab entertained us with long-forgotten melodius songs.. like Bol Sajni Mori Sajni from Doli Sajake Rakhna, A R Rahman's patriotic songs and the like. We reached back at the station at around 7.15 p.m. We had supper there, and then headed home. Oh well, the journey was fine, but once we got down the train (after travelling illegally in the AC coach when we had an unreserved ticket. I feel ashamed to write that dad had to bribe the TTE) the ticket-checking inspector caught us for defaulting telling that we had a ticket for an express/mail train, but we came in a super-fast express train. We didn't know about this difference, and were caught. Dad could've bribed him again, and escape. But to save that money and get off, he argued with the inspector. . as if the inspector would simply let him off. The inpector then took him to his office and wrote a fine-slip. Dad got wild and he yelled too, and the situation had become tense. We went to the inspector's office and mum controlled the situation, payed the fine, and we walked off highly embarrassed and insulted. At home too, the discussion continued (dad was in a rage) and (mad me) I was going to get into a tiny feud with him (mum stopped us again, thankfully). But I couldn't help him too, because dad was taking sides of the militants explaining that he understands why they become so. Finally, Mahi went off to sleep, and looking at her I went off to sleep too.

The next day (that is, on Monday) evening we visited the Vellore fort/temple. It's actually a fort which has a beautiful huge temple inside it. I was initially not interested in visiting it, but when I actually saw the temple, I was awed. I loved it, and didn't feel like leaving the place. It was getting darker and was impossible to see anything, so we came back home. On the way, Mahi and me were discussing about how if people from ancient times came, their reactions would be. It was funny actually thinking about it, putting yourself in their shoes and look in wonder if you're in the same place that you once lived in. :D We reached home, had supper and (after spending time downloading stuff from the internet) and slept to wake up today.