NAURAA

08 June, 2008

A pain to remember

Was sitting at the parlour, nervous as ever. I was waiting for the beautician. Had threading to be done. Had grabbed an old Readers Digest copy (October 2005 Readers digest).

The cover was occupied by Bethany Hamilton. Never heard of the name. I decided to read it till my turn came up. It was a real life story of an American Surfer . She is known for surviving a shark attack in which she lost her left arm, and for overcoming the serious and debilitating injury to return to surfing. It was just three weeks after the incident, and she was already surfing again. It was so inspiring.

Being "The Extra" in Other's Life...

I feel its me there, standing alone, calling her out while she enjoys under the sun and shares her happiness with others. But I know she will call me out when she's blue, its autumn in her life. But there's love here too.

I never imagined that i would ever experience it. I have been fortunate enough to have a lot of friends at every stage of my life, and each friend so different from the other. There are the Hi-Bye ones, then the "Have a nice time" friends, the "Through the thick and thin" friends, the counselors, the flirtatious ones, the "Long distance" best buddies, the fake ones (the rarest and endangered species in my life. But they are there.) and the "There-not there" friends (again rare).

Our Caretaker

I generally commute to my office by my cycle. On my way there's a big tree. The one which protects us in all seasons. Shades us from the scorching sun, protects us from the downpour.

Is this not what we believe god does. But, for atheists, the tree to me resembles our conscience. The one that shades us. A shade under whose light we can clearly see the right from the wrong, distinguish just from unjust.

As James H. Aughey has quoted,

" Conscience is the voice of God in the soul. "

20 April, 2008

A mix of old and new

A lot of ones that i had missed out to upload earlier are here. Some of these were made really long time back and some recently.

This is what I had designed for the home page of my website. I don't know when i'll be done with this.

My dad had asked me to design the cover page of the souvenir for their Association.

I don't know why they approached me. Was I really good or was it to save money?
I still don't know.

Any ways, this is what I designed first. I thought it was cool. but it got rejected.

Then, I made this and it was finalised. The souvenir came out to be ok.

Made for my month old nephew...The most adorable one.... "surya"

"Lonely night"

made while watching "Aahat". Kind of liked this one. There is so much peace in there. Wish I could be the one sitting over there. But on second thoughts i wonder how long i could just sit there alone. I would die if i had no one to talk to.