BUDDHA - Mural on wall with Acrylic

Art Project - A tribute to Albert!

Outside the Loo @ home : (Laser print on Bond paper and framed)

Inside the Loo @ home : (Permanent marker)

Yaksha Varna Series- Oil on Canvas (Sold)

People i met at work today (11 May) - Marker on Plastic

Ganesh Mural on Wall - Crayon, Acrylic

Waiting, Krishna - Crayon and Marker on Art paper

"Withering Patience" Oil pastel on Paper + Digital art

Members of th WTF club @ Hotel Sanman

Subbu's Shop in Manipal is a place i frequent and so do a lot of people in Manipal for coffee and ciggis. We spend a lot of time hanging out there and talk about anything and everything under the sun. We finally formed a club called "WTF" and had our maiden weekend outing couple of months ago at Hotel Sanman. 

Agenda:

1. Cricket

2. Politics

3. Booze

4. Jokes and anecdotes

We have been planning for a 2nd sitting.......

"Cornered" - Digital (2010)

First Stone laid_18 Nov 2010_House Project

At last, after months of running around the first stone of our home extension project was laid at 9:17 AM on 18th Nov 2010. Coincidentally, our house on the ground celebrates its 20th Anniversary tomorrow. 

While i was more worried about what are the formalities to be done, Reshu was more interested to know where exactly the kitchen lands in the layout ..  ... . Dad was wondering if lightning had struck the coconut trees, as it looked like the tip of 2 trees were damaged and Mom was directing the laborers to avoid dipping dirty buckets to the water tank

NO!, Reshu did not color coordinate her dress for the occasion.

* The man with the Lungi on, is not our head Maestri (mason)... Thats my Dad!

* The guy in the snap is not our contractor, but friend Sarvotham who was kind enough to drop-by to wish us..

godspeed to the project

subbu

Ashish Hegde's wedding reception @ Vaishnavi Sabha Bhavana_14th Nov 2010

Congratulations Ashish..... You guys make a great couple.

Highlights

* I was assuming that i will bump into several of my teachers from MJC at the reception as  the grooms father was my Math teacher in school..... I wanted to talk to them, tell them that i was all grown-up, married  (took my wife along to the reception as well, just in case they didnt believe me). I wanted to tell them that i work for a good company in Manipal and share with them the fact that, i was not a complete failure in life just the way most of them predicted i would be ,whenever i was caught for some of my historic pranks in school.....

My Physics lecturer in college was sure i would end up collecting and selling cow-dung for a living....( He told me that every single freaking day of college)

Just as i entered the hall, i saw my Kannada teacher - Mr. Umamaheshwar Hegde - He stood there smiling & greeting everybody...... expect me.....I jumped infront of him couple of times, but he refused to recognise me. I had to grab his hand and introduce myself. It took a couple of seconds for him to recognise me & told me that i have changed a lot... I was happy that i heard what i expected. He quickly added that i put on way too much weight since the last time he saw me and it was difficult for him to recognise me...  

I decided to avoid all other teachers for the day.......

Then, i went on to the stage to wish the lovely couple.... Ashish was polite enough to introduce me to his wife as his "senior". He insisted that we stand for the customary photograph and told me not to miss lunch. 

I sucked in my tummy and gave my best smile. CLICK. There! the snap was taken and i turned to Ashish and told him that the flowers were from all BBC gang friends and Suresh Babu could not make it as he is travelling on business.... He thanked me and loudly declared - "You have put on some serious weight man". I smiled and escaped in a jiffy..... 

Now, that the wishing formalities were over and i was damn sure that i missed the batch for lunch and had to wait for the next batch... went over and sat with my wifey dear listening to the lovely Kishore Kumar & Dr. Rajkumar's songs performed by a live orchestra..... I thought they were really cool. 

I started singing along. My wife told me to either stop singing or we leave the hall that minute...

 I just sat there listening to both the songs and my wife narate the story of how much she wanted to learn music as a child and how her dad denied her....blah blah blah.......

Time flew and as you know it, it was time for lunch.... mad rush ... push and shove... grab a seat ,......

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Lunch was good... I thought the Gajar ka Halwa was really good , but then came the "Chiroti", which, ended up as the best!

Untitled - 2006 Poster on board

Only used an old divider and my fingers to paint this.....

"Narasimha" - 2006 - Oil on Canvas

Aadi's Work - He named this series "Color Tree"

Top Interior Decor @ Office 4:15 PM on 9th Nov

This piece of decor always gets me wondering on who the hell must have placed it there.......It actually scared the hell outta me one late night when i had come to pick up my laptop. It was dark and she is placed at the end of a corridor .....

Check out the forearms on this baby....... The model must have worked out at slim gym and Krishnanna must have been the trainer ...