If you have been watching this

then you must be also viewing all the advertisements.

Knowing that I am crazy about those I will give my take on them. I generally like zoozoo's so Vodaphone tops (this time favorite till now is the one about paying electricity bills).

Also Airtel did good this time with Sharman Joshi and also they came up with the same concept as that of Vodaphone, one message per advertisement. Not bombarding viewers with only one kind of message.

Bingo with its normally stupid advertisements, did do a little better and manage to elicit some laughter due to the adsurdity of the advertisement.

Rest I still have to see. Off the top of my head, I can recall these specially.

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It's that time of the year

Yes it is that time of the year again!! Wondering what?

Well it is that time of the year agian when we have the league cricket going on.

Till last year, I thought that matches missed were all because D understood that it is too much cricket being televised but I guess I was all wrong about it.

It is again that time, when you feel that somehow guys are first wedded to the idiot box when it comes to sport tournaments rather than us. I have talked to enough ladies, females of all various age groups and nationalities and the common consensus is that it is universal I assuming the 'Y' chromosome must be carrying this with it. I am sure enough to bet money on it if search were to be performed!!!

Ya so now, grin and bear!!

Our time will be here soon girls!!!

PS: I naturally air these feelings quite often to guarantee some 'me time' (Ofcourse thank's to D again). If anyone has problems I am here to give pointers on that aspect too!!!

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My date with the niji brush

Very excited with a new toy, I today had my first run in with the Niji Brush (waterbrush). I am posting my first , second and third dates with the brush in the same chronology.

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Not have

At times, not having something kind of changes you. either you stop doing it altogether or you may find an alternative way.

I love to bake and experiment in baking.
But even though I have a microwave it is not the friendliest of all experiences with baking. So instead of leaving baking, I tried to start my experiments based on dutch oven concept.
And it works wonders.
I know it has it limitations too, but what I find is I can do a lot instead of sitting around and moping about for an oven.
I bake bread, I bake cake, I baked cookies, I baked other desserts and all. This has been truly an experience.

Working around not having an oven let me try many things which eventually worked out to be really good, and helped me understand the contribution of various ingredients in a recipe and their proportions.
I payed more attention to the recipe and the actual basic scientific principles required to get the job done.

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More tonal landscapes

I have been scouring the web for more tonal pictures to paint for. The following is from a travel magazine . I did one but was not too much happy with it and redid another one in a little different style. I did the darks first and then did all the other tones. I think that worked better for me I guess.

The second one is the one I did before and was not very happy with.

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My tonal paintings

So after making some disasters in my colored paintings, I have come back to learn some washes and make tonal paintings.

Below are a few of my tonal scapes.

I will be posting more of these and hopefully they will each be better then their predecessor.

They are not in the order of when they were painted. Rather a jumbled order here actually.

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Julie and Julia

Hi,

Being movie buffs and special favorite being Meryl Streep; we watched Julie and Julia.

I liked the movie a lot (which happens many a times). The different thing this time though is that the movie has still not left my mind. It is still lodged in there.

Here I cannot say that it is because it is a fabulous , outstanding movie ( I have seen more movies of that category as well). It is mainly because the main theme is very 'us' and representative of our time contrasted very nicely with the time in past when typewriters were technological gizmos.

Also the fact that this lady -Julie has some frustrating incidents in her expedition and I can so recognize them having been through some of those days myself.

Also her dedication to an exercise/project/endeavor is also very believable. she has an image of her favorite author and she lives through the year and its ups and downs with the lessons she assumes/imagines from the author.

Even when she receives a response which is not so encouraging from the author via a reporter, her husband actually tells her that it is the image of the author in her mind that is more important.(you have to see this movie to understand the context).

Anyhow all in all that is a very impressionable movie to me because of the time and frame of mind when I watched it.

PS: I agree with Julie's idea os butter and eggs!!!!

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