allo!

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Hey guys, what is up? =)

We are the people who have successfully completed one semester.. how awesome does it feel? Five gruesome months of projects and .. OP E (except neha). and yes, I know we have OP E for the next 5 semesters but that's one thing I won't forget about first sem.. and probably the sems to come. It's seriously haunting me now.

Anyhoo, it's been great to be back home for me. I've taken to lying around the house, playing uno and scrabble online(yes, i'm a loser) and not doing anything productive. Ah, the bliss of it all!
Ok I have a confession to make now, it was I who changed the template to which the harsh comments have been given *giggle*. But I still stick to the statement that I thought it was funky =). And I don't take any offence because tastes differ. But it did get to me too after some time =)

Anyway, I've been experimenting with templates, and the present one, I think, is quite nice. But do comment and let me know if it's not what I actually think =).
You know what I also realised, our blog is very active.. Good job guys!

Anyway, off now. Toodle doo!

Some kind of joke?!!

Monday, November 12, 2007

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!! The blog template is...er...UGLY!!!

Sorry, whoever put it up. I love you and all, but pink and stripes just does not do it :P As a gesture of my well-meaningness, I haven't changed it, and all. :P

So yeah, anyway. Believe it or not, Miss Attendance-Shortage here is actually missing college!! Because of how deliciously (uh, not so delicious at times, clearly) eventless and pointless her days have become. And also, Miss Sulky (me, ie) is missing everyone!!! What have you all been upto?

I've been spending my days waking up in the afternoon, eating junk food, wasting away at the pc, reading quite a bit, catching up on piano playing, falling in love with Scott Joplin, falling in love with a variety of other things as well, :P, and overall doing absolutely nothing productive.

At this point I consider it relevant to give you a random piece of useless information: the World Scrabble Championships happened this year in Mumbai!! How cool is that, eh? So I spent like half an hour dawdling away at the site, which is here.

And yes, I've kept up with my obsession with John Donne...

MARK but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is ;
It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be.
Thou know'st that this cannot be said
A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead ;
Yet this enjoys before it woo,
And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two ;
And this, alas ! is more than we would do.

O stay, three lives in one flea spare,
Where we almost, yea, more than married are.
This flea is you and I, and this
Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is.
Though parents grudge, and you, we're met,
And cloister'd in these living walls of jet.
Though use make you apt to kill me,
Let not to that self-murder added be,
And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.

Cruel and sudden, hast thou since
Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?
Wherein could this flea guilty be,
Except in that drop which it suck'd from thee?
Yet thou triumph'st, and say'st that thou
Find'st not thyself nor me the weaker now.
'Tis true ; then learn how false fears be ;
Just so much honour, when thou yield'st to me,
Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee.

Aah..how nice :D

Anyway. I'll sign off now. Ramble, someone!! (Someone other than me, clearly).

How DID he do it?

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Didja know that Michaelangelo, or Mikey darling (as I affectionately call him) painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Ok ok, that was an obvious fact, everybody knows that (or they should. I'd be disappointed in you all if you didn't, as a matter of fact).

Now, how does one paint a ceiling? Tough job, aint it? Some of us (actually, i dont know anyone who's done this) might have painted the ceiling of your room or house a particular colour. So how did Mikey darling paint portraits and sceneries on the ceiling, using a very tough yet beautiful technique called a fresco?

I have to admit, when I went to the Vatican, and when I entered the Sistine Chapel, I had no idea what was so great about it, that it was a brilliant piece of architecture or one of the greatest works of art in the world (what, I was 11!). I wasn't interested when my mother told me that a great artist, Michaelangelo, almost became blind after painting the Sistine Chapel. And I was never curious as to how on earth did Mikey darling actually get up all the way there and paint those paintings! I just figured it was a part of the ceiling, it had been put up there when it was made. Chapter Closed.

Well, now that I'm very much into art, and consider Mikey darling as my numero uno favourite painter, I did a bit of background information, and learned how exactly he painted the ceiling of the famous Sistine Chapel.

Contrary to popular belief (and believe me, I've heard this one around), Mikey darling (raise your hands - or just comment later - if you're sick of that nickname!) did NOT lie down horizontally on a piece of wood suspended right below the ceiling. That really woulda been much easier, right? Well, Mikey decided to do it the hard way.

He painted standing up. With his head tilted upward.

Here's a sonnet describing his physical pain. Enjoy.

Here like a cat in a Lombardy sewer! Swelter and toil!
With my neck puffed out like a pigeon,
belly hanging like an empty sack,
beard pointing at the ceiling, and my brain
fallen backwards in my head!
Breastbone bulging like a harpy’s
and my face, from drips and droplets,
patterned like a marble pavement.
Ribs are poking in my guts; the only way
to counterweight my shoulders is to stick
my butt out. Don’t know where my feet are-
they’re just dancing by themselves!
In front I’ve sagged and stretched; behind,
my back is tauter than an archer’s bow!

Anyhoo, this is something related to what we are studying right now (not really, but still). Background information. hehehe.

:)