Manapad

 

Manapad. A place that is very close to my heart and shall remain close forever. To me it is one of the most beautiful places on earth. The calm water lashes against the shore and retreats silently. In the distance, small boats appear like tiny specks riding the waves. The beach is clean and silent; the absence of stalls is conspicuous. Red tiled white little houses. It is not difficult to imagine the peace that descends in the stillness of the night here.

This predominantly Roman Catholic coastal village around 70 km from Tirunelveli. I hope some day our tourism department will promote this wonderland. If you are planning to take a vacation next time to south india, visit and enjoy the beauty & tranquil that is so unique to the place.

Note: Be there on the hill in the afternoon. The colour of the sand and the sea and those little houses … AWESOME!





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digital sage

My first attempt with Wacom intuos4

this is my first attempt with my latest toy Wacom intuos4. took around 2 days to get the hang of this amazing gadget and to finish these four sketches of my friends.



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My First Typography Work

This is my first typography stuff in PS, and i find it a little messy. This is actually based from the tutorial I've learned from the web.

Homage to a little big man - Madhvan Nair

Poster boy of Pune Coffee House ‘Madhavan Nair’ People often called him ‘little man’, we called him Nair uncle.

Am one of a regular visitor to PCH for last 20 years, but last 10 years we were quite regular for breakfast after Sunday’s service from St. Pauls. He had seen our both our kids from day one. like most of the kids my kids are also bit unruly in one stage in restaurants like running around, not eating food, making noise and stuff. But not in PCH, we are comfortable because of Nair uncle. As soon as we enter the restaurant, he is there to welcome us and give few instructions to our kids scare them a bit, with us little conversation in his mallu mixed tamil… he was gentle little kind man. We miss you my friend.

OUR IRRITATING INDIAN NEWS CHANNELS

These days I am frustrated and irritated with our crappy news channels.



I noticed, most of the time the ads appear at the same time in all these channels. Initially I thought it was coincidence. No, these guys are all ganged up to so. I am now convinced that this is a cruel and planned strategy to force ads down our unwilling throats.



They also telecast same of their usual rotten ‘news and analysis’ content, meaningless discussions and debates at the same time. Again, these are also kind of their strategy.



However, there is already a law subscribing volume of advertising per hour of programming. The Cable Television Network Rules,1994, clearly say that not more than 12 minutes (20%) of advertisement for every one hour of programming is acceptable. Rule 7 (11) states: “No programme shall carry advertisements exceeding 12 minutes per hour, which may include up to 10 minutes per hour of commercial advertisements, and up to 2 minutes per hour of a channel’s self-promotional programmes.”



Who care, analysis says that volumes of ads are more than that of news stories or bulletins. Some channels, 60% of prime time slots went to ads, the rest to news.

I have suggestions – When the ads come, take your eyes off the screen and read good books or newspaper or listen to your wife what she had to say during the news time. Don’t worry. The ads last a good 10 minutes these days. That’s enough time to do lot of other things

THE COVE

A spectacularly compelling documentary that was as well financed as it is well intentioned. And went on winning this year Oscar.



One can say it is shame to Japanese government for hiding and mercury poisoning and stuff.



But catching Dolphin is tradition of Japan. The idea that catching Dolphin is bad people in other countries than Japan. And one has to respect different cultures.



like many I also eat many beautiful, cute and innocent looking creatures like goat, chicken, cow, pig, Fish, rabbit, pigeon, deer, squirrels…. But here I am bit disturbed by killing this very expressive and intelligent animal.

Note: This is a must watch documentary for those suckers who care about saving tigers, green earth, and stuff only by creating a groups and clicking ‘like’ button in facebook…