Jaan pe he aana chaheye...

"Realization is more important than Experience!"

Lately this quarter at SCAD I realized something which had helped a lot to change my perspective about the way I used to see and live world (I will not say just around me) and myself! Its doesn't matter if it was good or bad or just an experience. Rather I will say realization of things which helps you to keep moving than experience. Experience is incomplete without realization and after realization only that experience comes! 

Studio had made me to realize that process is never ending. Even if the process is transition to get the product, but the actual process starts with the product itself. that product is also in transition of change by user, who like, hate, ignore it. "We can discuss process through the discussions and Products through the process." I am enjoying being in process now, may be a new addition to my personal belief.

I had never experienced before, may be the teaching is not different than India but the way he had taught is different than any other professor. It was just perfect for that time being. And I believe whatever had happened, will happen is all linked together. I am enjoying being in process for the first time and don't know what will be going to happen next year, birthday, quarter or class. I don't want to know, what I would like to know is what am I doing now!

Shayad maine ek aur reason discover kiya iss quarter se kyu "jaan pe he aana chaheye..." Reason to be nowhere, Where I stand! Trust me Its the best feeling someone can have. Off course, you have to struggle with yourself a lot before you realize THE same. Mere itne jaan pe aa gaya ke mai ye bhi bhul gaya ke maine ye post kya share karne ke liye shuru kiya tha..

I just wanted to share one of my recent not achievement but an realization of being real: My work from architecture ceramic class got selected for our local SCAD student's "Port city Review" literary art journal. P.S. Which was also a gift for my dearest mother (already had been given to her last summer) for not being there every time when she actually needed me...to let her realize that whatever experience I am being through will let me realize that, may be what she had experienced over years for me!!

Thank you all of you!! I can not share this to her so did here!!

west of rest is sleep.. Poetry in Motion

Just remembered about this one from metro New York.. thought to share with you all...

west of rest is sleep
east, dream
where water meets
north, emptiness,
south, wakefulness,
and out, rising up
to the stars, peace

everyone tangled with tasks.........take a breath deep............close ur eyes....n rmbr d most happiest incident that happened  lately wid you!

it shall feel gud...( i tried it n saw this ....)

.........strt.............n mke life bit more cheerful~



wd luv,
astha

 

Lost???

There has been no update from any of the team members lately... Guys... put something at least... Umm... as a matter of fact wen i don't know what to write so putting a few of our latest memories... and our experiments with photography.. (during exams) :)

Trying to break the nutshell...

 "Habits and patterns of behavior make us feel comfortable," 

For past few weeks, a few of us have been switched to AUTOPILOT mode...  Have been coasting through an familiarly unfamiliar routine: wake, thesis, college, facebook, gtalk, eat, sleep,wake, sheets, facebook, eat, model, and the cycle goes on...moreover it is not that we have been producing some extra ordinary pieces of great architecture... as a matter of fact, we have degraded ourselves work-wise by forcing unnecessary impositions upon ourselves... the conversations(if by chance we communicate.. thanks to the internet chat) with each other end up with:
"hi, wassup?"
"heya, nothin much, trying to work" (we say this wen we are actually browsing facebook)
"hmm, me too.. but nothin comin out" (am playing farmville)
"aur bolo, hows life?"
"nothin re, u say?"
"bas nothin, thesis is not happening"
"hmm.. same here"
 "goin to college tomoro?"
"hmm planning to"
"k chal den cya tomoro"
"yup, gn sd tc!"

we crib about only one thing all the time... and its the same thing we have been procrastinating since long... neither getting over it nor getting into it... 

Probably, we forgot the Thesis topic we chose was one thing we always wanted to do... something we knew we would love and enjoy working with... but why has it become a burden that we keep on postponing and fear confronting?

Putting the image below, so that we could get inspired... and break the nutshell, we have been hiding in for so long... hope it helps..

in an effort of reinventing myself and you guys too...

luv,
Devanshi...

fake blog contributer morcha

areee ye sab bogus blog contributer ke against kuch kar te hain

:D

ye kuch bhi nahi karte hain

abhi tak ke koi bhi blog nahi hain

"GOPI MISTRY"

kuch karna hoga !!!!

agreed???

nahi chalega yarrrr

at 1 blog a month????

college DAYS over!!

after long time..

college days are over now we have to back to our work...

:(

sad thing is nothing is coming in mind for thesis...

i was fun in college celebrating days

hippee to executive to geek to traditional....

hope this days will come again & again in life...

:)

i m really gonna miss alll this days ....

thanks to all of u.....

....hi again,

Hi mates,

As per my promise,i had worked and brought design to certain level of resolution... tho not complete with cad dwgs... still i did took efforts and worked.

Wish  to discuss soon wid u all, meet you in a day or two.


Hope you all are pro-active and busy.

___astha.

on this new day.........

hi mates,

as each one of us is experiencing this work-shy period........feeling as if lot has to be accomplished yet have time to do it.! need to make a list/plan to get out of this phase.

M feeling very unhappy with myself since last few days,, as m nt working for any thing productive at any front.

but today and right now m making a strategy to follow for next coming days.

i ll follow it and come back here soon.

ur (semi-) mortified friend~

.for all mates....

for all mates.. m terribly feeling an urge to meet all you guys n share my stories.

m cumin to clg on monday, tho its chutti... we shall meet up n hv gr888888 time there!
(so keep good float(!) of 3/4 hrs on monday))

so meet u all day after 2mrw !
.. n ya good luck to dp n gopi as u both are still out of town n working!

marry christmas !!!

hi there
:)
everyone is done with site visits & alll....
& i m possibly going home on this week..
i m deadly waiting for devanshi's blog about her visit to goa.....

:D
please do it for me....
dnt forget
i miss u a lot here waiting for a week, when u will come back & log in to blogger....
mine too was bad time..but not that much..gone to science city..thoda panga hua ...
bas phir site visit khatam..aur aadhi chize to bhul gaya karne ke waha
:)

& wht about u astha..hamare baat nahi hui itni..u was out of ur balance & time also
:) why u both have too much craze to travel in general dibba yarrr
:(
dont u get that it is not safe & clean too...
:)

gopi ka to kab ka khatam ho gaya hain case studies or format bhi
dono kar diya na format laptop or dimag?????
:D

its fine dont want to start arguments,,...
its just a greeting messs


HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF U!!!!


gn...
bye

Having time is also problem...!!

Yep
U must thinking what i wanted to tell...
areee yarrrr now really i must say that " abb mere jaan pe aata hain.. "
:D
all my room partners are at there home & i was alone full day in my room - trying to something anything but found helpless...

-day dreaming, that only i can do now... as nothing is gona change now..was thinking about the possibilities how to get money in three months...now googling it & found something related title- " how to become rich in three months " let me knw if some one tried it....badly needed yarrr, i tried everything but nothing fits in my size :)..

-making routines for every tomorrow, which i hardly follows

-4-5 calls to toilet as i had loose motion sorry but it was & i dont want to explain more on it u can understand if u had before ;)

-sleeping whole afternoon becoz that was the only thing i can do... & i dont have to go toilet again & again... :D fantastic solution yarrrr.... thanks to me ...

-funniest part is helping in selecting saree's shade & in return what i got-NOTHING :P ( yarrr shoping me help karo to khale haat nahi aate hain kuch dilana bhi hota hain, atleast 1 t-shirt (jayda to nahi manga na maine-aree main bahot satisfactory aadmi hu yarrr :D kabhi kisi se bhi kuch nahi mangta) but i love shopping so it doesnt matter, it makes my day also, i can manage will count as interest for next time... :)

-watched a movie- "jennifers body" ( if u love megan fox body then its really gud movie.. :D otherwise just a crab, a second common story in hollywood..thats it)

-finally a HOT TEA at saffron which makes my evening & add 1 more task in my routine..

-aree but the thing is maine aaj naitik ko lecture de diya :D kuch jayda emotional discussion ho gaya yarrrr....but majja aaya.. maine 1 baat sikha isse ki duniya gol ho lakin aa ja kar ladki par he khatam hoti hain... center of Universe.... :D , sahi hain na ?????
aree mujhe lagta hain maine yahi kaam shuru kar dena chaheye.. aasan tarika hain paise kamane ka :)

then also i was thinking whole day what to do now??? how to kill time yarrr.. doing nothing is also a problem..i m getting bore by the thought what i will do whole days in 4X4 room alone in coming whole week...



but yep i have a reallly goood option to write a blog that never reminds me of " jaan pe aata hain yarrrr "
thanks A lot for such a wonderful collection of memories & this thought of blogging...




hurry my first blog is finally uploaded :)
hey please comment yarrrr it actually inspires me.. so that will experiment more & have more topics to add in this blog...
:D





at last please dont mind but

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suplementing thgt_

dear friends,

xclusively for u___""You are not responsible for what people think about you.
But you are responsible for what you give them to think about you" .__


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Getting better at multi-tasking skills...

Town Planning, Design, Acoustics... and a whole lot of FRUSTRATION!... that has been the life for us since past few weeks... which got intensified today... as bhavana mam refused to postpone the town planning submission due on monday which is acoustics 100 marks paper... We were the reason for panic in a lot of ppls lives today...trying to co-ordinate(thatwas our job), getting the final pres. from groups(which is a task in itself)... moreover... design faculties imposing more terror on us... by again refusing to give us some time gap between exams and FINAL DESIGN submissions... which is humanly not possible to submit just 2 days after exams... along with 5 vivas and their respective submissions... And not to forget the six written papers before that which we've had hardly any time to prepare for... even the super heroes must be dreading their faculties... need a Gennie or Cinderella fairy to wave a magic wand and finish our submissions on time...



OO CHAKU, KYA JAVU? KONE KEHVU?

... carrying thought fwd.

thinking more on it I REALISED that abusing the needy/poor is done in several subtle ways.(wont discuss that here)
we all also dont need to experience that,but as human being should we ignore it as it doesnt concern us??

........HMmmmmmmmmmm. WE ALL MUST LEARN TO BE PART OF "HUMAN CULTURE."
( i think......essence' of any culture of world lies in its approach to humanity.)

thinking HUMAN CULTURE.... is a big deal.
need to do more brain storming for it. so vl impart time to it later.

~~~njy understanding culture.
these thougts mgt mould our character in future!

discussing 'CULTURE !!

...I am not gettin where to start from???

______________well v read,analysed and tried to digest the gist/substance of the 3 definitions of 'CULTURE' today evening.

correctly marked by ankit...culture emerges out of human behavioural pattern.

devanshi intellegebly explained it,carried it forward....and gave brief conclusion.(wch i quite appreciate!)

gopi.... for herself made clear picture/set of learnings during the whole discussion.
..........n i??? observed them. :)
...but rethinking the words__'implicit and explicit patterns of and for human.'(cnt recall rest)...does it mean that implicit patterns of human behaviour can be easily modified?? viz. In INdian culture, it is implicit behaviour to ''respect''(nt nly mercy) the needy(not beggers).(we also call them'daridranarayan')...then when we understand it but cant express it(as implicit quality)do we have right to abuse them ??here we are modifying the implicit manner ........

I Am not questioning you all, but putting fwd the thgt that occured to me!

I was there, last year...

Had drafted this blog long back... but became lazy of uploading the pics... without which the write up would have been incomplete... but finally astha made me too nostalgic about our paradise of 4 months... so here i am with my cup of memories to share with... 

    

This is the pic of my virtually the last day in bombay! or with all due respect shud i call it MUMBAI! A day before we came back home for diwali...we had our formal farewell to each other by cutting one pastry for smita's bday that we were gonna miss( coz she wud be back home in yavatmal on her bday) and other pastry for all the good times we had together... and my cam captured this Random Moment of Life... last diwali had been different from this... in a lot of respects...

With the end of the year... it was an end of a lot of other things.... most importantly our 4 months stay in the glamorous city marked the ending... with that it also marked end of one phase of my relations with my friends, aquaintances, and even with my ownself... but simultaneously it also marked the begining of the phase II of the relationships once i was back... but it was totally a different scenerio as compared to the experience of those 4 months of my life...

It has always been my habit to relate instances of my life with people involved with it... so if i think of Those Four Months Of My life... (sounds like the title of some chetan bhagat book :).. ) the first images appear of my newly invented friendship with some always known people... following the images of the queens necklace, chocolate divine, carter road, that dhaba on the office lane, adventure travels in a local train, bandstand or even the bus stand where we used to go after lunch... god! the list is never ending...

 

It was also an end of a series of experiences that we wouldnt have experienced other wise... travelling in a local train dressed in a saree is one such experience... he he he

 

 

 There have been some such memories that have made a permanent impression over my life... and there have been some other that will wither away as we will get busy with our so called professional lives... but i believe everyone of us who was a part of this journey of four months... spent the most beautiful time of life...

Well, i could write pages over this... but let it be some other day... on a closing note... this is the following are the words i wrote on 24th Oct 2008...a day before departing... again wrote them while returning back from office in a local train...

Departures are always painful

And endings always hurt.

I wish this could go on...

but all of us have to move on...

I wish i could live this

just a moment more...

I wish I could feel the freedom

just a little long...

i want not to cause u hurt

but i need to say a good-bye

There is something in me that needs to die...

But before i leave

I want you to know,

What a great mentor,

you have been to me!

The moments we've shared

will always make me smile

But now we part in seperate ways

& with others spend our latter days

Still in our wealty memories

let others see that part of me

the part you'll always have

the part of me that made you laugh...

In time you'll see, much of you is me

Our friendship thus was true

And before I go, the world will know,

how much of me is you...

P.S.: On reading this, one may find it ends on a sad note... for me it doesnt... in true sense it just doesnt really end for me... but if you try reading between the lines... its just the longing for the fun time i shared with the most amazing people on the face of earth! Three cheers to all of us!

    

cont.... on MMBAI.

Want to live exclusively in that virtual world..... bt the harsh factual present doesnt permit me.

still would like to share my journey to the past wid you all

In my memory lane I discovered that,out of the galore reasons to go back to mumbai,I will go back to Mumbai to meet those lovely people,who have added various shades to my life.I have started believing my dreams as they demonstrated it thro their life.

Its far more than gratitude or love i feel for them.I owe a lot to them.

Cant do injustice to anyone,so naming them will be offensive on my part.
But right from my concerted office mates to the lady who supplied me with (amul) milk, i cant dare to forget anyone!

Recalling few incidents________it reminds me of the watchman in office appartment,who directed me safe way back home on flooded day of 1st july.
Attending ceremony at my friend's place(eating awsum 'puranpoli'and mahrashtrian food),visiting the art shop in the "Irla-masjid gulli",hunting for bookmarks,and wonderful gifts,going to prithvi theatre directly from office,sharing books and movies,recieving treat at Red Box,listening to jahnavi.... and dicussions during office lunch break.

how recent it seems, yet its a year now!
.........time is slipping off,but memories are engraved, so wont ever be lost.
wanna tell All these wonderful people that i miss you all!

On Mumbai....

Right since I left Mbai, I felt an urge to write about the city.
But I demotivated myself saying,reading and hearing a looot about the enchanting city by many people like me(NRM)or Suketu Mehta or a mumbaikar!!

Saw "Wake Up Sid" few days back,retrospected MY LIFE THERE and _____ memories started oozing out.


Honestly confessing "while writing acoustic jrnl and watchin movies simultaneously....my mind was laddering me back to days in mmbai.!!

ITs not only fun part of it that pulls me back,but a potpourri of experiences and learnings gained from it.



let me live in that barracking past for some more time! (virtually tho!)
~~sshhhhh.... dnt disturb.

not fair...

guys! this is so not fair... am the only one writing in this section of the blog... :(  il still follow the ritual... he he he... spent the whole day writing acoustics journal... though we didnt write much... the best part of the day was sharing a 5 star... my fav. chocolate bar... and ofcourse the innumerable sequence of movies that were played on laptop while writin... (dont evn remember how many we saw!) Talking chocolate the following is a piece of interesting information i just read abot the ever so YUMMY, STRESS BUSTER CHOCOLATES...

10. The Aztecs drunk it

Chocolate was originally a cold drink whisked from cocoa beans by the Aztecs - and women were not allowed to drink it.

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9. It was more valuable than gold

When Cortes conquered the Aztecs in 1520, he found that cocoa beans were prized higher than gold.

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8. It was named in the 17th century

The word 'chocolate' was first recorded in English use in 1604.

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7. It helped found the British Museum

The British Museum owes its very existence to chocolate. It was based on the personal collection of Hans Soane, who invented milk chocolate.

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6. Chocolate bar an English invention

The bar of chocolate was invented by JS Fry and Sons of Bristol in 1847.

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5. Expensive egg

Last year's most expensive chocolate egg was encrusted with more than 100 diamonds and made for La Maison du Chocolat with a £50,000 prize tag.

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4. Royal approval

On New Year's Day 1900, Queen Victoria sent 100,000 boxes of chocolates as a personal gift to soldiers fighting in the Boer War.

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3. Brits can't get enough of it

The average person living in the UK - man, woman or child - spends over £1 a week on chocolate.

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2. The King loved it!

The last food Elvis Presley ate comprised four scoops of ice cream and six chocolate chip cookies.

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1. Egg-cellent selection

Woolworths is this year selling 170 varieties of chocolate Easter egg.