Saturday, April 08, 2006

Test To See If You Are Color Blind

Rang Barse beege chunawali rang barse...







little frustrating loading these files and that too with a lot of effort ...all the pictures i was loading were upside down...

...it was fun taking pictures..imagine how much fun it was playing holi.

How can I leave the blog with just the pictures so some thoughts. I was reading about colors once I got hold of these pictures, my experimentation after a long time with the SLR camera.

Are Colors Significant?

Only for the sighted or only if one isn't color-blind. For those of us blessed with sight, we've been taught that colors can make us feel good, excite us, generate fear and joy, or literally make us nauseated. As long as we attach a certain meaning to a particular color, colors will remain to be significant.

Close your eyes and feel the warmth of the sun, or taste a "red-hot" candy, or feel the fear of thunder and the crackle of lightning. Hold a newborn baby in your arms. Feel a puppy or kitten. The next time you attend a wedding, close your eyes to shut out any color. Is the wedding any less meaningful? Colorless raindrops need not be seen or heard to know they give renewed life to the earth or feel wonderful on your skin. What we feel inside doesn't require color.

Bloody who asked you to close your eyes? The real world is outside, when the eyes are open. (Am I right?)

The essence of a dialogues from matrix in this context ...
If real world is what we see, touch, taste, feel, hear, or smell then is real world just not electrical signals sent to the brain?

It is said that Dreams that we see are colorless. How does it matter?

I am not sure what message I conveyed but the pictures on this blog are full of colors. I am not color blind. I can see the colors!!

Saturday, April 01, 2006

praying from inside the cockpit


It was just another examination morning till the time I went to pray after my bath. For me praying has been a ritual, I mean reason I prayed was because I believed there was strength, a force that was beyond our reasoning and science. I am spiritual but not really religious.

What was new about praying today? I prayed for once “Let me get what I deserve”.
I finished my prayers and remembered I hadn’t prepared that well for my exams. I had to finish four more chapters of my portions and what did I utter to my god almighty “Let me get what I deserve!!”
I have never thought so far whether my prayers have been heard by GOD but I prayed.

I have prayed for my father when he was not doing well.
I prayed for my brother when he was getting married. “Oh God Save Anna!!” Just kidding. It was a usual prayer to keep him healthy and prosperous with Anni, nothing else intended.
I have prayed for my friends.
I remember a prayer from school. Some how I picked up this one line from the prayer. Guess being in my adolescence this one line appealed to me. It said “Oh lord, lead us not into temptations but deliver us from evil”. I prayed for happiness around me.
Recently I have been praying for Ashwin.
My prayer has been simple so far.

The prayer for today came from no where. I feel the today’s prayer meant I would be prepared for anything that would come my way. I was as though asking: Give me whatever I work for; bless me with whatever I deserve. I have never believed in fate. Believing in fate means as a person you are not in control of your life.

When we pray we are most of the times greedy in what we want. Having asked for what I deserve makes me feel like a king. Someone who can have what he needs.Again I hope it is not just the state of mind. I don’t want to find this feeling to be one of those mood swings. I hope I can pray like this all day.

I am just feeling like sitting in the cockpit. Full control!!

By the way I phod phaded the exam today. Didn’t know I deserved this much!!!