Rajasthan Roadtrip

This wasn't a planned trip. Like any other unplanned plans even this proved to be a successful one. I haven't driven a bullet for years. Even though the idea of driving a bullet for more than 1700 Kms sounds scary I was fearless about the whole trip. I never told my parents about this trip, I didn't want to give them sleepless nights thinking about me. Everything fell into its place. I believe in God but I don’t wait for him to do things what I have to do by myself. It was a miraculous journey starting and ending at Udaipur. The places, the people we met, the experiences we’ve gone through it’s a miracle you can’t put it in words. You have to experience the journey.


Few moments aren't worth capturing, just you have to dwell into it.

The joy of driving

My roadtrip plan

Life is full of surprises. I never planned this trip. It just happened. Some people love to travel. Some say they are born to travel. I hate to be tagged. I just travel. Starting from 16-Dec-07 Iam travelling. I don’t know what lies ahead but I am ready to face it. Life is full of surprises.

life is exciting!

I've quit my job.Morning or night, Friday or Monday makes no difference to me. This is my last month at Leo Burnett. I am so used to the comforts, so used to live in this virtual world, so used to meeting the same people everyday. Officially I am unemployed from today. I am going to work for myself, do all the things I've dreamed about. There are no 9-5 hours, and 5 day weeks anymore. I am my own boss. People who care about me are worried. I can't predict future, but I believe in it. I am going to created a world I want to live in. I can't ask anyone to share my dreams and vision.

photocopy of my mind

be original

He is a man of capacity who possesses considerable intellectual riches: while he is a man of genius who finds out a vein of new ore. Originality is the seeing nature differently from others, and yet as it is in itself. It is not singularity or affectation, but the discovery of new and valuable truth. All the world do not see the whole meaning of any object they have been looking at. Habit blinds them to some things: shortsightedness to others. Every mind is not a gauge and measure of truth. Nature has her surface and her dark recesses. She is deep, obscure, and infinite. It is only minds on whom she makes her fullest impressions that can penetrate her shrine or unveil her Holy of Holies. It is only those whom she has filled with her spirit that have the boldness or the power to reveal her mysteries to others.

Steve Irwin's interview

on seeing

Touch, smell, nor taste do not have the same effect on people's opinions. These senses cannot unveil one's emotions like eyes can. Though easily manipulated, eyes can convey one's love, hate, or affection towards another. By observing the surroundings around me, it is easy to overpass the beauty in almost everything, however through the power of sight, one can go back to something and change their views on a person or an object. Sight provokes different interpretations, which is necessary to expand an open mind and see the world differently every time.

Thou blind fool love

Apple Ad

This is one of my favorite ads. No matter how many times I watch it, I never get tired of it.

why do you think you think?

Reverend Hagler's speech is very moving.

He murders words like startled innocents

He cracks a grin like a sloping desert

He pursues an abstraction

He feasts on fearful dreams

He points accusingly across reason

He serves at the table of avarice

He appeals to the lesser part of us

He wins the vote of chaos

He struts in the ruins of civilisation

He drinks the dew of morning tears

He devours the cry of desperation

He whispers the wind of uncertainty

He preaches the litany of occupation

He scratches the sore of hate

He winds up the window against wisdom

He thrashes in the mire of dispossession

He aims at the centre of peace

He embraces the moment of action

He leads the world to watching skies

He jabs at our peaceful sleep

He strides relentlessly towards his purpose

He is the blind man who believes he sees

-Vivienne Glance

Beauty

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

heroes I idolize

At the risk of telling the twice-told tale ‘I’m influenced by brave men’ this design is a tribute to men who have shaped my thoughts.

[Poem by Stefanie Reneé]

I almost took my life and didn’t. That was brave.
I gave myself to someone else to love. That was brave.
I moved forward with my life. That was brave.
I moved away from family and friends for the first time. That was brave.
I got married. That was brave.
I moved again, far from family and friends. That was brave.
I moved to a city that I knew no one. That was brave.
I met new friends. That was brave.
I created lasting friendships. That was brave.
I quit a job I hated. That was brave. I found a new job, which I love. That was brave.
I moved again, to a city that I love and call home. That was brave.
I started looking inside myself to find out who I really am. That was brave.
I found out things about myself that I hate and love. That was brave.
I am working on creating a better, more insightful, spiritual life for myself. This is brave. I try to make it everyday in this big city life that I love. I followed my dreams. I am living my dreams. I am brave.

my desktop design

I have this habit of designing my own desktops. Visuals are pure self-expression and has nothing to do with the quote. Working in an ad agency you have to explain people why you have used the visual for the thought. which I really hate to do. I am not selling anything here. I don't need anyone's approval.