Friday, November 16, 2007

The return to Motherland

I am back in Bangalore and right away I am been scrutinized to complete all my work. Its a very tough task at hand but I've got to do it.

I have been painting my body with different colours and its quite fun. I'll surely post some the pictures on the net in the near future. Created some characters using vegetables also. All pictures will be posted at the earliest.

So keep in touch.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

How'd I reach here suddenly ?

Well I have been very drastic and haven't given much credit to my parents in my posts after entering Dubai but the whole thing is that this trip could only be possible my dad as he was the one who prompted me with the idea of coming to Dubai. It all started on 27th of October which was a Saturday(exactly a week before my arrival in Dubai). I called up my dad as it was long time since I talked to him. We were just talking about the situations in college ,the ups and downs happening all round and then I told him that we had 4 days( which included the weekends) of holidays for Diwali. I told him that I wanted to go to the village side. He then asks 'why don't you come here(Dubai). The tickets are kind of cheap'. I was mesmerized when the idea even popped up. I told ' Its like its only 4 days'. He told 'try and come'. After the hearing proposal of coming to Dubai, I started calculating in my head , thinking, why don't I put 3 days holidays before that and then I would have a week which included two weekends. He told 'its fine with me but just ask your teachers'. I said 'Its okay!'. He then told that he will check the prices and that I had to tell him at the earliest. I said okay. Next day morning I am getting a message from my saying that tickets are booked for next Saturday and return on the next Sunday. I was overjoyed by reading the message and was thrilled to know that I would be there. During the whole week before the arrival, time looked like eternity. I was like when is Friday coming. Didn't get much sleep the few days before my arrival here because of some chores had to be completed like sweeping the house and washing my clothes. But yea I'm already here and that more than important.

And the sad part is 3 days are all ready over.

Monday, November 5, 2007

Looking at Dubai

Yesterday I went to my school which I used to study in and luckily none have forgotten about me. But while going to the school I was looking at the buildings, roads and the flyover's which were under construction and I was just mesmerized at seeing how quick all of this was going. To explain this I would write a set of dialogues
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In Dubai :
Construction Company : Sir, we have finished the fly over.
Sheik : Ok! what are you waiting for??? Start the next one.

In India :
Construction Company : Sir, we have finished the fly over.
Minister- in-Charge : Ok! Thank God. Now lets party.

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Now thats the difference between India and Dubai.

How dumb can it get ??!!

Yesterday I went to the Indian Consulate in Dubai for renewing my passport since it was expiring the day before my birthday. I go there with my day wait for about 20 minutes till we reach the counter and while we were finding some information about when I could get it back , they tell us it take 40 days. My dad was like ' WHAT?'. The surprised answer was just because I was leaving the next week and they told it would take more than a month. Seriously telling that kinda crazy. The person at the counter told us to meet the vice counsel and so we made our way to that person's office. We reach the destination to find out that there's a massive long line waiting to meet him. Since my dad was arrogant to meet him we waited for about an hour till we get to meet the MAN. After reaching to our target we just hear that sorry but we can't do a thing. The printer to print the passport is not working and the technicians are coming from India today. I was like what the hell, Dubai is such a place which moves at a very quick pace and there would be more than 100 technicians here, but no they wanted a technician from India so its done. Nothing can be done with. After the dejected answer we leave and just rush out of the consulate.

Now seriously, how dumb can it get ??

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Back In Dubai

I am back in Dubai for a week just to visit old friends and teachers and ofcourse my parents without which this short notice trip would never had happened.I had to stay up the whole night without the electricity since it had been cut of due to short circuit and about my flight, the flight had been scheduled to leave at 5 AM. To stay awake I was reading a book and dancing the whole night away. I thank my uncle for dropping me to the airport but still I reached the airport pretty early and had to waste a lot of time in the waiting lounge also. I had a short nap there for about 15 minutes and then suddenly realized that if I would slept of then I would by chance miss the flight and to avoid this I bought a black forest cake and sat with it for an hour. Its a very tedious job waiting for a flight. Once I entered the aircraft ,which was luckily on time, I sat in my place and the next thing I remember is that we have 1 hour to landing. About Sharjah and Dubai I can say that the place is moving at a fast forward pace and I can't put it in words. Keep reading cause this week I'll be posting regularly without fail and yea I'll be buying a scanner and printer and will be scanning my works and be showing it to the world. So stay connected.

Seminar on VisualFX

Recently I attended a seminar on Visual Effect and it was satisfactory. It was held on Oct 30 in Indian Institute of Technology and the program was organized by Visual Effects Society. The guest were from various parts of the world and the guest talked about how they struggled in life to come up to this position. It was quite informative and that's why I didn't find it that interesting.