Rangoli

Rangoli Competition on 'Kanada Rajyotsav'at Nov 12 '10 at Tata Consultancy Services. Participate is more important than winning, perfect statement because we came First from Last. But even then m proud , dt ask me y...might be driving force for the next time to do good will be the reason....

It was a time when i was sad that i was not a able to dance for kanada rajyotsav at my office, so thought would buck up for something else, that's when rangoli competition jumped up. Why not try that!
Last time when I was in college , eng, i and my 2 best frnds had done ganapathi which went very well. But ya we did nt win because ganapthi turned up writing urdu...this story i feel will specify later, or els only in person because i was the one to mess. But this time i thought we will give more better oppurtunity to ourself and win

Ofcourse my best frnds where nt around , but caught my frnd/ colleage for it

But the sad part is on thusday we were so busy , we were nt able concentrate much on the rangoli that which we were to imprint in our office premises ,and only on friday morning at 10 30 when the competition started we realised we didnt get papers/ bowls to collect different rangoli powders. Also in this mess we realised the powder which we got is nt the normal ones but the ones which is very slippery. These powders required sand / salt mixing :(

Then came the 2 other girls whom we had called for colouring, to chase them to shop, to get the different type of powder and we 2 adjusting/ we can say literly borrowing from left and right contestent for that white powder.

Also for the first time i used removable marker for putting dots and connecting them


Later when the other girls reached it was only 20 min remaining for the competition time to end, and it was  like Indian cricket team batting at last 2 overs, we girls tried all sort of permutation and combination and landed up with the one which you are seeing in the pic.

I had told the girls , we need to come First , Ya we came from the last of-course

About the Rangoli : Its 27 *27 which has 4 swans with 4 sided designs of which we did only 2 left and right. Top and bottom we removed becuase of scarsity of time. Also as for kanada rajyotsav we planned on 8 kites all around it, of which only one we have done at one extreme side representing karnataka flag colors ( red and yellow )

Just dt see our rangoli ....also read/feel the part in which we went from a period of disappointment on the first 5 min starting and till the end where there was exicitment to end the rangoli even when we know we are the last

We Hope to make you please with better rangoli next time for sure, but right now.....:)

Realised : Even to stand last,  we need to try.
Hence i understand that to fail an exam or to fail in life we need to try as much we need to stand first, even thou both follows different route :P


Prathi

To Infinity and Beyond

       Life can change at any movement and at any time in your life and the word ‘change’ reminds us that there was a life which was different from now. All we ask our self is ‘was it meant to change?’, ‘is this change a chance for the betterment or the worst?’ and as everyone believe change is an adjunction by Time, time makes us feel good and at time, it makes us sad.

Andy

But for sure change gives us what we call ‘memories’, the only reminder of an invisible connection, a flashback when we turn back. 

:)...

Worried where am I taking this conversation with a head start so philosophical?  

Nothing in particular, but this I can say as a definition which got framed up when I think about the past ‘beautiful’ or ‘sad’ memories.

Speaking about memories, there has been something which I wanted to capture in ‘this word game’ from my memory. Heard of ‘Toy story’ movies! Last week saw all the 3 set of movies. For a change, :), it was remarkable good. The idea where in toys are in life when you sleep or not looking at it. I hope why such idea’s doesn’t spring up to me :(. 

Toy Story 1

Never mind, anyway the memory which aroused was about Toys, my toys :) . Just like Andy, I too have many toys in my showcase. ‘Barbie’, 2 or 3 stuffed animal dolls and one small cute doll house. Surprisingly all are in one piece and in good shape. There were many of them, which is now a donated figure, some of which I remembered like the building block collection, a rain coat baby (my favourite and has a huge story behind it too), kitchen set, doctor set (a big time popular one’s), cars, bus, a gun (I feel it was shared between me and my bro) and so on. 

And also imagination was wide, I suppose, but even then the play story was always some fairy tale and at the end it also reached to DDLJ as I remember. We, I and another gal, used to narrate the DDLJ film, with toy play; with Barbie being kajol and that rain coat baby being SRK. I feel I was in 3^rd / 4^th right then.

Suppose the tale behind toy story is real, will my toys remember me as Andy’s does? Would they be in need of a new owner to fulfil their utmost desire...to play!

It would be an interesting event to talk about further if all the non-living comes to live. How about your first bicycle...if that has a capability of expressing what would it want to say?

Then when I think I would be in a very difficult phase of my life. Because I just gave it to a small girl far away from my place, and I heard it was in a bad shape, and I suppose now ...never mind, sad ending I can say.

Toy Story 2

So what would it say? ‘Why Prathima, why did you abandon me when I used to give you a joy, Just because you entered your College life!!!’  Truly the importance of it at that time was very high. I am very sorry for it, I should have kept it in my attic or so, but I thought it would have been better in place where it is in use, rather than my storage place. It was pink, with a black basket in front of it, my first and the last bicycle, it was very pretty. I regret the loss for some penny; yes I sold it as I was in need of pocket money :(.

Now-a-days I heard there is some library called rentoy, which gives branded toys for rent; an eco-friendly system. This would be a patchy dirt work on the feeling of ‘Toy story’ movie.  But I sure won’t say it’s a very bad idea. But a kid should have at least 1 toy which he/she loves the most  and owns it., no rent ones.

Toy Story 3

How will you know? There will be a connection seen towards it and the kid, I suppose.'kismat konnection :P'

At the End: Everyone has one or other Toy / or a playmate in their past to talk about, which will make them go back to that moment and imagine it. And sometime I feel these playmates do have some feeling, our feeling towards it which is inside them, which is what the toy story movie also protraits. 

 ‘To Infinity and Beyond’.... for those good old innocent Toy memories....

Prathi

Dedicated to: Toy Story 1,2 and 3