College Buddies - The Delhi Gang

Ramesh's Delhi Gang Originally uploaded by HughPee.

This snap was taken at Sandy and Amina's home. Most of you have met Bali and Sujata. Here are a few more faces for the names - starting from the extreme left Sandeep Talwar - Sandy, Arvind Singh - Khach, Amardeep Singh Bali - Bali, Suri, Sujata Soni - Bali's wife, Vimi - Khach's wife, me - :P, Shruti Talwar - Rajeev (Sunny) has taken this photo, Amina (behind shruti) married to Sandeep and Rj. Sandeep and Rajeev are not related though they have same surname :P

Weaving Project

Weaving Project
Originally uploaded by HughPee.

Shiti, since you're going to be joining me amongst the ranks of the unemployed sometime soon, let me know if you want to start on a similar project. easy to start and fun to do :p

Shiti

Shiti
Originally uploaded by HughPee.

sketch done with a fountain pen. added some brush strokes for the hair. in the original photo your hair merges in the background. then thought that i'd add color so that i could try to get some tones but the ink is obviously not waterproof. upper left side messed up :P added pencil in the end coz i didnt know what else to do! and gave up shortly after. all took about 15 mins. this photograph was taken on our phuket holiday in a bar. the one with just the girls. i know, i know i've made you look fat. par kya karen, i'm learning and it seems to be a slow process.

Weekend in Delhi

Taken during Nicolas recent visit  to  Delhi.  We had a wonderful time - very hectic.  With lots of activity - sight seeing, sketching, eating out etc. Nicolas as usual was full of beans. Rest of the photos have been uploaded to a new site called Zoto and you can click on the header to check them out.

Great Book Recommendations

All you avid readers are sure to enjoy this one. Feed in the names of a few books and it suggests the names of books that you would like to read. This seems to similar to Amazons recommendations and it is based on the data given by other users of this service. if their suggestions are ones that you have already read add them to your list and look for more. I've just fed in about 10 books and got a nice list of suggestions from the site. Let me know if it helps you find a good book!

Red sand stone sculpture - WIP

stone sculpture
Originally uploaded by HughPee.

it's about 4 half days of effort. need to work on it during the puja holidays or once i get back. comments as always are welcome!

Psychology and mental health at Psych Central

i took a test on Internet Addiction and sure enough I am an addict. There are a few other tests that you guys might like to try out. I tried one on ADD too. The depression and Eating disorder ones didnt interest me :P

RJ's B'day

RJ's B'day
Originally uploaded by HughPee.

here are some picts of the party.( click on header and not pict to check them out.)

DIY Projector

projectormain
Originally uploaded by HughPee.

I thought that this might be of interest to JJ and Siridhara. JJ if you do decide to make one do keep me posted.

Foot Reflexlology

Reflexlology
Originally uploaded by HughPee.

Jayant had this brilliant idea for all of us to go get a nice foot massage after we'd finished rushing around the malls. It was a truly wonderful experience. It hurt a bit occasionally but left us feeling v.relaxed. Ramesh, as usual, fell off to sleep! If you havent had one as yet - try it!

20Q

20Q's the game we played as kids is hosted on the net. Over the years a million people have played the game and the neural net (database) has grown. Recently, Burgener who set up the game on the web and collected the data put it onto a chip within an orb and is now selling it as a handheld game for about 15USD. I thought it would make a nice gift. Found this listed at Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools

Webby Awards

HUMOR
WEBBY AWARD WINNER
CREDITED ORGANIZATION
Rathergood
PEOPLE'S VOICE WINNER
Eddie Izzard

NOMINEES
Eddie Izzard
National Lampoon
Rathergood
Subservient Chicken
The four word film review

BackPack - Online Organizer

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Originally uploaded by HughPee.

I thought that all of you would find this useful. BackPack allows you to have your ToDo lists and notes online hence, accessible anywhere. It also sends you automatic emails (sms in the case of the us and a few other countries/service providers) for reminders. It even allows for collaboration - sharing etc. Try it out.

Who is on my easel?

Painting Area
Originally uploaded by HughPee.

I like torturing you guys. I have subsequently worked on it and messed it up some more. I'm hoping to finish it this week or at least stop work on it. It's been more than 2 weeks already! You can see one corner of our bedroom that I have taken over.

Sculpture

Lata - low relief
Originally uploaded by HughPee.

Here's an example of one of the low reliefs I have finished. Other than the first and the fifth (currently working on) all others have cracks or pieces that have broken off :( Feeling bad about that coz i was hoping to fire them and have terracotta pieces as keepsakes.

My Collection of Recipes

Trying to put together Recipes that I've collected from folks and friends. If you have any interesting, tasty ones that you've tried and tested, please send to me. There are currently just six recipes up - mostly non-veg :D Have to take picts when next i make them!

Yahoo buys Flickr!

The best Online Photo Storage Site! I was telling rj this morning about this news. I think ramesh and gala had signed up with the first round of invites but did not upload even one photo! The rest of you did not sign up forget uploading!! Try it out - you wont regret it!!

Rabbi Shergill Live at Siri Fort

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Originally uploaded by HughPee.

heh heh heh! Got to see Rabbi live in Delhi at Siri Fort yesterday evening. Had almost given up on getting to hear him as they dropped a Harshdeep Kaur on an unsuspecting audience for over an hour!! She wasnt even mentioned on the invite!! We were mighty cheesed off till he came on and started singing. A real pleasure to hear and with a great band to back him up. He is much shorter and stockier that I had expected. Was wearing jhalla black cotton pyjamas and kurti. His live versions were a bit different from the recorded ones and he had a very chota repertoire so wound up pretty quickly. He did a bit of one of Dylan's no. in his last song after telling us a big story about Bobby Dhillon from Punjab the unsung bard etc. etc. etc. T'was lost of the audience that remained. Most got up and ran away after he finished playing Bullah ki jaana. ... i had a wonderful time. Beginning to like delhi because of all these wonderful opportunities.... click on the header if you want to ready a nice article by a tehelka guy on rabbi

Guess Who?

Part of the paintings that I did while at the hotel in Delhi. I'm waiting for Broadband to upload the others. First person to guess correctly will get super brownie points! This was (is??) RJ's favourite.

Fifth Annual Weblog Awards

Fairvue Central >> Bloggies >> Fifth Annual Weblog Awards The voting has closed. Check out results on March 14th but before that you can check out the sites that were shortlisted.

PictureM

Here's a truly wonderful service which allows you to put up film strips and multiple photos in one post. Wonderful to put up Holiday Photos with a film strip effect. The service is free and they even provide a space for you to put up your own web page (blog) with these photos. Check it out.

Remember

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Originally uploaded by HughPee.

It's my b'day on the 7th. All gKalab members have to call and wish :P

Cigarette Butts

Butts2
Originally uploaded by Subliminally Obvious.

Looks yucky, doesnt it?? :P

sketches 'n paintings

Murder - Movie Poster Originally uploaded by HughPee.

click on the header and take a look rj has seen all of them and harry 'n jj most of them....