scroll bars?

Was following a tutorial on a very nice grunge effect, came out rather well too! also trying my hang on a blog with a scroll so I can restrict space!

boredom?

Absolute boredom made me create this layout, lots of new things in life, work, place, people - so guess it was time for a change in this too!

Rewrote the entire code from scratch to make it forward compatible - but as always my first layouts after long periods of time will always be black..

Why the lady silhouette, I really dont know, but thought it looked quite cool so decided to put it as the layout..

Hopefully I should be continuing on new layouts every now and then, until then, version black!

Voiceless

Another post inspired by a lovely wallpaper called voice of the voiceless by chunkStar - courtesy deviantart. I think the color/expression of the eyes and the lips really make this a very eerie photograph!

Specs

Layout Name - Voiceless

Layout size - 800x600+

Best viewed on - IE 6/7+ or Mozilla Firefox

Version 2.0

The new version has just started, i have done my first experiment with tabs, of course i still have to figure out a lot and what to use them for :), but till then, version 2.0! And of course, drop downs are back now, and of course the now becoming necessary reflection at the bottom! (Concept art by feni_x)

Specs

Layout Name - version 2.0

Layout size - 800x600+

Best viewed on - IE 6/7+ or Mozilla Firefox

Bloom

I thought this just looked rather neat so decided to make a layout out of it.. Concept art by Feni X (chinese)..i think this rocks PERIOD..in spite of the bits of pink in it!

Specs

Layout Name - Bloom

Layout size - 800x600+

Best viewed on - IE 6/7+ or Mozilla Firefox

Forever

This is a very special layout, for a lot of reasons..which of course revolves around a very special person, the sillehoutte..The lines say it all..with her forever, a dark representation would imply her guarding me..no escape :) concept art by sharon amrolia

Specs

Layout Name - Forever

Layout size - 800x600+

Best viewed on - IE 6/7+ or Mozilla Firefox

PS : HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Layout Removed : Can be viewed at - Forever

Death

The concept of re-birth was exhibited the greatest in the egyptian civilization..life and its vicious cycles. Based on concept art - The Rise of Anubis by spz - Deviant art

Specs

Layout Name - Death

Layout size - 800x600+

Best viewed on - IE 6/7+ or Mozilla Firefox

Layout Removed : Can be viewed at - Death

Love

Who better to describe the words "I go crazy for you!" than the Joker and Harley Quinn :), i think these two probably represent the darkest and funniest form of love..most often they add color to the otherwise dark knight's realm

Specs

Layout Name - love

Layout size - 800x600+

Best viewed on - IE 6/7+ or Mozilla Firefox

Layout Removed : Can be viewed at - Love

blue

Two distinct changes i guess for my usual :)

a. A WHITE layout after a very long time..still dark in context tho :)
b. [+] and [-] removed from the main blog, considering they arent big wordy blogs anymore!

Art by FRAMZ - deviantart - i thought it was a rather beautiful representation of a rose, extremely different, which is why the concept chosen for it was unlike the usual happy rose, but a dark rose.

Specs

Layout Name - blue

Layout size - 800x600+

Best viewed on - IE 6/7+ or Mozilla Firefox

Layout Removed : Can be viewed at - Blue

Gloom

The special layout has been postponed due to some modifications being made on it..until then its glooom, concept art dedicated to dpainter - deviant art

Specs

Layout Name - Gloom

Layout size - 800x600+

Best viewed on - IE 6/7+ or Mozilla Firefox

Layout Removed : Can be viewed at - Gloom

agony

Based on Concept Art by devil raven

Got this one up vigu :) experimentation rocks..one more favorite color post :), the next one will be special to me!

Specs

Layout Name - Agony

Layout size - 800x600+

Best viewed on - IE 6/7+ or Mozilla Firefox

Layout Removed : Can be viewed at - Agony

Alone

Based on Concept Art by Weno

This is a plainer post compared to my usual complexities :) its blue and black two of my favorite colors!

Specs

Layout Name - Alone

Layout size - 800x600+

Best viewed on - IE 6/7+ or Mozilla Firefox

Layout Removed : Can be viewed at - Alone

Alien Nation

This is the first of my layout blogs, these are to be shared if someone wants them, you can request for it on comments :)..Based on the concept art made by Drak on deviantart..Alientology!

Specs

Layout Name - Alien Nation / Alientology

Layout size - 800x600+

Best viewed on - IE 6/7+ or Mozilla Firefox

Layout Removed : Can be viewed at - Alien Nation

and there is light..

"Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel,
Was just a freight train coming your way.."

- No Leaf Clover METALLICA

Before everything else, a couple of apologies..

Why am I - sorry i couldnt do the tag, tied up with work, a lil too late now, will the next time, cross my heart!

Wannabe Punkster - I did decide to shelve the dark post for the time being, sometime later maybe?

You know the kind of days when nothing seems to go your way..even everything good turns out to be crappy, just because your mood swung the other way already? When you feel like barking back at your dog even though you know that you have no clue what its saying but it just sounds all irritating! On a day like that you need to sing with me EVERYBODY SING THIS SONG DOO DAA DOO DAA..ok ill stop being lunatic :)

I just think crappy days can be set right somehow(apart from the six rounds of tequila, that is cheating!) There is light at the end of the tunnel, not like how Metallica put it, but i guess everyone has their own ways of making it better. Like me for instance, i go and kill a hundred thousand ppl on my comp and im good to go! So i guess this post might reflect on some of your own ways of finding the light at the end of the tunnel..please do share, i will try figure out if i can adopt a few of them myself! :D

post coming soon..

Have been quite caught up with work, will be posting soon..turn up brightness just a little bit to take a look at this layout..the post for this requires some time :)

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The perfect woman..

Many a times, we have tried to figure out the perfect woman, "THE ONE" and many more expressions forth, but somehow everytime we get into a phase of contradiction, the lines begin to fade, and the hand weaving fine threads of commitment begin to waver..its a fine piece of embroidery, this relationship, but like any piece of art, the end is a mindblowing flood of emotions represented on a canvas..every relationship unique to its artists..ill leave this post with the lyrics of a song..which probably convey the feeling better..

A better Moon - Ian Anderson

I see you better now, shaded in deeper blue.
Hardly needing to carry the find-your-way lamp
down to the river.
Tonight flies a better moon.
Sad water buffalo lie fast near the shallows;
a splash revealing the fly-catching fishes.
Dark Gods silently watching.
Tonight flies a better moon.
I guess you've known lovers here, compliant in passion;
softly laid in the old reed bed, harshly
lit in the noon sun.
Tonight flies a better moon.
Now cloaked in this milky light, new as the virgin dawn,
shrouded sweetly in all kinds of mystery,
you turn, smile and then are gone.
Tonight flies a better moon.


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the perfect woman

Happy Birthday to me..

This has to be one of the best birthdays i have ever had in my life! I will list the events as they happened so i dont miss anything!

Started off monday night with my lady sharon taking me out for dinner in a coffee shop at a five star, giving me the most amazing gift ever..A NEIL GAIMAN MARVEL 1602 Collectors edition Comic..ITS MINE ALL MINE!!(explains the layout too hehe)Had the most amazing time, felt really good to be pampered after a days work!

Tuesday(BDAY DAY) started off quite lazy with me trying to figure out whether i could carry out what i had planned to do without a hitch or whether it would be another day of work..and finally i got my confirmation!!

It was a day at an orphanage, Sivananda Orphanage, an evening with kids who could get the better of me!! 150 kids taking my trip all day, those darn kids!!

It was so much fun, and the place is absolutely awesome with 40 acres of super clean(maintained by the little ones) land consisting of an orphanage of 200 odd kids, an old age home with about 70 residents and the most amazing bird collection of the owner i have ever seen!!(photos below)

It was quite heart warming to spend the whole evening with them, but it was also very clear that they were just about better than animals in cages..it was quite pathetic to realise that they had no idea what was outside those walls..even though everything was provided to them inside..something which made me think how selfish we haev grown to be, that when we spend time with these ones..we dont realise how much we have and how much they lack..

I dont know how many of you are around here and i dont know how many of you have time..but if you do, please visit them and try and spend a few hours with them showing them and telling them the fascinations we have outside those walls, i am trying to arrange field trips for them to take them around wherever possible..most of the details of the ashram can be found on their website http://www.sivanandagurukul.org/

I wish to do this more often and not on a "Special" day anymore..i think we all need to draw some sort of a balance in our own lives to realise some others dont live like we do..i know i sound like a preacher, but the amount of fun i had, id probably say, all of you are missing something!!

Which brings me to the best part of the evening, when all the children joined in singing a prayer and HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOGI...it was utterly chaotic and i had no clue what they were saying, but it was just awesome when they clapped their way through it, you couldnt help but smile and join in!

On an even better note, ended the day with sharon and reflextions(who has still quit blogging!) with a couple of beers at a nice rooftop restaurant..I LOVE BIRTHDAYS..:)

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Happy Birthday to me

Media Blues..

I was watching tv quite aimlessly for a while today..and guess what was the biggest national news today covered for nearly two hours live in all channels(im talking the biggest news channels NDTV, TIMES Now CNN India and so on)

Little boy falls into tube well, and is rescued after 60 hrs..AMAZING!!!

As far as i know, it is probably worth mentioning in a headline or something, but a two hour national coverage live of an operation which mainly focused on a hole and some ppl going in and out(for the dirty minds like me..has nothign to do with what you are thinking!!)

I wonder whats with the media today, are they running out of news?? or is it yet another "American" influence of making everything seem absolutely exaggerated, like the red alert all the time!I swear i saw a whole live coverage there on a kid(little lamb not human) caught in a wire mesh and ppl trying to free it for 45 mins!!!

I dont see a point to news when everything has to be "BREAKING NEWS" and then turns out to be a cow gettign stuck in a giraffe or something(bad example tho, i would love to see that!!:D) but news itself is becoming so "entertaining" for every inane activity that i see no actual analysis being made anymore! Everything is about selling today i guess, where a tsunami toll is a by liner and laloo yadav prasad announcing chai in a mud pot on trains makes a two hour show!

P.S : I wanted to make a red layout and how best than to put a dark angel on it :)

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Media Blues

Salaam Bombay!

I have not been in the blogging circle for a bit for a lot of reasons, work and probably a numb feeling of what happened over the week..i couldnt get myself to realise what the hell was going on, i went through feel anger, hatred, helplessness, fear, sadness and a whole bunch of emotions..and finally at the end of it all, after so many days of reading news items all over..and all that..there is one emotion in me :-

Humility - I used to go on about what a stuck up place Mumbai was..it probably still is, and i will probably never go there inspite of being all over India and the world..but today Mumbai and its ppl have shown me what they can be, and I offer a humble salute to them all, makes my heart swell with pride, pride of a nation, pride in its people, pride of my nationality, i could go on, but i will stop with this..

SALAAM BOMBAY..Mera Bharath Mahan(however corny ppl think that is, I am proud to say it today!)

P.S (added later): I did forget..that probably was not my last layout for a while after all heh, but considering i have been away for week, its probably a while :D

P.S. #2 : this has nothing to do with the current media coverage or our intelligence inefficiency(BAD I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E BAD BAD), just a personal feeling

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Salaam Bombay

Yogi's Day out

I decided to go to a place which we used to frequently visit until it became too crowded and too 'hep' for my liking plus it was one of those days where i actually got off work early and we decided to make the best of it! The time i had there was absolutely amazing so no complaints at all there. But i was looking around, remember this is chennai, like summer 42 min deg celcius chennai!This guy had a bloody warm skull cap(i still like to call it monkey cap tho) in the middle of the pub..i was sweating looking at it!!

Sometimes, i really wonder about my conservativeness with fashion..i can stick to a maximum of three colors..black, white and gray..sometimes the occasional blue..and most often sloppy :). but these ppl take it way too far, i want to strip down to my underwear, and these guys wear denim jackets over their t-shirts!!i dont know how they manage it, and every alternate guy is trying pink, thinking they can carry it off!!i guess im still not open enough to accept a lot of today's men-fashion statements, maybe i should get more used to it..like the santro or something!!

This will probably be my last layout too for a while, im not sure how long i am going to carry on saying that either :) hope its 'manly' enough for the ppl around heh, jokin i know you guys loved that layout too so there!

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Yogi's day out