Monday, June 13, 2005

Another supine thought

There are not many instances I remember from Arts and Craft classes in Loyola.
In fact I remember just one for a reason quite impertinent to art/craft.
We were supposed to bring our own craft material to make a soft toy...Supposedly a
woolen doll.

"Have you brought wool ?" The crafts teacher asked Anand Krishnan.

"No Mam , I forgot"

"Did you forget your lunch today ?" (This is the common classic line from Teachers Quotes & Hallmark's Ironic Greetings Section)

"No Mam"

"Then how come you forgot the wool , if you got your lunch ?"
(This line is from Trick Questions to Harrass Teenagers - 1.0 )

"My Mom packed it for me".

By now this debate had attracted the attention of the whole class.

"So your Mom didn't give you wool?"

Anand thought for a while & replied , "My Mom is not a sheep."
(The latest entry to Answers to Trick Questions 1.0 )

Anand Krishnan did not do well in his craft tests , but his peers still remember him for that answer.

Yesterday , my colleagues and I rented out a car to go to Yarra Valley to see the Australian country side. The country side near Melbourne is beautiful. Tall trees , cool wind , winding roads , fresh air & the Australian dream as someone communicated his perspective to me - the happy family in a quarter acre house with a wooden fencing, a beautiful garden, two cars, children and the family dog....just like the drawing in our first lessons in art class in school. All the houses had window sills with rectangular glass panes.Houses had a slanting roofs just as Mrs. Daffre explained it to us - draw the triangle first, followed by two parallel lines and close the figure. Not to forget the mountain background with the beautiful sunset.

Yesterday , I remmembered Mrs. Daffre's Art Class at Loyolas ; for all the nice reasons. For many Art classes most of us (including Anand Krishnan )drew this one...Simplest to draw and yet so difficult.

P.S. - We made dolls allright , but forget woolen...They would fall more in the 'voodoo' category

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Right mayte ?

K J said...

Well...quite close...but Mrs Daffre wouldnt be thrilled.

Anonymous said...

Hey KJ nice blog....felt nice to read it and yeah i totally agree with you somethings do make us nostalgic...Keep up the good work.

Anonymous said...

Good Blog.

Risha said...

nice blog...houses and fences outside India are really like our childhood drawings :)

-Risha

ams said...

Heyy, I am waiting for ur blog on scuba diving.

Risha said...

U DID SCUBA DIVING!!!!

Anonymous said...

hi kapil...this is Divya.Rao from coimbatore..i needed ur mail id to keep in touch..looks like u aren't using ur old one..
Congrats on ur future Proposal..!
i didn't know how else to contact u..

K J said...

hey,

My email id is kapilmistry@gmail.com
I did not have any way to contact you either , so I hope you read this comment
and send me a mail.

Cheers,
Kapil

ams said...

u anywhere?