...shoOOonya...

Hi friends .... I am back !! well ... back after a long long time .... in fact i shud write ... back after ages ..... The last time i posted on my blog was in December of 2005 .... the great grand 7 in 1 post ... and then i disappeared .... I disappeared for a long long time ... almost 8 months now ... well ... but i guess i am back ... and i m back for good .... will try to be regular now .... will first chronicle the happenings of the last 8 months in lets say next 8/9 posts and then come to the present and the future ..... A lot has happened in the past one year and more specifically in the last 8 unaccounted months ... But yes ... July 2004 to July 2005 ... a whole year... has been one of the most 'happening' year of my life ... lots and lots have happened .... I will begin with revisiting the period of July to December in this post ... then will take up each subsequent month from Jan to Aug in individual posts ... well ... the first thing to begin in July 2004 was MastishK...

hi friends .... back again after a pretty long and eventful break .... my last appearance was also after a break ..... so i had put in all that happened in the gap ... now that i write after almost 25 days ... a lot has happened ... so will try to key in everything i remember through my daily diary (yes .. i maintain my hard copy paper version of diary too ... ) .... this post is going to be a combined post for past 20-25 days ... so its gonna be a pretty loooooong one...... infact it is going to be a total of 7 posts in 1 ... I will put in Headings in between so that it will look like proper regular posts ... hehe ... I was unable to blog for such a long time due to two reasons, one was being away from campus and subsequently being away from my 'dabba' (PC) ... and the other one being some sort of busy-ness .... busy not doing something special ... busy relaxing , , , busy resting ... ;-) well ... after my last blog on November ... I went on a Diwali Vacation . I ...

hi ... I am back ... after a 2 week break i guess .... I have been away from NITIE Hostel ... away from my room ...most importantly ... away from my "Dabba" ... my PC .... Left campus on 3rd ... went to IIM Indore to participate in IRIS ....returned on 8th ... went home .... whole week ... diwali vacation .... simply sleeping ... watching TV ... eating ghar ka khana and diwali ki mithai .... The trip to IIM I was fun .... their new campus 22KM away from City situated on a plataeu over a small hill .... temperatures really down ....for a Mumbai'kar like me ... it was real cold .... so i eventually caught some cold ....and that cold has not left me yet .... i guess it will not leave me before i return from Ahmedabad where i will be going to participate in their event MICAnvas. About IRIS ... it was a fine event ... we were a team of around 16 from NITIE ... I participated in quite a few games ... reached finals of a few and eventually got bailed out ... hehe ...

The Complete Collection of "Arbit Choudhury" India's First Ever B-schol comic Character You have read about the making of Arbit and also about the making of the comic strips. Here is the complete collection of Arbit Choudhury Comic Strips till date. . . . Keep smiling and have a wonderful day . . . . . . shoOOonya . . . Feedback : hemantkumarjain@gmail.com

hi friendzz . . . Well ... I finally managed to do it .... Yesterday I donated Blood .... for the first time in my life ..... There was a Blood Donation drive conducted by the Rotaract Club of NITIE and I was the third person in the early morning to do it. There have been occasions in rthe past when i got a chance to do this noble activity but missed every time. This time I had decided ... come what may ... I would definately do it ... And I did. October 27th, 2004 .... goes down in History (my personal history i mean ...) as the day when shoOOonya first donated blood. (Fortunately I have not yet seen the day when I received blood). Frankly it was a very nice experience. to donate blood adn to know that someday this same blood would be instrumental in saving someone's life .... Even you should do it ..... Facts About Blood and Blood Donation • Just one person’s donated blood can help save as many as three people’s lives. • The ave...

hi friendzz ... In my last two post I had talked about how the character sketch of Arbit was developed .... Let me take the discussion further ... the most crucial part ... developing the comic strips ... Mission Impossible II: Comic Character to Comic Strip First Things First : Idea Generation a). Think of original ideas. Days and Nights were spent pondering over humour in common B-school situations, application of management funda in real life and so on. b). Take ideas from the environments. Ideas were taken from friends and classmates. c). Test ideas on Humour scale. Ideas were presented to a test audience, for their feedback. Ratings were taken and finally all ides were ranked. The Making of the Comic Strip – The Art Work – The Hard Work a). Visualize the setting. Common B-school environs were visualized.. canteen, library, class, stairs and so on. b). Draw draft with pencil. (This req'd loads of talent . . . . ) c). Refine Draft. The dr...

hi friendzz . . . In my last post i wrote about the character sketch and visual sketch development of Arbit . . . Let me show you the first visual appearances of Arbit in informal, semi-formal and fully formal wear. . . With these images in mind ... with the Character ready ... we were heading for a new battle .... the making of the comic strips !! Next blog on the "Making of the Comic Strips" . . . shOOonya . . .