thesis, pagoda, internship

Its been really long since i have written so i have got lots to share.
Well let me begin with my thesis jury. My jury went quite well. For the 1st time in my entire 5 yrs, i had my sheets & model ready a day before the jury..... i was so proud of myself. The jurors liked my project but as usual thought i could have done much more. Well with d jury dates pre-poned, that was the best i could do. At least i was happy with my thesis project!!!!! That's more important.
My technical viva were okay!!!
Then there was pp viva which was more like....... just a talk!!!! The juror just flipped some pages of my work done in office & chatted for a while. That was it....... my pp viva.

Then we had this long break for pp paper. So in that time we decided to go to see the Pagoda at Gorai.
We took the boat to Essel World & before essel world is the Pagoda. Its the tallest hallow pagoda in the world. Its not yet complete.......interior parts are still 2 be done. There were a lot of people who had come to see the pagoda. The pagoda looked great, but d ventilators which can b seen spoils the whole beauty. Inside the pagoda was also cool. I guess even if u wisper the ego can be heard. Then we walked down to the gorai beach,.... which was stinking. So without waiting there we walked to the jetty....at tooka boat home.

On 6th April, i joined office again. For a week i had very little work 2 do and now i have lots on my list. Oh.... & now we have shifted to our new office...... its really cool...but i still don't have an LCD screen. the other half of the office is still getting done......actually its almost done now.

We also celebrated Uttam sir's 75th birthday on the 8th. We got him a old fashioned type nib pen which also has a cartridge with it. Also, we quickly made 2 folders for & put some papers in it he could use it to sketch. We printed some of the scanned sketches, which he had drawn on the cover of the folders. Also we put a small card with all our signatures on it. Sir loved the gift. He said he would keep the pen on his new cabin table. We also had brilliant cake brought by the status hotel owner, who is a friend of sir. it was great fun that day!!!!!

Another interesting thing that came up was, that we won the war memorial competition in Bhopal. Everybody was delighted. I had made the models for the project, during my internship. Sir was so happy that he announced that this would be his last project & that the rest of the projects can be handled by us.
Also celebrated Dad's birthday on the 17th of April. He got a bouquet of flowers, sent to him by some student. Mom got 2 pastries & i made a card for Dad.

Well that's all for now. Thought i must write this blog before more things pile up!!!

THESIS THESIS THESIS ......and technical too !!!

Have a lot of work to do!!! atleast thesis is on track & i'm quite happy with how its going.....just starting technicals today!!! i want to finish technicals completely by 24th feb (thats our coll submission date). so that i dont have to do any changes after that except a few small ones. then i can concentrate on thesis completely.

well my last project in office was also really gud. i made the models for the war memorial competetion. the models & sheets were looking really really gud. i truely feel we should get the project. it was a very simple design witha really deep & gud concept.

OFFICE

Office has been a lot of fun. we had this competition work for which we had to stay in office till late everyday. it was a golf academy & clubhouse at Kharghar. but it was more fun when we stayed all night in office on the last day. most of the work was done by then, but the printing was taking long. so we were cracking silly jokes & decorating the model & just laughing at silly stuff. we slept on hydrolic chairs. each person had 2 chairs to themselves which kept slipping all night. but finally the sheets & models looked great & i was proud that i was a part of the project. i had made the master plan which had the road, cart path, parking & a lot of hatching (rendering). i also made some views on sketchup which were really well composed by Shona as thumbnail sketches on a whole A3 sheet. Uttam sir liked the sheet a lot. i did learn a lot from this competition. now there is another competition coming up. its a war memorial at Bhopal. that is also a exciting one & im sure ill learn a lot from it too.
On Friday i went for the Mario Miranda exhibition with office friends. it was really hilarios & we were all glad to attend it. we all bought postcards of his sketches .Shona called up & asked us to pick up 2 packs (6 big sketches) of his which were on sale, for all at office on there behalf. that was really nice of them & a good gift for all of us.

so on the whole i love my internship & hope to continue in this office after my exams. hopefully the new office will be ready by then.

ARNALA FORT

well long time since i wrote, actually there were a lot of things happing!!! let me start with the arnala fort trip. after a long time we guys (d 5 of us) meet up!! it was gr8. we shared our office experiences, clicked some real good pics at the fort & had a good butter chichen lunch (which mom made). we found a nice cool place for lunch. best part was getting into the boat. we had to go upto knee deep water to get into the boat. but it was a gr8 experience. arnala fort is on an island & the island had a good beach on the other side. we had a lot of fun out there!! on the whole it was agr8 trip with just the 5 of us on our own!!!

d attack

lighting a candle at the taj. saw the simley created by the 2 stars and the cresent moon right above the dome of the taj. it looked beautiful symbolising that even though the taj was put into flames its beauty will still remain.

d rally.

model for office