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13 August, 2013

Have I used the left in the right manner?


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Today's topic is Left Hander.

Today is Left-Handers Day. More HERE and HERE and HERE.

One hundred famous Left Handers HERE.

Famous Indian Lefties HERE.


Happy Drawing! :)

12 August, 2013

Vegetables


VEGETABLE

Nutritious vegetables

Gooseberries
onions

My favourites!


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Today's topic is Vegetables.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
~ Jim Davis

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
~ Michelle Obama

Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.
~ Robert Mugabe

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
~ Doug Larson

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
~ Gertrude Stein


I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables.
~ Salma Hayek

Soups are a great way to introduce a lot of vegetables to kids. Stir-fries, too, because they contain so many different shapes and colors.
~ Emeril Lagasse

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.
~ Bobby Flay

A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.
~ Emeril Lagasse

I don't really like vegetables. But I'll eat them.
~ Miranda Lambert

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.
~ Martin Yan

I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount of vegetables. I have my own garden, so vegetables have always been a big part of my life. I love broccoli. I love fresh beets. It's not all about the fried chicken and the biscuits.
~ Paula Deen

So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
~ Paul McCartney



Happy Drawing! :)

11 August, 2013

MARKET

BIRYANI

RAMADAN

Idea Munusamy!


Bangles shopping


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Today's topic is Market.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.
~ Jim Rohn

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
~ Warren Buffett

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
~ Mitt Romney

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
~ Warren Buffett

I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
~ Keira Knightley

Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.
~ Tom Vilsack

Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.
~ Jeffrey Kluger


Happy Drawing! :)

10 August, 2013

Mouth Watering Biryani of Hyderabad..liked so much that....


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Today's topic is Biryani.

Eating biryani with a spoon is like making love through an interpreter.
~ Quoted by Jawaharlal Nehru


Happy Drawing! :)

08 August, 2013

Ramadan Fasting & Prayers


FASTING

CROCODILE

SOUP

Fast?


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Today's topic is Fasting.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
~ Tariq Ramadan

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
~ Tariq Ramadan

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
~ Naguib Mahfouz

Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
~ Tariq Ramadan

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.
~ David Blaine

Happy Drawing! :)

07 August, 2013

crocy


croc-o-doodle!

My first post on Chumma Draw! Kept postponing owing to either not finding a pen or a paper.. Finally I picked up a nice black pen and a brown paper envelope!



I am shedding real tears for Durga's plight!


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Today's topic is Crocodile.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
~ Winston Churchill

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.
~ Bill Haley

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.
~ Steve Irwin
Happy Drawing! :)

06 August, 2013

Veg Soup


Soup!

WIP as am too tired to colour this.
Hot tomato soup a cure for my cold!

My Fav Soup!


Healthy veggie Soup for all Cdrawers


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Today's topic is Soup.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven

I live on good soup, not on fine words.
Moliere

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
~ Dylan Moran

Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.
~ Ina Garten

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
~ Abraham Maslow

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
~ Moliere

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.
~ Morgan Freeman

Happy Drawing! :)

05 August, 2013

meal

friendship

My fav complete meal!

Elneer!
It is fascinating to watch one being chopped. I plan to learn the art of chopping a tender coconut some day!

The typical South Indian combo meal!


My favorite meal Idli


McDonalds Meal


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Today's topic is Meal.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
~ William S. Burroughs

I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.
~ Louis C. K.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
~ Melody Beattie

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
~ Calvin Trillin

Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.
~ Ali Landry

Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
~ Samuel Richardson

Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that's baked instead of fried.
~ Hugh Jackman

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.
~ Maria Sharapova

I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.
~ Paloma Faith

I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.
~ Lena Dunham

Happy Drawing! :)

03 August, 2013

Pop(Art)Corn


And my 'Beer' here

POPCORN

pop corn


P o p C o r n!

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Today's topic is Popcorn.

"Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.
~ David Gerrold

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.
~ Don Cheadle

I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame.
~ Julie Burchill

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.
~ Kirsten Dunst

Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.
~ Kelly Lynch

My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
~ Ozwald Boateng

In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.
~ Michio Kaku

It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses.
~ Estella Warren


I don't really drink sodas, but when I have popcorn or pizza I need a little. It's the perfect combination.
~ Alessandra Ambrosio

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
~ Fulton J. Sheen



Happy Drawing! :)

02 August, 2013

Beer


BEER

Hic!


Child Bear

If you are wondering what the title means, its what highway shops display outside in big bold letters when they actually serve "chilled beer".

beer

631_Cheers to Beer :P




When I drink...


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Today's topic is Beer.

Today is International Beer Day. More HERE.


He was a wise man who invented beer.
~ Plato

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
~ Johnny Depp

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.
~ Sid Vicious

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
~ Kinky Friedman

Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!
~ Bill Owen

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.
~ Dan Castellaneta

If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.
~ Dave Mustaine

Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
~ Don Marquis

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.
~ Charles Bronson

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.
~ Jay Leno

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
~ Jack Nicholson
Happy Drawing! :)

01 August, 2013

action


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A Double Action treat :P

Check out ARNIE here.

Diggin it

Lots of red soil used for gardening here. 
This is the only action in this quiet laidback pace of life.

ACTION AND REACTION!


Action


Happy Coincidence. I had the reference picture for this sketch, from the Chennai Weekend Artists posts on Pencil Jammers site, on my machine and on my thoughts for a long time. Today I drew. I then saw Chumma Draw's subject for the day! I had not thought of scanning it at all but...



I got into action

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Today's topic is Action.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
~ Albert Einstein

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
~ Dalai Lama

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
~ Mark Twain

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
~ Confucius

I never worry about action, but only inaction.
~ Winston Churchill

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
~ John F. Kennedy

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
~ William Shakespeare

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
~ Napoleon Hill

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~ Dale Carnegie

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
~ Confucius

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
~ Norman Vincent Peale

Action is the foundational key to all success.
~ Pablo Picasso

 

Happy Drawing! :)