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! :)

Happy friendship day all

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus 
http://youtu.be/m1l1u8Zkvb4

Happy Friendship Day!

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Today's topic is Friendship.

Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest. It's about who came, and never left your side.
~ Unknown

Happy Drawing! :)

Pop(Art)Corn

And my 'Beer' here

POPCORN

pop corn

P o p C o r n!

Pl see my Beer illustration here:
http://chummadraw.blogspot.in/2013/08/when-i-drink.html

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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! :)

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

A guy sitting with his girlfriend, drinking beer says, "I love you". Girl asks "Is it you or the beer talking?". Boy replies, "Its me. Talking to my beer.":P

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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! :)

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! :)

cutsrd n jelly

Custard

Dessert

free flowing custard in a bowl.

opened a box of color pencils after years.

How about a Custard Slice?

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Today's topic is Custard.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
~ Lynn Redgrave

Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard
~ Spike Milligan

You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
~ Alexander Pope

Happy Drawing! :)

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The famous Body Builder

Arnie

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Today's topic is Arnold Schwarzeneggar.

The invincible Terminator celebrates his birthday today. More HERE.


Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Happy Drawing! :)

JJ Cale

Cajun Moon

This music man will be missed...

John Weldon Cale

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Today's topic is J J Cale.

More HERE.

Happy Drawing! :)

Blood is...

Bloody squiggly witty tooner

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Today's topic is Blood.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
~ Winston Churchill

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
~ Richard Bach

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
~ William Shakespeare

I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.
~ Charlie Sheen

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
~ Martin Luther

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
~ George S. Patton

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
~ Carl Jung 

Happy Drawing! :)

Artists' DNA

the way the colors mingle & exhibit themselves 

via the artist, it is sheer bliss

Khanfused?

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Today's topic is DNA.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
~ Alexander McQueen

Music is in my DNA!
~ Rihanna

I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.
~ Javier Bardem

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.
~ Kathryn Bigelow

Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
~ Fareed Zakaria

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.
~ Lewis Thomas

With time, fashion has become part of my DNA.
~ Roberto Cavalli

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.
~ Stephen Hawking

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.
~ Richard Dawkins

Happy Drawing! :)

Indira Gandhi's long lost Sister?

Rosalind Franklin

J. D. Bernal called her X-ray photographs of DNA, 

"the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken."

She was a remarkable woman. 

A role model for those who want to pursue science.

Rosalind Franklin, whose contribution to the Double Helix structure of the DNA went unrecognised.

I have depicted her looking at the X-Ray crystallographic image of DNA and the idea of a double helix forming in her mind. (The eventual winners of the Nobel Prize stole her X-Ray films and came up with the structure according to some accounts. Ref: "Double Helix" by Watson and a Biography of Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox, for instance)

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Today's topic is Rosalind Franklin.

25th July was Rosalind Franklin's birthday. More about Rosalind HERE.

Google celebrates DNA scientist Rosalind Franklin's 93rd birthday with a tribute doodle. More HERE.

Thanks to Anil Jagalur for suggesting today's topic.

Happy Drawing! :)

The Tiger Man!

Big  game hunter with a large heart turned conservationist.

For every school kid lucky enough to read his stories, he would be a hero!

The gentleman from Kumaon

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Today's topic is Jim Corbett.

Today is Jim Corbett's birthday. More HERE.

A tiger is a large-hearted gentleman with boundless courage and that when he is exterminated - as exterminated he will be unless public opinion rallies to his support - India will be the poorer by having lost the finest of her fauna.
~ Jim Corbett


Tigers, except when wounded or when man-eaters, are on the whole very good-tempered...Occassionally a tiger will object to too close an approach to its cubs or to a kill that it is guarding. The objection invariably takes the form of growling, and if this does not prove effective itis followed by short rushes accompanied by terrifying roars. If these warnings are disregarded, the blame for any injury inflicted rests entirely with the intruder.
~ Jim Corbett


I had spent many nights in the jungle looking for game, but this was the first time I had ever spent a night looking for a man-eater. The length of road immediately in front of me was brilliantly lit by the moon, but to right and left the overhanging trees cast dark shadows, and when the night wind agitated the branches and the shadows moved, I saw a dozen tigers advancing on me, and bitterly regretted the impulse that had induced me to place myself at the man-eater's mercy. I lacked the courage to return to the village and admit I was too frightened to carry out my self-imposed task, and with teeth chattering, as much from fear as from cold, I sat out the long night. As the grey dawn was lighting up the snowy range which I
was facing, I rested my head on my drawn-up knees, and it was in this position my men an hour later found me fast asleep; of the tiger I had neither heard nor seen anything.
~ Jim Corbett, champawat man-eater 

Happy Drawing! :)

Orion the Hunter

'Hunt'

a character from the medical drama 'Grey's Anatomy' on TV.

he reminds me of Van Gogh

All in d Game in d hunt for US Visa!

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Today's topic is Hunter.

I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.
~ Eva Longoria

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
~ Stephen Gardiner

I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.
~ George Eads

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?
~ John Lewis

In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
~ Carla Bruni

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.
~ Deepak Chopra

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
~ Andy Rooney

Happy Drawing! :)

Save the tiger!

Stripey Royal Beasts

I had a chance to visit Ranthambore tiger reserve last december. We didn't get to see any tigers then because of it being off season for tiger spotting. But we came very close to one, we could hear a deer giving warning signals to other animals. Those few moments we waited quietly and gripped in suspense if the tiger would come face to face with us next second. As they say sometimes fantasy is better than the real thing. Hope to see it someday!

Wild tiger

Leave the wildlife alone!

Dont see them, dont hunt, 

dont capture them to eat, wear, cure illness or display in zoos.

Do not show off to your circle that you spotted/didnt spot one.

Dont even try and protect them or they will vanish for sure.

Dont enter the dense forest at all or cut down their tree-cover.

Thats what makes them WILD.

They are off limits...let me repeat OFF-LIMITS.

If you want to see them so desperately, google. 

Tiger in circus

Personally i m against this .how can we b so mean.they look good in jungles .Wht do you say

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Today's topic is Tiger.

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
~ George Bernard Shaw

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
~ Mao Zedong

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
~ Konrad Adenauer

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.
~ George Foreman

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Happy Drawing! :)