A fresh new look!

Phew! Its almost 5 am. Working on the new template for the past 7 hours.
So how is the new look?? One thing is certain, it's fresh!!
and also lot of things here are completely customized.
A few reasons made me change my older template to this one.A major reason being that I favour a 3 column template more than others simply because it can pack so much and make navigation so much easier for the readers.
Now the best part of the new template is the header which I created from scratch using photoshop.How's the vishalakshi mantap background?
Pretty huh?
The basic theme is called Maggo from Themelib.It took me some doing to convert this business template to a happy fresh look of a blog.

See the original template here.

This is the most I have spend in a template(I mean time).All the images here had to be hosted, the text fonts and colour had to be manipulated.Size of the header etc redone. So basically a lot of work for a day.
But still a lot is still to be done. I plan to change the basic blue body to light green which will blend with the header(again a lot of job in photoshop).
But enough for a day.Will catch some sleep before heading for Ashram!!!

Let the comments keep coming.If something is not working or doesn't look good please inform me.

Seriously funny.

Alelele dekho, Bilkul apne papa pe gaya hai. Wahi aankhen, wahi chehra........

The real magic of Photoshop!

I feel that in my previous post I have not done enough justice in praising the power which photoshop yields.So let me shut up and let the video do the talking....

The magic of Photoshop!

Ever since I saw a few things which could be done with Photoshop I have been fascinated with it.You could do almost seemingly impossible things with it. Attach someone's head to yours,change your hair colour,remove all scars and blemishes from your face,reduce weight, lose fat from areas where you want a toned up look etc. etc.

I agree that's its not a child's play to understand all the tech jargon there and apply it but surely a little knowledge of Photoshop can go a long way in the way we handle our photos and images.Specially for people who write regular blogs and are net savvy , posting and publishing text along with images , a little touch of Photoshop magic can do wonders.

This post is inspired by a very popular article which I got while in Digg : You can check out the article here:

Now time to show off. here are a few things which I did:

Photo within a photo:

Vishalakshi Mantap before and after 

 

And see how I made Guruji soak in the Rain.

 

Before

 

After

Are you impressed?

P.S. There are a couple of things I have put up in the sidebar. One is the wowzio tag cloud(the animated Blogumus was totally disfunctional as thankfully pointed out by Anand) and the other(i feel it's really catchy) is the recent posts widget which automatically parses and displays the image in the post. If there's no image, dearest guruji is always there.
So how do you like it?? Hm?

How we did not pay!!

As soon as we did it , I knew that it would make a very interesting narrative.
It was about 3 am on my birthday and it so happened that Devang Bhaiya was  with us so he suggested we go to Cafe Coffee Day at that time.Now the only joint open at that time was in R.T.Nagar so we went there.
There were 7 of us.Ram,Kapil,Bajaj,Vinod,Pankaj,Devang Bhaiya and me.
We took some drinks,chocolate e.t.c. No one was in a mood to eat anything so we just thought of drinking something as we were there.
Devang Bhaiya ordered a cold chocolate,I favored 1 cappucino and the rest ordered theirs.




Now the story starts here...
The fun began when the waiter served everything to everyone except Devang Bhaiya's cold coffee,so it began to show on his face.
Now the coffee arrived,though a bit late and we were more than ready to forgive, but the real trouble started when the bill which we got included Chicken Tikka and Chicken sandwich. It was not at all palatable to us considering the fact that there were 3 AOL teachers and rest hardcore volunteers.So as Devang Bhaiya put it " Isne galat jagah pe haat mara hai".

We told him to change the bill and give us our real bill which they promptly did. But now Devang Bhaiya was pissed off enough to not get them away so lightly.He calculated everything in his mind along with the taxes and it came out 384 but the bill said 394 so again the bill had to be changed which they shamelessly did.

Now the real real fun begins here...

After so much hassel,they still could not provide the original bill saying that the printer is not working .Now Devang Bhaiya got really fired up and with full awareness started to work things out(read: give them trouble).The biller (or whatever you call his position) came and started to counter argue.His statement basically said "We are so much busy and mistakes happen and we are not God!"


Devang Bhaiya gave a debit card to pay the bill.The waiter took the card only to return saying that they are not accepting cards because the card machine is not working. That was the last straw to Break the Camel's Back.

I promtly showed them the back of the menu which said "All major credit cards accepted".Devang Bhaiya said "We only have card, we don't have cash,how could we have known that your machine is not working, We are also not God!"

The manager was pissed off enough to do anything to see our backs.He politely said "OK sir,You need not pay! here is your bill".

 Devang Bhaiya

In this way we ate(drank),did not pay, and came out with a bill.
All perfectly legal .We would not have stretched so much but as Devang Bhaiya said :"Usne galat aadmi ke sath galat jagah pe haat mara!!!"