a FAT CARTOONIST &

My Vital Stats after loooooong 16 months....

2009-12-07T05:39:00.004+05:30

It was sheer Horror this morning!
After 16 months, the tape had to be further loosened up
to measure up my vital parts. Here are the staggering facts on my stats :

Neck(52) Chest (138) Abs (139) Widest (129) Hip (83) !!?!??!:((

I am starting out on a regimen today. Half on intake ,

balance on movements of any sort, if body permits....

Boy, am frrrrrustrrrrated :(((

and now, 123 Manmohan Singhs in a row... !

2008-08-03T04:29:00.017+05:30

Heard of KERALA CARTOON ACADEMY ? No ? Then, it is really, high time, my dear friend ..... !

I have come to know that the malayalees are the most die-hard, cohescive blogging community in the world. Likewise, the Kerala Cartoon Academy, definitely, can boast of its uniqueness amongst its indian counterparts which, for all practical purposes, almost cease too exist barring in Karnataka where it is thriving steadily under the leadership of cartoonists Narendra, Panduranga Rao and Gujjarappa.

Why Kerala is so much after Cartoon ? Or is it so, really ? No doubt, the per-capita cartoon production in kerala is way ahead of elsewhere in india. but that need not be , by itself, the spurring element. So, I have decided to give you time to think out suitable reasons and comment by which time, I could remain to be stoically, diplomatically silent, befitting a middle-aged cartoonist from Kerala.

And as decided soon after dashing off the earlier post, I could make short sojourns to neighbourhood teashops - thatttukata, more pejoratively in our language - to watch steaming steamcakes - Putt, less pejoratively here - its grainy hair whitened by the grated cocunut speckles popping out its head from the wooden container funnel while the inexperienced putt pusher at the other end of the funnel gets to have fleeting memories of staaccato periods of chronic unemployment suffered just prior to this job which would turn him into an expert putt-pusher in a matter of days. More about Putt later here, its history, growth, epistemiology, aesthetics in enjoyeating while sucking in a waft of steam through any open nostril of the two you have a la an expert teataster, simple time-tested methods to finish off a 1 foot length Putt in less than 5 minutes in video , as well . That is a promise , folks :)

Coming back to cartoons on way ultimately to our Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh. the Kerala Cartoon Academy have decided to present our premier with 123 caicatures/cartoons drawn on him. The settlement on this 123 was unanimous deciding to pay rich tribute to an issue of the present times, all Malayalees are wonderfully knowledgeable about enough to discuss threadbare, alike. Remember, this 100% literate Kerala has more than 1000 panchayaths , or roughly 5000 in terms of villages, full of archetypal villagers just happy to watch from a distance a sun-burnt, much yellowed, an out and out diffident newspaper dangling in the wayside stall ! So literate, so argumentative, this land of mine !

You can see spattered here and here specimens of Manmohan Singh. Drawn by cartoonists from all walks of life. Meanwhile, for those nostalgic of news from home, here it is...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i7fAoW1jrk

Almost all must have spent at least half a day on the PM's forehead alone and the other half on correctly picking that nucler trajectory without any dent in between. In fact, this cartoonist has still no clue of the possible number of parabolas that can be safely shown in respect of these kind of Nuclear pesonalities. 2 would be too intellectual. Pandal decoraters would vote for upwards of 8 rings. The internationally accepted benchmark appears to be 3 parabolas which most of our cartoonists have luckily adopted in these caricatures.

Have a nice time.

Dietechniques-DAY1.... lights off.. action !

2008-07-31T20:45:00.001+05:30

44 /120kg is never something to flaunt about for a person still working up the stretching exercises to reach that benchmark length, 5' 6". My ideal weight in tonnes should be only .065 and it is more than 6 years since I touched 1.000.

Now, I feel it is very high and heavy time for starting off some kind of reduction programme. In fact, the feeling has been hanging heavily from my school days when I, now feel looking at the group photos and the occasional passports, that I was only very marginally heavier than the rest of them! The daily exercise regimen supervised by my ACHCHAN and the organic foods taken must have kept me from puffing out from the achetypal village boy frame.

Those days are gone along with HIM. I continued to be fat prone. Many regimens were tried, all in absolute vain. Was it a philosophy what I lacked, that proved my undoing ? Possibly. But, no... no, I would not think of them at all.

Instead, I am starting off all again with the simple philosophy that, who knows, I am already in the twilight zone of rather too placid a life and that I shouldn't squander the most precious gift I have been enjoying.

So, here, I go. The sight of the insipid Vegetables from Kochin market, the not happening hours in the mornings thinking of long fogotten yogic asanas learnt fast and tidy from the Sivananda Yoga Centre , Trivandrum in the late 80s, celebrating legendary traditional meals only in my malayalam blog .... all myriad regimen start .... NOW :)

And here are those very vital statistics for the research-minded.. Neck(51) Chest (134) Abs (138) Widest (128) Hip (80) !!?!??!:((