Artworks in pastels

I had an old pack of oil pastels which i had never looked at ... so when i started to devote my free time on my art work , i wanted to experiment with different types of medium and colors..I derieved inspiration from the internet and thought of giving Oil pastels a shot :)

Luckily working with oil pastels was not difficult and the outcome was great. Below are few of my Oil pastel creations


Although i got inspiration from net , all these pieces are made by me.

Ripple of desire

I feel within me a ripple of desire

There is a lot of self faith and a lot of fire

I know i can get whatever i want

Coz i am a person who is sane and sound

This ripple within wont let me rest

And would push me to become better n best

The world is my stage and i m here to perform

There is a lot to do before the curtains go down

The Poverty Well

I was walking through a street this morning

When i saw a poor kid on roadside crying n mourning

It seemed that he had no place to dwell

And it was quite evident that he was deep in the poverty well

Though the sight was quite thought provoking

But all i could do was to continue walking

Coz i was getting late to catch my bus

Hence I accelerated my steps and walked on thus

But while i was waiting at my bus stop

The misery of that child still crossed my thoughts

I was ashamed of my ignorant behaviour

And pleaded for mercy from the supreme saviour

Elevator or Stairs???

Hey folks , after experimenting with a tearjerker song and the public display of my sketching histronics , i now present to you a real life incident which has a inherent learning attached to it.

This incident is not an old one. It was a sunny May morning, my bus was in my office campus at 8:15am (our driver is quite punctual u see :) ). I was following the usual routine of walking from Bus bay area to my Tower. As always i swiped my card to the ground floor attendence tracker and rushed to the elevator. Though i am on a dieting spree , my laziness prevented me to utilize the staircase till 2nd floor. I boarded the elevator , and mind you this elevator is famous for its temperament :). Its "Out of service" most of time , just like our cricketers :). I was all alone in the elevator and just as the elevator's door were almost closed, i got shock of my life.Out of the blue the Elevator's power supply was switched off. I had never experienced such a situation before but then there is always a first time:).

Fortunately there was a slight opening between the elevator door , through which i could peep.I tried opening the doors but nothing seemed to favouring me .To my rescue a girl came to the elevator and all i could say to her from the opening was "It is stuck!". She helped me and we were able to open the elevtor gates huge enough for my escape.

After this adventerous experience i took the road not taken (staircase in this situation:) ) and reached my cube. I was retrospecting the whole incident when i got a "Good Morning" mail from my friend.He is famous for sending these sweet and meaningful morning mails that really kick start your day.

But this mail was quite special coz it said:-
Hard work is like the stairs and Luck is like a lift.Lift may fail sometimes but whatever may be the occasion, stairs will always get you to the top.

I couldn't interpret if the incident was a teaching in disguise to me,was it a divine message to me.I am still searching the implication of the incidence and would like to know your take on it :)

But a simple lesson to all of you : Take stairs instead of Lifts coz (1) It's a good workout (2) I got a helping hand but one is not always lucky :).

Sketching ..another facet of Shruti :)

Sketching has always attracted me ever since my childhood. I can attribute it to my DNA as my Aunt and Mom love sketching too . I have made a couple of oil paintings , but always felt more comfortable with sketching , coz it involves less hassel n time :). I havn't sketched anything since a long time , but would like to share few of my Celeb sketches with all of you.

Safar chalta raha

Rukh kara hamne jis aur
Woh raasta hi badal gaya

Saanjh hone main waqt tha
Par hamara saaya humse juda hua

Rah main rahgeer toh bahut mile
Aisa koi na mila jo umar bhar saath chale

Par hamne bhi safar jaari rakha
Aur manzilon ki talaash main jahaan parkhaa

Its all bout EXPERIENCE baby

Experience is like a midas touch in IT industry and in almost all walk of life. If you have it ; everyone acknowledges you , listens to you and is awed by you . If on the other side you are new , fresh or layman you really have to make your way in this big world.

This article is no critical discrimination amongst 'Experienced professionals' to
'Inexperienced folks' , but its just my point of view of the whole set up.

There is no denying fact that there are still people who will welcome the fresh lot , but majority still judges you by the experience you have in your kitty. I have a personal experience to back my story. I was a usual Project Engineer sometime back. Doing the usual coding , testing , support work in a project. After a long stint in that project i was bored of my job. I craved for change and even asked for a release to my manager , who assured me that he would let me free after sometime. While i was on my lookout for something interesting a got an invite by this Innovative and Challenging group within my company. Initially i was surprised by the luncheon invite , but later thought of giving it a try. The luncheon turned out to be interesting and i was told that the group was searching for fresh and young people for expanding their business. The group was already a good revenue generator for the Organisation and they were expanding. I was mesmerised by their words and thought that 'this was the change'.

I told my manager that i would like to be released asap to join this group. He too kept his word and soon i was a part of this innovative group. I was anxiously waiting for assignments (although i knew i had to hone myself a lot to be in sync with the other members and i googled a lot for self development too) . Initially i was offered few proposals , but somehow nothing materialised (the reasons are still unknown to me ). But i was quite spirited about my decison and thought that the wait was worth all the work that i would be getting soon.

Days went by and now the feeling of anxiety sank within me . I had very few acquaitances in the group , most of whom were in onsite. I started sending weekly reminders to my manager who was in US. He would assured me that they are hunting for a fitment for me , but nothing positive really happened.

To my surprise the group underwent a huge re-organisation and all the hierarchies were restructured. By now i had spent 4 long workless months on Bench. I was shattered but still had a little hope . I was told that i would be reporting to a new supervisor after the re-org.I was least aware that soon hell will broke loose on me. When i spoke to the new supervisor, i was made aware of the fact that i stood nowhere in the group , since they required a whole lot of experience . I was told upfront to seek some other oppurtunity in the company outside this group,and after spending an entire workless quarter i was asked to start from scratch.

Its true that Bench is not a curse in our industry and many people have spent even more time on bench than me.Its also true that there are areas which demand experience and can't bargain their job with less experienced talent .But during this whole episode i ask myself and to every reader of the blog "What was my fault?" Was my blind trust on my initial manager the culprit? Is switching fields within organisation like ours is not that easy , coz you will be striked off on the grounds of experience ? All these questions keep coming back to me , and i hope i would get the answer to them sooner or later.

This article is not intended to offend anyone and i hope that would be taken in the right spirit.



Just wanna end this on a lighter note : Before saying no to anyone less experienced think about once "Kyunki aap bhi kabhi inexperienced the" :)