The Rebelle blog

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length' ~ Robert Frost Felt that happiness when things start falling into place? I never understood how things were in place the first time or how is it that they were being in the right place! Who decided which place was better? It is more out of cynicism that all of us decide to ignore the many signs that stress ourselves, filled with tiny anonymous stress pangs. Everything we work for ends up being categorised as having done for self, or others. The best part of this feeling is that it makes us feel in control of situations and events that otherwise as some would say are pre-defined. Enough of my cryptic talk here. Let me get to the happier part. I have had the most amazing, work-filled long week and I'm not complaining about it because I can't. It gives me immense happiness to be working for something I truly believe in. My design philosophy and inclinations have always been very clear and focused about inclu...

Working five days a week and relaxing on saturday and hanging out with friends on sunday might be the ideal way to spend one's time. With me, I always work round-the-clock on weekdays mostly because I design rapidly, continuously and keep on altering even till my professor says he likes it! And, then the saturdays are spent on working on the details. These days, since a year-and- half I have been only and religiously working towards my undergrad thesis on aviation museum. The sundays somehow focus me back on some totally different issue regarding the design....its the form(most of the times)...will people walk about 100m while moving around the space? Will they climb 40 steps to enter the museum? What happens with the differently-abled? Are there too many Ramps in the museum? Strangely, and surprisingly one of my architect friends suggested that I should not bother with providing barrier-free access and should not spend too much time on thinking about the differently-abled. W...