Okay so I was sitting idle this afternoon in my room and suddenly remembered George Clooney's speech from the movie 'Up In The Air'. I decided that, this note tonight, I shall start with that speech.
"How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you're carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life... you start with the little things. The shelves, the drawers, the knickknacks, then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your TV... the backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. You go bigger. Your couch, your car, your home... I want you to stuff it all into that backpack. Now I want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office... and then you move into the people you trust with your most intimate secrets. Your brothers, your sisters, your children, your parents and finally your husband, your wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend. You get them into that backpack, feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other to live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We are sharks."
Anyways, here is a picture of mine taken by Sobitri at his place, last saturday. He has got through IBM, so we arranged a little get together. The beard has given me a Johnny Depp-look.
Okay, on a second thought, maybe a-bit-less-good-looking-than-Johnny-Depp-look, perhaps.
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What you see in the above two pictures is me trying to apply palmistry on Sid, for like, thousandth time, in our five years-or-something endeavour. He, for obvious reasons and as always, doesn't have a clue to whatever I am saying or murmuring to myself, or, in odd occasions trying to tell him how beautiful his wife will look like (Provides that he gets married, ofcourse).
Above picture is taken by Nath, after he fumbled with the camera for like 5 minutes for this shot. From left, Sobitri, Sabyasachi, me and Sid.
Shot above is taken by Dippo. He joined us at 6.30 PM. From left Sabya, Sobitri, Sid, me, Nath and Subhankar. All of us look happy here.
Anyways, right now I'm listening to 'Shankar kare, damaru baje', a song by Ajay Chakraborty. In my playlist, I have 'Yaad piya ki aaye' by Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and 'Albela sajan aayo re' from the movie 'Hum dil de chuke sanam'.
And after typing the above line I played five moves of online chess tournament games in chess.com.
...with which I am going to sign off tonight. Ciao. :)
"How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you're carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life... you start with the little things. The shelves, the drawers, the knickknacks, then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your TV... the backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. You go bigger. Your couch, your car, your home... I want you to stuff it all into that backpack. Now I want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office... and then you move into the people you trust with your most intimate secrets. Your brothers, your sisters, your children, your parents and finally your husband, your wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend. You get them into that backpack, feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other to live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We are sharks."
Anyways, here is a picture of mine taken by Sobitri at his place, last saturday. He has got through IBM, so we arranged a little get together. The beard has given me a Johnny Depp-look.
Okay, on a second thought, maybe a-bit-less-good-looking-than-Johnny-Depp-look, perhaps.
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A few more of those pictures taken on that day, I thought, should find their way here, too.
What you see in the above two pictures is me trying to apply palmistry on Sid, for like, thousandth time, in our five years-or-something endeavour. He, for obvious reasons and as always, doesn't have a clue to whatever I am saying or murmuring to myself, or, in odd occasions trying to tell him how beautiful his wife will look like (Provides that he gets married, ofcourse).
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Above picture is taken by Nath, after he fumbled with the camera for like 5 minutes for this shot. From left, Sobitri, Sabyasachi, me and Sid.
[ Picture Deleted ]
Anyways, right now I'm listening to 'Shankar kare, damaru baje', a song by Ajay Chakraborty. In my playlist, I have 'Yaad piya ki aaye' by Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and 'Albela sajan aayo re' from the movie 'Hum dil de chuke sanam'.
And after typing the above line I played five moves of online chess tournament games in chess.com.
...with which I am going to sign off tonight. Ciao. :)
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