Hey, it’s Christmas! So————Me-rrrrrr-yyyyy Christ-maaaaas tooooooo allllllll!
The resounding thoughts of Jesus Christ along with the birth of the great scientist Sir Isaac Newton make this day the most celebratory. The supposed Santa Claus is a symbol of happiness and expectation from the kids. On Christmas Eve, he, with his poke of gifts for children, drops them into the houses from their chimneys and so begins a new day of giving and loving in our this mundane lifestyle. Christmas takes us away from our normal routine and brings to us a wholesome routine that keeps us felicitous for a considerable amount of time.
I forgot to tell you, my birthday’s today, the 25th of December! That’s tomorrow! Let’s see what can be done. Some hopes of a sumptuous “lunch” are alive—but it’s totally “insubstantial” to me. According to me, nothing’s to be done or bought. All clear?
Friday, December 25, 2009
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Saturday, October 24, 2009
The Drab Monotony of Habit
Oh! I’m just tired of this austere routine—study, study, study! Play, play, play! Is there nothing else other than all these? Who likes such a kind of a daily timetable? We have been bound with fetters to our humdrum routine and it is most unlikely to get out of such a mess before reaching a “ripe” age. Sometimes I think of surmounting all barriers and breaking free into the “meadows” of “William Henry Davies”. I can guarantee at least 60 out of 100 would like rid the drab monotony of habit from their lives. (I recall I had already indited earlier on this subject.) Two or more trips to the countryside per month would benefit us a lot rather than sitting in front of the idiot box all day or scratching heads at your workplace or even getting choked in the suffocating atmosphere of the kitchen. Instead, we might be able to have a look into the bucolic side of the world.
Aare life hai to jeeo, khulke jeeo!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Maha Astami
The day started with my brass hats nagging me to get up; it was already nine when I got up. A "Panjabi" and a "Pyjama" were all that were needed to gather at the Mandap just to deliver the so-called "Pushpanjali". A lousy job for an atheist! The night saw nothing very "isspecial" at the marquee but only the moppets' boogeying at the music being played and cracking the crackers; without much interference of the "gun-powdered cap roll" guns the night spelt serenity.
Nothing much to speak about but "Something" wishes its readers a very happy "Mahashtami"!
Subho Bijoya
Subho Bijaya everyone! I earnestly apologize for the post being published quite late on the 3rd day after Bijoya Dashami. The day seemed lachrymose for our fervent believers who could not contain the rolling of tears down their saddened cheeks and had to wipe them off every moment. But they comfort themselves with the thought of the return of Goddess Durga every year, the mother of all Hindu Goddesses. The people, mostly youngsters, accompany Goddess Durga to the immersion site with boisterous celebrations and incessant beating of drums and submerse her with shouts of "Durgs Maiki - Jay" which still keep reverberating through our ears. Atheists too, devote their time to experience the divine delight behind watching the "aratis" and observing all the pertinent décors of the Puja Pandals with their respective families and above all, the statue of Maa Durga. Doing "pranam" to our brass hats and "kolakuli" with our middlings are sine qua nons to Bijoya; fulfilling them is a bit tedious (frankly speaking!). ADIEU Maa Durga and sayonara everyone!
Maha Navami
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Maha Saptami
Yes, it's the 1st day of the Durga Puja '09! A dreary morning it was with only a few people occupying the Puja marquee. With my friend, I reported there by noon; only to see ten or eleven people lazily occupying the chairs and chatting with each other. Competitions and programmes were conducted at night (although I could not devote much time to watch all those "spectacles"). At night I went to see the "pujas" at Mahananda, Sanhati More and many others. Unlike all other years, this year's Saptami was not that interesting; moreover, I was amazed to see the Puja Mandap having a paucity of "devotees" on which day? That too the25th of September, Saptami! This post didn't flow swiftly as such, isn't it? Yes, I could not acquire much things to tell you but I indited what struck my mind. Waiting to see the Mandap teeming with people on the 26th, Mahastami or Maha Astami.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Wallowing in Nonchalance
The Half Yearly exams have finally ended! What a relief! I still have my books piled up on my study table that are recently necessitating proper care. So what? It’s the Puja Holidays man! Just relax yourself on the couch and have a “bindaas” enjoyment of the boob tube. Anything else? I have been loath to read books containing delightful stories until today; this might be the first time I have borrowed a book from my friend; and it is “The Alchemist”. I was so interested in reading the book that I already finished an unprecedented thirty-two pages in half-an-hour and I am proud of myself having read (not completely) an International Bestseller; although I have the unabridged Sherlock Holmes tome, I have only read the “Hound Of The Baskervilles” and have greatly enjoyed it. In class V or something, of Sherlock Holmes (abridged), I had read “The Red-Headed League”, “The Speckled-Band” (the best rated story of Sherlock Holmes which I too have rated the best) and “The Copper Beeches”. I have no personal gizmos to spend time with but I have my faithful companion, my computer, who never leaves me. Surfing the internet might be a good pastime. I have not yet started the Puja shopping but plan to start in a few days.
To aestivate the summertime during Autumn annoys all. Going out under this scorching heat is truly tiring. I would rather stay nocturnal, brother; I would prefer to not come out of my house during the matutinal hours.
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