Lancelot's Take

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Been Listening To....


"Chaha tha kya, Paaya hai kya, Humne dekhiye;
Dil mein magar jalte rahe chahat ke diye... "

Just realized how closely it describes my life at this moment. Almost psychic.

Want good food. Landed at Mess@NH,IITKgp.
Want to have fun. Enter OS assignment with submission date tmrw.
Want chocolates. No money.
Want to go on vacation. Hehe, reasons not even needed for why I can't do this one.

And the list just goes on and on.

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Went to college street last week with Load-da.
We were looking for quotations for printing Alankar.
Weird place man!!! Everything was closed and people around helpfully informed us that they would open by tuesday. Big help for us.

Thus rendered jobless, we spent some time browsing through the stalls after Load-da's unceasing search for natoker bois.

Followed with a visit to Coffee House. We sat there bad-mouthing the printers for not having reopened by Friday-pujos long gone. Reached the solemn conclusion je ei jonno bangalir dara byabsha hoye na.
Got around to discussing the place itself. Pointed out the standard stuff of how it reminds you of the days when coffee tables saw learned views and arguments exchanged over steaming cups by people dressed in fatuas, pyjamas, chappal, with a jhola slung over their shoulder, long hair askew. When we were leaving we saw a man with exactly that description standing on the balcony observing the scene below. No doubt, a literary work in progress in his mind.
Ordered mutton kabiraji. Was damn nice. I fell in love with the place. The peeling paint and the quiet dignity adding up to give it the kind of charm that we grew up reading about. Walking through near-deserted lanes, unlike the usual college street bustle, made me feel like i was on one of those feluda type adventures. :D If anything I liked this place more than the malls- way more...probably just temporary insanity, I dunno, but it was amazing. Culminated with me promising Load-da that next time I proposed to a girl, it would be there!!!
He smiled indulgently, before pointing out that that didn't quite seem an option in the near future. I agreed, but my statement(before people start getting me wrong) was more to show just how much I liked it this time around.

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Been raining incessantly since yesterday or the day before.... gloomy outside...

So many things by season season'd are,
To their right praise and true perfection.

14 Comments:

  • At 7:30 PM, Blogger jaded said…

    i love quaint and old-fashioned things myself, the old-world charm is beautiful.....
    ar bangalir discussion khabar chara hoye na na?!mutton kabiraji must have gone well with the intellectual discussion!

     
  • At 11:39 PM, Blogger Sue said…

    Thanks for the comment. Jodhpur Park i guess will be considered my sasurbari'r puja...

     
  • At 12:53 AM, Blogger babelfish said…

    Culminated with me promising Load-da that next time I proposed to a girl, it would be there!!!

    *little secret* the last day of my pujo romance was at college street....all the best if you should get your girl there :D

     
  • At 2:04 AM, Blogger Lancelot said…

    @jaded: amar discussion to ekebarei khabar chhara hoye na...always a lil wary of generalizing it to bengalis...

    @sue:hey wow, u r like my pujo "bhabhi" then. thanx for dropping by. do come back.

    @babelfish:Coincidences!!! might "re-propose" to my girl thr, as she suggested when i told her; otherwise not likely :D

     
  • At 11:50 PM, Blogger Dipanjan Das said…

    which OS assignment is this? file system implementation done?

     
  • At 11:55 PM, Blogger Dreamcatcher said…

    yes college street has a delightful charm ..nice idea of re-proposing...;-)
    and henceforth no sympathies for lack of chocolates.

     
  • At 3:40 PM, Blogger Rimi said…

    college street is one of my favourite parts of the city, but i've never, EVER seen it deserted. miss hoye gelo...ish!

    and besh hoyechhe cholocater jonno taka nei. me delighted! *the world's evillest sneers*

     
  • At 10:01 PM, Blogger Acroyali said…

    "...chahat ke diye..." :D, all i can say is that i hope u fine light at the end of the dark dark tunnel!

    and next time we're in cal., coffee house it is. even i love the place!

     
  • At 11:16 PM, Blogger vijit said…

    oye first thing first, change the colour of your font or the colour of the template dude. Cant see the headlines or the comments link without highlighting the spots...:)

    btw you should look at the good things you found.Sometimes the best things happen to you and you do not even realise that they did.Dunno which movie dialogue I lifted.hehe

     
  • At 3:25 AM, Blogger Lancelot said…

    @dd: semaphore diye railway with priority defined locks....and 3 levels of heirarchy....

    @dc:why no sympathies, you hard-hearted woman?? :P

    @rimi:big miss, really nice then. u know like its just slowly waking up from slumber

    @acroyali:u r on with the Coffee house thing... thot u mite crack the pun...

    @vijit:like i said yestday, too much, too sweet seriously **hug, hug**

     
  • At 7:29 PM, Blogger Gee said…

    hey im tempting u
    i have lots of swiss chocs at home eshe niye jaa brfore sis n i finish it off

     
  • At 1:57 AM, Blogger babelfish said…

    a spate of posts and then silence...porar khub chaap naki?

     
  • At 11:52 PM, Blogger Lancelot said…

    @herenow: :D tempted beyond nething... tragedy of my situation is that i am resigned to everybody telling me abt the amazing chocs, and the amazing food, so it dont even hurt nemore... :D actually not that bad!!!

    @babelfish: spate is whenever i get time... two things that take ur time in kgp-CG and GC...both on at full toll!!!

     
  • At 9:14 AM, Blogger Casablanca said…

    Never been there... but wanna go. Sounds like a place out of the 70s!

     

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