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.