Day Two: Of Chandannagore, Vampire Weekend and Avinash.

I again slept late last night while listening to Music. Completed the album, ‘Vampire Weekend’ by Vampire Weekend by themselves. Heard a lot about this album therefore I was pleasantly surprised by this New Alternative Band. Really superb Music. I am sitting in a train right not heading to the small town of Chandannagore. This town is famous for its lighting during the festival of Jagaddhatri Puja. The main Puja actually is on Tuesday but we are going there two days ago to avoid the immense crowd during that day. It will be my first time there for the Puja i.e. I have been there earlier during Durga Puja ’07 when I and Piu went to see the Puja festivities at Nildeep’s house. The time now is 5:38 PM and I basically have nothing to do except for the singer who is playing his songs very graciously two seats from where I and my parents are sitting. My Dad is peeking at what I am writing trying to see what it is all about. Bio Miss came today and I was able to maintain the impression of a Good Boy which I built up on Day One. She has today given some Homework which I will like to complete. Bengali Miss, Mrs. Jayashree Pan, did not come to teach today as well. She and her excuses.! Went online for sometime but did not feel like doing anything. Did not still feel the urge to open my Orkut A/C and see. I hope that this urge continues to elude me for as long as possible. Lunch was nice today but I am a little irked at my Dad today because he promised we will travel by our Car but instead of that I have to travel in this half-crammed Local Train Bogey. But it’s Ok. I love Indian Railways. Oh, Yes we are getting another Car in the form of A Honda City or A Toyota Innova. Excited about that. The day has been good till now. Let’s see how it ends. I got to rush now. Write later at night.!

Its 12:44 AM now and I just published the first Day’s Note few minutes ago. I don’t think anybody will read that. But I am eager to see if any of my friends actually follow my Blog. Returned from Chandannagore at 11:45 PM. Had a really long day, and nigh too. Walked a lot which I like to do. Walking strangely is something which I don’t ever get tired of. If I was given an opportunity to walk endlessly I would be willing to do that. Because the prospect of ending up at a place I have never been to before is just too great for me. Forgot to mention earlier on today that there was also another person who was accompanying us. It was one of Dad’s workers. His wife’s Parental Home is situated here. So he is quite familiar with the town and therefore, my Dad asked him if he could show us around. He gracefully agreed. So we reached the C’nagore Station at about 6:15 PM. And By God, the station was brimming with people. There was not even an inch to move. It was so difficult to move around. I don’t particularly like crowds and I knew the situation would be like this. I did not want to come but I also did not want to make Maa sad. It was one of Maa’s wishes to witness this grand spectacle of Jagaddhatri Puja here once. So I thought I should endure it out. And endure I did.

This sleepy town which was once a French Colony becomes active during these four days of the Puja. It was playing Host to much more people than the town population consists of. I will post some pictures here. The pandals were Grand in Scale but it always felt like being in a small town of India. The atmosphere makes you feel so. The dressing sense of the people was very down-market, as one Tourist from Kolkata remarked. I felt it too. It was a good overall experience though. I hoped it would have been a little shorter. After I returned home at 11:50 PM, I came straight to my Computer because I had left it on seeing a download was on. I am currently downloading a 3.2 GB torrent of Old Hindi Songs. It’s a great torrent. I want it to complete it as soon as possible. So, I was very happy with the progress because the download speed was surprisingly decent. Had early dinner. I came online at 12:30 AM again. Copied the note from my cell to the PC, and after making a few amendments published it. And gave the modem away soon after. Dad does not allow the modem to be with me through the night or I will chat the night away either with Parul or Mansoor Bhaiiya. I heard that Tanmay has deleted his FB and Orkut Profiles due to a promise he made to his mother. Now that he is gone, I really don’t have any hunger to go back again to the world I have decided to get away from. I am missing everything there as I write this. Avinash probably will be off to his College tomorrow. I wish him all the luck for his education. I wish that he makes it Big someday. It’s very late now, and the day must come to and end. I don’t know whether to classify this Sunday as good or bad or sad or happy or tiring or irritating. I think it was all a mixture of that. Two Days are over very soon. Got school tomorrow morning and have to wake up at 7:00 AM. I hate waking up so early. From now on, I think I should really sleep on time and wake up on time and go to School and Akash Institution regularly. I will try to cut off my laziness in this endeavor. Ciao for now.

With love,

Dipanjan

Day One: The End?

My first proper day of my self-imposed hiatus from the circle of my net friends. I decided to leave everything because I felt that my real-priorities were getting sidelined and I was getting deflected from the path which I decided to follow at the start of this school session. So here I am without any contact with the virtual friends I have created over the past 7 months. The time now is 2:12 AM, and I have decided to pen down, err type down how I am spending my days without the virtual frolic. I will basically write what I have done today and how much I missed Facebook and Orkut and all the pals there. I woke up today at 11:45 AM, after staying awake till 5 AM last night because I was listening to Music. Now as I write this on my cell the song by UB40′s “Red Red Wine” is playing. The fact that I am a Music addict is very well known. So back to waking up, Mom woke me up forcefully because I wanted to sleep some more. But she kept the Tea cup in front of me. As it stands, I cannot resist the temptation of Tea made by Maa. So I woke up had my tea and breakfast. Today was always supposed to be a dry day for me being Saturday. And on this particular day of the week, we have completely vegetarian food at our home. I cannot digest Veg food. I simple hate it to the extent that I would rather starve all day than take in that stale Potato Curry and Soybeans. Yikes! So I had breakfast and suddenly realized that I had nothing to do. I always have something to pass my time by with.

But today even the great lure of TV did not make life easy for me. But still I was sitting in my Bed scrolling through all the Channels looking for something interesting. I was always coming back to the Fox History Channel because they were airing back-to-back episodes of ‘Neanderthal.’ I don’t want to start writing about the show now. I was also anticipating the arrival of my new Biology teacher. Today was supposed to be her first class. I had lunch. Painstakingly i.e. Then I again came back to the ‘Idiot Box.’ I was feeling really sleepy due to the lack of a proper sleep but did not want to sleep because I knew if the Bio Miss arrives and I go to her with a sleepy-head then I would not be able to concentrate much and I may end up ruining my image. So I lay down in the bed seeing TV and shifting between two films. Hum Dil de Chuke Sanam was running on Colors and another film was on at Sony. I was also periodically coming back to the News Channels. I am a News Addict and like to keep in touch with things. India will face the Aussies in the first match tomorrow. Deshmukh may be back as the Maharashtra CM. Probably, Genie will fulfill that wish of his. Buddha faces flak for negotiating with the Maoists. I think if he was not tolerant and we lost the Cop he would have faced flak for being so intolerant. He has been in a sticky situation for the past two years.

As I lay there in my bed waiting for Urbi Miss I was expecting something good from her considering she is a young teacher and is a newly graduate student. She arrived at 6:25 PM when I had lost all hope of her actually showing her face today. The class went nice. She taught for an hour or so. I was at my Best too clearing all my doubts and the comfort level was achieved in only a few minutes. This was a first for me because normally I take some to adjust to something new. She, while leaving, told my Maa that I was a really good student when replying her about the First Impression she developed of me. It’s up to me now to hold on to that image. After she went I had some snacks. The thing is I stuff myself during Breakfast and Snacks leaving myself with nothing to eat during lunch and dinner and leaving Maa with a pale face. I switched on my PC to watch the new video that Green Day released just a few days prior. I love it and must have watched it 9-10 times already. I then completed a 6 page long leaving note which I hoped I would post here. But later on something inside me prevented me from doing so. So I came back to my TV and watched Bigg Boss. And then after the show got over, I started to feel bored again. Thought about reading a book for a second but ultimately decided against it. But at 10:30 I asked my Maa for the modem because I wanted to publish the Note I had written on my newly-installed MS Office. She forgot where she kept it but soon founded it after a struggle of 10 minutes. So here I was online again and the Gtalk is functioned in such a way that it also connects when the net is connected. I did not notice I was online at Gtalk until within a few seconds Iohannes messaged me stating where I was for the last three days. I decided to sign out immediately from there. I did too. So I opened Firefox and watched some great videos of ‘Death Cab for Cutie.’ Also listened to a great Manipuri Band at MySpace called A4APPLE. They are really talented musicians. But during all of this I wanted to open my Orkut A/C and look at the latest scraps. But I controlled my temptation with great pain.

I gave Maa the modem back at 12:30. I also ate my Dinner while watching the videos. Gossiped with my sister for half and hour and decided to go to hit the sack. I did that at 1:20 AM. Been lying down since then and I haven’t been able to go to sleep. Missed Muskan a lot today. Gunita must have put a new DP already. I hope Tanmay’s mother is better now. Really wanted to talk to Seepiya. Iohannes must be so bored without me. And Avinash too. His college begins from Mondy so he will be alright, I guess. Miss being Parul’s punching bag when she vents out all her frustration in front of me. Wanna see what latest note Mohit has written but I will not. Therefore, I have decided to write a day by day Blog of how I am doing without everybody and to see how long can I resist temptation. I will study tomorrow though. At least make a beginning. Hopefully that will occupy my mind a little. Sunday tomorrow and don’t wish to have fun. I have got Bio and Bengali tuition tomorrow. The time now is 3:12 AM and I should prolly take the profound shelter of a night nap.

With Love,

Dipanjan.