One of my friend reminded me of whitewash that happened in Cam y'day .. could not help walking down memory lane . I wish I could add some photo of last years snowfall.

Forget the last one .. just remembered the quote made by our Guru .. who else other than Einstien!

" Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. "

I do not know somehow today I am in a mood to copy ideas and opinions made by great people ...........

"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place."

".. samasta diner seshe,
shishirer shabder moton sondha ashe,
danar roudrer gondho muche fele chil,
prithibir sob rong nibhe gele pandulipi kore ayojon,
takhon golper tore, surjaster ronge jhilmil,
sob pakhi ghore fere,
sob nodi,
furay e jiboner sob lenden,
thake sudhu ondhokar,
mukhomukhi bosibar .. Bonolata Sen .. "

Yesterday I played badminton .. played after a long time .. it's a nice feeling to be there in the court .. since then I have tremendous pain in my muscles which have been lying idly for so long .. I can't blame them for their non-cooperation .. I think it is high time to activate then once more .. and the muscles in the brain as well .. they also need some excercise.. may be I am not wokring enuogh .. am I getting old .. may be !

These days I have been so irregular, and indisciplined as well ..

Nevere mind .. as they say when you feel guilty of doing something you utter it out infront of the almighty you fell much better .. that's why I am doing the same in my weblog ..

Neveretheless the last evening was quite enjoyable. Some of the Bengali population here gathered in the Theory room after dinner to watch 'Mahapurush', a hilarious movie of Ray, based on the story of Birinchibaba, a famous creation of Parashuram(Raj Sekhar Bose).

India's defeat in the very last over gave me so much pain that I went out last eveing to Colaba market and roamed around there for a while .. alone .. the weather just after the sunset getting more and more pleasant day by day .. I like the weather in Mumbai (specially in the evening) these days. Unlike Calcutta the daytime in Mumbai is still prolonged though the weather having a touch of cold. One can see occational white coluds here and there in the blue above and the tall trees in our campus sometimes add a poetic touch to it.

These are the days I should start concentrating once more .. as I am going to have a tough semester coming up .. but it is always easier said than done. Hah.

One good news is we are going to organise Saraswati(the goddess of knowledge and music) Puja(worship) in our hostel .. this brings me back to the good old school days .. Well .. I have decided not to walk down memory lane .. at least while writing the weblog .. emotion should not dominate over reality .. !

This is a day which started with a phone call from an old friend from Bangalore .. remembering me even while on his busy schedule .. on his way from Hydrabad to Bangalore. .. friendly touch .. nothing can be a sweeter wake up call.

Yesterday's was one of the very exciting day when I went to attend a wonderful programme of Mrinalini Sarabhai, who presented with her group different forms of Indian classical dance which included Bharat Natyam, Kathakali, a masrhal art sort of dance from Kerla. The evening was a fitting end to the international conference on Supernova, Gamma Ray Burse and Pulsars .. organised by the TIFR Astrophysics group. I personally have never been to a dance programme .. apart from the ones with the children of which my cousin Bhutu is a part of .. so, to me, it was a charming experience for me.

I am planning to start my sports life here once again with table tennis and badminton .. I am still on the look out for a partnet to play tennis .. the racket is still lying idly in the corner of my room.

Well .. having no particular work in my hand as such .. the courses not having started yet.. I can afford to devote more time in playing games and watching India shining on the TV day by day .. under the captaincy of "Dada" ..

Peaceful life ! .. yeh .. as they say .. "La Vita Bela" - Life is beautiful. Amen.

Yesterday I was shown the lab I am going to work in. It was very exciting to see the detectors and how they are built. I have been writing about them in the SoP for such a long time .. that I want to be involved in this and that .. for the first time I get my hands on to it. This is a peculiar feeling. You feel the charm of working in a real thing that you have been dreaming for such a long time.

Apart from that y'day has been an ordinary day. The courses have not begun and we would waste our time idly .. the only other exciting moment was I was able to download one ringtone in my mobile .. the ringtone is named as Greensleeves and resembles the original piece nicely .. one of my favourite compsitions .. "Fatasia on Greensleeves" by Ralph Vaughn Williams. Thanks to Indiatimes free mobile ringtone service.

I wish I could put a link to Fanatasia in this blog ...

Can a friend inspire another to start something afresh? .. Very much indeed. Otherwise I might not have started it all together again. It seemed to me to be most obvious way to let my friends know what exactly I am doing these days .. as it is not always possible to keep in touch with everyone every time in these hectic days.

Yes, busy the days are. Sometimes I feel that they pretend to be busier than I actually am ..

What are we all running for .. at the end of the tunnel there is light .. we never reach the end of it .. never shall we .. but we shall keep running .. for we have to survive .. to be the fittest .. to outclass all other similar creatures .. the Homo Sapiens .. I remember in a movie I heard these words "Run Forest run .. " so Forest did there .. he began his run to defend himself and ended up running to survive. So are we doing .. I can't even remember when and how I got into the act but now there is no looking back .. one can not afford to ..

At the beginning of the new year let it be our motto .. "Charaibeti, charaibeti, charaibeti.." ..

Just remembered Subhas Chandra Bose was once told by his legendary head master - "Life is mission Subhas, attempt it!"

Long live "Charaibeti", long live friendship, long live our RUN ........