Ramblin' on....

Hey there Mr. Blog and friends,

Here Iam , rotting away in Capen trying to make so many "wrongs" right. The price of not looking through notes, not attending classes and complete oblivion to the world of books is a very severe one. I am feeling the brunt of in every cell of my body. But , that's ok. I will live, as I mentioned before that last minute studying is what I've known all my life, and tonight is no exception. Shit happens, what can I say, I'm a busy man.

Read a few nice articles on Satyajit Ray on links provided by Wikipedia. The gentleman was, in my books, an icon of accomplishments and creativity. I had grown up reading his children's books of the famous characters of "Feluda" and "Professor Shonku". I have vivid memories of going to the theater with my dad to watch the doings of Goopi and Bagha on silver screen. The man is truly a genius. The "Apu" trilogy is a remarkable epic of the world seen through the eyes of a young boy " Apu". Such complex thoughts depicted through such simplicity. Through this movie, he has voiced my personal thoughts of what I used to feel, touch, see and hear when I was a little boy. The uncomplicated act of a mail-train passing by and the awe with which my friends and I used to follow it with our sights is truly a hard act to document. Mr. Ray has accomplished just that. To reminisce(my spelling is way out line), there was a moment when I was little, I took immense joy in stealing my uncle's bicycle and just biking away down the gravel path past the marshes, past the infinite amount of rice paddies. I used to travel miles without even realizing. Living in the U.S. prior to that,I never really experienced the definition of real freedom.Cycling away in the village roads of Kolkata I engulfed every little thing around me. I distinctly remember the smell of the wet ground after the "Boisakher Jhor" and getting wet in the rain without a care in the world. How did we manage to complicate our lives so much? I guess that is the way of the world and that's the way cookie crumbles ;>

Good night :)