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Weirdly Happy

           Today I feel happy. Weirdly happy. I mean, I have no particular reason to be joyous, but I still am. I had an absolute nightmare of a day. I slept late yesterday, survived the day on coffee, and I was handed important work on the very day I couldn’t concentrate. The weekend pretty much sucked, I didn’t get to read anything, and in general I didn’t do anything noteworthy. But today I still am happy. Something good must have happened.

So let us do the usual updates. Arsenal. The performances have been below par for quite a while now. Four wins in the past fifteen games is not form to be proud of. We are out of the race for the Premier League title, have spurned the chance to make history in the FA Cup and have shot ourselves in the foot massively against Barcelona. I am not at all that optimistic about the return leg at the Camp Nou. But still I am optimistic about our season. Why? The romantic in me refuses to let go. The cynic inside me says all is over. But the romantic is not yet giving up hope. Well that is what hope does to you, I guess.

French and Italian are going pretty well. The book continues to teach me Italiano at a leisurely pace. Duolingo gives me some extremely good sentences to translate. For example, “Liberta non e gratuita” which means freedom is not free of cost. Something to think about for you folks.

I use the library service at my company to the fullest possible extent. I found out that I have completed 13 books in the past 7 months. Awesome! I would like to quote Tyrion Lannister here, “A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That’s why I read so much.”

Music plus adrenaline is the best combination. I mean you learn a song, play it on the keyboard. Go one step further. Experiment. Play the song at a very high tempo. The current song I am learning is at a very high tempo. The first time I heard my instructor play that song, I was spell bound for a whole minute. Holy shit! What a fantastic piece of music! I have almost mastered it, need to fine tune it a little bit though.

 As I am writing this, a friend of mine is starting a company about book rentals in Mumbai. All the very best to him, and may all his efforts pay dividends exponentially. More on that when there is more concrete news.


So that is about it, dear folks. I now remember what made me so happy. And I am going to keep it! Sayonara. 

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