Ludovico Einaudi - I Giorni

Oooh, last night I did something I hadn't done in a long time.

I just lay on my bed and listened to music. Not to occupy half my mind while the other half was busy elsewhere, not to lift my spirits or even to just pass the time. I just killed every other activity in my brain and listened intently to the ebb and flow of the notes in Ludovico Einaudi - I Giorni.

A surreal experience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmj3iU36Mmw

Phrases I want to do away with...

I need to kill some phrases from my vocabulary because it has become all encompassing in its usage. I need these cliched words in every scenario and to describe every event. It is lame, it is stunting my vocabulary and quite frankly, beginning to get on my nerves.

1) lame

2) awesome

3) nice

4) cool (and all its variations - kool, kewl and so on)

5) major

6) decent

7) sweet

8) kickass

9) sweet

10) bullshit

11) Jesus

Will get back when I remember some more...

I hate it when...

Driving related

- my car stalls in the middle of the road (Exhibit A - juvenile driving skills..aaargghhh)

- I don't park inside the designated parking cube exactly parallel to the lines in the first attempt

A lot more to come in the future...

Feel free to pour in your thoughts!

Weekend readings

I love sitting in front of my computer on a weekend and ambling through other people's blogs and websites.

I don't have a particular topic, but these days, the subjects are centered around Physics, neurosciences, MBA and work-life balance. I have a few feeds on my RSS on my Google Reader.

And you know what? Somehow, reading other people's experiences and updates stimulates me mentally in a good way. And I begin to think of things that I don't generally think on weekdays.

Subject matter could range from Random walk to the Elenin Comet or even Thai cooking. There's something Freudian in the way I get curious and interested about life and other people on weekends.

I generally want to write about it and get it off my chest but ultimately end up forgetting it soon enough. My all-pervasive sense of laziness is to be blamed. Guess I need to explore this in greater detail.

Blah blah blah

Not to be a grouch or an oldie, but these days, I am incredulously finding the vocabulary of our vocabulary to consist of inane fillers like ’blah blah’ or ‘whatever’. I admit, I use these phrases sometimes as a gap filler too, but never so much that it gets jarring!

Why, as I was walking down the road today, I overheard two girls go “…so, he came to me and said “Let’s go for coffee, blah blah blah and I told him to…” Why did she have to speak like that? Or even the American variant that goes “so you should like check him out on facebook or like whatever!”

Shocking!

Is it like today’s youth is like completely ADD or whatever, that they can’t speak like coherent sentences, without using comparison phrases like insanely? Damn, the epidemic is seriously rubbing off on me. Must…shake…it…off!

Do we really have such short attention spans that we are unable to remember what exactly happened during some particular incident that we are telling our friends? Maybe that’s why we have to come up with continuation phrases like ‘blah blah’. Or maybe, we are just too lazy to speak out complete sentences!

Either way, something is going wrong here.

Things to do when you get home...

Came home (or rather, room) after a brief stay of about 2 weeks at a friend's place.

The room smelled musty, there was dust on my toothbrush, and I was feeling a bit low because I had gotten accustomed to staying with company.

Yet, something felt incomplete.Something was missing.

I removed my laptop from my bag, connected the wires and the speakers. Quickly unspooled the internet cable and hit the 'Start' button. The all-too-familiar sound of the OS booting followed by my wallpaper greeted my tired eyes. What a sight! I immediately realized this was the feeling of incompleteness that I felt was in the house, from the moment I stepped foot in it.

There is a bag full of clothes that I now have to unpack, and I have brought home my takeaway dinner.

I am back home. :)