The final few moments of the passing year 2011. It’s too kiddish to look back the whole year in introspection. I have done that with each passing year in my teens.
If 2011 was a too much stressful year, 2012 is going to surpass it in every manner. I must keep my cool! If I must live, then I have no option but to live.
P.S. Happy New Year.
Okay! I must change some of my notions about myself. For example, I am a damn serious guy. It’s a million dollar question for me to have a simple smile.
For example, it is against my reputation to enjoy popular music.
For example, I prefer reading nonfiction over fiction, and when I read fiction, I cannot read something lower in ranks than Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, and Camus.
For example, it’s my natural tendency to be sad. For example, I am emotionally weak and too much labile.
No, I don’t mean that I want to give up whatever I have earned bit by bit to this date.
I want to be like you. You, who at a moment show me (in practical) the suggestive gestures of Chikni Chameli, and the very next moment, talk to me about the intricacies of emotional status of Tolstoy in between the years of War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
I’m enjoying Chikni Chameli 
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I’m quite happy. Today Kailash made his very first edit on Marathi Wikipedia. I was almost pushing him to do this for the last two to three years, and finally he did it. He created his first article about Ambhora, a small village in Nagpur district, famous for its confluence of five rivers. This article is yet a stub; you can have a look at it here (Marathi content).
I mailed him a little manual this evening on basic Wikipedia editing and formatting as per his request. He chose the subject and wrote it on his own. We solved the little difficulties he had via phone. As it was a learning experience for him, it was a learning experience for me too!
Kailash made my day today!
The week passed, and it passed quite quickly. It’s too difficult sometimes to keep up with the pace of life. A lot of things happen that you may want to note, and life just passes by!
These are a few things that kept me occupied over the last week, the things certainly a bit longer than 140 characters of Twitter, and I could not work on them to a full-fledged blog posts.
Have you ever noticed the images in Wikipedia articles, the images that help us to understand the topic better? If you’re a blogger and need a free image for your latest post, you often turn to Wikipedia. Or if you use Zemanta, you get images suggested that are often via Wikipedia. Have you ever wondered from where does Wikipedia get these images? These images are donated by common people, like you and me, to Wikipedia in order to illustrate the most comprehensive encyclopedia ever!
It’s a full moon day and we are having a total lunar eclipse this evening. I noticed the little-less-than-full moon while coming back from office. I knew about the eclipse, but somehow I thought it would not be visible from India. So when I saw the moon little less, I thought it must be the 14th day of the month! But the moon got a little more less.. yes, it was an eclipse!!
It feels so wonderful to feel that you are watching the same moon that your beloved ones are too. Kailash called me to tell he is watching the eclipse. Mayur tweeted he is watching it too!
Don’t know if it was a dream! We were on a long ride, talking, as usual, of some strangely odd topic (for example, how Mahatma Phule and Savitribai Phule (19th century) adopted an illegitimate son of a young widow) shivering with the December breeze, in a warm hug, and you screamed: “Look at the moon, it’s wonderful”
Oh! It’s December 10, 2011, Saturday night, and I am typing this post, sitting alone at my desktop!
I usually don’t say such. It usually turns out to be terribly bad day when I say I’m happy. But with that risk, I would say, I’m happy.
I had been out of sync for the last few days. My PC was out of work. I had to get a new setup for it. I said I was happy that day. Later, it turned out my mouse is not working too. And a lot of things happened to ruin my day. Got a new mouse today!
With a new setup, I have installed Windows Live Writer on my PC and my further posts will be most probably written with Live Writer. As I had said, it is really frustrating to install Live Writer, but once you’ve installed it, it works like wonder. Of note, I want to apologize my e-mail subscribers for the dummy post they might have gotten as a result of my Live Writer template download procedure.
These are all the things happening around. I am happy for a lot many reasons. The most important thing is I have gotten a book that I would love to read. I was looking for “Freedom at Midnight” for a long time.
I am happy, because I have you
It has been a long hiatus. I haven’t written anything in about a week now. In fact, I have written nothing of importance since the Nadeem-Shravan post. I must come back soon.
Times have been tough. My PC was not working in between too. I had uninstalled some important files erroneously. It’s working now, but the mouse is still erratic; sometimes it will work, sometimes it will not!
The only thing worth to say happened in between is I watched Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara last week. I couldn’t catch it in theaters and was looking for a DVD for a long while. Finally, I found the DVD in my home only. I had never noticed it before.
I liked the movie. In fact, I must say loved. I had got two extreme opposite reviews about this movie: Master had told me it’s a must watch, Kailash told me that he had left the movie halfway from the theater. I chose to go with Master’s word, and I am happy. Also, a colleague of mine was insistent for me to watch this movie, and it was finally because of him that I watched it. It was really a wonderful movie, I must thank the guys who recommended it. Nothing had moved me this much after the Life in a Metro… watched earlier this year.
It has been a tough time for the last few days. It was meant to be such. I must move ahead. There are a lot many tougher times ahead. If I must go towards happiness across everything, I must go with least pain. I must take care of my self, because if there is no me, there is nothing.
P.S. I gave this post the title Asrar e khudi after completing the post. I had never thought it as I was writing. Asrar e khudi is a famous Persian poem by Muhammad Iqbal. One of the greatest work of Iqbal, Asrar e khudi literally means Secrets of Self. May be this title came to my mind because of the last paragraph. See you soon
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