weekend updated

Sadly enough, after artsomniac had decided to blog more often about life in general in this ‘emergency exit’ of hers, she wasn’t free to sit, relax and have an exit for all those words cluttered inside her head. Now that both MJ and her appan are in a getting better zone, she thinks she should sit down and type out a little somethings. The best thing which has happened to her recently is this wonderful weight loss, which is also a sign that she also is getting better.
Bullet points seem to a better idea ever since she did this first full time job of hers in a godforsaken corporate education institute. Things happened after coming back to EFLU last Friday in bullets.


•Got her chapter plans approved by the supervisor.

•Ate a lot of Bengali and non Bengali sweets from her supervisor’s; artsomniac was nearly pukish by the end of the eating ceremony.

•Started reading again.

•Had a wonderful time with Annie, Sheela and Emy.

•Celebrated Diwali in an extremely rotten mood; Artsomniac sat in sheela’s room, watched cinema paradiso. The karoke singers were horrid, she wanted to kill herself listening to the loud karoke. The dandia was ok, or so were the reports.

•Watched Madagascar escape to Africa the 6th time and laughed her ass off the 6th time too. She somehow loved the giraffe-hippo couple and she does know why.

•Had a bad night of migraine attack;was not able to eat the awesome food sheela ordered from kimfung.

•Celebrated Sheela’s birthday. Looking forward for hers in which she will hit the quarter..oh the whole situation of having to be a mature responsible adult is freaking her out!!!

•Ma nagging over the phone, as usual, that it’s high time she settle down.

•Gave her new kurtha material for stiching in the new tailoring shop Anoo’s in Tarnaka which sheela has given a testimonial for. If they ruin it, she has plans to kill them for some not so obvious reasons.

That’s all she has got to say in bullets. She did watch Mayaravan by Shobhana which was ok with the plot and awesome with the choreography. That’s all folks.

there is no blue without yellow or orange

Artsomniac wonders how Vangogh figured the truth out.

i am alive post

So this gap in posting implies a lot of things. A lot of things have changed in artsomniac's life. One of the most important and exciting thing is that she finished her course works. She got her brand new cable B connection and it is really faster and nicer. She went home and came back, ate a lot of fish this time, she thinks she is turning herself into a fishiterian. That is astrologically sensible for a piscean to do. She went to CMS again, in a heavy hearted monsoon mood with Ria and Renu(Both were in the Spivak workshop, artsomniac just wandering). CMS, the long corridors, the rainy sky and old classrooms brought a heavy mood for a while, but it did not stay for long as she feared it would. Another major change happened is her new routine in life. The 5 kms power walking in the morning(the breeze against your face is much much nicer than the warmth of your blanket), the fully charged 5 hours in the library(it is not at all boring now, unlike the coursework days), the lately revived fiction reading habit(artsomniac is reading Life is Elsewhere-Kundera), the reduced amount of surfing(she did it,finally), the high cut on junk food from sagar(maggi and chips are strict no no's), reduced amounts of caffeine related elements in her blood system(tea is brain food you know)... for the word change, these are too much I guess. She is sort of gaining back her systematic self. If artsomniac can pin the nomadic self she acquired in EFLU with the older, boringly systematic self, life can be so much fun. The ultimate aim is to grow old as a healthier, happier woman.

This year is going to be crucial. Started thinking about work is a good sign she thinks. Eventually, she might as well figure out what she wants to do with her thesis,PhD options and other demons.

Unlimited morons

Sunday, artsomniac was as good as possible with her internet service provider. Mr Garu is a real jerk, she knows. Stories about Mr Garu is quite popular in campus. People shouting at him and switching to another upcoming service provider, cable B, is quite a common sight. What Mr Garu does for those bad sheep who goes away from his fold is, he secretly cuts the B connection cables to your room. You will realize it soon that the highly efficient new internet service is not working because of Mr Garu's wrath. The new service group is really good,it seems, as the believers testify. It charges you fifty rupee less than Mr. Garu's connection, it has a sophisticated way of working which includes sms notifications to your mobile about new services, offers and stuff, it offers kaspersky antivirus(paid one, not available for free download) absolutely free for the users. Garu on the other hand does not give a damn for you as a customer and he gives you viruses to your laptop free of cost. He thinks that he still is the feudal lord in the internet sphere on campus.

Artsomniac was going around, asking her unfortunate garu subscriber neighbors whether they too have a problem with the internet. Alas, no! She does not have company this time. From one room, a visitor Alice who was a prior customer of Garu declared: "I don't understand why you people still stick to this guy. The new service is really good. I think all of you should switch to this and chuck this Garu out of campus"

Well,artsomniac thought, "right now I dont have the deposit money required for a new connection. May be I should try him once more." And finally Mr Garu answered her call and said he will send somebody soon but that soon never happened in say three and a half days time. she was almost finishing the project she was working on, and she needed a lot of browsing now and this happened. Oh, artsomniac does not want to be the one who begs around asking permission to use internet. And when you fix your pendrive to another person's laptop, you really can hear what is in their mind. "Oh, please no viruses" because you have them aplenty with Garu's connection.

As the most calm and happy-go-lucky (Which means, If artsomniac is happy, you are lucky) person on campus who does not really pick up fights with people, she decided to wait and keep calling Mr Garu. By the second day, he stopped picking her calls, and she was there, sitting like fool, and calling and calling hoping that he must be away, he will come back, he will pick the phone, he will send the guy, she will get my connection back..nada!

The same thing happened on the third day too and rtsomniac does not know which nasty brain typed out this message from her phone to his. However, it goes like this."Mr Garu, I just want to disconnect my internet. Please do not come and meet me for money. You are supposed to give me back my initial deposit. On second thoughts, I think you should keep the change since I do not like to encourage any sort of communication ever with you. Thank you for the wonderful services." And then, there is no news from him.

artsomniac has decided to switch to cable B once she is done with formatting her laptop out of the viruses she has acquired so far. she never thought that she could send such a sophisticated nastiness as an sms. Artsomniac generally is a 'nice' person,you know. he he...

five reasons why artsomniac loves e e cummings (the title comes only in caps, by default and thats a sad irony for this post)

reason one: he wrote i carry your heart with me which happens to be a favorite.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)


reason two: he has an easily paintable face and it looks good in blue ;-)artsomniac painted this sometime last century:)




reason 3: he destroyed the hierarchy between the capital letters and small letters. democratic, huh?

reason 4: the way he writes his name in small letters is sort of cool.

reason 5: he uses a lot of moon imageries, which is artsomniac's favorite too.

Just because artsomniac loves her life

Its just taking her a bit longer to understand life. To come to terms with it. Otherwise why would she take two hours of speech to understand what is precious in life? It is life which is precious. Life of us as fellow human beings. This is going to be her constant point of view. her no- utopia of well being because she can never be anyone else. she can only be herself and she can only love what she loves.

What is common between Mutton curry and CPI-M?

The same variety of one Mutton Curry and CPI-M are found both in Kerala and Bengal:-)

It was artsomniac's day out to visit her doc, so Aswathy and artsomniac left around 10:30. they waited for an hour eventhough she has an appointment fixed at 11:30. Both of them had stuff to read, so they sat down and started reading. aswathy was reading "Sundarikalum Sundaranmarum" and artsomniac was interrupting her whenever she found really cheeky remarks in K P Nirmalkumar's writeup about M T in a very old Mathrubhumi Weekly mag.
they had already decided on the way to have food from the 'Hyderabad Bangali Samiti' on their way back. That plan was excecuted. And, all she has to say now is "Wow". they had ordered normal Veg thali meals and mutton curry. The mutton curry simply took her home, to Kerala. It was almost like the mutton curry her Ma makes. So she found out one more thing which is found in common in Kerala and Bengal, other than CPI-M.
By the end came Rasagulla,which was not at all like the Haldirams Rasagulla which at times make her feel like chewing sweet rubber sheet. Yea, Rubber sheet soaked in acid is still a strong memory from her childhood, and the machine which is used to transform chunks of crystallised rubber to thin rubber sheets which is then dried and smoked and then sold. Apparently, that machine is the first machine artsomniac encountered which gives patterned impressions on a surface. It was long before she learned to paint on clothes using patterned blocks. What she wanted to say is that, the Rasagulla was really really great and did not give strange connections with rubber sheet. artsomniac loves Bengali food now(but not that veg curry which had a weird taste).