Shinni

It was a very lazy Sunday. Finally got time to work on the site. Was working all day yesterday on office stuff, so lagged behind on the site implementation. The main page design is almost finalized. Implemented a bit of it in html today. Since I had already decided the whole layout would be made using CSS, things are going a little slow, though I know that it'll be a boon later on. Experience gained while making the company's site is really helping. Also Suman's awesome work on CSS is also making life a lot easier. Though trying to get the same look and feel on Firefox and IE is a pain!

Went for "Satya Narayan" puja in the afternoon to a family friend's house. The usual junta was there, so ended up having a pretty good time. Now the highlight of the bengali satya-narayan puja is this thing called "shinni" (I think that's how it is spelt). Its basically a dish prepared to be offered to the deity. Its got a lot of stuff in it, milk, fruits, flour and god knows what all. But I swear it tastes awesome. I think most Bongs would vouch for it. We were bloody hungry by the time the puja got done, to the extent that we thought of suggesting that the priest be asked to fast-forward the process a bit. Anyways, we didn't do that and "shinni" came to the rescue. :P In other words, "Bhagwan ne hamari sun li!"

Was trying to write yesterday's poem for quite sometime. I had written the first part quite some time ago but was just not getting an ending to it. Yesterday, suddenly the light dawned on me and I realized that there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and also provided me with an apt ending to The Nightingale. :)

There are times in life when you want to prove your beliefs, things and ideas that you believed since you were a child. Innocent, naive beliefs. You spend half your life trying to prove it and then one day you realize that maybe what you believed (where the idea came from in the first place is something worth wondering) was actually an illusion. Isn't your belief based upon your point of view? But then if the belief is wrong, is your point of view wrong too? Wouldn't that lead to the conclusion that all that you have judged, accepted and thought to be true is false? A logical thought process takes a yes for a yes and a no for a no. But what kind of thought process would want to make you believe otherwise? How does one handle a situation when logic and emotions conflict? Does logic always win? I have had many situations in life when I have been faced with this dilemma, I am yet to witness emotion's victory. And I have given it numerous opportunities, did all I could to help it, was partial to it, mistreated logic, to the extent that I almost disqualified logic. But logic came out winning every time. Every single time! Would drawing parallels to good over evil justified? Logic makes me feel less human but emotion has always made a fool out of me. Always.