I want to drown in a sea of joy. 

anonymity

cbatting on the internet was all about anonymity until facebook came along. but java chatrooms had died a long time ago, much before social networking with real identities came into being. my gut feeling says we'll all go back to the old days of java chatting. or anonymous chatting. this thing about showing up with real identities is gonna go fast enough. 

Do I socialize with fair weather friends? Yes, if they're successful people who're kinda eating their own words. No, if they're mediocre people come to warm their hands in my fire. 

Learnt today

Listened to and relived Donna Summer ysterday. Also listened to Red Hot Chili Peppers playlist. Today, discovered Eddie Palmeiri. Brilliant Latino Jazz. Discovered him through a singer called Abhishek Bhattacharya, while I was looking at the comments below Priya Cafe. 

Learnt this morning

Listened to Bhoomi's new tracks on YouTube today. Also discovered a wonderful folk singer called Sahaj Maa and listened to her alhum. 

Learnt ystday & today

Ystday onwards, hv bn listening to Bengali modern music. Rediscovered Mohiner Ghoraguli, Suman Chatterjee and Shilajit. Esp Mohiner. Read up again about the polymath called Goutam Chattopadhyay. Too bad I knew nothing about him back in the Nineties. 

Learnt Today

I have started reading The Autobiography of a Nun by Sister Jesme and this led me to wonder what vows are taken by a Catholic nun. I used this site http://www.cptryon.org/ask/ask/vows.html  to learn that a nun takes vows of Poverty, Chastity and Obedience.

I have also procured Hemingway's The Old Man & The Sea which is a short, fifty-page Nobel-winning book that I intend to finish reading asap.