I am in misery
There ain't nobody
who can comfort me
Why won't you answer me
Your solace is slowly killing me
You really got me babe (2x)
Misery - Maroon 5
I was once interviewed by a guy (only once)--he asked me what inspires my writings, and without a doubt, I said "music". This might sound a bit strange because I've never heard anyone saying that music has inspired their writings. Most writers will mention other writers, and poets at the best, but for me, songs work best.
Most songs contain a story or two within them, and I often feel like expanding upon the stories and characters described within the songs. One of my earliest, favorite writings is based on a song by The Beatles. The story is titled "No Reply", which is also the title of a lesser know Beatles song from their "Beatles for Sale" album.
The story can be found here. Actually, I've started writing a sequel to that story. It's in the draft state, just like almost a hundred other unfinished blog posts. But I am keen on ending the story, and I think I might be lucky enough to get it published, too.
Let's see.
Until that job is done, I just want to write away my thoughts. Segments of Random Thoughts, as Amadergaan forum would say. SORT was a very popular thread in the Chit Chat section of amadergaan forum. There was a time when everyday I'd spent a significant time in that forum, posting witty, pointless and meaningless tidbits throughout the day.
It's been ages since I last visited that forum. This shows that you can get rid of any old habit if you really want to.
This year can be termed as the resurrection year of my writing. I've been writing a lot. Random blogs, and serious stuff, too. I still cherish the hopes of becoming a writer someday. I might start writing in Bangla, too, but that is a bit out of question right now.
If it's out of question, why did I write about it, then? Well, I feel like writing in Bangla, but I don't have the logistics available. I need a software and a keyboard with the Bangla characters embedded on the keys. I have the software in my laptop (where there's no Bangla keys) and the keyboard at home (where there's no software). If I can bridge the gap mentioned here, I might start writing in Bangla anytime now.
Yesterday (7th April) was memorable because I managed to pull off a lot of activities within a single day. For quite some time, morbid thoughts are haunting me. Whenever I go out with my parents, I have a stupid feeling that I won't be able to repeat the same again. I need to get out of these thoughts. I fear for my life, I fear for my parents, and most of all, I fear for my wife.
I know, I am being silly, but I just can't help myself in this regard.
Now back to yesterday. I took my dad and my wife to visit the doctor. On our way back, we stopped in Gulshan 2 Dhanshiri restaurant to have lunch. We ate Hilsha fish, assorted bhortas, rice and lacchi. The bill cam out to be approximately 3,000 taka. Now it's quite a lot for having a Bangladeshi meal, thanks to the Hilsha fish. Each piece was priced at Tk 400. That's quite outrageous, if you ask me. We can buy a whole Hilsha fish at that price. But the food was tasty and I have no regrets at all. My family doesn't feel the same way, though.
The waiter dodged our request for providing a menu--they said many items in the menu are not available, so you can ask me and I can tell you whatever is available. The mistake we made was that we did not ask for the price. That'd have saved us a lot of money.
However, it was a lovely family lunch. We were terribly hungry. On our way to Gulshan 2, we had to spend more than an hour being stuck in the road from American Embassy to Gulshan 2, the reason being a sudden desire of the government to wreck the roads and install some drainage pipes. One side of the road was cordoned off, and thus all cars had to be diverted in one single lane.
Results? Disaster and misery.
After having lunch, we went to Bata shoes and bought a two pairs of shoes for my wife, and then we returned home.
During the journey, our chauffeur informed us that he needs to go to his hometown immediately because apparently his parents were fighting and other family members got involved in the fight. His father beat his mother, but his aunts blamed her for the row, etc. etc.
So he's gone now, and today I came to the office via rickshaw. He left in a very critical situation; we have experienced bouts of the kalboishakhi jhor over the last few days, and I won't be too surprised if I have to skip office at least a day or two this week due to heavy rainfall in the morning.
I don't mind coming to the office on a rainy day, but I really can't come if it's raining and I don't get a vehicle. I almost always carry my laptop with me, and thus coming to the office on a rainy day without getting a proper vehicle is out of question. Even a CNG can get out wet if the rainfall is that heavy.
Once I reached home, I immediately got down to work. Well, work is a very subjective term. One man's work might be another leisure, and vice versa. What I did was that I installed a new game which me and my friends are hoping to play together, and I downloaded a new album
I've been on the hunt for Roseland, the latest album from Acoustic Alchemy ever since it came out in September, 2011. Within this time frame, I visited Dubai and Thailand, and looked for the album in both places, but my efforts went in to vain. I also asked two colleagues of mine to look for it in India and Dubai, too (he went there after I did), but none of them could find the CD.
So out of desperation, I typed "download Roseland Acoustic Alchemy" in google, and voila, I foud a link from a new and still obscure file sharing site. The sight look suspiciously similar to now defunct Megaupload, and though feeling guilty, I couldn't stop myself from clicking the link. After 5 minutes of the usual crap (if you don't want to wait, buy a premium account), captcha verification and a few ads, I started downloading the 129 MB file.
After 15 minutes, I got treated to a brilliant album. I've listened to two tracks previously--Marrakesh and Roseland, thanks to Youtube. I really loved Roseland. The video was about Acoustic Alchemy playing the song live in a cafe, and I don't remember how many times I've watched in the last few months.
When I am at work, sometimes I listen to the preview files posted in Amazon for this album.
Naturally, one can imagine how elated I am right now to be able to listen to the album whenever I want, wherever I want--because I've inserted them in to my Ipod rightaway.
I will definitely buy the CD when I find it, but until then, pirated Mp3s will have to do the job. And wow, the some of the tracks are so nice! I've been listening to Roseland and Stealing Hearts on and on. I am sure the other tracks will "grow on" to me, but these two are exceptional.
The sound and composition of this album is quite different from their last album, This Way. I wrote an elaborate review of that album which can be accessed here.
I will write a full fledged review after listening through the entire album.
"Draw Something", the latest Android and Itunes App Store phenomenon has grown on to me as well. Everyday I am guessing other people's drawings and doing my own bit of finger painting. It's a fun app and a must have if you have an Android or an Apple phone.
Well, I guess that all from the randomness department for the time being.
I love to write and I will write again.
It's been ages since I last visited that forum. This shows that you can get rid of any old habit if you really want to.
This year can be termed as the resurrection year of my writing. I've been writing a lot. Random blogs, and serious stuff, too. I still cherish the hopes of becoming a writer someday. I might start writing in Bangla, too, but that is a bit out of question right now.
If it's out of question, why did I write about it, then? Well, I feel like writing in Bangla, but I don't have the logistics available. I need a software and a keyboard with the Bangla characters embedded on the keys. I have the software in my laptop (where there's no Bangla keys) and the keyboard at home (where there's no software). If I can bridge the gap mentioned here, I might start writing in Bangla anytime now.
Yesterday (7th April) was memorable because I managed to pull off a lot of activities within a single day. For quite some time, morbid thoughts are haunting me. Whenever I go out with my parents, I have a stupid feeling that I won't be able to repeat the same again. I need to get out of these thoughts. I fear for my life, I fear for my parents, and most of all, I fear for my wife.
I know, I am being silly, but I just can't help myself in this regard.
Now back to yesterday. I took my dad and my wife to visit the doctor. On our way back, we stopped in Gulshan 2 Dhanshiri restaurant to have lunch. We ate Hilsha fish, assorted bhortas, rice and lacchi. The bill cam out to be approximately 3,000 taka. Now it's quite a lot for having a Bangladeshi meal, thanks to the Hilsha fish. Each piece was priced at Tk 400. That's quite outrageous, if you ask me. We can buy a whole Hilsha fish at that price. But the food was tasty and I have no regrets at all. My family doesn't feel the same way, though.
The waiter dodged our request for providing a menu--they said many items in the menu are not available, so you can ask me and I can tell you whatever is available. The mistake we made was that we did not ask for the price. That'd have saved us a lot of money.
However, it was a lovely family lunch. We were terribly hungry. On our way to Gulshan 2, we had to spend more than an hour being stuck in the road from American Embassy to Gulshan 2, the reason being a sudden desire of the government to wreck the roads and install some drainage pipes. One side of the road was cordoned off, and thus all cars had to be diverted in one single lane.
Results? Disaster and misery.
After having lunch, we went to Bata shoes and bought a two pairs of shoes for my wife, and then we returned home.
During the journey, our chauffeur informed us that he needs to go to his hometown immediately because apparently his parents were fighting and other family members got involved in the fight. His father beat his mother, but his aunts blamed her for the row, etc. etc.
So he's gone now, and today I came to the office via rickshaw. He left in a very critical situation; we have experienced bouts of the kalboishakhi jhor over the last few days, and I won't be too surprised if I have to skip office at least a day or two this week due to heavy rainfall in the morning.
I don't mind coming to the office on a rainy day, but I really can't come if it's raining and I don't get a vehicle. I almost always carry my laptop with me, and thus coming to the office on a rainy day without getting a proper vehicle is out of question. Even a CNG can get out wet if the rainfall is that heavy.
Once I reached home, I immediately got down to work. Well, work is a very subjective term. One man's work might be another leisure, and vice versa. What I did was that I installed a new game which me and my friends are hoping to play together, and I downloaded a new album
Acoustic Alchemy
So out of desperation, I typed "download Roseland Acoustic Alchemy" in google, and voila, I foud a link from a new and still obscure file sharing site. The sight look suspiciously similar to now defunct Megaupload, and though feeling guilty, I couldn't stop myself from clicking the link. After 5 minutes of the usual crap (if you don't want to wait, buy a premium account), captcha verification and a few ads, I started downloading the 129 MB file.
After 15 minutes, I got treated to a brilliant album. I've listened to two tracks previously--Marrakesh and Roseland, thanks to Youtube. I really loved Roseland. The video was about Acoustic Alchemy playing the song live in a cafe, and I don't remember how many times I've watched in the last few months.
When I am at work, sometimes I listen to the preview files posted in Amazon for this album.
Naturally, one can imagine how elated I am right now to be able to listen to the album whenever I want, wherever I want--because I've inserted them in to my Ipod rightaway.
I will definitely buy the CD when I find it, but until then, pirated Mp3s will have to do the job. And wow, the some of the tracks are so nice! I've been listening to Roseland and Stealing Hearts on and on. I am sure the other tracks will "grow on" to me, but these two are exceptional.
The sound and composition of this album is quite different from their last album, This Way. I wrote an elaborate review of that album which can be accessed here.
I will write a full fledged review after listening through the entire album.
"Draw Something", the latest Android and Itunes App Store phenomenon has grown on to me as well. Everyday I am guessing other people's drawings and doing my own bit of finger painting. It's a fun app and a must have if you have an Android or an Apple phone.
Well, I guess that all from the randomness department for the time being.
I love to write and I will write again.