Mid week holiday... bliss

Don't we all love them... you start the week with a different kind of enthusiasm... the rare mondays you look forward to, knowing all too well that just when you feel you needed a break you get one!

Today is one of those days... there are ways to spend such days... more than a few months back i would spend such days sleeping till the day was over or maybe till the time my stomach started to growl louder than a hungry tiger!
Past few months, on these days i wake up earlier than i do to go for work...
Today i had to leave my car at the garage for some minor repairs... woke up early... dropped off the car... took a walk back home.. with detours to buy some stuff... a pit stop for chai... the lovely tapri chai... reminiscent of old days, when that tapri used to be an everyday hangout...standing under a tree drinking tea, listening to some random old songs on the radio, watching over a busy junction... watching people running around... and you for once are in no hurry!

Its tough to take things slow... deliberately trying to slow down things.. telling yourself you have nothing to hurry for today... there are no plans... no deadlines... no appointments... its just a day for relaxation... doing what you feel like doing... just living it...

For once you find yourself lost... wondering what do i do today... only to hear your head whisper from somewhere far... 'today is the day when you do nothing!'... you long for such days everyday and when you get them you just cant get through it...

My way of getting through... put some nice soft music... last.fm helps there... choose the radio... artist like 'The Fray', 'Coldplay', 'Jack Johnson', 'Five for Fighting', 'Keane', 'Lifehouse'... most of it being the 'New wave of British Piano Rock'.. well thats what i like to call it... soothing calming... relaxed... no hurry... background... yet right with you...

song now playing... 100 years... when you only got a 100 years...
i say then why hurry!

Among other things in life... the last month... the band... well the news goes like this...
at work i a still mostly doing nothing... but that is just my view... i do have work for everyday... but its gotten pretty mundane now... its not challenging... whatever is challenging is beyond me or anyone... there have been tings pending which have been pending for more than 6 months and now forgotten cos just no one knows whats wrong! Well thats how my work starts anyways... something just suddenly goes wrong... no one knows why... it was working fine for yrs... boom they send it over to us to correct... we look at it... more times than less the problem is obvious... but then there are times when you just cant see whats going wrong... there is a bug somewhere hidden in the confines of some brilliantly designed stuff... wonder how it ever got there and was hidden for so long... seems like the time when the designer did not take a break when he should have... and now they have to spend more money on it... had he not been worried about his manager watching him loitering around and had he taken a break.. or maybe slept for 10 mins... this problem could have been avoided...
well i have no such problem.. i take my breaks when i want to... no one cares... i do my work and i do it well! but its not fun... not anymore... and i dont see anything changing for some time...

evening... mr. jim takes over... hitting the drums hard to feel good... trying to groove to a beat... trying to just let go and play... playing some soul searching music... other times some heart crushing stuff... just being lost...
the band hit the studios and recorded two songs... the first set out of a full fledged album to come out soon... how soon is that soon we'll know that soon...

apart from that there is nothing... drives up and down a highway which again seems not to change... but still somehow kind of exciting... the early morning street racing... sometimes the early morning drive...

the coffee... the tea... the sandwiches... and more coffee... and google and igoogle... living through... running so fast you hardly know what your going through...
but then come days like today... when you slow it all down... change it around... not do things you have been doing... ditch the car.. take a walk... ditch the coffee at a fancy coffee shop... go have tea at a tapri... ditch the heavy music that keeps you pumped up... listen to stuff that will slow you down... not sleep till dusk... wake up at sunrise...
time to do things you have forgotten... drink fruit juice... read a book... take an afternoon siesta... eat you breakfast lunch on time... or for that matter just eat your breakfast and lunch both... sort your picture library... watch a nice movie... upload some ood stuff... write this blog... just be yourself...

NP: Say(All I need)
Artist: One Republic

mood... calm...
thoughts... random...