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This seemed to be a long weekend but lo its already getting over. Friday was spent working. Yesterday, after the breakfast I slept for full 6 hours without a break. I had planned on sleeping for some 30 minutes and then getting back to work. But didn't wake up until 3 in the afternoon. I missed my lunch too :(. Then I watched Spiderman2 in OAT. Got terribly bored. Its so painfully slow. Until now I thought Dilip Kumar won the prize for the slowest speaker but Toby Maguire wins it hands down. Another big disappointment was the absence of STRINGS' "Najaane kyun..". It was criminal to have cut that song from the movie..God knows who did it. I wouldnt be surprised if the OATwalas did it. They are famous for cutting the interesting parts of a movie to make it fit the 2.5 hrs timeline.

Then I finished EM Forster's Where angels fear to tread in one go. The book has yet to sink in. But overall I didn't much like it. I also read a few good articles in ET's Corporate Dossier. There was an article about Don Quixote being an inspiring book. To follow your dream no matter how strange and believing in yourself is the main theme of the book. It also says madness is thinking different from the world. After that article, I was motivated to check out the book in the library. But the book in itself looked very formidable and so I decided to add reading it to my some-things-I-want-to-do-before-I-die list which includes many exotic ideas like learning Arabic, Persian, French, going on a world tour, being a maestro in Renormalisation Group theory etc. I have a faint idea of these ideas never working out. That's why they are on this list. Maybe in my spare time after PhD, I will work on them.

By the way, the way madness is perceived is very clearly portrayed in another book I read partially which is Veronica decides to die by Paulo Coelho. Here Veronica writes a crazy letter before committing suicide in which she says she is disillusioned with the world and some such thing. But her attempt fails and she is saved. Then she is put in a mental asylum because of her letter. Some books have a power of taking you with them. I believe this was one such book. That's why I stopped reading it after nearly a 100 pages. This almost convinces you that what we perceive as sanity is thought of as madness by the inmates of the asylum. Its the way you look at it. Anyone who differs from our conventional ideas are branded as mad and caged lest they harm our simple ways of life. Paulo Coelho is an amazing writer. His Alchemist is brilliantly written. I didn't much like By the river Pedra, I sat and cried. I am yet to read 'Eleven Minutes'.
At the end of a long post, let me tell you something: Sleeping is addictive. I'm again yawning after sleeping for 14 hours yesterday. I guess Ill again take my siesta this afternoon. I have to wake up early morning tomorrow and reach the department by 7.30 am :( May the heavens above help me in this daunting task :D