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[29 Sep 2004|05:55pm] |
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Apocryphal though it may sound, it is, I assure you, entirely true.
Here's just five things I've done over the past month or so that have made me immensely happy-
- Exposed about 6 rolls of film, over three weeks, on a 2.5 km stretch of road in the heart of the old city that's given me about 15 frames that I'm really proud of having shot
- Made a weekend dash to Pune to catch up with old friends and make a few new ones
- Squeezed in a spur-of-the-moment visit to Bombay to spend quality time with YSJ and and his new niece, and feast on aunty's yummalicious masala idlis
- Reached home late last night from work and listened to James Brown crooning I feel good while changing and fell asleep to Clapton singing Running on faith
- Sent my brother a collection of 12 CDs of his favourite music
And this is what the tab reads like-
- The camera cost about 25,000. The films, along with processing and printing cost another 2000.
- The Pune-Bombay-and-back do set me back by about 6000.
- Brown and Clapton were courtesy my PC that I bought for 30,000. The music was put together, painstakingly, over two years at IIT-B. But that cost should strictly be outside the perview of this excercise, shouldn't it ?
- The pittance spent on the CDs I shan't even bother adding to the tab.
That's over half a lakh of Rupees for five pin-pricks of blinding light, if you get the analogy.
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Whoever says money can't buy happiness obviously never had any !
And Shaw said that, so don't get any bright ideas...
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