starry night

   In the past few weeks, there has been a considerable amount of time to ponder over everything when my surprisingly busy law school life and the attached attachments to it came to an abrupt but necessary end.  This end also brought to me a stark realization that I had a lot of books, movies and music to catch upon. They have, again to my surprise, taken a very far backseat in my bus. It took considerable effort to complete my first novel when I am used to reading lawbooks or caselaws. The SLS library unfortunately never had any fiction.  Though ironically the first movie I saw was a visit to the past, the Nolan movie Interstellar. I have come to empathise more with Cooper who had to leave his daughter to save the world. It also reminded me when I first saw this 5-6 years ago I wasn't this emotionally sensitive, even though I always knew all Christopher Nolan movies were fathers going back to their daughters.  Almost on cue, the trailer for the Odyssey dropp...

There was this work area behind my kitchen where I believed time flowed slowly. So I thought if I stayed there long enough hours, years or even decades could pass.  When I was child  I sometimes messed up things in school.  I would go to this work area in hopes of time passing by. Somehow in my brain I thought if I stayed there long enough my parents wouldn't shout at me.  But of course they find you. And time doesn't work like that. But I still carry this tendency to add magic to my daily mundane life. If it can be called magic. It can be horror at times as well.  In fact I remember mangoose coming out of the hole near our banana plant. I thought the mongoose represented all that was evil in this world. Every cause has an advocate. Mangoose was the advocate for evil.  But sometimes things went really bad. And you really can't stay in the work area and hope time passes and time heals you. At these times I always hear this sound  which I can only descri...