Met up with vinayak and f3ew at forum yesterday. I had the 'Carpet People' which I had to return. f3ew had promised more books when he came to meet me. Around 7:05 I got out on to M.G Road and decided to walk till Forum. I had walked down till Forum the previous day too and had walked from Roman Catholic Cemetery till office the same day. I was feeling especially braced and practically ran down from the Military school till I got to Nianp and the incline started to slow me down. I hadn't felt that alive for a long time - to just let go of your inhibitions and tear down a stretch of road like a little school kid.
Walking down Hosur road on the 6th
Anyway, I got to Forum in around 50 minutes feeling all dehydrated but with blood drumming in my ears. My feet ache today, but my heart wants to do it all over again. f3ew arrived with the books around 8 PM and we sat down to split the swag between me and vinayak.
The books
After that me and f3ew basically got talking about community development. I was talking about the failures I had had in college and the valuable lessons I had learnt from that. You can't push hackerdom onto a 3rd or final year student in college, you have to get them when they are still curious and exploring. After walking around Forum 9 times discussing this, we both split and headed home.
The first thing I noticed when I got home was that all my books were off the floor and stacked on top of my boom box. It is an interesting collection of books, which I have read and re-read. Some of them I still pop open a page and start reading at random places.
Anyway, currently reading The Wee Free Men. And still laughing whenever I think about the Carpet people and the On Epen Ny that the vorgtron plateau of bronze has written on it.
--Today the city, Tomorrow the world
Good. that leaves the weekend free.
-- Sourcery