Maktub

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t's back!... she reached the day before yesterday (the 1st)... she hasn't changed a bit... got me the books i had asked her for (Ooh-haa!).... Both by Paulo Coelho.... "The Alchemist" & "The Pilgrimmage"... i finished "The Alchemist" a few hours back... i swear the book was beautiful... the thing is, i thought it was gonna be one of those thick reads... you know?... big, complex thought pieces... was i mistaken or what... the beauty of the book was in its simplicity... P.C. is a sheer wizard with words... the way he describes Santiago's conversations with his heart and with the desert and the wind and the sun and "The Soul of the World" was nothing short of beautiful... the thing about this book is that you're not gonna forget it any time soon... the ideas and the visuals linger on... maybe not the whole book... but parts of it... all evening i've been thinking of nothing else... thanks t for getin me the books.... and thank you Nillumine for introducing me to paulo coelho... im keeping "The Pilgrimmage" for later... i really dont want to finish it off so fast...

i got paid today... 350 big ones ladies and gentleman!!!... and all i did was invite a few people over to their office to be interviewed... plus the boss said that he'd call me after ramadan when another project comes up... like coelho says, its all "Maktub"....

after i finished "The Alchemist" i read a little bit of Herman Hesse' "Siddharta" and then i started off on another one of my personal projects... i found Arthur Edward Waite's "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot" online at sacred-texts.com.... the site is ok... its got what you need... but the problem with "The Pictorial...." that they had was that it's in .html format... so you cant read it unless you're online... well that wont work for dial-up monkeys like me... i thought why not collect it all and make it into an e-book (a .doc or .pdf file).... so i download all the pages from the book and right now ive finished it till the Ace of Cups... hopefully ill finish it by tomorrow and ill do the linking of the chapters from the index and stuff properly and ta-daaaa.... an e-book... and for those of you who are curious as to why im doing this: a) im jobless... b) arun's agreed to get me a pack or Rider-Waite tarot cards when he comes over in december... and finally c) did i mention that i'm jobless?...

about the US elections... im truly disapointed at the american population... truly... they have proved to us the true meaning of "the herd"... how could so many people manage to believe Dubya?... but you got to hand it to him... Dubya and his cronies sure knows how to brainwash people... they've managed to fool a whole nation with their hog-wash... but one things for sure, it would have been much better for the US on the international scene if Kerry had won... but what can i do about it huh?.. im just another asian... another potential terrorist in the eyes of fearless Mr Dubya....

check this blog out - Kraz Arkin.... its so rare to see a mallu who thinks... most of them would rather sit around and watch soap operas or (supposed) comedy shows (i dont find anything funny about them) on tv all day... kerala, like the US, is another fine example of The Herd... me... im a mallu... a self-hating mallu.... i hate mallus and i hate myself... so i guess i end up no better than all the other "sheep", but i know i dont want to be a part of their doomed flock and i voluntarily stray away....

i voluntarily stray away....

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