Today, yesterday now, actually, was great fun. Operation Soo-doo Day, a great success, if I may say so myself. :D
I can understand how some non-Calcuttans can find Cal a tad boring. The culture-shmulture jazz is just too heady after a while, and if you're the party type, you aren't exactly spoilt for choice. Also, Cal is not the kind of place you go upto random strangers at a pub or a disco and hook up or whatever. A good group of friends is imperative for any kind of activity here. And Cal is a small place. Nearly everyone knows everyone (or chooses to). However, if you are a bit, uh, socially challenged, just dress really shabbily, put on a pair of glasses, carry the dirtiest possible jhola, wear loose chappals and hang out in college street, boi para and all that jazz, and pretend to be an intellectual. You see, intellectuals are so smart, they don't really need company. Of course, that's all bullshit, and the above described individual doesn't have to possess an ounce of intelligence, but that's how it usually works- you dress that way, you're branded an antel. And if you are an antel, a little bit of solitude and eccentricity is your birthright. Anyway, I digress. Like I was saying, you can run out of things to do here, after a while. Even with a good group of friends.
But, here's the thing about most Calcuttans. We like things the way they are. Too many changes disturbs the average joe Bong. And for heaven's sake don't disturb the average joe Bong. An uprising in a distant village, never heard of before, can shake the Bongs out of their peaceful slumber and motivate them into... a standstill - in other words, we have a lot of bandhs. We just stop everything and get even averager and Joe-er. There are a bunch of idealists (sometimes antels - the ones mentioned before, sometimes just local goondas) who get a little excited and write a street play or just break a couple of car windows, or blog or have a session of adda (which in plain English means bitching).
So we, a bunch of schizophrenic Bongs, struggling between revolutions and the comfort of tried and tested ways, do indulge in the latter, on a day like today. That was a round-about way of saying, we all went to Nicco Park today (which has, I think added 3 more rides ever since it opened, what, 14-15 years ago? ) and we REALLY had fun. Hehe. Don't you just hate me for making you read so much?