Monday, February 16, 2004

   My exciting day...

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Once again I am here, typing away at… 6:30AM, on Monday the fifteenth of February, 2004. I must need something to do. Perhaps I should stop getting up at six, but I enjoy it. Ah well. Not like you folks care anyway, is it? I only updated yesterday, and the day hasn’t really started, so I might just write up an article I found about the Taj Mahal. This was written by Susan Storm. The Taj Mahal is known the world over for being the most magnificent statement of love. It’s a daily Valentine that gleams in the moonlight like a ghostly ice-structure mirrored in the rippling water. At dawn, it’s aglow with shades of violet, rose pink and muted gold. In the early morning, shrouded in mist, it seems to float ethereally into the sky. And if you put your eye close to it’s skin-smooth surface, you can hear it sing- sometimes a mournful dirge and sometimes a song of great joy. It is a painting, a sculpture, a poem and an ode to love, but, more than anything, it is arguably the greatest gift one person ever gave to his beloved. When Shah Jahan wanted toshow his wife, Mumtaz, how much he loved her, he didn’t shower her with chocolates, lingerie, jewellery or a trip to the wine-region. Instead, he built a structure that makes any other gift of love pale in comparison. Sadly, Mumtaz never saw it because her devoted husband built it as a memorial to her life and a mausoleum to house her body after she had died giving birth to their 14th child. Straddling the banks of the River Jumna at Agra, Northern India, the magnificent Taj is one of the worlds most legendary places. Born of inspiration, it has inspired visitors with it’s sense of beauty and harmony for more than 300 years. If emotion can be embodied within architecture, then the love of Shah Jahan for Mumtaz is immortalised in the gracious lines, the elegant sweeps and the harmonious balance of a structure that from every angle will take your breath away. That is as much of the two page story as I can be bothered writing, but isn’t it touching? I mean, he must have loved her greatly, and 14 children!?! That is a hell of a lot of… ‘work’. I just thought that would be a good article to put up, considering that it has recently been Valentines, and all that stuff. So, my fellow OBers. Who among us received a Valentine’s gift? I know I didn’t. I’ll finish the rest of this when I get home from school. Ok. Back home again. Well, it has been a few hours that I have been home. It was a stinker [hot] of a day here, so me and my friend decided to bail out on Martial Arts. So, we sat in my room and played Battle-Field 1942. Fun stuff. School was fairly average. I was kicked out of my band, might be getting back in. Couldn’t care either way. Got burnt at swimming, but not too badly. Got a maths assignment due in, like a week, so no worries. Couldn’t be bothered starting it in Maths, so I sat and chatted with my friends. You know, the average day. Mood: Pretty damn good Song: Fever for the Flava by Hot Action Cop Births:1822: Francis Galton, English scientist and founder of eugenics Deaths: 1834: Lionel Lukin, English inventor of the lifeboat On this day in…1960: The US nuclear submarine Triton set off to circumnavigate the world underwater. Have a good day everyone! [Waiting for v7] -Josh E D I T: In something like 48 hours, mO has gained 1000 members! Impressive, eh? ~_^ Shows what a marvellous job Adam and Co have done with the place.

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