My Open Diary
Made it exist, finally!
I have been planning a YouTube channel for what's effectively an eternity now. Ever since I was in college, I wanted to have one. While I did have a blank YouTube channel for a while, it was a blank one. Finally, the first video has made its maiden voyage. Like this website, the video, too, is a humble one, with background noise, not-so-impressive background, inefficient grouping of topics etc. But it finally exists! Well, here it is: (It won't open like a link because I am posting the whole thing like a text, but copy-pasting never betrays!) https://youtu.be/At91clJm4Ns?si=uPptE-5UJM0HqfsC (It's like owning a home twice, without ever owning a home!)
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Missed my valentine once again.
How do you define your valentine? I read in an Instagram post, your valentine is the one who you want to see right before your day starts, and right after your day ends. Fortunately, my valentines have always been non-human entities: fictional characters, transport vehicles, stars, planets, this website... With time, love changes... When I moved to my current place, my first love was a plane. A particular plane. Actually, in a place like mine, you don't often see huge jets flying around... Mostly medium-sized planes from within the country. So, when I woke up, on the morning after the day I moved in, I saw a huge jumbo taking a U-turn right before my window (which didn't have curtains, by the way, and that actually facilitated my view). It was, beyond any reasonable doubt, a Boeing 777: my plane-crush. I immediately checked FlightRadar24, and I was right... An Emirates 777 coming from Dubai. But how did my crush become my valentine? Every morning at around 7:30 and every evening around 5:30, there was a 777 coming in from Dubai. The winter winds here ensure the runway direction favours my view of landing planes. Staring at the beauty every time it passed by, I started and ended my day. I had a strict rule for myself: no hard work after the evening plane has passed. This went on for some days, and then, my old habits kicked in... Late-night time-wastes, waking up after 10 am, thus certainly missing my love. Initially, when I still woke up by 9, the Universe gave me signs that it wanted me in my old habits. The plane was delayed just enough so that I could see it despite waking up late. But, well, the scoreboard got updated: me 1, Universe 0... The Universe failed to push the good habits back into me. On Valentine's Day, finally, purely by chance, I woke up at 7:20 am... I saw the plane scheduled right before the Dubai 777 pass by, so I woke up and looked outside my window carefully for my lost love. But I couldn't see it. Schedule said it should be over my head. FlightRadar24 said it was in fact over my head. Even, the sound of its engines said it was over my head. But I couldn't see it. Sometime between the previous plane and my long-forgotten love, the clouds gathered, the fog increased, and the visibility dropped just so temporarily that I couldn't see my valentine. It was as if the Universe, looking at me with disappointed eyes, was saying, "You had your chances. It's over now."
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Limit dismantled!
Everything that bothered me about this site so far (meaning, for the last 48 hours), no longer exists. No longer at the mercy of my insufficient knowledge, I can now look into more complicated endeavours, because, as they say, beauty is complicated. To make something beautiful, the first thing I need to do is, to be comfortable with the unknown... Slowly, at its right pace, the Universe is unravelling itself...
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There's a limit to everything. I hate limits.
Apparently I can't write to my heart's content because three long lines of text is enough to crack this website. I can't even pin-point where the limit stays... And to think, I sacrificed a whole night's food and sleep for this.
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Check!
Doing it just to see if this works!
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Akash Ghoshal commented at 17 Mar 2026, 6:47 pm.
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Akash Ghoshal commented at 17 Mar 2026, 7:05 pm.
Trying again...