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Day 5

Day 5 (27th December)

A weird thing happened today. My iPad lost its sound. After trying this and that in vain, I turned to the Internet for help. It was reassuring to know that it isn't such an uncommon problem and many users have experienced it. The most ridiculous explanation was "stuck in the headphone" mode, in which the iPad thinks that headphone jack is still stuck into it. The solution for this is equally ridiculous. To cut a long story short, after trying various suggested solutions, I finally soft reset the iPad and the sound magically came back. Jobs and Apple are clearly as overrated as rest of the tech world. If computers can be revived by turning off and on, then we surely can hope for something after death.

On an impulse I went to Bhau Daji Lad Museum in the evening for Alain Jaubert's Palette series in which he clinically dissects famous paintings. Today's painters included Ruben, who celebrates female flesh like no other painter has. La Tour and Claude Lorrain were the other two. All Baroque painters. It was an enchanting 90 minutes. Palette series has provided me much joyful insight into painters and paintings this year. 

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