The power of laptop

There are many places in warsaw where you can sit outside on a sunny day. The place where I am sitting now is called "Plan B" ( yes! just like this new film out there). Plan B is a place that reminds me of torino express in Beirut. Why? Well it is a place with a kind of service that may seem unpleasant for those who are not regulars, but also because it really seems like the staff and some of the regulars are one big family. I am not a regular here, but I have been frequenting this bar since my first early visits to Poland. What makes today special is that I am sitting on a table outside. Outside means you are on a 1 square meter(roughly), and around you will be a round about. The round about is home to many trams that connect the city from south to north, east to west. We live south of here, and it is a nice walking distance on a warm day. what's more special is that its Friday, which means the day of week when you are almost certain that the week is over. Only since I am not working I have to pretend that Fridays are really special for me. It's only 5 p.m. but I am here anyway. The beer is cold, the sun is shinning and the traffic is irregular. Earlier I was watching the trams go by. It's funny when I am usually going home in one of the trams I get a few seconds to look over to where I am sitting now, but now I have much more time from where I am sitting to carefully inspect the trams. They are indeed a great invention. Just think of having to drive, or be in a car all the time to connect from A to B. Later I was looking at the sky. There were occasionally a few white clouds that hid the intensity of the sun every once in a while, but my skin stayed constantly warm which was and still is great. I am here then, but what is really special besides all the above, is that I have a lap top. So I am playing my own playlist from itunes. I am getting a kick of the music because I am the one man Dj in this square. ( off course only for myself) but hell man that is freedom. That alone can defeat the Idea of communism in a place that may have been only 20 years ago just a normal boring square with no Plan B, cafe Karma, or the many Warsaw youth on their bicycles locking them anywhere they can to gather and talk around this favorite square of mine. But I only mention communism because ironically there is a big white church to which the square " Zbawiciela" takes its name, and just down the street is "plac konstytucji"( constitution square) which was built as I understood by the russians. If you look carefully to one of the statues engraved in one of the buildings, you will see a typical socialist looking worker(Iron forger) with early decades' primitive industrial tools. In a way it will look now like a vintage revolutionary socialist poster. So the connection with torino express is a remote one since I don't know anyone here, but playing my music does make me feel like the many days and nights I stood behind the red glowing sign of torino and played for hours from bags of exhausted CDs.

PS: The picture was taken from wikipedia. The file is licensed under wikicommons.