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Chorus - A Dream Realized, Vicariously

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This winter break, a new obsession overcame me - that of developing a trail-blazing Android app. Now, this was nothing new. Every vacation, I get captivated by a new idea - last break it was creating an app, before that it was composing a song, before that it was writing a novel, before that...Well, you get the picture. Right now, I'm dreaming of making a new social website; the Facebook of the Future, if you will. The thing about these ideas is that, more often than not, they fail to materialize; but when you do manage to implement some of them, the satisfaction is unparalleled. For example, the novel never happened (I'm still working over the nitty-gritty's, like the plot); but I did manage to write a song along with some of my school friends. Even though a year has passed after the song was completed, I make my classmates listen to the song as soon as I get the chance, and force them to say good things about it.  So, back to the app. The app was one of those fanta