Thursday, October 05, 2006 ||
1:46 AM ||
Adi’s brilliant tag demands a concise self portrait; a simple verbal sketch of eight random facts about me, that could probably help unearth a few facets of the person that I am. Here goes:
1. I am often good-humoredly accused of laughing out all too loud, smiling all too wide and laughing and smiling all too often.
2. I’m a certified hypochondriac. Enlighten me with the symptoms of any fantastic illness found anywhere across the whole wide world, and I guarantee you that I would identify all those in me within minutes, without fail.
3. I can’t swim; I am Pithikosophobic. ;)
4. I can be horribly moody and switch myself off absolutely from the world for a few hours or days once in a while. I rebounce back pretty soon without fail, though.
5. I am a bit too indifferent towards my looks and appearance. And I mean a ‘too’ with quite a few ‘o’s.
6. I live, eat and breathe movies. Seldom passes by a day, without my having watched a film.
7. I am a lazy bone who’s ironically working non-stop.
8. Destiny intrigues me. When I think of two persons distinctively meant to meet at some point of their lives or the other, in the most casual of ways, never even realizing that they actually met. I see someone from wherever, walking to a bus stop, hopping onto a bus, dropping off somewhere, driving a car, roaming around, far, real far from his home, in a park or a hotel, reading a magazine from a make-shift shack, in a theatre, loitering on the pathways, having a munch on a roadside dhaba and then... walking past me, never looking at me, me never seeing him either... just walking past for a second, brushing against each other, never to meet again - it has been predestined.
The jangle and rattle over, the 8-Facts-Tag is hereby officially handed over to legendary AI, endearing Kathy, tranquil Mindinside, adorable Hannelie, exquisite Neermathalam and serene Suji ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Being-a-Blogger tag jointly latched onto my garb, by Kathy and Sree, implies that an introspection is long due. About a year into blogging, I find myself retorting to 14 queries that span across the blogging arena, responses to which will be restricted, I promise, to a maximum of two sentences each.
1. Are you happy / satisfied with your blog, with its content and look?
I couldn’t have asked for more, when it comes to the Kaleidoscope and the All-Green feel, given my abysmally stumpy technical know-how. As for the content, I write on anything that drives my fingers onto the keyboard.
2. Does your family know about your blog?
Yes, my mom does, and she amusedly goes through my posts and the comments once in a while. She’s quite familiar with most of my Blogger friends as well, at least by their names.
3. Do you feel embarrassed to let your friends know about your blog or you just consider it as a private thing?
Not a bit. Most of my bosom buddies know about, read my blog and even leave comments. As for privacy, there is not much of a difference between the real-me and the blogger-me.4. Did blogs cause positive changes in your thoughts?
Much more than blogs themselves, Bloggers have. There have been more than a few instances when I have been struck by the intensity or sincerity, frankness or freedom of a blogger, that has lured me onto that blog, time and again.
5. Do you only open the blogs of those who comment on your blog or you love to go and discover more by yourself?
I do make it a point to pay a counter visit to my visitors’ blogs and let them know that their stopover is sincerely appreciated. But I am too much of a wanderer and sightseer to restrict myself to those blogs alone, and hence find myself exploring a multitude of blogs, if I have the time.
6. What does visitors counter mean to you? Do you care about putting it in your blog?
At the moment, it means that I have had about ten thousand indistinguishable people, reaching this minuscule place on the internet, many of which who have left without a second thought in a matter of seconds, several of which who have loitered around for a few minutes, quite a lot of which who have bothered to read a line or two, a number of which who have liked what they have read and expressed an opinion of their own, some of which who have actually bothered to come back and a few of which who have in the process, made a difference to my life.
7. Did you try to imagine your fellow bloggers and give them real pictures?
I have. A million times. I’ve categorized them into three – vague pencil sketches with a vagabond stroke lending life here or there, lucid paintings with vibrant colors filling up the voids and elaborate portraits that have been excruciatingly done with immense thought paid to each immaculate detail.
8. Admit. Do you think there is a real benefit for blogging?
I guess more than as a means to an end, for me, it’s an end in itself.
9. Do you think that bloggers society is isolated from real world or interacts with events?
Blogging is as much real as life can get to be.
10. Does criticism annoy you or do you feel it’s a normal thing?
Whether online or offline, infuriation doesn’t help much. I would feel there’s something definitely wrong, if one doesn’t encounter a critical statement every now and then.
11. Do you fear some political blogs and avoid them?
Politics totally disinterests me, and hence I do.
12. Did you get shocked by the arrest of some bloggers?
I have always had grave concerns regarding Censorship of any kind. And more than the arrest of ‘some’ bloggers, it perturbed me to see that sometimes it’s hazardous to have a staunch opinion of one’s own.
13. Did you think about what will happen to your blog after you die?
Heritance could be ruled out, for sure. I guess I would be content with a 404 error, preferably in Green.
14. What do you like to hear? What’s the song you might like to put a link to in your blog?
As years gently pass by, I am ever more fascinated by the song from Golmaal, ‘Aanewala pal jaane wala hain, ho sake to is mein, zindagii bitaa do, pal jo ye jaane vaalaa hai.....’ If ever you find a Jukebox on this blog, rest assured that you would find this lilting melody on the play list for sure.
I'd truly love it if inimitable Sunil, creative Rachna, incredible Shark, vivacious Jeevan, endearing James and amicable Manish would let us into their fascinating Blogger Worlds as well!!