Re-Genesis

Year 2002: Two agonising semesters had gone by, my college-mates would understand why I used the word agonising, and suddenly my college was looking different from what it used to look earlier, just few months back. I was feeling proud to be senior to a whole batch of new comers, being Knighthood-ed, err but suffixed with 'Sir'. Now instead of using library as my hideout, of-course to avoid my seniors, I was actually trying to use it in a manner it should be. I was browsing through a stack of old issues of magazines, there was no fresh issue so I had no choice but to read those almost stale articles, the cover page of TIME caught my attention; the main article was about the advent of a new chic stuff called BLOGGING. What is it? After going through the article I was elated to learn about this cool stuff. I was happy, when I left the library, to learn something very esoteric. That evening I was bragging in front of my friends about what I learnt, "Have you ever heard of blogging?" I said. I knew that answer will be no but one of my friend gave me a strange look which I intelligently equated to a big question mark. Then I started giving him my own half baked fundaz of blogging; how simple it is yet how powerful and handy it can prove. We can share any piece of information by just penning down in a website and broadcasting the same. The topic can encompass anything under the sun, be it travel, tech, politics, society, sports, music any damn thing! Not only we can share information but also it can be used as a mass awareness media. It can be used as a political force, blah blah blah. What rubbish is he talking about? --- grimaced one of my friend, I could read this line written in fluorescent color on my friend's forehead. Soon we had other topics to discuss and the word blog was no where in our conversation. Why the hell it should be, when we have so many things to do to keep ourselves happy. We had newcomers, always available to give us their introductions, you know what I mean, don't you? (grin) After having a few spells of entertainment laced introduction we retired for the day.

The next day, I don't know why I felt vindicated to learn more about this stuff called blogging. I surfed the Internet for few days and finally decided to have my own blog. To be first among the few people to have his own blog, though I didn't knew how many in my college had any clue about blogging. Internet was mostly used to chat and surf, mostly unnecessary stuffs, and most of the guys would be hooked to yahoo messenger's private chat rooms, even I used to do the same. Finally I created my blog page, now I had my own blog, but I had a big question in my mind. What to write about? Actually I never gave a thought about this question before creating my own blog. For few days I kept on thinking and reflecting on this question but fortunately or unfortunately I never got the answer. Days passed like anything and the word blogging passed away from my mind. That was the end of my first attempt to be among the elite class of blogger.....Probably, ragging was better than blogging, I thought.

Mar, 18th '08: Here I am sitting in my office cubicle ,composing my first blog, having the same question and this time I found another one 'What not to write?'. Having said that, this new question is not an easy one but not that difficult too, and now I feel four and half year old burden almost coming off my shoulder. Many thanks to my namesake Shanu. Hope to continue this .... Sayonara for now.