Around 8 years back, i was trying to meddle with html and css code during my semester vacation. Thanks to an animation course I was enrolled in, my tutor introduced me to modifying code on blogger. around the same time, sriram introduced me to blogspot and I started writing. Like it usually does, I excitedly wrote something every day, waited for somebody to comment and then realized i needed popularity. During the same time, sriram introduced me to Orkut and i proudly typed my blog url on my profile where it used to say 'website'. And slowly, as the no. of posts increased I also realized i was writing because i wanted to write and not because i wanted others to read. The posts were silly, childish and mostly a rant - about college,work,friends and life in general. Those silly moments when we used to tag each other with sillier questions, get awards and jumping around claiming to own the blogosphere. Thinking about it now,what really attracted me was the amazing circle of friends and acquaintances I made along the way. There was always Rad's comforting posts on family,friendship and work, Nandini's cheerful profile pic and cheerful comments, schmetterling and silveranklet's girly talks, nivi and dd's book reviews, corgitos's(mahathi) school and college recounts, Adi's posts on everything from bombay to svce, nirmal's on linux and minnale.., dandilas carnatic tribute..the list just grew. then there was this exclusive class of people who I thought wrote really well and sometimes a rare comment from them on my post would make my day..the exclusive ones were suze's iima life, coconut chutney, AC and jalsa-jilpa. Slowly, we had blogger meets(i skipped quite a few) and added each other online. Our discussions on posts continued offline. Life moved on.
Today we have all moved on to twitter. The whole bunch of us ! AND many of us have stopped writing. There is this weird connection - we know a lot about each other at the same time we have no qualms showing #outrage on one another. If something sucked, we made sure they knew it. I can think of numerous instances where I stood corrected .In the blogging world, our judgments are very fair indeed.
To the whole lot!- Cheers. i know you guys are lurking around and I am in touch with all of you (mentioned above), if you still have your blogger account active ,drop in a line. It's been ages! AND PLEASE WRITE.
PS: I think i had some some 500 odd posts in 2009 and talk about messing with code- i lost them all when i tried migrating to wordpress. It doesn't matter cos I didn't lose that wonderful circle of friends all over the world! #senti
6 comments:
whatay!
You are right about the silly tags and awards! I was searching some chats of ours yest(for you know what) and stumbled upon quite a few memories from 2007-present!
Cheers!
Aww. Felt so good reading this! Should send this to AC too :)
You made my day ya! Post will come up just for you, man.
Thank you guys!!!! :)
:) :) :)
You made my day too (minnale et linux)
Remember that questionnaire on minnale you filled?
I did not realize the entire set(meaning the ones i followed) is in Twitter.
#cheers :)
Bg, i think you should get ie those 500 odd posts back.
:) Yes, let's keep writing!
Bg - post coming up just for this!
Also, at least some of yous have enthu for twitter, I feel like my enthu has fizzled out. Nandu told me to come back on Twitter and I tried all of two days man - and it's been horribly difficult :-(
And why am I only about girl talk!! I demand to be more about grad school whines!
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