When I started writing for the Blogs, I made a secret pact with myself: I will not indulge in self reflections, and certainly not write on my personal life and what it is happening to me. These were anecdotes, incidents and events of my life, and no one would be interested to read them. Honestly, I did not think I would be comfortable in baring my heart out ever. I preferred the other route- the fiction one, where I can seamlessly knit these occurrences into an imaginative story; and no is the wiser as to which is the truth and which is fiction out of that.

But within a week, I am here, penning my thoughts, expressions and reflections. So what made me change my heart? Today, I read one of the finest blogs and that made my thought waves tingling. This was a blog by Mr Ramesh Somasundaram, and is available at http://ramesh_somasundaram.rediffblogs.com. During the past one week, since the time I have been initiated into blogging, I have browsed a lot many of them: some good, some funny, some reflective, some empty, some stupid and some really shoddy; but this one was at once serious and funny; simple and complex, and a mixture of fiction and truth. Of course, that Mr Somasundaram writes in very lucid English helped a lot. I have this writing bug in me which gets activated every time I read a good piece of writing. It has happened earlier also; and at the cost of sounding immodest, I must say, that some of the stories that I have written have been quite good. Even I enjoyed reading them after a year or so, despite knowing each and every twist of the tale. But since a bright story idea eluded my poor brain, and the bug continued its insistent persistence, I decided to venture into an area which I had till now resolutely avoided. What the hell, I have also lived a full and enriching 31 years of life on this lonely( or is it not?) planet , and I have also gone through many bitter-sweet moments of upheavals and exhilirations that I think I should start sharing and not bottling them up in my 5’11” frame!!

Its said that plagiarism is the best form of flattery. Hence, I have kept the title of this blog similar to one that Mr Somasundaram does, as also the design of the blog and the first line of this blog, which is nothing but a paraphrase of a sentence which Mr Sundaram had used in one of its blogs.

I am not sure for how long I will be able to continue this blog, but I will definitely try. Perhaps, someday the rediff management will also find it appropriate enough to feature in the “Sizzling Blogs” section, though, to be honest, their criteria for selection bewilders me no end

[This was my first post on my Rediff blog; posting it for nostalgic sake again with same date stamp!]

[edited and posted with ecto]