The origin – Explained

I had tinkered around with the idea of blogging for quite some time now. I guess the main driving force behind my desire was the amount of free time that I had at my disposal. Before relocating to the garden city, I used to work in a place that has given the world gems like Flowery Devi and Soft Singh Yadav. Although people from the area are named as they look when they are born (or so it seems), they do not tend to grow up giving justice to their names. There was a guy who worked in my company who was called Arimardan Singh. He didn’t even have the courage to say boo to a bunny rabbit leave alone beating the hell out of some rice (Ari in my mother tongue stands for rice and mardanam stands for a solid thrashing). Anyways, the place that I used to work gave me so much free time and so many experiences that I was always compelled to write about them. There, I had a room for myself and although my free spirit should make me hate sitting in a cabin alone, the fact that I had a decent PC with adequate graphics card and RAM made me feel so at peace in my office. I used to keep myself busy helping the allies win over axis, stealing stuff, preparing myself for experiments going bad, killing computer controlled entities etc, all without anyone over my shoulder, scanning my screen, every 10 minutes. I predominantly used keys like W, A, S, D, spacebar and the arrow keys and never gave much thought to the other alphabets in my free time. Hence, my writing remained confined to occasional emails that I used to write my friends and some work that I did when the situation demanded it.

I had relocated to the garden city six months ago and the scenario has changed drastically. The confined freedom that I enjoyed in my room was taken away and I was placed in a cubicle (I hate them – more on that later) and by some strange laws of astrophysics, playing games in office is seriously looked down upon. I got married recently and my better half gets this unbelievable rritation whenever she sees me playing anything on my computer. With 8 hours at my disposal and nothing much to do other than reading comments on rediff news articles even moderately touching islam/hinduism, BJP/congress, Gay/straight people etc, the old feeling of starting a blog slowly started creeping back into my mind. With my companies blocking access to most of the websites I used to frequent and a gentle nudge from one of my good friends I have finally decided to start writing. Hence, this blog.

This blog may not have punctuation marks when required, it may mix past participle with present principle, it may seem too sarcastic, it may not make sense. You have been forewarned.

~ by mangonel on September 30, 2008.