After 6 months of grueling job-hunts (during which period my posterior stayed put on my desktop chair except when ablutions were in order) this 2009 graduate is finally going to jump into the real world, the real industry and face real challenges to enhance his realistic chances of a real career (the word ‘real’ doesn’t really mean anything real here). The past six months have been a sugar coated pill for me; sweet outside but bitter inside. This page has helped me in reducing that bitter part to an extent. Besides the aforesaid activity of yours truly, updating this page with some frivolity has also been a pastime. It is now time to reduce, if not put an end to, that frivolity; more so because of lack of time than because of lack of ideas. This is bound to have a positive (I hope not a very exuberantly cheerful) effect on the million or so readers of this page (I can feel your eyes rolling with mirth already). It’s time to thank all of you for putting up with my amateurish short stories and impulsive epiphanies. I would particularly like to thank the 16 people who battled the personal odds of boredom and time-waste to follow this page. Some of you might have really been following this page while some might have just stuck their names in the list and forgotten all about it after that. I am very thankful to both of those sections of followers, as I felt a thrill every time I looked to the right of this page and saw the number grow gradually from 1 to 16. I should of course offer my profuse thanks to the guy who opened the world of blogging to me and has since been a constant source of encouragement and support to my attempts at short stories, reviews and blog posts in general. He is none other than one Mr. Hobbes (you will be able to see his comments in almost every post in this page). Thanks a lot mate!!
Finally, I leave you with one more frivolity (for last time’s sake). The last line is especially significant and expresses my gratitude. Cheers and keep visiting now and then…
22 years since I opened my eyes to see light…
It’s taken me all of that time to see what’s right.
For a decade and a half life was candy floss…
When I used to live like I was my own boss.
No struggles, no tension, no decisions to make…
I could dream, I could fly, the moon I could rake.
Then came six years like a bolt from the blue…
Events unfolded, limits crossed, without any clue.
Now as I sit back in realms, wondering if my life’s a trap…
I have no option but to thank you for reading this crap!!!
I sincerely hope that this is not the last but the first of a series of new posts ... I really hope that that was a goodbye post for 2009 only and not to blogging ...
ReplyDelete2010 should see the posting of even more entries on this blog ... Its been a source of great entertainment so far and shd continue to do so.
The author of this blog is too modest and hence calls his stories "amateurish" but I beg to differ ... They were all quite brilliant ...
Its a pity that the author took the conscious decision not to post too much on his greatest source of delight(and anguish) ... CRICKET ..
All I can say is that the readers of this blog have been treated only to glimpses of the author's knowledge and passion of the game.
Here's to many many more posts to come ...
And I would just like to say that the pleasure has been mine ...
Cheers ...
p.s if I am not mistaken, it was a certain Siva Sailam who inspired this blog ;)
ha ha ha...very true indeed :)
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