The Blog is Dead

Last month I was quite exuberant  to write about a piece of History received in mail , a review of  a good book and thoughts on Agatha Christie . Also a bit of personal blog on relationships , Indian parents &  throwing in fiction piece for readers on  which I intend to build my book . This site always had unique visitors which is why it kept me going . Ofcourse I also  dream of being a celebrity blogger some day with 1000s of visitor per day but that for some other day. 

The issue here is inability to complete a draft & post it . I am suffering writer's block . They claim , writers in general drink a  lot of coffee to get over these blocks & also since they are insomniac , they later sleep for hours and days . I am a no coffee drinker , infact when I visit CCD I proudly order a Icetea ( their hot tea tastes terrible ) & a   plate of Samosa .   I  for that matters didn't even drink gallons of tea and I haven't written a post at night in past one year . Yet every post has remained incomplete .

I have been visiting this blog for past one month , see its visitors  count . Check on some old post , wonder about all those posts written by me ,Muse over those silly spelling & grammar mistakes and still I couldn't finish a single post . As I write this , I now remember there was even a 'sales & marketing' post in drafts , there is another on "customer satisfaction" and two days back I guiltily planned a post about 'networking without social network' (backbone of Indian culture) while returning from Nasik .

 But yesterday something alarming  happened, the blogger stats showed zero visits . By end of the day I made up my mind to pronounce -  blog is dead .  I haven't watched a movie for past three months in theatre. I haven't even visited hair dresser since past one month .Television has been what it is ; an idiot box. These are terrible signs , signs of cluttered mind , signs reading a lot of crap ,signs of work getting hectic and too much confusion. Confusion between capitalism & socialism , Confusion with ethnicity , Confusion of faith ( A post was also planned on that ) and a lot of confusion . 

Not that I know how future would shape , Atleast The blog isn't dead. 

My Stint at KBC

" I am called for KBC on 31st  September , can I add you as 'phone a friend' ??? " was the sms I sent to 80 % of my friends on the list . What amazed me was the response  - hey congrats , really , nice...and all of them said ofcourse they would be glad to become 'phone a friend.' A few of them who have known me for ages knew I pulled a prank . So they replied , "you needn't ask me, directly add " :) . A few surprising ones were , "only if you wanna lose" ....

The good  thing about the whole episode was how people were excited about my participation . And its not about  money or game show , they all were unanimously excited about  the plausible encounter with one and only Mr. Amitabh Bachchan . Two of my friends were also excited about , they would get to talk to Mr. Bachchan and what question they would ask him at that moment . They were certainly sad to discover it was a prank .

I have watched KBC and the demeanour of Mr. Bachchan , certainly it never crossed my mind what the host has achieved . He is yet so humble , polite and no hanky panky in presentation .  In one of the recent episodes , the contestants asked him to repeat the mirror scene from Amar Akbar Anthony ( I have myself lost the count , the no. of times I have watched this movie ) . He politely refused because he said  that scene was performed under alcohol influence and at the moment I am not under influence , quite cheeky . It defined a class about him .

Also I realised , if I ever get a call from KBC  and win fastest finger first , would be awestruck by his persona for a while before being used to the idea that a superstar is hosting .:):)

On a signing off the only person who has enjoyed the Ricksha bandh was my nephew , who got to bunk his nursery yesterday.