one for me

after reading my archive blog entries multiple times, my friend told me this: 'you write a lot of philosophical illegible crap. no one needs advice. not even subtle ones. I mean, some of your normal (huh??) blogs are good, but most of them.. sorry dude..'

I don’t think she had a great deal of sympathy either, blatant as ever. 'what is the deal with you and a slice of philosophy, all the time? I know you do have a technical blog, but for the love of God, please write your everyday real activities in your personal blog and not some random, fictitious crap!'

I said, 'really! hmm.. now that you say so, should I begin to believe that they are all monotonous. maybe you are right. I ought to write something different.. a more relaxed blog probably..'

exactly at that time she cracked up, and said 'dude, I was just messing with your head.. you do understand the meaning of blogging right? letting go your thoughts, your thinking.. it doesn’t matter how many people read it, or what they think of it. (provided you don’t burn down a government with your entry) so relax and do that you have always done.. put those weird thoughts/fictitious ideas you have into words!'

I have to tell you that was not a bad couple of minutes there. for a moment, I was about to flood 3 blog posts, of things sitting on the back of my mind.. then I thought I’ll hold it for the next few days.. I’ll probably write about some of the things that happened, in this post.. absolutely different from things i have in my mind..

starting with my job and new project, things couldn’t have been better. I am architecting a new design and with the latest technologies, infinite fun. off the tracks, some of my experimental geeky stuff is exciting me all the more.. (python, iron-python and php to name a few)

the weather is awesome in seattle now, I have almost forgot the last time, when I wore a jacket.

my trip to San Francisco on the American Independence day weekend, was great with the only dampener being the fireworks wrecked by fog/cloud cover. once back, I caught up with 'Entourage' and 'The Big Bang Theory' all episodes till date, and then started with 'Scrubs'. now, a fortnight after that, I finish watching all 7 seasons of Scrubs, and it is so enjoyable.

amidst this, I watched 'Mummy III: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor' and 'The Dark Knight' as soon as they hit the theatres. I have always felt good watching a movie in a theatre.. scintillating..

as my phone pounds through its 8 gigs of songs, all day long, a couple of new tamil movies (one tuned by ar rahman) add themselves to the song list.. and all this goes with exactly 7 more interesting things, of various aspects, like cricket, fun, games etc not worth mentioning much.

and to top it all, my best friend from college got engaged a couple of months back, and moved to seattle, to add my college friends count locally. so the work/college friend count keeps getting better and better.

would probably play ‘Ninja Gaiden’ for some more time, before sleeping.

I showed her the above text, and asked her, is this what I am supposed to write from time to time.. I know that there are moments, when you are not happy, just numb or plain sad (say when one of your dearest friends behaves strangely and you can’t even tell them how much you miss the old self or when you have got too many things on your mind)… should I also scribble if such occasions arise?

she smiled and asked, 'why do you ask me? do you really think I am real, and not just in your head?'