Being very new to timepassing alone I posed the question to some of my friends. “Books” said the to-be journalist. “photography” was the suggestion of a not-so photogenic face. “Go to disco disco” screamed the president and started shaking his head making people around wonder if he had a seizure. “Sitcoms”. “Body building”. “Travel”. “Get a girlfriend machi” said the others. That’s quite a lot of options. To shortlist these I sat down to do a Strength and Weakness analysis (16 months of work-ex at my ex-company teaches you do these in a couple of seconds even if you don’t know anything).
Option | Weaknesses |
Books | Brilliant option. But not for a person who got 3 books to read in February and has still not touched them. |
Travel | ‘Ek Gaav Mein. Ek Kiss an’. In this city?? |
Studying?? | Included this just for the sake of it. (From malli, vikki, juju to me: Ipdi Solli Solliye) |
Endhirichi nikkave vazhi illayam idhula....... body building kekkudho. | |
Sports and Games | Watching oda stop pannikalam |
Note:
- Strengths have not been mentioned because there weren’t any.
- Also, options like go to disco, Get a girlfriend were rejected because “idhu raja annamalaipuram pogavendiya moonji alla.”
Result - Not one of the options suited me. So I came to a conclusion that only thing I could do was wait for malli, dicky or juju to come online and chat with them or do some Attention Seeking Activities(ASA) like changing profile pic and asking people to comment on the beauty of my face (or the lack of it), updating 100 character long statuses (of which 85 characters are smileys 14 exclamation marks and 1 full stop) on facebook.
In one such chat, a friend of mine suggested me to do something i am good at. So I started to list those down – Rumours creating, ASAs, Vetti Pechu, random blabbering. “Hmm.idha ellam vechi enna timepass panradhu”. “Blog pannu machan” was my friend’s reply. He was right. You just had to know just one thing to blog – nothing. If at all you dont know what to do you always have google. So only thing I had to do was, cut down on the vetti pechu with some always online elderly friends of mine, type the same random thoughts in a blog and upload. LK ellam blog ezhudhi hit aagudhu. Naan ezhudina aagadha. So blog ezhudaren, hit aagum, fan following will increase, ladies will like it, propo......
“But one small problem” he interrupted.. Arrgghh.. Imagination la kuda sandhoshama irukku vida mattingale. "Enna da". "English" he replied. He was right again. It seems to be an unwritten rule that bloggers have to use words from the Barrons and phrases like ‘See you a Tsubasa and raise you a Rahul Ganesan’(please ping me if you understand this phrase), so that people don’t understand a word of what you are speaking and hence think your blog is good. Namakko normal writing eh!!!!! Idhula blog vera. The whole group will surround me, kalaai me till I hang myself or watch Sura(I prefer the first). Oore kai kotti sirikkum.
"But adhukkellam kavala pada mudiyuma machan. Apdiye thodachi vittukittu poikitte irukka vendiyadhu thaan. English theriyatti tanglish la ezhudu. Purinjavan padikkatum" he ethi vittufied me. And i did fall for it. ASA + Hours of timepass (considering I have to do at least 3 or 4 hours of dictionarying to write a para) as opposed to some kalaai. Sounded good. And surely way better than all the other options I had. Or so it seemed.
Blogging it is! (vera vazhi illama)
P.S: I can hear your mind voices that me blogging is also raja annamalai puram category. But as the self proclaimed next superstar (errr.) ilaya thalapathi says “Evvalavo pannittom idha pannamattoma.”
