Thursday, December 30, 2010

O! 2010 where art thou?

Looking back at the year that whizzed past me, Oh 2010 where did you go? what did I do in these 365 days?

1.    Spent nearly 50% of my time sitting in front of a laptop (20% more in front of TV)
2.    Celebrated Indian Festivals for the first time in this country
3.    Rearranged the look of my living room thrice
4.    Worked out, quit workout, restarted work out
5.    Movie Inception made me wonder how amazing the human mind is to conceive such a story.
6.    Happy to see Indian Cricket team become # 1 team in test cricket and stay there
7.    Jubilant to see Sachin Tendulkar score 200* in an ODI cricket match
8.    Weekend Football became interesting due to office pick’em
9.    Lost in both my Fantasy Football leagues
10. Happy for Rehman to get an Academy award for one of his not-so-good number. (He was bound to get international recognition sooner or later)
11. Became a fan of PBS documentaries
12. Thanked Netflix for being there for me on most evenings
13. Reached level 94 in Farmville, a climb of 70 odd levels
14. Started playing and quit playing many other FB games
15. Posted 8 funny videos of strangers in FB
16. Aggravated my irritation with iPhone (Apps are still having my vote though)
17. Started writing a blog

The most meaningful of it all, saw my kid grow from a little bundle of joy in my hands to a little man!

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Day 1 - Conversation

He: Why the title "Off the fence"?
Me: I have been on the fence about the whole idea of blogging. Now I am off the fence and decided to step into this world of blogging. 


He: What is the issue with blogging?
Me: I am not comfortable about letting the whole world know about everything in my life. 


He: What convinced you?
Me: The fact that I control what I publish made me feel comfortable about this whole activity. 


He: Does that mean you are going to publish esoteric posts that lack emotion and remain detached from reality?
Me: Firstly, a post being esoteric or not is up to the reader to decide. As far as the reality part is concerned, yes I will try and keep it close to reality as creatively possible. 


He: Will you be a regular in this blogging circuit now? 
Me: May be, may be not. Only time will tell. Thanks for helping me out with my first post by asking "meaningful" questions. 
He: You are welcome. I want to see what you come up with on Day 2. 

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