Harsha 2.0

It's a shame I haven't blogged for a year and a half now. Not that a lot of people have missed me or anything. But Hey! Thanks to modern technology I could figure out using a page ip tracker that 12 people have been visiting my blog on a regular basis and a lot more every now and then. Anyhow, here's why I think I haven't been blogging:

1. Facebook (microblogging): Anything I wanna express goes straight into my FB/Orkut status. My travels, my opinions, reviews, moods, everthing's shortened into one concise sentence. I've become so used to it, this very moment I'm finding it very hard to write up this full length post.

2. iPhone: Well, I use FB and Orkut on my iPhone making it all the more easy to publish my thoughts instantaneously.

3. Been busy??: Well, not entirely though. My masters course was quite demanding. NOt that I didn't have free time, but all the free time was used up by actual real world socializing. Any given moment I'd either be workin on some assignment; or I'd be in a club/bar celebrating the birthday of someone from the Uni I barely even know; or I'd be cooking with my friends(who're all gr8 cooks from 5 different countries); all of which would keep me up till late thus giving me no time for my online world.

Hope that was convincing. And here's a few reasons I can start blogging again:

1. Work: I've graduated in Jan, returned to India and have been working ever since. I work 9-5 and am not the kind that takes work back to home. What happens in the office, stays in the office.

2. Work: I work in a laidback place in the middle of the Himalayas (yeah, I'll talk about it later), and there isn't much of a social life around here. I go to Chandigarh some weekends to quench my need for social contact (once again to celebrate the birthday of some friend of a friend of a friend in one of the nightclubs or if there's a gig), so the rest of the days I'm quite free once I've got back home from the gym and cooked my dinner.

3. Work: My job requires me to do some creative content writing. May be taking up blogging again would help get my creative juices flowing.

4. Though all the reasons are related to my work, the immediate reason that got me thinking is that a few good friends have been asking me to start writing again, at least to keep themselves entertained, if not anything.

I think between my last post and now, a lot has happened, lot of change, both in me and in the world. May be I'm a different person now. I've been to a lot of places, met lot of people and had so much exchange of thoughts and perceptions that my ideals, principles and the way I look at things and the way I express thoughts could even be quite the opposite of what they were, back then. Hence Harsha 2.0