getting into blogging badly now…

I made the below post yesterday, but than again got caught in the trap whether I should publish or not, whether its appealing or not… even sent it to a fello blogger for an opinion !! than again it clicked… I am here to write what I feel… if people like it they will tell me and if they dont they will criticise it… if its boring they will go away midway… so what the heck… I ll post it…. it relieves me atleast !!!

24th Feb 2009

Its 5 am, since the past half an hour I have changed my position a few times, slowed the fan, increased the speed, removed my blanket put it on again but some how I just cant sleep. Walked to the refrigerator twice for water… but nothing will work…. I just cant sleep. I am making a new tag of my own in my mind since yesterday and its getting me excited and I can’t sleep. So finally I have quit trying to sleep and thought its best to get down and type something for my blog …

Blogging is the new rage in my life in the past 6 months, I have become totally addicted and consumed. Thanks to the recession, I have almost no work in office, I am a trader supposed to buy and sell cotton for my company, but there are absolutely no export inquiries and very few import inquiries, we are scared to sell in domestic markets as the mills delay the payments a bit too much. This has led to blogging which is now almost turning out to be a passion.

At home though wife rules actually more than her its the son who rules, I avoid using internet at home, maybe only on Sundays. Otherwise my laptop is now only a music player and a game player for us. Though now wife uses it for her new business that I have pushed her into. Not only did I need a helping hand, I also wanted her to have a life apart from being my wife, lazy girl wouldn’t move. Eventually I threatened her that she needs to earn enough to pay her own mobile bills, for her shopping and her frequent trips to Bharuch and Pune.

She started slowly as she was being pushed into it, however gradually I am seeing that she is starting to like to work. Infact she is near a breakthrough and I hope she gets her first business through and I am sure she will be encouraged by the results and it will keep her going. It’s a foray into adventure tourism, if she can make it a lil big, I would gladly want to quit my job and join her in this, so I am just hoping my wife can make a platform for me to join !!!

Geeee I have so much to tell you, anyways Coming to the tag, well these are some questions that come to my mind that I want to ask my fellow bloggers, but have not got around asking all of you, maybe some I have asked these… so I thought maybe I should make it a tag and get all of you talking…

So here are the questions, I haven’t got a number fixed yet, lets see how many we end up with, warning I have a habit of giving detailed answers !! :

Question 1.) How did you start Blogging ? When did you start Blogging ? What led to it ? In short – How come you are here…

Answer 1.) I was a scrabble player in free times at office at a site betapet.com, infact I was so popular in the giraffe room there, that the moment I would walk in I would have many hi’s coming in my direction and lots of invitations to join a board game and the best part was so many of them were females !!!!!! After college, especially into a few jobs now, my interaction with females was coming down fast, especially after shifting to Indore I had only two females in my life, wife and mom. So this tryst with fame with females had me excited. I found a few very good friends on the scrabble board that I will keep for my entire life. Even my rating was starting to improve… But I guess it was getting tooo good to be true, suddenly one day the website went poof !! It stopped its English version ! I didn’t know what to do, this was also the beginning of our inactive times in office… no other scrabble site was as much fun, plus I would be a newbie, not the popular guy whom all females were inviting, even the foreign ones !!!! Most of them I didn’t know email id’s so absolutely lost touch with them. However of the few I had email id’s we have kept in touch and will always remain in touch. One of them Ranu suggested I start this blogging… I didn’t know how to go about it nor was I sure if any one would even bother to read what I had to write, but Ranu comforted and I am here….

Question 2.) How badly are you addicted to this ??

Answer 2.) I am gone, totally lost. While I am making quote-sheets, or making offers for cotton worth millions of USD I am still trying to either post something, or sneaking to read a few of my favourite blogs, posting comments !!! This is dangerous, but I just cant help it any more. I am totally helpless, I almost feel compelled to read and comment on the blogs I visit. I kind of feel I am being unfair to the blogger, don’t know why. Even when I am sleeping, I dream about posting, interacting with a few bloggers, having strange conversations etc.. Whatever I see now, is being judged, can this be posted ? If it will be entertaining, soul searching or worth a glance for my readers ? I am almost formulating a post all the time in my subconscious mind !!

Question 3.) Are you technically savvy ? Totally comfortable with this ?

Answer 3.) I was very naïve, although I used to boast as being the PC champ among friends and at home, here my water level was tested. (water level is a gujarati saying, Paani Mapai gayu) Earlier Ranu would spoon feed me with most things, but slowly I got a bit savvy. As I started becoming popular I used my fame, my charm with my readers to get some or the other information, means to use gadgets, settings… Still learning !! I am fed up with blogger at times, trying to make a site in Word Press, having a tough time… but I will change from here I think, will inform all of you don’t worry. Naah I don’t mean you will worry, but I worry I might lose you, however I will be creating a havoc once I have the new site ready !!! You all will have no choice but to join me there !

Question 4.) Do you earn out of your blog ?

Answer 4.) To start with never thought anything like this is possible yet the Sheikh Chilli in me somewhere thought I am going to earn a fortune out of this blogging. Nothing still though !! Adsense keeps rejecting my application for some reason that is beyond me !! but I ain’t giving up ! Money is important, it’s the one and only problem in my life… I ain’t greedy but I don’t have enough by a long way so I do keep hoping ! But this has become so pleasurable that now money or no money I am gonna keep blogging !!

Question 5.) Have you ever spent money for your blog ? (bought a gadget or header or something ?)

Answer 5.) Not at all, if I can earn something out of this it would be great, like I said I don’t have enough, so spending is out of question. But the speed at which this blogging is becoming a passion, I don’t know If I might spend. Nothing as yet though.

Question 6.) Do you think you will stop blogging ? That this craze will wane eventually ?

Answer 6.) More often than not I pick up things easily, go to the extremes but soon I lose interest. However 6 months gone and each day I am getting more and more badly into this !! I don’t think I will be able to stop !

Question 7.) Have you made friends here ? Are they for real ?

Answer 7.) I have made many friends here too !! I know I have made some friends who are thoughtful, caring and realiable people not just that its a fact that I have met some very wonderful people. Its just a pleasure to know them. This journey in the blogosphere has introduced me to some unbelievable people. I think I know some of them even better than I know some of the people here in my real life !!

Question 8.) hmmm Now I am starting to think of what to ask…. So I guess I need to stop….

Hey I would be really glad if you could take the 7 questions and answer them… I made the answers too long, but than nothing is short at my end ! lol ….

So all of you are tagged, would be glad if you could do it at your time and leisure. I know there are a few too many tags flying around so take your time, if you don’t want to do it fair enough. But please please please if you do it let me know !!!! I would love to read !!

For a change this is not a copy ! It’s an original !

Well yeah… the concept of tag ain’t my original but atleast the questions in the tag are my own !!

7 questions for you —
Question 1.) How did you start Blogging ? When did you start Blogging ? What led to it ? In short – How come you are here…
Question 2.) How badly are you addicted to this ??
Question 3.) Are you technically savvy ? Totally comfortable with this ?
Question 4.) Do you earn out of your blog ?
Question 5.) Have you ever spent money for your blog ? (bought a gadget or header or something ?)
Question 6.) Do you think you will stop blogging ? That this craze will wane eventually ?
Question 7.) Have you made friends here ? Are they for real ?