Will my blog remain unattended???

Blogging shuru karna asaan hai, ek ya do posts likhke use chod dena usse bhi asaan hai...
lekin mushkil hai apne blog ko regularly update karna.. :) Just a modified form of a Hindi movie dialogue.. hee hee.I am sure many of my friends will definitely agree to this.. Isn’t it true..???

How many of us have started blogging with a truck load of enthusiasm and then failed to remain committed due to lack of time, resources or various other reasons or shall I say excuses? How many of us believed that he/she had such vast set of ideas and experiences that could be shared with others and looked at blogging as the best option to do so?
Yes the same case with me too.. when I created this writing space for myself, I was determined to write a post at least once a week… had kept this deadline so that even if it does stretch I thought my blog would see me at least once in a fortnight… But here.. its more than a month and I have just 3 posts.. isn’t that sad.. :( sorry blog and sorry dear readers for keeping ull waiting.. ;)

And now if I analyze, it’s not really the time factor or anything that’s keeping me away from my blog, maybe it is the fact that I am unable to open this site from office. Well, of course as I said no excuses entertained.. I just got to consider it more seriously and with more commitment. Won’t it be cruel on my part, to leave my little blog on its own? Isn’t it my duty to nurture it? To make it among one of the ‘most read’ blogging spaces? :) Yes, I need to write more often. I need to write more interesting posts that will transform visitors into regular readers of my vault. Maybe I can put some photographs or snaps that will make it more attractive. And now as my mind drifts through all these thoughts I just wonder what my next post should be?? Should it be about my trip to Germany? Or about 8 hours at the paris airport? Or why not all these thoughts themselves shape up as a post for my blog and for my dear readers? Isnt this thought process a post in itself? :D

Hope to write the next one soon!

Its Monday again... :(

Here comes yet another Monday, and I find myself more bored than I was on the last Monday.
There is just one question I keep asking myself as I step into a new week, "Will I ever over come the self named Monday-syndrome"?
Wondering what it is? Well I believe it's that terrible feeling that one gets as he/she awakens from the weekend dream land, only to face the nightmare, that its 'Monday' already.
I guess for most people this nightmare starts only after they wake up on a Monday morning, but for some smart people like me, it starts on Sunday evening itself. Yes Sunday evening, when the excitement of a weekend already subsides and the haunting thought of a never ending week ahead tortures the mind. Sometimes I wish, I had some tool, Something with which I could transform the Sunday evening to a Friday evening, or at least to a Thursday evening where the weekend is just a day ahead. Hope someday this would be possible.
Well, maybe even I could think of some way of making it possible. Oh no, but not today, cannot compel my mind for some serious thinking. It's infected by the Monday virus! :)

A Toast to the ToastMasters...

For a long time, I had been thinking of doing something additional to my routine job. Thought I should join some classes etc., but somehow it never happened. A short discussion with one of my friends from office and we realized that both of us had similar interests in this regard. A few days later he told me about this ToastMasters club. Let me give you a brief introduction to this club...

Bangalore Toastmasters Club is a member Club of Toastmasters International. "Toastmasters International empowers people to achieve their full potential and realize their dreams. Through our member clubs, people throughout the world can improve their communication and leadership skills, and find the courage to change."
(Just a copy paste from their site. :) ) There are several wings of the International Toastmasters club in bangalore. We were the guests of Bangalore ToastMasters club which meets every Friday from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. It is a place that helps an individual to improve their communication and leadership skills. Any person interested can attend the club meetings as a guest. In order to become a member, one has to attend 3 meetings and then the existing club members( or the toastmasters; as they call themselves) vote whether you should be in or out.. :)

With this brief insight about toastmasters we left from office to attend our first toastmasters meeting as a guest. The venue for the meeting was St. Josephs college of Commerce. That’s on Brigade roads. Getting to the place was also simple as our office bus stops just next to the college.

As we entered the college premises, we saw some quite senior looking people. Thought that they could be members of the club as I had been through the member list on the website and had realized that most of the club members were quite senior, and yes I was right( as usual :) ). One of the gentleman there, introduced himself and we too did our part of the introduction. He walked with us to the meeting room, which was on the first floor, giving us some insights about himself and the club. We learnt that he had already been the secretary of the club and today was a special meet where all the ex-secretaries of the club had assembled. While walking, we also exchanged hands with other toastmasters. The meeting room was half occupied and consisted of people who seemed very happy and excited about meeting each other.

The meeting started at sharp 6:30 p.m.. The first talk was by a lady and I really cannot explain how beautifully she gave a splendid start to the meeting and got everyone involved. Hers was just an introductory kind of a thing and she wasn’t really among one of the speakers for the day. Next the secretary of the club came forward who informed everyone about the schedule for the days meet. The whole session was divided into 2 parts: During the first session, the 3 speakers of the day delivered their speeches. Each speaker was assigned a reviewer who would review the talk and give the feedback during the second session. Along with the reviewers for each speaker, there was also a grammarian for the entire session, another member was assigned the task of keeping track of the time and yet another member to track the 'aah's and 'I mean's and the likes. All the topics were non technical (they had to be as the members are from different backgrounds)
The content of all the speeches was really well formatted with good amount of humor in order to keep the listener involved. The second session was more of review of the first session and impromptu speaking. The topics given at the impromptu session were well selected and some of the members indeed did an excellent job. After the impromptu, the reviewers came forward and gave a detailed review about the speakers’ performance. The Grammarian especially was just too good. She actually pointed out each n every, even the most slightest grammatical error committed by any one during the entire 2 hour meet. She was just too perfect at it. I would really love to be as perfect as her at English. :)
Another toastmaster worth mentioning was the chief speaker of the day, who has also been the club secretary. The way he presented himself, the perfect use of vocabulary, and the voice modulation ..aah.. he was too perfect. Oh sorry! I don’t think I can say perfect as the grammarian found a little flaw in his talk too. :) After the speaking and the review session, there was a small ceremony where the new joiners of the club had to pledge. Got to witness an extremly well conducted session. Only part of the meeting which I didn’t enjoy was the break, Well the reason being the over-sized pastry of which I wasn’t able to finish even one-fourth.:(

The meeting came to an end around 8:45, and we left from there.. both of us with our own reviews about the speakers, the meeting and the club as a whole. Over all I found the meeting good and experienced some really good examples of effective speaking. The thought process is still on whether I should or not join the club. Of course, it’s also left to the ToastMasters... whether they vote me in or out. :D

India v/s Pak.. Twenty20 Finals..n m blogging

I guess anyone reading this blog will definitely think I am among the handful of people in India who are not at all inclined towards cricket. Well, before any of you come to a conclusion that I should be crucified for sitting with my blog when such an important and interesting match is going on, I shall make myself safe by informing you that I really didn’t end up blogging during the match. Just created a blogging space for myself, that’s it! And then I was back to the match.

So here I am finally writing my first post on my blog…
One of the major reasons I thought I should start blogging is to improve my comprehension skills which have been degraded to a great extent lately. I guess anyone would, considering the fact that the longest piece of writing I had done was probably… ah.. sometime around.. ah… well I don’t really remember when that was.

These days my writing skills have been used very miserly.. that's because its used only for writing formal emails to clients etc.. which have to be to the point.. so the entire letter is filled with some technical details, whatever info i get from the online helps etc ;) ... so finally, as u mite have guessed by now, its just Ctrl C, Ctrl V :D.. :)

I think i should stop my explanation about why blogging and start writing some better post instead.. maybe that would keep u interested... hopefully ;)