Hello World
Says the Computer Science undergrad.. Ha!
I was walking in a lusciously green and extensively huge park right beside the half-baked metro station in Jayanagar's 9th Block with my uncle when he decides to ask me,
"What do you want to do in life Krishna?"
Oh no.. Another conversation about existentialism and purpose of life, blah..
Normally, Giri uncle isn't the type of person I've had these deep conversations with anyway. It's usually the usual customers that usually ask me these unusual questions about my purpose in life - Amma, Appa, Ajji, etc. So naturally, I was amused..
"I don't know. I think I'll need a year to think about what I plan to pursue after undergraduation"
I just finished my second year and I'm interning at a startup headed by Appa and Giri uncle.
"Forget about your career, what do you like to do? What do you want the reason to be for you to wake up in the morning and get to work?"
Okay, finally someone's asking the right questions..
"I dunno.. If someone could pay me for every movie I watched, that would be great.."
I love watching movies..
"Then why don't you start a blog?"
Of course this thought had entered my mind.. Blogging, right.. But why didn't I start one then?
"Yeah, but the thing is I had thought of this just before my exams came up. Then after the exams, I came home and chilled during the entire month of May, and now June I ended up here in the office.."
Mind you, 'chilled' is just a euphemism for 'doing nothing'. Nobody can 'chill' in May in this god damned Indian summer..
Later on I talked about other interests of mine like traveling and reading, etc etc, and I thought that this wouldn't be a bad idea at all, one blog for everything, all adventures, experiences, thoughts, emotions, everything. A tool to transform even the mundane to the magical.
As Rooney Mara's character in The Social Network said, "The Internet's not written in pencil, Mark, it's written in ink."
Cool, so blogging is a means by which I can leave vestiges of my conscience, bare my soul, open to everyone's scathing judgements, blah blah, for everyone to see, with no means of controlling who derives what meaning from it. Kind of like a digital art form.
Does this make me an artist? Am I entitled to write whatever I can about anything I want? Can I exercise artistic freedom over all my work and let free will reign?
Maybe..
But it's worth a shot.
After I walked back to the office from the park, I opened my laptop and typed away, and just as I thought it would, I gained a sublime sense of satisfaction with each word typed. Joygasm.
Don't ask me why I've given this blog its name, even I don't where it came from..
Perhaps, I'll leave that for another musing
For now though,
Hello World
Says the Computer Science undergrad.. Ha!
I was walking in a lusciously green and extensively huge park right beside the half-baked metro station in Jayanagar's 9th Block with my uncle when he decides to ask me,
"What do you want to do in life Krishna?"
Oh no.. Another conversation about existentialism and purpose of life, blah..
Normally, Giri uncle isn't the type of person I've had these deep conversations with anyway. It's usually the usual customers that usually ask me these unusual questions about my purpose in life - Amma, Appa, Ajji, etc. So naturally, I was amused..
"I don't know. I think I'll need a year to think about what I plan to pursue after undergraduation"
I just finished my second year and I'm interning at a startup headed by Appa and Giri uncle.
"Forget about your career, what do you like to do? What do you want the reason to be for you to wake up in the morning and get to work?"
Okay, finally someone's asking the right questions..
"I dunno.. If someone could pay me for every movie I watched, that would be great.."
I love watching movies..
"Then why don't you start a blog?"
Of course this thought had entered my mind.. Blogging, right.. But why didn't I start one then?
"Yeah, but the thing is I had thought of this just before my exams came up. Then after the exams, I came home and chilled during the entire month of May, and now June I ended up here in the office.."
Mind you, 'chilled' is just a euphemism for 'doing nothing'. Nobody can 'chill' in May in this god damned Indian summer..
Later on I talked about other interests of mine like traveling and reading, etc etc, and I thought that this wouldn't be a bad idea at all, one blog for everything, all adventures, experiences, thoughts, emotions, everything. A tool to transform even the mundane to the magical.
As Rooney Mara's character in The Social Network said, "The Internet's not written in pencil, Mark, it's written in ink."
Cool, so blogging is a means by which I can leave vestiges of my conscience, bare my soul, open to everyone's scathing judgements, blah blah, for everyone to see, with no means of controlling who derives what meaning from it. Kind of like a digital art form.
Does this make me an artist? Am I entitled to write whatever I can about anything I want? Can I exercise artistic freedom over all my work and let free will reign?
Maybe..
But it's worth a shot.
After I walked back to the office from the park, I opened my laptop and typed away, and just as I thought it would, I gained a sublime sense of satisfaction with each word typed. Joygasm.
Don't ask me why I've given this blog its name, even I don't where it came from..
Perhaps, I'll leave that for another musing
For now though,
Hello World
Way to go!!!! Definitely a good start for your musings!!!!!!
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