Filling in ...

Ah. After my determined resolution last week, I seem to be back to the square one - how and where to start. And all of a sudden, those numerous thoughts swirling in my mind seem to have disappeared away. Whew!

I might as well start with the reason for my long hiatus. The last post before my absence was on June 20th, 2008. My "life changing moment" occurred five days after that - Sid arrived into our life, turning it topsy-turvy :-) I now remember with a certain degree of amusement, that before he was born, how I planned to keep a record of his growing up years, his achievements, his deeds (and misdeeds), and my thoughts and reactions to it all, through my blog. And how, after he was here, I was just too occupied in the actual business of bringing him up, to even think about blogging! Now that he is three years old, he demands a lot of attention. To think of it, he did that earlier too - the only difference is that the reason for the demand has gone from physical needs to mental :-) Can I dare to hope for the things to improve, once he gets older, perhaps before the pressure for studies start?

In the last two years, I did get a few minutes to myself, here and there, abbreviated with needs for my intervention or attention, but this is hardly enough to think, and organize your thoughts, leave alone open a laptop (which  is something one can't do anyway, with a small kid around). I really don't understand whats it with kids and laptops - the laptops have a magnetic charm for them, even if you never ever play any videos and cartoons for them!

So, in last three years, I haven't blogged, I haven't read (except for a couple of books I managed to read in fragments, on solo flights or metro commutes), and I haven't travelled (except for one vacation last winter). To compensate for blogging and reading, I developed  a not-so-desirable addiction for facebook (which is something that can be managed in those short snatches of time, specially with the help of a wireless router and an iPod touch). To compensate for travelling, I picked up a near-obsession for photographing flowers, which is not that bad I think :-) I have been posting these pictures, that I took from my phone camera, in office, apartment complex, parks, or anywhere else I visited, on facebook. A number of times I considered posting them on my blog instead, but oh, the inertia!! This also brings me to blog vs facebook dilemma, but let me save this subject for another day.

The other major changes are relatively recent. I quit my first job after nearly ten-and-a-half years, and moved to a new workplace and a new city - something of a paradigm shift.

In last few months, I checked on the blogs I more or less regularly read (and not to forget, whose authors visited mine :-)). Some of them have stopped writing, and most of the rest are no longer active. Sad indeed.