Apparently I crossed 700 posts on the blog. (This one is post #712) Which averages to about 70 posts a year, which does not make me happy at all. Especially since last year, I thought about getting to 200 posts in 365 days. I have no idea how that will pan out, unless I write multiple posts on the same day.<\/p>\n
I sometimes go and look at my early posts, and see someone who has changed\u00a0so\u00a0<\/em>much<\/em>.\u00a0Everything from how I think to how I write. How much I reveal online to the topics I write about. There was a point where I was chronicling my days in serious detail, naming names, others when I openly lusted over things that seem ….inconsequential now. But obviously they are inconsequential\u00a0because\u00a0<\/em>I have experienced them, and the journey no longer matters once you’ve reached the destination. Which makes me sort of an ass-hat, but I can live with that.<\/p>\n Obviously, most of these 711 posts are completely irrelevant to anyone but myself. Unless you want a peek at the Indian pop-culture scene before broadband, Flipkart and Wikipedia took over, but why would you want that? Why click through 711 posts when I can curate you through the Ones That Matter? Well, fine, the ones that I can still parade in front of the world without totally dying of embarrassment. A humble best-of, from the worst-updated blog ever.<\/p>\n On music piracy.<\/a>\u00a0Definitely one of the most earnest posts I have written, with an eye to form and structure. I don’t usually do that.<\/p>\n A Love Polygon With Diagonals<\/a>. Yes, it really happened. Some of the people involved are even on Facebook! I am not dead yet! Whee!<\/p>\n Watching Veerana in a movie theater.<\/a>\u00a0I was trying too hard to be funny. The style makes me cringe, especially the way I mangle Hindi and English here and there. But it was a fun night, and Vasu was the most excellent companion one could have, to watch a film like\u00a0Veerana<\/em>. Also, I like the term “WAH!” a lot. I did a lot of movie “reviews” back then, when it was still fashionable to shit your opinions without getting paid to do so. Here’s\u00a0Dil Se<\/a>. Here’s\u00a0Kisna<\/a>. Here’s me\u00a0about DVDs<\/a>\u00a0when VCDs were still in vogue. But of course you punk kids wouldn’t know what VCDs are. About\u00a0watching Ju-On 1 and 2<\/a>\u00a0back-to-back. I used to rub my hands in anguish whenever a bad movie adaptation came out, like\u00a0V For Vendetta<\/a>.<\/p>\n About visiting Assam after a year<\/a>. This was LJ-peak, when everything you did was a potential blog entry, and I can actually picture myself thinking about something funny to write, something that would get a lot of comments. BWAHAHA! If Twitter existed back then, this would be a series of tweets, obviously.<\/p>\n The preliminary questions to the first Nihilanth quiz I conducted<\/a>. I put a mind-boggling amount of work into it (the quiz, not the blog post), and it was very gratifying to see that people liked it a lot, and it also kick-started my quizzing career, which was fun when it lasted. I have three protected posts about the Nihilanth experience, maybe I should open them up.<\/p>\n I\u00a0talked<\/a>\u00a0a\u00a0lot\u00a0<\/em>about<\/a>\u00a0AR\u00a0Rahman<\/a>,\u00a0didn’t I<\/a>? And comics. I tried to introduce people to the wonders of\u00a0Lone Wolf and Cub<\/a>. And Swamp<\/a>\u00a0Thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n I tried too hard to be funny, sometimes.\u00a0I like this just for the build-up<\/a>, but it’s not as good as I thought it was, back then.\u00a0This makes me grin<\/a>, but barely. And I wrote about the weirdest things, like my experience while\u00a0buying a book<\/a>.<\/p>\n And there are some posts that are funny on a different level. Like me in 2003, talking about\u00a0the virtues of eBooks<\/a>. Or being all riled up about\u00a0bad movie adaptations<\/a>. (Obviously, I had not read William Goldman then) Getting very pumped after\u00a0reading\u00a0Batman:Hush\u00a0<\/em>the first time<\/a>. (It makes me hurl now) And then there is the very cryptic post about the day I lost my virginity. Nope, no link for you, thanks.<\/p>\n The weirdness. I have no idea what I was on when\u00a0writing this<\/a>. Or that<\/a>. Someone told me that the latter was used as the text in an elocution competition. Prizes were involved. I was happy.<\/p>\n In 2009, I moved to this domain. I began by writing two vanity-posts-to-end-all-vanity-posts. A hundred things about myself<\/a>, in two parts<\/a>. Four years later, I realize I have to write an updated version of this, because things have changed. Oh yes, they have.<\/p>\n The Livejournal does not exist anymore. But 10 years of (a part of) my life does, in this uncategorized, untagged and disoriented fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apparently I crossed 700 posts on the blog. (This one is post #712) Which averages to about 70 posts a year, which does not make me happy at all. Especially since last year, I thought about getting to 200 posts in 365 days. 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