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it starts…

Posted in Uncategorized by aehseya on January 28th, 2008

Some are born great and some have greatness thrust upon them - or so the saying goes. Taking that one step further I guess we can assume that some people are born to write blogs while others have blogs thrust upon them - I fall into the latter category. Its not like I haven’t been MEANNG to write a blog - I’ve been meaning to start up a blog documenting my time in India ever since I got here, which was like erm.. 7 months ago? So I guess this classroom excercise is a pretty good thing, because now I can kill two birds with one stone. That is… I fulfil the requirements for this workshop and I finally get my blog off the ground.

Ofcourse there is the usual drawback. Where do I start? How do I condense seven months worth of experience into one blog post, sitting in lab 3 of the Asian College of Journalism? It’s been an intense time - friends have been made - some for life (or at least I’d love to think so), friend circles have changed with little or no regret, transitions have happened, there have been tense times bordering on the ugly, there is all that I have learned, there is all that I’m learning… there is what I will learn… both in class and out of it (such as how to eat pani poori and bargain with unscrupulous auto drivers in Tamil) and now I’m beginning to wish I had done this seven months ago.

But to use another cliche and hackneyed term - Better late than never… What we need here is a structure. So I will not attempt to recap - because that bores me and my notorious memory always lets me down. SO what i will do is blog in the present and resort to flashbacks as, when and IF they occur to me.

But I will give you an idea of who I am and what and where I am right now. (through pictures - because apparently they’re worth a 1000 words apiece)

Thats ME

me!

And these are my FRIENDS:

friends   un.jpgman.jpg

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  1. aniche said, on January 28th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    I had a blog thrust upon me once, took me three days to get if off :)

  2. ravana said, on January 29th, 2008 at 5:05 am

    Welcome back.

  3. Narayanan said, on January 29th, 2008 at 6:03 am

    thats a bad pic of me….sheh…
    india through the eyes of a chiii lankan..

  4. Randev said, on January 29th, 2008 at 8:54 am

    About the auto drivers, im sure they are all the same… You should always offer less than than what its actually worth! If its worth 100 bucks, offer 80, they’ll be glad to settle for 90! Genius i tell you! And if they bring up the petrol prices story, remind them that their president’s name is not Mahinda Rajapakse.

    Of course you might have to learn to say all of this in Tamil, but that’s an entirely different problem. You could try this - http://www.learntamil.com

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