The last week has just flown by with most of my time was spent not studying.

Wednesday – Party 1

On Wednesday, we were singing for a Silver Wedding mass. The mass was held at Atma Darshan and the reception was at Le Royal Meridien, for which the entire choir was invited.

Had just dorned my normal formals for the mass, so went home to pickup my blazer as well as drop off the bike (Never drink and drive my mama said )

U. Conrad picked me up and we were among the first to reach the reception. Ate, drank, danced and feasted on food and desert.

Got dropped home a little after 1.30am and came home and crashed into bed.

Thursday – Dinner 1

Spent the entire day at Melody‘s house working on her blog. Convinced her to add adsense (which is performing really bad overall for me currently). Also added some internal pages and top CSS navigation bar (I’m getting good at this).

We went out for dinner to 5 which is near Yoko’s in Santacruz. The place is posh and the food is good, however the service is simply pathetic. It took us 10 minutes to find someone to take our order and then it took another half hour to get served. In addition he messed up the bill, by not informing us for an extra charge. At the end of it we were pissed off.
Expensive places!

Friday – Party

Saakshi threw a “Welcome Home” party for Melody and invited a good amount of the junta from the Indian Bloggers’ scene and their friends. Met a few of them for the first time, while others for the second… well I’m not a regular.

My phone came handy to click a few photos, though the quality wasn’t too great. Anyway, here are a few: Knocked off on request.

Saturday – Lunch and Dinner 2

Met up with Krupa, my ex-office colleague for lunch and a movie. We went off to watch Life in a Metro which tells the tale of several people in Mumbai. The movie was rather slow. Can’t say it was great, can’t say it was bad.

Watched the movie at Chandan in Juhu. It has been several years since I have been to Chandan. The theatre remains the same, but the area surrounding it has developed a lot!
We went to Pizza Hut in Juhu for the late lunch and got a drink free because the guy forgot to put it on the bill.

Lil white mouse came over after work and she stayed for mass. After mass, the two of us went to Lucky’s for dinner. It has been a while since I visited Lucky’s. Tried some different dishes this time which were yummy.

And then there was Sunday

Lil white mouse came over today for lunch. Mom seemed to outdo herself today. Lil white mouse left in the evening and I got down to getting some work done.
Tomorrow I study.

A search on Google for this resulted in 152,000 results, which leads me to conclude that this is a question that a lot of bloggers are asking one another.
Lorelle had also asked this a long back after reading Greg’s Post.

And, I came across the same question on an Orkut Community.
This post attempts to answer that question.

Why did I start?

I started this blog in October 2003. I had already tried out a test blog at some stupid host, but they died out with the closing of my site on that host. Lost quite a few of my entries, but they were test posts.

Every person I meet online (including those I am in regular contact with) asks the much overused and highly irritating question “What’s up?”
I don’t mind answering this once. But, after a while it gets monotonous and irritating.

And that is the real reason behind this blog.

Why do I blog today?

I am addicted

Actually, there are several reasons I blog today.

A personal account

While I do have a lot of general and technical posts, this blog’s main purpose is a written account of my life. It helps me on my trip down memory lane. That is why my posts tend to be descriptive and long.

My work

Most of you are aware of my work. That forms a chunk of my non-personal posts.

Popularity

My personal blog started picking up visitors and got really famous after I released my wordpress material.
Popularity is difficult to maintain. Today yet another reason I blog is to ensure that the site doesn’t disappear into oblivion.

Improvement

Blogging pushes you to do better, to improve the way you write. My writing has improved a lot over the past two years and I know there still is a lot of room for improvement.

Knowledge

This is indirect. In the process of finding something good to blog, I read a lot of other blogs and news, something I rarely did before. A direct consequence of this is that my knowledge has improved.

How much does it cost me?

Blogging can be expensive, both in time and money. Money because hosting my blog doesn’t come for free. And I need to find time to blog.
I think it is worth the time and money.

Ofcourse you can choose the easier and free option of hosting your blog at Blogger or WordPress.com.

But, if you crave for complete control, you have to host your own blog.
I won’t complain about cost today because I have been able to break even via advertisements and donations.

Why do you blog?

Enough said about me. What drives you to blogging?
Do you identify with the reasons I posted above?
Where are you hosted and why?

Do comment below. Alternatively, if you are writing your own post, ping or send me a trackback (you will need to link to this post).

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