While most kids of my era aimed to 'grow up' to be an Engineer, a Doctor, a Teacher etc. etc. I was still undecided but said the same things just to be 'cool and accepted' ... and mind you I was a topper in School. (I am hoping my teachers don't get a heart attack when they read the next line!).
Once I graduated from Marvel and Tinkle comics to Mills & Boon at the impressionable age of 12 😇, I found myself gravitate towards psychological thrillers and other similar fiction. By 13, I aimed to be a young writer and had also secretly decided on the name of the book... you guessed it .... 'English Dreams'. 20 years later, I still haven't written a book and probably lack the patience to write one too... but heck why not write a blog! After all, what matters is writing and expressing and my online scribbles could pass off as just that!
Meanwhile, MOTH was getting equally restless at not being able to get me a job interview where he had applied on my behalf. We needed to break the jinx and I, a new laptop .... what better reason to shop. "Chuck online search, let's just go and get the damn thing", said I and lo behold! A new gleaming silver ASUS laptop was placed in my hands.
To do a 'Shubh Arambh', I thought let me write my first blog. Taking cue from my professor who is a prolific blogger and an inspiration , I did what I usually do..... Google! 'How to write a Blog' were the first key strokes and a list of links appeared. BTW, did I tell you, it took me a while to type those first words? Why? Here, take a look and the initiated may guess why ..
For the less initiated, I will reveal in a sec..... Voila! It's not a QWERTY keyboard, it's QWERTZ 😖 plus a load of other French language symbols to distinguish words and their meanings example 'é ö ' (and as I type the two symbols, I have absolutely no clue why they are repeated in the same key twice 😲, haaah bet you missed it too! 😜). We were struggling to get to that damn '@' key till we discovered the 'alt gr' and trust me it had me doing "argggggh grrrrrrr" the whole time.
I now felt what Columbus must have felt when he reached the Americas and not Japan as intended. Only he must have felt like a hero and I, well you can guess....
Anyhow, having tided over the initial hiccups and blissfully unaware of the ones waiting for me, I landed on the Blogspot page and typed what I thought would be a fancy Blogger's name..'theunitiated '... but that was not available, hmmm looks like somebody beat me to being the uninitiated. Next I typed, 'roywrites'... damn again...some Bengali got there first too. By this time, I was really getting desperate to get a unique name ... till I rolled my 'sleeves and my R's '... and here I am as 'WROYWRITES' and so shall be called in blogging circles henceforth! Ta Da!
It took me a good 2 hours to actually align my thoughts to the slower pace of typing, re typing, punching and pounding the keys and FINALLY there was the fruit of my labour..... My first blog!
After that first initiation and those lessons, here are two more cents
Lesson 4: Hail Google!
Lesson 5: I think I can write.... maybe....
And oh.. I am writing this blog from England, so yeah 'English Dreams' still hold true...
Next up: What not to do in Luxembourg
Once I graduated from Marvel and Tinkle comics to Mills & Boon at the impressionable age of 12 😇, I found myself gravitate towards psychological thrillers and other similar fiction. By 13, I aimed to be a young writer and had also secretly decided on the name of the book... you guessed it .... 'English Dreams'. 20 years later, I still haven't written a book and probably lack the patience to write one too... but heck why not write a blog! After all, what matters is writing and expressing and my online scribbles could pass off as just that!
Meanwhile, MOTH was getting equally restless at not being able to get me a job interview where he had applied on my behalf. We needed to break the jinx and I, a new laptop .... what better reason to shop. "Chuck online search, let's just go and get the damn thing", said I and lo behold! A new gleaming silver ASUS laptop was placed in my hands.
To do a 'Shubh Arambh', I thought let me write my first blog. Taking cue from my professor who is a prolific blogger and an inspiration , I did what I usually do..... Google! 'How to write a Blog' were the first key strokes and a list of links appeared. BTW, did I tell you, it took me a while to type those first words? Why? Here, take a look and the initiated may guess why ..
For the less initiated, I will reveal in a sec..... Voila! It's not a QWERTY keyboard, it's QWERTZ 😖 plus a load of other French language symbols to distinguish words and their meanings example 'é ö ' (and as I type the two symbols, I have absolutely no clue why they are repeated in the same key twice 😲, haaah bet you missed it too! 😜). We were struggling to get to that damn '@' key till we discovered the 'alt gr' and trust me it had me doing "argggggh grrrrrrr" the whole time.
I now felt what Columbus must have felt when he reached the Americas and not Japan as intended. Only he must have felt like a hero and I, well you can guess....
Anyhow, having tided over the initial hiccups and blissfully unaware of the ones waiting for me, I landed on the Blogspot page and typed what I thought would be a fancy Blogger's name..'theunitiated '... but that was not available, hmmm looks like somebody beat me to being the uninitiated. Next I typed, 'roywrites'... damn again...some Bengali got there first too. By this time, I was really getting desperate to get a unique name ... till I rolled my 'sleeves and my R's '... and here I am as 'WROYWRITES' and so shall be called in blogging circles henceforth! Ta Da!
It took me a good 2 hours to actually align my thoughts to the slower pace of typing, re typing, punching and pounding the keys and FINALLY there was the fruit of my labour..... My first blog!
After that first initiation and those lessons, here are two more cents
Lesson 4: Hail Google!
Lesson 5: I think I can write.... maybe....
And oh.. I am writing this blog from England, so yeah 'English Dreams' still hold true...
Next up: What not to do in Luxembourg
You are a very good story teller. You MUST write a book. A suggestion: Adding a photograph to the blog makes it better. Try. My best wishes.
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