Friends, Rediffans & Ilanders, I’m back. I had been away for a long time from this blogger’s  paradise and a few of my rediffmates had very kindly enquired about my whereabouts. This post is to reassure them that I am still alive and kicking. In the existing state of affairs it’s more of the latter than the former. After all I am a kind old soul and can never, I repeat, never leave all my friends alone to face the global warming without me. But still, I suppose I owe you all an explanation to clear the air so to speak. Let me recall why I had been abstaining from playing the keyboard while logged into rediff iland.

Reason No #1: My Big Bad Boss found out about my blogging.
In he walked one fine morning, amazingly silent for all his girth and looked over my shoulder into the amazing world of rediff. He, then, enthralled me with the DS (deadly stare for all u ignorant people out there) and proceeded to give me hell. All of a sudden, I found work, work & more work piling up on my desk leaving me gasping for breath & brain dead from sheer fatigue.

Reason No #2: I was bogged down by a vice called laziness:

I would have been able to continue writing if only our scientists could have discovered a machine to clone people. That way I could have sent my clone to appease my boss and would have carried on blogging to my heart’s content. Idea! On second thoughts we should have been able to print money on our HP, Canon & Epson printers. Afterall if we can print air tickets, hotel vouchers & movie tickets online why not the most important paper in our lives?  Alas! My wishes did not come true and I found myself unable to resist the lure of my bed and consequently my PC gathered dust throughout the month.

Reason #3: My non-existent brain went on strike:

After I started blogging, I was rather impartial and posted serious, philosophical and  informative blogs. Later on I discovered that I can be myself if I post amusing anecdotes of my everyday life. Being serious and staid wasn’t really my cup of tea in spite of the thick glasses that I wore. But my non-existent brain would  have none of it and the left side threatened to withdraw support while I continued to make peace by writing an occasional bad poetry. This went on for a while until the D-day when taking a cue out of the Gujjars, my NE brain finally rebelled and all blogs came to a STOP.

So now that you have all the reasons for my doing the vanishing act, I hope that you will forgive me and accept me back into your fold.  I assure you that from now on my keyboard will continue to rattle regularly and you will be bored to death by the events of my ordinary life once again week after week after week. So help me God!