And then it turned two...

Time is making fools of us again. ~ J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter authoress.

Officially April 12, 2011 is the birth date of this blog. But forgive me for being so late in writing the birthday post. Since last birthday, there are total of 13 posts that appeared during the last 13 months. But 3 of those were older posts which I posted again for one or another reason. So, effectively the past year had been quite dormant. And there were some compelling reasons for it to be so. Foremost of which is that it was my last year in PhD and I was (or showing to be) concentrating on my research and dissertation. That thing lasted almost to the end of 2012.

 

Time Flies by without us realizing...

Another important factor is the unbelievably torturous frequency of announced and unannounced power break downs. Yes there is this country in the 21^st century world having population of 200 million souls, the declared 7th nuclear power and yet remains without electricity for as long as 20 hours a day!

The third problem was that I was in a far off place in my hometown and had very little, if any, access to the internet. The time it takes a webpage to load on our dial-up connection is more than enough for a Sherpa to climb Mt. Everest twice! And that is exactly the reason for the worst traffic jam there at the top of the mountain. As more people were tortured by their slow internet connections so much so that they wanted to jump from the top of the tallest mountain in the world.

The fourth reason is that my whisperer-in-chief, Fatima, did not put any ideas into my head this year as like all PhD students, she was having some unforeseen but inevitable problems of her own.

As a birthday gift, the free visitor’s counter has been discontinued by the company! After all nothing is free in this world. But the last time I checked, there were visitors from some 150 countries and 48000 page views as I write this.

As now all of you have been acquainted with the problems, nay issues as there are no problems in academia but challenges or issues at most, of blogging this year, you can understand why I was not able to read or comment on your blogs.

If I were on payroll of some publisher, I would have long been fired from my job. Hopefully this is my last post before my PhD. Anyways I shall try my best to regularly post on the blog again. I do have more than a dozen unfinished drafts as well as incomplete stories on my dashboard. For now, my personal favourite post in the last one year is this one.