I saw a Punjabi film for the first time ever. In spite of being a Punjabi, I've never seen a Punjabi film! I'd love to blog about it, unfortunately my wrist pain does not permit me to. I have to rest it for a couple of days, and perhaps exercise it in some other better way.

The computer caused the pain, and yet it's a lifeline! Strange!

April 10, 2003

i woke up today @ 7 & went straight for a shower. then rushed to work. worked all day. got a headache so i came back early. right now i am very very tired. so going to bed. but i must feed my hamster before that. good nite!

Huh, what was that? No, it wasn't a page of my personal diary. Nor was it a snippet from any of the famous autobiographies. It is just an excerpt from a hypothetical weblog.

The blogging community rejoices at every mention the word 'blog' anywhere in print or television. 'Wow! Blogging is getting recognised the world over. We are getting recognised! Isn't that great?'

Yes, it is great, that a once-emerging concept, relatively unheard-of is now getting a mention in several places. And bloggers everywhere are jumping with joy when they see how senators, rock bands, journalists have caught the blogging bug. Blogging is hitting people faster than SARS.

But then, there is a flip side (there always is). People with absolutely nothing to do are blogging like crazy. The result- the hypothetical blog entry you read above. Every other blog you come across (randomly) will have content like:

I met some new girl in class today. I asked her name, and she told me, though I can't recall it now.

or

I read my favourite book 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' for the third time! I felt so happy for Harry in the end!

or

Today is the first New Year with my blog. Happy New Year!

So here we are, the serious members of the blogging community, giving extensive write-ups on why Dubya should not have attacked Iraq, why Eminem did not deserve the Academy Award, and there they are, writing about what they did, the music they heard all day, what a lovely time they had at the beach, and basically being the black sheep of the blogosphere.

Thousands of dorks thought it would be cool to just log on, and do something online, besides check their nonsensical and oft-received forwards, and chat with their tattooed or idiotic buddies online. The best thing for them to do was- blog! And blog they did. It's a fad now, just like once there was a fad to wear hipsters, and once it was a fad to have opium as described by DeQuincy in his book. And it is these so-called bloggers who are now becoming a major part of the blogging community, and well...taking the blog out of the blogging.

Of course, you can't dictate what another person should blog about, and it is your choice whetheryou want to even read a blog or not, but then, do the hard-core bloggers want to be part of just another trend that hit humans? So a day will come when someone will say: "Oh yeah, he's a blogger" in the same tone as, "Oh yeah, he knows his left from his right" or "Oh yeah, he knows ABC."

According to Phillip Kotler, the Marketing Guru, a fad is something which is easily accepted by the people, and disappears quickly. Is this what blogging is?