A non-pregnant pause in 2013…

 

Day 2 since I officially launched the blog and the focus seems to be veering strongly towards Pregnancy musings. Not wanting to scare away potential male readers with exponentially estrogenic content, I decided to step quickly into present day. I love blogs and how you can time travel!

April 2013. All is well. Sprout is now five and a half, has procured admission in a non-IB school much to the delight of her parents’ bank balance, has at any point more than 5 minds of her own, all equally opinionated and none that match with her parents and has in short everyone wrapped around her little finger. Oh Joy!

But I digress…

Day 2 since I launched the blog and over 500 views (promise that count doesn’t include me constantly refreshing the page to increase the number!)

“You need a twitter account,” shrieked a well-meaning friend, “You are practically a celebrity now!”

Celebrity, my foot, I wanted to tell her. Bengalis are not into frivolous and commercial activities like celebrity-hood. We are too busy being intellectuals/creating financial models/appreciating art and culture and, more recently starting illegal chit funds…

Ah, but I digress again. That’s another thing Bongs can do easily. Digress.

To come back to acquiring a twitter account. I have a fundamental problem here. I don’t think my creative genius can be possibly be contained within 140 characters. Creative genius apart, I also grew up in an examination culture where content wasn’t always king. But the weight of the examination papers you turned in certainly was. So, in general for me, more is better. (This applies to food too, by the way!)

The problem is further aggravated because I waste too many characters writing complete words. I can’t possibly write messages, sorry tweets like, “luv da match last nite” etc etc.

And I don’t know about you – but when I grew up, a “twit” wasn’t a very complimentary word. So can twit-ter be any bet-ter? I don’t know, so I am not writing it off.

At least not yet.  But I am not jumping on the twitter-wagon either!

Till then, you simply have to read my blog. Complete sentences. More than 140 characters. A bit of a strain, I know, but please do persevere.  Thank you. 500 times over for the 500+ page views…