In the beginning...

....there was the atom....or was it light? Or was it a turtle? Why is it so difficult to recollect the right oracle or quote or aphorism when you need it the most!
Just this afternoon, a dear friend of mine was very upset about something and I tried to cheer her up by sending a nice quote that seemed pertinent. I knew there was one, I was vaguely aware of it but couldn't entirely retrieve it from memory. I searched and searched...sorry...googled and googled, you net savvy people, but with limited success. I finally settled for another quote that seemed to hover fairly in the radius of appropriation!

Anyways, getting back to the point. If there are even so much as slightly raised eyebrows over the title of this blogsite, I'll reveal the source of inspiration a little later. Well after I'm a few blogs older later maybe! Something like a prequel! Though I do suspect an esoteric group of close friends already have a hint! :)

Let me give you a little background however. This is not my first blogsite.
I do not remember very distinctly as to when I started writing. I did pat myself on the back for a few neatly carved essays during school.
The passion apparently arose much later when I started recounting events around me to a small niche of friends in email. They all seemed to like it and I was encouraged to draft down my thoughts every now and then.
The frequency kept fluctuating and either for want of inspiration or for a heavier assault of indolence, the new found hobby remained sedated for lengthy intervals of time.

And then some good soul suggested that I should revive the writing, emancipate it from the confines of email and rather celebrate it in a much larger publicly visible arena. The internet.

But when it comes to the internet, I belong to the palaeolithic age. I get introduced to media and mechanisms much after they are in vogue, sometimes when they're almost on the verge of extinction...of..of becoming passe!
So, a few hundred moons ago, when I was blessed with the enlightenment on strange sounding terms like Orkut and Blog, I took an adventurous step ahead and created my own, my very own blogsite. And I christened it with the queer name of knowsblog, probably in assertion of my new found knowledge. Something like the Archimedesical 'Eureka', albeit a modestly clothed one :D

So I started writing my first blog, like I did here now but the entire exercise of having just discovered my America was so overwhelming that I decided to put off the first blog for later. A later that never arrived.

I did manage subsequently to post one or two of my writings after exhaustive efforts of learning to operate the site. No, exaggeration this. And soon yet again, dormancy invaded, plundered and ruled supreme.
Today I don't even know if that blogsite exists. Maybe it does, what with today's awe inducing technology like cloud computing and all that! I'll try to find out someday. And if it does exist, then I'll dust it off and make an aquisition...a takeover :D of the articles into this one.

So here it is, my renaissance into the world of blog. It is a toast to the good wishes of a lot of people who've been urging me not to give up on writing. I was particularly inspired by Shades of Grey.

Watch this space and I hope to keep the ink flowing continually this time!