Thursday, October 7, 2010

Bah!! Have to think up a Title too??

Had to go through a million steps to try and look anonymous. None of the specifics (Gmail ID, Name which will appear, Name of Blog, Name of Post, etc. etc.) have more connection than a cow, Mithun-da, a SATA Hard Drive and Bhojpur may have.

I really have a tough time coming up with fictional names which should also convey something about what will follow. The Gmail ID was created 5 min before writing this. I tried so many non-cliched and totally cool IDs like 'bluemoonguy', 'sad.on.cloudNo.9', 'random.thoughts', 'free.soul', 'the.intellectual.idiot', etc. etc. that Gmail (probably out of sheer irritation) barked 'wat.d.faq' and gave me all my 'anonymous' ID - wat.d.faq@gmail.com. The Name which should appear on the Blog is a tribute to C++ which by default saves Programs to noname.cpp. The Blog name is a story a friend told me trying to express his intellectual prowess about the (earth's)crust-reaching levels to which the newsworthyness of happenings have reached in recent times. And just when I thought that these are all the specifics I may have to conjure up and clicked on 'New Post', a 'small' text box to the right of Title: greets me. 

Ah! How hard I try to appear cool and funny. It's quite evident isn't it? My previous attempts at writing have always followed a constant pattern. The variables xI-feel-its-good and ytime-elapsed-after-writing have meticulously followed the inversely proportional rule.

I once tried to write a book about my failed attempt at wooing a girl into liking me or loving me or whatever it was back then. It was only 15,000-words later that I finally gauged what was the look on the faces of the people on whom I shoved my avant-gardish work of art – it was nothing but constipation. They wanted to ‘spill’ so much ‘shit’ on me after having suffered through it, but my expectant eyes must have got the better of them.

My other attempts like writing articles for the College Magazine, were met with rejections by Editors who used their talents at crafting ‘sincere’ euphemisms like ‘this is good but the topic does not suit any of our sections in this issue…’, ‘the language in this one does not dwell well with most other articles…’ and my personal favorite – ‘your views in the Article on the Reservation of OBCs may cause concerns to your security…’

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