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You light up my life: 5 years and going strong!

October 21st, 2006  |  Published in Blogs, India, Internet  |  19 Comments

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Wish­ing every­one a very happy Diwali!

I hope that your life is lighted up, the way you light up mine!

Those of you who have stum­bled upon this page by chance, those who visit this page once in a while, those of you who have been silent read­ers of my blog for a while and those of you who always come and leave me a nice and encour­ag­ing word! I’d like to thank each one of you.

I thought I’d espe­cially acknowl­edge the silent types who just check my page and go away! I recently received a mail from a blog reader who said he has been read­ing for the last one year, but never com­mented. But he did finally mail me after a year, and it really good to read his nice long mail — in fact it made my day!

And I realised I com­plete 5 years of blog­ging this month! I began way back in Octo­ber of 2001. Strangely, like many other who started around the same time, I haven’t felt like quit­ting yet. Blog burnout is com­mon but some­how it’s evaded me. I’m not quite sure how or why this has hap­pened but I still feel as enthu­si­as­tic and excited about it. Of course, I can’t post that often because of time com­mit­ments and the fact that I also main­tain around 3 other blogs.

But I think what I’ve got back from blog­ging is def­i­nitely worth all the time I’ve spent on it over the years. I’ve met some won­der­ful, amaz­ing and fas­ci­nat­ing peo­ple through this and my other blogs and it’s been one hell of a great jour­ney! Many of these blog­gers and blog read­ers, I’ve got an oppor­tu­nity to meet in per­son and many I hope to meet in the future. What can I say? Here’s to five more years at least! :)

I had a most lovely day today (it was a hol­i­day and it sure felt like it!). The roads were rel­a­tively peace­ful, with many folks obvi­ously leav­ing town, since it’s a long week­end. Had a long lazy lunch at the Bel­gian Café where it felt almost sin­ful to be enjoy­ing waf­fles on a Fri­day after­noon! That extended to almost 5 pm, topped off with cof­fee at Barista. And then went and had a yummy din­ner at Shiok to end the day.

This morn­ing at 5 am I leave on a 3 day road trip to the beau­ti­ful hills of Chik­maglur. Mean­while, do have your­self a great Diwali. I don’t like the noise and the crack­ers so it will be nice to get away. But I do love the beau­til lights… Have a great one!

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  1. shub says:

    October 21st, 2006 at 7:42 am (#)

    Wow! Five years is super! :) Good to know there’s no men­tion of the ‘q’ word any­where, and no signs of burnout :D

    Happy Diwali, Con­grats and here’s to many many more years of JALS :)

    Enjoy your weekend!

  2. Dr.Arun says:

    October 21st, 2006 at 10:35 am (#)

    Wish you a very happy diwali …

    Dr.Arun.

  3. kannan says:

    October 21st, 2006 at 3:56 pm (#)

    Wish you a Happy Diwali! n joy­ful Journey!

  4. Saraswathi says:

    October 21st, 2006 at 10:37 pm (#)

    That was a great post to mark the 5 years of blog­ging and ya I have been one of the silent read­ers of your blog since a few months.

    Keep the enthu­si­asm to blog for many more years to come.
    Had a silent and no-cracker diwali too:)
    Have a good vacation!!

  5. r00t9 says:

    October 23rd, 2006 at 1:52 am (#)

    A very happy diwali to all of you

    Please pro­mote http://hyderabadbloggers.com its a dis­cus­sion forum ded­i­cated to local blog­gers to build a blog­gers com­mu­nity group and help each oth­ers on blogging.

    Thanks

  6. Patrix says:

    October 23rd, 2006 at 10:01 am (#)

    5 years is truly a long time in blog-time. You are def­i­nitely one of the grand old ladies of desi blogging :)

  7. Mehak says:

    October 23rd, 2006 at 12:29 pm (#)

    Lage Raho !!!

    Blog­ging Zindabad !!!!!! :)

  8. Anita says:

    October 24th, 2006 at 1:00 pm (#)

    shub: i’ve been tired at times, but haven’t thought of the q word yet! and thanks for the wishes :)

    thanks dr arun, kannan.

    thanks saraswathi, always nice to hear from the silent ones!!

    patrix: grand old lady makes me sound really old :) but thanks!

    thanks mehak! :)

  9. Usha says:

    October 24th, 2006 at 5:32 pm (#)

    Ha now I know one place where some­one is older than me…hehhehe to the “grand old lady” in the blog­world.
    You are amaz­ing. here’s to 15 more years!

  10. Jag says:

    October 24th, 2006 at 8:21 pm (#)

    Hi Anita — hope you had a great week­end of cel­e­bra­tion — we cer­tainly did here in Lon­don! All the best to you and yours.

  11. kalyan says:

    October 25th, 2006 at 1:19 pm (#)

    keep up your good work! happy diwali.

  12. Divs says:

    October 25th, 2006 at 3:31 pm (#)

    :-) smiles again… Thanks for shar­ing your world with us all these years… look­ing for many more to come… keep up the good work… hope u had a great Diwali and fun­filled Chik­maglur trip… wait­ing to read u’re next post soon!!

  13. Rajesh says:

    October 26th, 2006 at 11:08 am (#)

    Wish­ing you a Happy Diwali…happy blogging!

  14. kool says:

    October 26th, 2006 at 1:59 pm (#)

    belated Happy DIWALI to you. Hope you had enjoy a lot & it will store as your one of the sweet­est memory.

  15. Aravind says:

    October 26th, 2006 at 4:20 pm (#)

    just stum­bled on to ur blog. 5 long years of blog­ging ..congrats..i have just started..visit if u wish!

  16. Kishor Cariappa says:

    October 28th, 2006 at 8:03 pm (#)

    Con­grats on reach­ing this milestone!

  17. abhishek says:

    October 30th, 2006 at 8:45 am (#)

    WOW!!
    kudos!!

  18. Anita says:

    October 30th, 2006 at 1:09 pm (#)

    @ usha: hehe, but i can never catch up to you!!

    @ jag: thanks so much! i still remem­ber this time last year :)

    @ kalyan: thanks and same to you :)

    @ divs: thanks! hope you had a great time too. have posted about the trip :)

    @ rajesh, kool, aravind, kishore, abhis­jek: thanks for all your wishes!!

  19. Naju says:

    October 30th, 2006 at 6:38 pm (#)

    Con­grats on your com­plet­ing 5 years in the Blog world. I guess I have been one of the silent reader/ admir­ers of your blog. Truly love your writ­ing and amaz­ing pics. Way to go…here’s to many more years of suc­cess in blogging.

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