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Monday, August 20, 2007

Hitchhiker's guide to blogging...


After contemplating for a long time, I finally hit on a topic which could create some sensation, make people writhe in their chair, a lil bit of controversy and a wee bit of negative publicity. Hmmm....sounds like Emran Hashmi's next film :P

Well, I was thinking that I hadn't been blogging for a long time, and was wondering, even if I post something now, would people know that I am back? :-/ So what would I do to make people know that am back in the circuit? Visit their blogs again. simple. So that's why I visit their blogs huh? May be, may be not! I might want to check how many of them actually missed me...okay that would be pushing it too far :D
Well, that's still not a desperate situation as I just have to go knock a couple of friends' door and tell them 'yellow! i'm still alive!'. But what about those that are new to blogger?Hmmm....what would they do? What did I do? What did you do?Let's see what Kupps....friend of Senor Subbu did
Over to Kupps!
Wait...for those who dont know Kupps...he's just an imaginary character...a new bee...a figment or Subbu's imagination :) Now proceed!

2 weeks...I am running around with this idea for a brilliant, ground breaking, earth shattering post...Boy I need at least 10 comments for that. How do I do that? Well ask that idiot friend of mine who asked me to start blogging in the first place to read what I posted. Then comment.

Then after having hi the refresh key every 2 minutes after posting, I see a comment, easy....don't pounce on it right away. Let it be, we don't want to appear desperate do we? Let there be some time interval of at least 5 minutes. Go get a coffee until then. tick tock tick tock tick tock....Okaaaaay it's 5 minutes!!! :D ....Reply the comment. And wait.Get back to repetitive refresh every now and then. Hey that bugger hasn't posted a reply for the reply that i posted for his comment. Ping that moron again. ask him to reply.

Moron says go visit other people's blog. Appreciate the crap they have posted. They'll drop in if they're a courteous bunch. If they don't, never mind, they are either too mean or committed!

Okay....advice taken. Here I go...What's up first...alright, last updated...1 month back. useless.next one; female, 23, SINGLE...my lucky stars!!!!!!But wait, not much of a writer...in fact she sucks! But what the hell, SINGLE!!!...So here goes a 'first time here...nice post blah blah blah'. Okay now who's on her blog roll...Aarggghh!...not many chics in this one. Okay then lemme check out some dude's blog. That's sure to have a lotta chics blogrolled :D

Well so which one of these dudes got a stylishly short name...aah...right there...Wow...this guy's like that tom cat server full of mp3s in the office....his blogroll's full of chics...Dude...you are my guru. I'd better be good friends with him; you always need a wingman you see. Lemme call him guru/boss/thalaiva right away. That's sure to get a lotta attention. Now ladies....here I come. :)

Day 2 - Wowee powee... got 10 comments already. Now if I reply them, I can make it 20 comments!!!!But don't reply them today. Take 2 days time to do that, else again you risk looking desperate. in the meantime keep checking out these blogs. But 20 comments for a first post...WOW!I sure am doing good :D

Day 3 - Wow....i already got material for my next post...But wait. Keep the interval between 2 posts at least 5 days...you don't want people to know you are jobless, do ya?! And make sure i score my browny points with that guru and not to mention drop by all the chics blog with a mokka comment whether or not there's a new post :)

From then on Kupps has been on a roll....almost unstoppable. He got tagged, twice by 'chics'...he started a blog union; open mostly to 'chics' or if you were a guy that blog rolled more chics :P ....he scored a 100 in comments within the first month...and slowly he extended his conquest to orkut and in some cases to the chics' inbox too...Kupps had arrived ;)

P.S: I won't tell this is fictious, but by large an observation by my super evolved brain. of course, part of this applies to me as well. Kupps can be replaced by Kuppamma too...and chics by hunks! ;) ahem....though hunks is a rather rare breed

P.P.S: All these guides and classroom sessions makin it look like one huge university...yawn...but, what the hell :P


Song on: Chak de phattey; Khosla ka ghosla
Mood: Wicked ;)

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Posted by Sat at 10:17 PM

14 comments

14 Comments:

Nyavagam varuthe... nyavagam varuthe... :D

Still remember how happy I was to see the first comment from someone in my early posts...

It was all like cinema... when I lost hope that anyone wud even spend a second reading my blog... when I was about to stop blogging a couple of people commented and those comments have kept me alive until now...

By Blogger KK, at 12:17 AM, August 21, 2007  

BTW purinjiduchu.... aana puriyatha mathiri nadicha than yenakku mariyathai... :D

By Blogger KK, at 12:19 AM, August 21, 2007  

satttie, kalakareenga sattie kalakareenga... bharathiraja gramathula pirantha ennoda mannin mainthan kupps ku jeans lam pottu avana oru nava nagareega komali aakiputteenga :p

nice analysis..... i had something in mind too.... but naan ithu maathiri lam post pannina...ada ppavi antha velai than nee pannitu irukiya nu enkitta ellorum ketpanga..... image nu onnu maintain pannanum la enna naan solrathu :D

By Blogger Subramanian Ramachandran, at 6:59 PM, August 21, 2007  

Emma edho spoof'oh? Will read it after sometime and comment. :)

By Blogger Unknown, at 7:52 PM, August 21, 2007  

phew! gals get comments...u dont haveto run hop to other places (jus an observation....well there so many ghost visitors visiting my blog but i find those ghosts showing up in gals blogs...funniest thing!.. :D)

By Blogger brute, at 9:29 PM, August 21, 2007  

hmm... appadiye unmaya alasi aaranji solirkeeha. Good! :)

By Blogger Unknown, at 6:32 PM, August 23, 2007  

:D I get the same feeling too. Once I post something, I would be itching to know what others had commented. And the worst part is that my client does not allow " social networking and personal sites" to be accessed.So I have to stay put till I get back to Dallas to see all those comments!

Why don't you visit my blog, post some comments and make me happy?! :D

Vidya

P.S Yes, I am as desperate as you are! :D
P.P.S Don't deny it!

By Blogger Vidya, at 5:31 PM, August 24, 2007  

Inthanana naal gap chup nu irunthathuku karanam vera edho nu nanaichen.. cycle gapla ungalukku ivalo analysis panna laam time iruko :P

unga post ku comment potten la, en blog pakkam vandhu comment podungappa :P

By Blogger prithz, at 6:37 PM, August 25, 2007  

Ennama analyze panni irukka po.
Unga company la nee ippadi panina nu terinjudu na unakku BA role kodutiduva :P

By Blogger Harish, at 6:56 PM, August 25, 2007  

@ Prithz

//unga post ku comment potten la, en blog pakkam vandhu comment podungappa :P //

idhellam oru pozhappu! :P

By Blogger Unknown, at 4:41 PM, August 28, 2007  

kk;
hehe...naa sonnathellam unmai, unmaya thavira vera ethuvum illai. like you said it truly feels great seeing ppl actually have the patience to read what we blabber...kinda nice!

subbu;
antha maari yaarum yaarayum ketka mudiyathu...enna ellarum atha thaan panraanga :P
othukka thaan maatanga!

By Blogger Sat, at 11:33 AM, September 03, 2007  

Brute;
I disagree! :P
this problem is irrespective of gender...may be guys face it a bit more...they always do....poor you!

BSK;
hehehe...good. thank god i posted when most ppl werent around, illena veetuku autola aal vanthu irukkum!

Vidya;
Nope...no denying it at all :D
and i commented as well....that's what keeps our blogs running :)
too bad ur client as well is a moron, mine was too...luckily i could access net at home i didnt miss my blog so much. Good luck and my sympathies are with you!

By Blogger Sat, at 11:36 AM, September 03, 2007  

Prithz;
Tho vanndutteeen! :D
ada, ithana naal indha analysisnaala abscond aagala...dont tell me u dont know :P

Harish;
ah-an...inga panra kuppaya kelara analysis thaanga mudiyama ezhuthinathu thaan intha post...innum BA role veraya...mudiyala!

BSK;
no no...ippadi ellam sollapdathu...avanga romba nermayanavanga!

By Blogger Sat, at 11:38 AM, September 03, 2007  

//BSK;
no no...ippadi ellam sollapdathu...avanga romba nermayanavanga//


ithellam oru pozhapa..enada romba neria post potrukeengalay..athuvum athisayama normal tonela irukeynu pathen..athana..kuttichathanuku kovil katinalam athu kupruka adichi thaan kedakumam...

P.S: last line pathi eggplanationlam kekapdathu...

By Blogger gils, at 11:06 AM, September 14, 2007  

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