To Blog or Not to Blog is the Question

To Blog or not to Blog is the Question.

Contemplated for a lot of time and decided why not give it a try. Anyway I am not doing anything earthshattering nor will I do it anytime soon until someone buries me deep enough inside the earth and some creepy reaction causes the Richter Scale to move.

Disclaimer.

If you feel things offend you easily this is not your blog .

The views expressed are completely mine and does not reflect anything that my company ,my school or anyone related to me in any which way have to say. I dont blog for anyone else except for me. I publish this blog for like-minded people I know of. My writings might sometimes reflect ppl I have read or interacted with. My writings will not conform by the rules with English grammar nor any consyderation gifen to speallings

Why Blog

For my friends : What I am up to at any point of time . I have not been succesful at individual mails or phone calls .
For my enemies : So that they know where I am at any point of time . Love thy enemy .

What will I blog ?

Good Question . I remember ‘Alice in WonderLand’ .

Alice reaches at the fork in the road and asks the Cheshire cat “Which road should I take?”

Cheshire Cat says “where do u want to go?”
Alice says “I don’t know.”
Cheshire Cat says “Does it matter which road you take?”

I guess I will blog whatever comes to my mind. Nothing in particular will categorize as I go.

What do I do?

Try to live life , celebrate it in all hues and colors. Other than that I go to school trying to finish my MBA from University of chicago and work at the same time. One of these days I plan to go back to India and work on Rural development. More on this in coming posts

What’s the deal with Rocksom ?

It does rhyme with blogsome . I suffer from a very bad condition called Dual personality disorder ala Jekyll and Hyde . Rock and Som are names of the two persons that reside inside me . Rock as u can imagine is the rock hard persona and Som the softer one. Som in an Indian language means soft .

Two distinct characters very different from one another as chalk is from cheese. There is always tussle between the two of them and everytime I lose

More on this in coming posts

What are my hobbies ?

Rock loves working out at gym, playing all kinds of sports and plans to run a marathon .
Som loves doing photography (owns a D70) and tries to strum guitar.

Rock loves going partying
Som loves sitting at home watching a movie.

Rock loves hard music . Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Queens, Doors, etc etc.
Som loves Urdu poetic Ghazals Jagjit Singh, ghulam Ali and Mehdi hasan and mushy Hindi music.

Rock loves reading serious books FountainHead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, Raise High the Roof beam Carpenters, Seymor an Introduction and Franny & Zooey by JD salinger, The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, To Kill a Mocking bird by Harper Lee, Oliver Twist and Tale of Two cities by Charles Dickens, War n peace and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Prophet by Kahlil Gibran and other hardcore philosophical stuff.

Som loves reading all the mushy, non-serious, funny stuff like H2G2 series by Douglas Adams, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Sun Signs by Linda Goodman, Personality types by Franz Littaur, Aesop fables and religious philosophy like Conversations with God by Donald Neal Walsh, Bhagwad Gita , Bible , Kuran, Zen and Buddhist books. Som plans to read ‘The Complete Works of Shakespeare” and “The Canterbury tales” next. Som also reads Hindi literature mostly Rahim/Kabir/Tulsi Dohas . His favorite is “MadhuShala” by Harivansh Rai Bacchan .Som also reads Urdu poetry by greats like Ghalib,Mir,Daag, Gulzar, Mazrooh etal