virtual hara-kiri

`With pleasure…’

With my friend Arjun, it is usually more pleasing to place his answer before my question:

`If I were to perform hara-kiri, will you be my kaishaku?’

I really rely on him. A few weeks back, I asked him to read one of my blogs, a seriously funny one. He read it carefully, hugged me tightly, whispered softly `Lovely…it is sad!’

Recently, on the topic of blogs once again, he surprised me with a request:

`I want to feel a book…here, in blogosphere.’

`What?’

`I mean,
• go away from frenetic on-line activities;
• stay off-line with a collection of blogs;
• lazing over the cover, the preface, the table of contents;
• using old skills without tags, labels and search engines;
• having a bird’s eye view over a sea of gathered and discarded thoughts;
• swooping in on that blog which I feel like reading.’

How can I refuse him? Anyway, with regard to time and effort, I found the task to be only as daunting as the task of writing a single blog. This is the output:

COLLECTION OF MY BLOGS
(click here to download PDF file,
size ~ 2.75 MB)

Anyway, a year has gone by since I wrote my first blog. This proved to be ideal to view and arrange with a fresh perspective before moving on.

`Hope other friends try it out too…and, let us know when their collection is ready.’

`That would be nice.’ I really think so.

Arjun said, `Byeeee.’

`Take care.’

`By the way, what does this have to do with virtual hara-kiri?’