Blogpravesh: My First Blog

It has been 8 months since I lost my diary, I have stopped writing ever since... I didnt feel the need, I now live with my best friend, so I eat his head instantly whenever I want to contemplate/share/speak out/discuss... I dont want to write into a diary ever again, I accumulated my thoughts into the lost diary for over 8 years, I felt really bad losing it, and dont have the heart to spend all my time on beginning a new one... I miss my old diary, I used to feel amused going over my old entries, its like the Me-of-now, peeping into the heart/mind of Me-from-back-then., I miss that.. But all is not lost, somethings are intentionally collected in life, somethings get collected inadvertently... Looking back, I realize that I have the most amazing collection of my thoughts in the form of long chains of gmails exchanged with my best friend ever since late 2004, when we both signed up for gmail (it was a relatively new phenomenon back then)... In those gmails, we discussed student life, our own versions of philosophy, religion, culture, people, relations, emotions, places, accounting, economics, foreign exchange, economy, society, Hinduism, feelings, family, values, social causes, movies, books, complaints, recommendations, suggestions, all kinds of things that we came across in life... :-) That's when I gradually stopped making entries into my diary.. My paper diary only swallowed my own thoughts, more like a repository... But this E-diary (or rather, should I call it the G-diary, G for Google) was a chain of emails, whatever I put into it, I got a reply, it was much more exciting, made me feel wanted, somebody somewhere watched out for my gmail, and I looked forward to his reply from across continents... I do miss my old physical diary, it had my handwriting, it had much more of a personal touch than a collection of emails... But starting from 2004, more of my life is chronicled in gmails rather than the diary.. As I begin on this blog diary, this time I know it cant get lost, its the omnipresent kind, it'll follow me everywhere, and I can follow it everywhere, as long as I have access to the internet ;-)))) But its very different, in that my physical diary was private, I was its author & audience, whereas this blog is for an open audience... :-) Sometimes I miss writing, espcially when I want to vent out my frustrations about a system, express my views on some organizations/people/customs... Here begins this blog, with a prayer to Vighna Vinayaka, please grant me the patience & interest to continue blogging, I've been meaning to write into a blog for quite sometime, but I never get around to doing it, at last I've started on this auspicious moment ;-) :-P I took the help of Orkut to type out in Devanagari, but since Hindi doesnt use "Halant", the Samskrut shlokam below is kind of wrong, I couldn't produce the halants..

हरि हरि गजमुख विघ्नविनायक

शुक्लाम्बरधरम विष्णुम शशिवर्णं चतुर्भुजं प्रसन्नवदनं ध्यायेत सर्वविघ्नोप शान्तये

Could I call this a Blogpravesham, a Blogwarming ceremony? :-D O God, please look after this blog, bless its blogger and its blogger's family :-)