Q & A on Blogging and Blogger’s Tag

Wouldn’t you like to know something more about the person behind the blog that you follow? Or you just read their blog update and never bother to go further to find something about the blogger behind? 

If I stumble across a new blog and find worth spending my time, I immediately go over to the ‘About Me’ page and dig it to know more about the mastermind behind. 

Blogging is fairly new in Bhutan. There is just a handful of Bhutanese blogger. Everybody knows who is who in this small community of ours. Two years back when I started this blog, I blogged without a real identity for the fear of being judged. It was only after a year that I gained some confidence and continued on with my real name. 

Things are changing now. Every new day, a new blog is born and more and more young and enthusiastic bloggers are on the row. Sadly a few of the earlier enthusiatic bloggers have disappeared altogether. 

Nevertheless, we have our inspiring and enthusiastic Prime Minister who is a blogger and blogs at www.tsheringtobgay.com

Blogger Conference or meet is something which will take some time for Bhutan to initiate and embrace. What if there is no blogger conference or meet in Bhutan, we are going to have our own blogger meet in this little space of mine here today.  

 

To start off, I’ve done a few Q&A about myself and this little space of mine. It’s a small introduction to my space and I would like to tag a few fellow bloggers to play along with me. I would like you to answer the following questions in your blog and create a post out of it. You can add more if you like and let us share some love and grow this little community of ours. 

After that you tag your other blogger freinds.

In case you are not tagged, you can tag yourself and play along. Here’s my story. 

Q: Why did you start blogging in the first place? And what’s the story behind your blog title?

Writing has always been a hobby for me. While in school, I used to write for the school’s newsletter and magazines and used to maintain a journal. Now that I’ve this blog, writing in my journal has become a thing of the past. Starting this blog has opened up boundaries for me which I’ve never been able to venture beyond and lately I’ve been addicted to blogging, if I’m not writing, I stalk a lot of blogs. 

Soon after I joined the civil service, I wanted to pursue my hobby aside my 9-5 job. Thus, this blog was born. Initially it was hard for me to come up with blog posts and I blogged mostly on things that were around me, happened to me which had both positive and negative impacts and were related to me. Thus, the blog title i Relate To That. Therefore, this blog is more of a personal blog, ramblings of a twenty something on life’s little pleasures and frustrations from a tiny Himalayan country. 

Q: How long have you been blogging? Where are you based?

For two years and a half approximately and I’m based in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan.   

Q: How do you schedule your blog post? Daily or weekly? Or as and when inspiration strikes you?

I don’t have a definite schedule to do a blog post. I’m more of a random blogger, I like to post as and when I write provided the internet connectivity is available and good. In the initial two years, I used to make a point to do at least 1 blog post a month. However, in the last four months I’ve been quite steady to come up with more posts, which I’m proud of myself. :). 

Q: Does your family and friends know about your blog?

Uh…well, like I said earlier blogging is fairly new in Bhutan, so not much people know about my blog. Also, I do not talk about my blog to people. It’s more of a private thing to me at least for now. However, I don’t mind if people know about my blog. Only my brother and cousin in the family know about this babe of mine apart from a few friends.

Interestingly, we have a larger number of male bloggers in Bhutan than female (Just a personal observation). But I’m sure most of the Bhutanese bloggers agree on this. What keeps the women folks from the enchanting blogosphere is something I need to find out yet.

Whoah! See I’ve told a lot about myself in this ‘little’ post. On this note, I’m tagging the following bloggers:

Passang from PaSsu Diary

Sweta from Symphony

Yeshi from Hear My Voice

Ngawang from Penstar 

Rachna from Rachna's Scriptorium

Let's hear it from you.

Myriad Thoughts and Bizarre Dreams

I wanted to rekindle the writer in me.

Nopkin.com and this blog was created to bring that "fire" in me.

Unfortunately the 'Bhutanese inconsistency syndrome' affected me

And it has been four months since i last blogged in.

Not because i was away to Mars or the Moon

but i was here the four whole months sitting in front of my PC day and night doing nothing useful.

planting and harvesting crops on Farmville and Countrylife virtually, worried so much that my crops would wither!

Cyber world has doomed me. It has made me too lazy to get out of my bed or even to go to the loo.

My faithful and good cultivated habit of writing a diary at the end of the day has been marred. Thankfully i write something in places like this. My reading has slumped down to 3 from 9 on a scale of 10. I hardly read forget about reading the bible or praying before bed.

What did i ever to do deserve something like this? I ask God...or should i ask to myself? I better do that.

I stay up until the wee hours of dawn. I am not insomniac (mind you!). Nor am i working on any project though i am assigned to do one. Yet i can stay up the whole night.

When my mother asked me to stay up for the whole night prayer last New year eve to greet the new year 2010, i could not be reasonable but be annoyed at her.

The idea of completely a new management research was so appealing 6 months then. Not any more, i find it a absolute crap now forget about the interest. God Almighty save me, i am not in mood to waste another of my precious life in doing craps which sounds bullshit to me at the moment.

Perhaps i need to be electrocuted so that my friends could be saved at least.

Grumbled i used to do for the hectic classes and for the loads of assignment. But whats happening to me?? I want to go to the class badly now, i miss it more than ever. I miss the intellectual lectures now. I must be on the wrong medication or i must have skipped it.

This isn't me at all.

The person always on the look out for bunking classes is doing this? Surely my days are counted on this peaceful so called "Shangrila"(for further reference refer my article BHUTAN: The Last Shangri-La on the July issue of Drukpa magazine).

Otherwise this stuffs would never happen to me.

HUH...i am sure these are the signs of my last days on earth. Before the world comes to an end in 2012(lets see!) i have already experienced death. I catch the flu, go sick to bed and close my eyes. For a brief moment i stop breathing,gasps for air and

ah....this is how death must be, peaceful and numb,i think then.

It will be another four years until i face the actual death in 2017(acc to Facebook Death calculator) which so many of us play (bullshit, who the heck believes that,do you?)

Until sanity comes back i will have to live in this virtual world. I wonder if i will miss this life when normalcy returns? What fond memories will i carry before i get back to being me? One last wish do i have before i exit from the earth: Write a book.

Until then adieu!

NOTE: This is completely a work of fiction, an attempt at absurd writing.The thoughts are completely of the writer's and is not intended to resemble nor offend anyone.