Kid turns ONE !!!

"We all have our time machines, the ones that take us in the past are called memories and the ones that take us to the future are called dreams."

I am going down the memory lane. Exactly one year ago, out of inquisitiveness, I tried my hands on blogging, which has today cultivated into a habit. It is an easy vent for all my feelings, my views, my frustrations, my anger, my love, my emotions and what not.

YEAH ! Exactly one year ago, I started this blog (titled "Good For Nothin...." for no particular reason), made friends (in the blogosphere), commented on random blogs, liked a lot of blog posts, LOL'ed, got ideas, got inspirations, got praised, got compliments, publicised (read :: over-publicised) the blog amongst friends (believe me... its really difficult compelling friends to read your 'shit'... thats what they call it) and a host of other crap !

It's a journey and it's better than the destination, I can't sum it up in words. I have no doubt when I say that blogging has been the most beautiful thing that has happened to me recently. It has been a welcome change in my otherwise shy and reserved nature.

1 year... 125 posts... 27 followers (via Google FriendConnect)... 67 fans (on Facebook FanPage)... 629 comments... 9825 visits.... these stats might not seem that great to the bigwigs of the blogosphere, but this response is A LOT for me. I mean I am not a blogoholic, I just post twice or thrice a week. And thats quite sufficient for me. (* stats at 7th Oct 2009 at 12:01 AM)

I must take this opportunity to thank all my readers, those who commented on my posts, those who helped me improve, etc etc etc. I could go on thanking people but I guess the list is endless.

Still, I'd like to name a few people who kept me motivated to continue blogging, who appreciated my 'crap', who kept commenting on my posts and who showed me the mirror. I've always said comments and criticism are more than welcome. They help in improvement. I'd like to thank

• B K Chowla sir : for commenting and letting me know the quality of my posts
  
• Kamlesh : for constantly providing me support
  
• Garima Ranawat : for providing me what i call 'invisible support' and for commenting 'honestly' and personally
  
• Prateek Monga : for encouraging me
  
• Shruti aka The Lonely Wanderer  : for the comments and also for waiting for the posts... lol
  
• Rashmi aka Raashi : for encouraging me and for the comments
• Trishala : for the comments
• all my followers
• all the readers
• all those who've visited the blog even once
• all those who were 'inspired' by me and started their own blog... :p (Being successful is not the matter... lol)

I'm sorry if I left out a few names. THANKS everyone !!!

I'm happy to have successfully completed one year of blogging. And I hope this habit continues for years to come.

PS : Unfortunately, OLD FRANCE, the WINNER of the TEMPLATE CONTEST, could not be put up as a template 'coz it had some problems, and so had the other two podium holders VINTAGE and DAYS OF OLD. So, I have decided to put up RED LIGHT as the layout. Hope you guys like it. I must say 'The Template Contest' was a dud :(


PS2 : To make this one year old kid happy, bring the gifts along :)