Aparna’s Blog

And how! Feels really, really good to be posting something here. Looks like writing about my love for Madras unleashed the blogger in me once again.

It’s been ages since I wrote anything. The only thing that I write these days is, guess what, recipes! Had somebody told me a year back that I would soon be doing a lot of cooking and that too trying out new dishes with a lot of interest, I wouldn’t have believed that something like that would happen.

These days I rarely read any blogs. I am so out of touch with everything that it was only a couple of days back that I came to know from my sister that Google Reader is going to be shut down! Oh no!

Anyway coming back to what I was about to say, today was one of those rare days when I didn’t have a sink-full of dishes to clean or a bucket-full of clothes to wash during my baby’s afternoon nap and I was also in a mood to relax. I watched a couple of interviews of Mani Ratnam about Kadal. I then read a few blogs including Lakshmi’s, from where I stumbled upon Yashodhara’s blog and enjoyed reading a new blog after a long, long time. I then started watching the movie ‘English Vinglish’, which my sister had recommended. My baby woke up halfway through the movie and she, surprisingly, did let me watch it fully. I liked the movie and found myself agreeing with the thoughts shared by the lead character on marriage and family.

At the end of what felt like a day from my erstwhile carefree-life, I felt like writing something here too.

Dear Blog,

Happy Birthday! Even as I start typing this post, it’s already 11:55 pm here in Singapore and I am glad that I could wish you here before the end of the day. (Of course, it’s still not midnight in Madras) I do want to write more, but I am feeling so very tired and sleepy. Good night, blog!

It does feel strange when you feel like outsider in your own blog! But that is precisely how I feel like today when I feel like wanting to write something here after ages! Believe it or not, it has been a little more than 3 months since I came to Singapore! And in less than a month’s time, I will be back in Madras on a vacation for about 50 days. Before I answer the clichéd ‘How do you find Singapore?’ I want to pen down the thoughts that keep crossing my mind every time I get one of those rare ‘me-time’ moments here in Singapore.
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Written yesterday night….

My baby is asleep. My husband is in Singapore. Here I am in my in-laws place lying next to my sleeping baby and pondering about life.
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As I saw the date on the calendar on 16th November, it struck me that I was completing 5 years of blogging on that day and I should definitely write a post to at least celebrate the day. But the combination of laziness + tiredness + lack of motivation which I have been plagued with for the past several months won over once again and thus I let the day pass by quietly only to be weighed down by worries of where on earth the passion for writing/blogging has got lost! Will I be able to bring back the good old days of yore? As I now see these lines filling up the page without me thinking for even a moment as to what exactly should I write about, I heave a sigh of relief that all is not lost and someday, hopefully maybe right away, I will be able to resume regular blogging.

Yes my blog completes 4 years today. Happy Birthday, blog! And a very big thanks to you all for reading this blog for so long!

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Of course, of late, the blog is not updated as frequently as it once used to be. And to think that it is only in the last few months that I have been having free time in excess and I didn’t utilize it even one bit to update my blog! I seem to have given up all attempts at resurrecting the blog. Let me at least do a quick roundup of all that I missed blogging about.

It is only my blog that I have neglected. I have never been as regular in reading others’ blogs as I have been during these months. I hardly have any unread items left on my Google reader.
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