Century

You may have noticed that I haven't written in a while. Perhaps you assumed that I was busy with school, or that I had nothing to write about. Although both assumptions are relatively correct, they are also a tad far from the truth.

This is my 100th post. I didn't think Selfistan would survive this long. But it has - amazingly.

I started this blog on a whim, one that was based on a friend's desire to get me Blogging. So it wasn't as if I really wanted to create a blog; I just did because she wanted me to. And even though, in hindsight, everything from the title to the first post that I ever wrote seem to project a well-thought-out blog, it happened really quickly - within 10 minutes.

Why Ramblings From Selfistan? Why not something like Weird Nabz' Weird Blog or Why Am I Blogging When I Don't Want To or This Is A Blog or Nabz' World? I've always liked rambling - and I had a series of short poems that had 'Ramblings' in the title. Also, I wanted the blog to be anything and everything - ramblings, rather than 'essays' fit much better.

Selfistan - hmm. Well, as I said in the first post, Salman Rushdie is a major source of inspiration for me. And when I read his 'Shalimar the Clown' the phrase about 'Selfistan' left an impression - the one that talks about drawing a circle around one's feet and claiming a piece of the Earth as one's own. Being the polisci nut that I am, it had major resonances with what I was reading and writing at that point.

So, Ramblings From Selfistan became an attempt to carve out my own small circle on the Internet and to claim a small portion of cyberspace as my own. Have I succeeded? Well, obviously it depends on how one measures success. But I think, in the entire scheme of things, writing 100 posts is a success of sorts. It speaks about a relative desire to write things in RFS and also about an impression that what I write actually gets read (refer to Sitemeter if you wish to confirm this point).

Looking back, I actually like the posts I've written on RFS. My favourite one? Hmm..hard question - a couple that I really liked were 'Game, Set, Match Mr. Federer', 'True Ramblings II', 'Stealing a Table...Nerd Style & Other Stories', 'Amusing Oneself in Selfistan', 'Books: your BF or GF???', and of course, 'Welcome to Selfistan'. More than a couple - but from 99 posts, it's hard to choose 3.

I hate conclusions - I'm just gonna not write one.

Ciao