Last evening, my husband asked how my new blogging stint was going.
Okay, I said. But I wasn't quite sure where it was going. I was loving that I had another space to scribble in, apart from the work at the magazine I write for, but I needed a focus.
Should it be food? Given my current obsession with all things culinary, it seems about right. But I'm not a regular cook, I cook when I please. Probably not enough to blog about.
Films? Love 'em, but I'm not always up to dissecting them. Quite often I get put off when films are overanalysed, laid completely bare. Sometimes, I like films to stay in my head. Little strains floating about, coming back to me now and then.
Travel? I love sharing photographs and anecdotes when I'm out and about but I don't travel nearly as much as I would like to. Certainly not enough to sustain a blog! (Though next week we're off to our long-awaited hill holiday!)
Books? That's my digital life's biggest casualty. How I would devour novels when I was in school, college, even till later in my 20s. In the last couple of years though, I haven't kept up with novels the way I would like to, the internet (and crazy downloads) an ever growing distraction. So my reading, sadly, has been patchy at best. I try and keep up with the latest in contemporary fiction, but I'm not reading nearly enough to write about it.
Once my whining was done, my husband piped up: Why don't you write about living in the suburbs? It got my mind racing. A city girl in the suburbs, with lots of things to rant about :) That sounds like me!
So here I am. A nearly 28-year-old who's lived most of all her life in Delhi (discounting 3 years in Bangalore and 1 year in Chennai). A south Delhi girl till last year - now a happy, bumbling suburban resident. Still drive 28 km to work in Safdarjung Enclave, in the heart of South Delhi.
So to say that I am cut off from regular city life would be only a half truth. During the day, I have access to all that I grew up with, the city markets, the wide, well-shaded Delhi roads, my favourite eating spots, and full view of Delhi's incredible historic ruins (Purana Quila, the various neglected tombs dotting Hauz Khas, Lodi Garden...and many more).
By night, I settle into one of the many high rises that lie on the far east of Delhi, on the fringes of Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad.
More on that in my next post :)
Okay, I said. But I wasn't quite sure where it was going. I was loving that I had another space to scribble in, apart from the work at the magazine I write for, but I needed a focus.
Should it be food? Given my current obsession with all things culinary, it seems about right. But I'm not a regular cook, I cook when I please. Probably not enough to blog about.
Films? Love 'em, but I'm not always up to dissecting them. Quite often I get put off when films are overanalysed, laid completely bare. Sometimes, I like films to stay in my head. Little strains floating about, coming back to me now and then.
Travel? I love sharing photographs and anecdotes when I'm out and about but I don't travel nearly as much as I would like to. Certainly not enough to sustain a blog! (Though next week we're off to our long-awaited hill holiday!)
Books? That's my digital life's biggest casualty. How I would devour novels when I was in school, college, even till later in my 20s. In the last couple of years though, I haven't kept up with novels the way I would like to, the internet (and crazy downloads) an ever growing distraction. So my reading, sadly, has been patchy at best. I try and keep up with the latest in contemporary fiction, but I'm not reading nearly enough to write about it.
Once my whining was done, my husband piped up: Why don't you write about living in the suburbs? It got my mind racing. A city girl in the suburbs, with lots of things to rant about :) That sounds like me!
So here I am. A nearly 28-year-old who's lived most of all her life in Delhi (discounting 3 years in Bangalore and 1 year in Chennai). A south Delhi girl till last year - now a happy, bumbling suburban resident. Still drive 28 km to work in Safdarjung Enclave, in the heart of South Delhi.
So to say that I am cut off from regular city life would be only a half truth. During the day, I have access to all that I grew up with, the city markets, the wide, well-shaded Delhi roads, my favourite eating spots, and full view of Delhi's incredible historic ruins (Purana Quila, the various neglected tombs dotting Hauz Khas, Lodi Garden...and many more).
By night, I settle into one of the many high rises that lie on the far east of Delhi, on the fringes of Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad.
More on that in my next post :)
So nice you're blogging Neha :) I have the same trouble though - what to blog about ! Decided it would be a bit of this and a dash of that ;) Looking forward to reading more ...
ReplyDeleteThanks Helen! You must blog - I'm sure you got so much to write living where you do currently :)
DeleteNeha, i love the above...stray thoughts yet pretty neatly bundled in your confusion about what to write. I guess i face a similar dilemma and gave up my (two) blogs ages ago. Not even sure if i'd take it up again, but then i might. Need a huge trigger - boom!
DeleteContinue, await more from this subarban plot of yours. Bon courage!
Thanks for reading, dear Kay :) Love your nickname here!
DeleteWhen I saw the title, I thought this might have been a bloggy goodbye to Wisteria Lane (Desperate Housewives in case you have already forgotten them)! Oh well...
ReplyDeleteMay be it's nice that you get to blog about whatever you want. it's a recipe book, a travelogue, a diary and a column all rolled into one. I think that's super.
And stop taking potshots at my filmy, analysy career!!!!!
hahahahhaha. I just had to take that potshot :P
Deletethat's a blogger problem i tell you, a third-world blogger problem if i might add. here's a tip: like they say just flow with the mood.
ReplyDeleteso food today, films tomorrow, yoga the day after, and yoghurt the day after the day after. yeah right you get the drift. :)
happy blogging.
hahaa, thanks di. Why third world, you say? :)
DeleteNeha I do ;) - http://helenissar.blogspot.no/
ReplyDeleteIt's so pretty~!
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