Recently I discovered a new facet of blogging , Blogging is a medicine for many a modern malady . Many of my precarious conditions have been cured by blogging . Surprised ? Don’t be , Read on …
I live in a building that has four blocks and I am in block D . Right , the last block ! And like all buildings we have a lot of famous people in our apartment building. Some of them are properly famous for good reasons and some are , let us say , infamous !! One of those characters is known as the Professor in our block . He is not a professor in any college and neither can he speak properly in any language . But the man has a hidden talent ! Guess what ? The man is like John Rambo . Only his weapon is different . Rambo shoots with a machine gun and sprays people with bullets , but the professor , shoots with his mouth and once he gets started the calamities run into countless numbers . Many great men have fallen prey to his verbal onslaught and surrendered . Now , whenever , they see him , they run like Carl Lewis for their lives ! But he is a predator and can hunt down even Arnold , so he will seek you . Like the Borg in Star Trek , Resistance is futile , you will be assimilated .
Let me unravel this mystery a little more , a sample of his attack . He saw me near my car one day morning on my way to work , and kinda figured out that I am a software pro and that my wife is also a computer science graduate by asking around the building . I return home in the evening and what a pleasant surprise , he is at home . He has a file with him . He gave me the file and started talking about how he is a techie and there is a company that is bigger than NIIT that is coming up in Bangalore in the training field . I was surprised , and looked at the file , well that file was a copy of some resumes of freshers and nothing more . He then started scratching the back of his head and asking me to place them in my company . I politely told him that I am now a freelancer and looking for work . He then started and gave me a three hour lecture on entrepreneurship and the current market scenario and the dollar skidding . After three hours he moved on to discussing Taare Zameen Par , he explained the movie frame-by-frame to me , believe me , Aamir would have blushed , that was the depth . This went on for two hours ! My son and wife were splitting their hair by now . The man also talks in a high tone and hence my neighbors were also in the same state . All of us were eager for him to leave . His wife came over and asked him politely to leave with her . He refused saying that I would be offended !! I told him to feel free and finally disposed him off . My house resembled one of the terror hit suburbs of Beirut after a bombing and a gun fight ! The event is still carved in our minds vividly .
After the initial assault , I wizened up and me and my wife had a series of high level meetings on tackling him . The verdict was unanimous , we had to be “busy” whenever he turned up . My wife had cooking and my son studying , what about me ? After one full day of nerve wracking research I hit the golden answer – BLOGGING !!
Whenever he comes around , I pull out my netbook and pretend to blog . Actually what I do is look at YouTube videos or read Mashable . You see our friend the professor is not computer literate and know very little tech . So in the whole building , Only I have the medicine for the professor’s bite – BLOGGING ! All the others in our building look at me like a hero now . They call me the Hero Blogger and we all have a hearty laugh behind his back !
See you in the next !
