Dear Reader

The year 2006 was a mixed bag.  While some cheered FC Barcelona's victory over long time rivals Arsenal in the UEFA Champion's League, others mourned France's loss to Italy in the FIFA World Cup finals.  Honestly, am not much of a football fanatic, I'd love to be one, but the number of clubs, leagues, players, just seems too overwhelming.  I knew of the World Cup win coming after penalities 5-3 in favour of Italy, but I had to google up the club Barcelona beat that year to lift the UEFA Champion's League Trophy.  Don't worry, am not here to flaunt my googling skills or have myself judged for utter disregard of sports whatsoever.  The agenda for today is somewhat different.  This same year was the birth of this blog, more out of aspiration to woo than inspiration to be someone.

Four years hence, the blog still stands tall, having weathered through mood swings, rampant enough to have necessitated a new branch of study for hormonal imbalance.  While humour was always the prerogative, it oft became my medium to spew hatred and disgust against people, situations.  At the end of it all, however, hopefully this blog remains funny in its entirety, unfortunately being so at my expense more often than not. I won't reminisce on the good and bad memories over the past 4 years and outline how the blog meandered through dry patches and months of avid writing.  This post is for you, dear Reader, to thank you for your unwavering support and endurance to toil through the tiresome ramblings on this blog; to thank those who chose to comment and share their valuable, at times rather frivolous, suggestions.

Frankly, I had been keeping this thank you note in reserve for my 100th post on the blog, but that is something what most bloggers do anyway, and since this blog aims to be an anti-thesis to such corny bull-crap, let it be this 97th post, whereby I proclaim to have been honoured by your presence and devoted reading which has egged me on almost every time to ramble on for a few more lines.  Not to blame you entirely for the fiasco that is this collection of random scribblings, I also want to express my gratitude to the countless faces and people wobbling, weakly, in my memories, from whose insolence or sheer stupidity flowed a never-ending string of words, inter-woven in a net of phrases - phrases I have almost egoistically admired every now and again.  Had it not been for your nuisance, and utter pointless existence on this Earth, there would not have been that undertone of dark cynicism in what I write that makes me gush and chuckle with evil every time I log in to my blog.

While the amount I travel has reduced, and a lull of boredom surrounds my increasingly decaying existence, there appears every few moments a flicker of frivolity, which I pounce upon to suck out whatever little marrow of sarcasm I can and splash it all over this blog.  Life seems to have taken a turn towards still waters, happiness is elusive, intent has gone amiss.  Yet through all this negativity that surrounds us right now, I promise thee, O Ye Faithful Reader, it shall come to pass that there would be a rejuvenation of this blog and a liveliness about it soon.  For what its worth, I can now say, with utmost pride and arrogance, what started out based on aspiration has now transformed into inspiration, and that, my friend is how we do it around here now! ;-)

The End