Hi folks! The random readers and the few followers of Grimescene will be happy to know that there will be a 100 pieces of grime on this blog, after this one goes online. The fewer readers who know me personally will be more surprised than anything else, that I have carried on a venture for so long. Actually, this is a classic case of knowing one’s limitations and working around them. A look at the diversity of the categories of my blog will give one an idea about how I have taken care to mix it up. Kept it interesting (for myself). Threw caution to the winds and ditched predictability for variability.
I thought long and hard (exactly 7.5 minutes) about how I can make this 100th post momentous. Maybe I could timeline the blog – do an analysis on its development. Maybe I could do a “Hits and Misses” kind of list. Then I decided I would talk about in detail about one aspect of this blog that I haven’t done yet…the author.
I am kidding. 🙂
This blog never was or will be about me. We take ourselves too seriously anyway… starting a blog or writing about oneself is like dedicating a memorial to oneself at a busy city square. Look look – that’s me. Aren’t I awesome?
So what is the reason for the existence of Grimescene? Is there are reason for the Mushrooms to spring up randomly on the forest floor after the rains? Hardly…they are just there, because they can be there. I guess, Grimescene exists because it can. Because I can write a bit and the great folks at WordPress provide a great platform and free storage space. But while it exists, Grimescene will always attempt to throw a little bit of opinion here and there. Try to make its readers laugh a bit. Try to inspire some awe by showing pictures of sunsets and blue seas. Again not because it is its job…but because (sorry for repeating myself) it can. It will indulge in shameless schmoozing of mommy-bloggers with images and words of a beautiful child it is in love with. It will be place where two lovers will leave their messages for one another…anonymously. This is a place which will keep reminding the boss that humans, not machines work for him. It will dream of writing novels and stop after 800 words. It will get happy when 200 people read it one day, and it won’t be particularly sad if only 19 read it the next. And all this because…well… it can.
As I am writing this I realize that Grimescene is not about me. It is me. It is my attempt not to take myself seriously. Or in other unique never before heard words – I exist because I can. I am not going to become president of a country one day or bring about solace to millions of hurting people or invent something that will change the world. There is never going to be a Grimescene Prize for Peace or Literature as there will never be a Grimescene Fashion Week. All these things are big. Grimescene is small. As I am. But in this limited space that I occupy I will try little positive things and elicit little comments, little laughs and little tears. (Even little yawns.)
And it is this lack of any world-changing grandeur that is the secret of why Grimescene has continued to exist without pressure. Like a little breeze by the sea that one enjoys – but doesn’t really miss, once it goes silent.
Well, dear readers, here is a small thanks from a small person and his small world. Thanks for spending your time and reading my words. And as a special gift for you, I have a small confession. Every word here, no matter how small, has been written for you. For Jam n’ Abha, for HG, for KM, for KC, for AK, for HC, for John, for Aunty G and her rhymes, for all the mommy-bloggers, for Nam. Dub., for someone named after an Amazonian snake, for Kavans, Bhaskar and Suraj who I know read everything I write – for all whom I have no time to mention – and of course for you Dee… maybe I do all of this just to impress her – a little. 🙂
Love Y’all! … and keep reading!
Dee said:
Oh, you had me at hello and a handshake, but you didn’t just hear that. Don’t stop trying to impress me… you’ve only just begun. The blog, I mean. Congratulations on # 100!!! Yay, Grimescene!
grimescene said:
Oh dee…didnt anyone tell you ever? Keep your man always on his toes…
mom said:
May you reach your 1000th soon!
Not that I read all of hem!
But whatever I have read…I have loved them!
I feel very proud too!
Dee said:
Gs, an appropriate rejoinder is not publishable in this happy-family space. The salvo shall be fired in person. 😛
Anonymous said:
I like the comment by ‘mom’ above….not-that-I-read-all-of-them 😛 !!!! Well, I have….and needless to say, it adds a little humor or food for thought in my otherwise mundane work day (come to think of it, life was never mundane back in the-company-that-should-not-be-named with the fun team we had….) !
Write on….you have a assured readership of one!
Hanu said:
I like the comment by ‘mom’ above….not-that-I-read-all-of-them 😛 !!!! Well, I have….and needless to say, it adds a little humor or food for thought in my otherwise mundane work day (come to think of it, life was never mundane back in the-company-that-should-not-be-named with the fun team we had….) !
Write on….you have a assured readership of one!
gooddaysunshine said:
Congratulations! I love the way you write and I wish I’d started reading you much before I did..I am clawing through your archives though! Bring them on!
Suraj Bhardwaj said:
Aha! I get a Mentioned in Despatches too! Congrats on the 100th post…
John said:
Extremely touchy that …. lets get back to the fun with the 101st piece……….. How about Nimesh bhai…… whats the update on him ? And what happened to your car rides ?
Aunty G said:
Congrats, you’ve reached a century
You do create a refreshing ventury
Thanks for the mention
You’re my new dimention
Above all, i like you being cheery!
anaconda said:
Thanks for remembering me. Its a different world you transport us to, make us smile, think, laugh, drool, mouths water, cry and cheer as the world goes by. Thanks to the big bad online world, it feels as if we know you but then everytime we discover a new facet in you. Hope you have a good time in obama country and look forward to more great pictures.
Grimescene said:
Thank you people! Me having fun here in Obama country… will post something from here soon. Meanwhile you can still catch my writings at live.unstructure.org… 😉
Abha said:
yaaayyy!! I am there too!! yaayy!! yayyy! yayyy!
ok! with that victory dance done..errr… in your honour ofcos, congrats on the century!
we luurve reading the blog and even though there are times when we dont understand it, we wait for the next post!! 😀
heres to many many more!
and now that i have said all nice things and you being a techie and all that, can you helps me with this wordpress prob i am having on my office comp?! 😦
the thing is it efuses to show me the recent posts. its stuck in some oct time warp nad everytime i try to reach the latest post i fail. i refresh, i dlete the history… do everything and the same prob keeps coming up!
thats why you see me commenting on lotsa posts in one go when i manage to get access to recent ones on a lucky day!
any ideas to help me?!
cheers!
Vidooshak said:
Congrats on the 100. Now bring back Nimesh Bhai…
Hanu said:
hey…btw, when is the GCM? I’m guessing you are gonna attend as you are there anyways…Have a great one…