Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Happy Birthday, Bloggy!
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Yes, exactly one year ago, this blog was born. Any snickering along the lines of ‘ha ha, she celebrates her *blog’s* birthday! What a loser!‘ shall not be entertained, thank you very much. I for one am mighty proud that unlike a lot of passing fancies of mine, this has lasted and grown in (hopefully) the right direction. This is indeed an occasion of great significance. There is much joy and celebration all over, people are drinking themselves silly at parties around the world, songs are beings composed, poems are being written and other such good stuff. Oh c’mon, a girl should be allowed her delusions of grandeur no? They don’t call me a meg(h)alomaniac for nothing.
So, to commemorate this moment, the postal department was going to release a 2-cent stamp. (Yes it is a pun, so be nice and smile, will ya?) But some great historic leader turned 200 years old, so my blog promptly got dumped on the back-burner. *sob* So I did the next best thing. Redesigned it. So here you have it — *trumpets and drumroll* — A Walk In The Clouds, version 2.0. Brand spanking new and all that humbug.
They say that design should speak for itself. Which I am sure it will, once *I* stop talking. So here’s hoping you like this as much as the old one. Hm, maybe slightly more. (If you liked the old one more, too bad. You’re stuck with this.)
Happy blog reading!
Hi Megha!
Ignore me while I sing this for your (to your?) blog..
Happy Birthday To You
Happy Birthday To You
Happy Birtyday dear Bloggy
Happy Birthday To You!
Congratulations on your blog’s first anniversay!
Cheers,
Deepak
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 2:42 AM
Damn, missed being first commenter on your new design :P
*Standing Ovation* for new design of courseOh oh!
*Standing Ovation* for one year bloggy birthday tooOh oh oh!
*Standing Ovation* for the Blog Designer :D Now to go back and join loyal fans and sing Happy Birthday :)
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 3:01 AM
Man! I wish I could hire you to design and redesign my blog :D .. cool look! :)
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 4:47 AM
Looking good. Nicely done :)
(apart from the *huge* copyright at the bottom!)
u crossed the 9-month threshold. will continue blogging for a while.
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 5:17 AM
Great design…
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 7:58 AM
Happy Birthday, bloggy!
Love the new look… :)
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 8:45 AM
Congratulations! Love the new design and the disclaimer about the voodoo (not sure if it it was on the earlier one).
I have a ticker in a corner of my blog that is counting down to a year. Lets hope I make it!
;-)
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 9:03 AM
Happy B’day -m&m.
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 9:53 AM
hey megha,
This blog certainly looks more formal than the previous one. And me one of those lucky ones, who really liked it more than the previous one (with no disrespect to your mocking ‘friend’, who found that one as the best thing in the world :-))
Guess my Miss Maslow has left me alone a good two weeks before the gala event. (~Hmmm, grow up kiddo, you got to do it alone :-D)
Ahh, I forgot, happy birthday to you. (Someone please devise some means to give/get treats online *sigh*)
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 10:13 AM
Happy Birthday to AWITC! Thats a nice name and probably the most wonderful gift that this blog could get :)
Continue your walk in the clouds…and we bystanders shall hop on for the ride from time to time :)
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 11:27 AM
*strumming my guitar*
singing “nallam vala ennalum en valthukkal” (Tamil movie: Marupadiyum)
Ok OK OK I dont know how to play a guitar, and am no arvind swami! well cant help but get a touch of the megha’lo’mein iacking!…
Me Miss the old cloud, wish it hadnt moved on, especially when I was gazing admiringly! …well clouds are nomadic arent they. A New cloud is always welcome esp when it is a rain cloud! I Think I am beginning to like it, but in a different way! So heres to more Rains! Keep it pouring!
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 11:34 AM
I am the postal dept she was refering to. I print & sell the stamps(being The 2Cent King). Please make sure the buy orders(starts with a 50-lot) come through me.I knew this blogging thing will make me rich one day:)
Happy Birthday!! beautiful design and you seemed to have touched on( if not “bettered”) almost every feature of the blog from the previous one.
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 12:26 PM
Yummy Template, Me Likeee.
Though I am suffering from a bout of writers’ block, and have failed to come up with anything in over a month, your template sure has inspired me to rehaul my own template. Now lets see how long this enthusiasm lasts :)
Congratulations on the milestone!
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 1:26 PM
well like all - happy b’day to ur blog. is it a boy or a girl? does he/she go to school? what does it want to be when it grows up?
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 2:05 PM
[Deepak] Thank you much! My blog was hajjar happy with the musical wishes! :)
[Rajesh] *looks suspicious at all the praise .. wondering to herself why he’s being so nice* :) Nah just kidding! And hey, not to worry, you still got to be the first doodler, with balloons and all to add! Thank you!
[Mad Van Arthur] Yes I am considering blog redesigning as an alternative career! :D
[Chugs] Thanks! You see, I am the Yeti - the abominable snowman. Why? Its known as Bigfoot, remember? :) On a more serious note, I think copyright notices are entitled to be as long as they please, and I really don’t think it detracts from the design in any way. Thanks for visiting! Come again!
[Anbu] Thanks! By the way, who were those people in the picture? ;)
[a-hem] Thankoo thankoo! It is the season for change I guess hm?
[.:A:.] Glad you like! Yes the voodoo notice was on the old one as well, but only since the last few weeks, so you might have missed it. You write wonderfully well and your other readers also share that opinion of mine, so for all our sake I hope you’ll make it to a year and more!
[tilotamma] Thank you! Nice to see you visit!
[suneet] Good good, it’s such a relief that you didn’t demand that I bring the old design back :) Oh and Miss Maslow has certainly not left you alone to face the impending event. Although this blog redesign has prevented her from focusing on her other roles lately. It’s just that she was just giving you some time to ruminate about what you’re about to do. There is such a thing as too much advice na? But now, with two weeks to the deadline, M&M (that’s Miss Maslow and Megha M both) is back in full force!
[aNTi] The blog’s name itself is [iii]’s suggestion, so all credit goes to him. But I do like the acronym! It reminds me of a name I was called once - A vile witch on a cloud. Something to do with my being a witch on a broom zooming through the clouds .. I was told. :)
[iii] The cloud hasn’t moved anywhere, you know? She hasn’t even changed the name of her home. She’s just .. um .. redecorated it. :) Glad you’re starting to like it! And oh, translate song lyrics, pleej?
[gvenum] Glad to see your side business is booming :) And thank you. Glad you liked the new look!
[Devdutt] Thankoo! And while you’re thinking about a template overhaul, how about considering starting a non-tech blog too?
[Sagnik] Thank you! It is a girl, for sure. It’s far too cutesy and girly to be a boy, methinks! As for what it wants to do when it grows up — its focus right now is to make sure it poops *in* its diaper and not in other unfavorable places. So the deeper philosophical questions of life will have to wait.
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 2:30 PM
Thats a nice way to enjoy your “Blog-Day”. You have a pretty neat site here. My first time here (came to your site from Anbu’s Blogroll) and I think I might visit it more often.
Cheers (with a tinkle)!
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 3:48 PM
[Anand] Thank you! And thanks for visiting as well. Do come by again!
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 4:10 PM
*Heppy* *Burday* *tooooo* *u* **BLOGGY*
*Heppy* *Burday* *tooooo* *u* **BLOGGY*
n hey that was a long walkkkkk! *Aaram Haram Hein* remember that n never stop walking in these beautiful bluiy sweetie n dreamy clouds! :D mez coming behind u! tell u could to save me incase i fall down :p
Best Wishes to u n your bloggy!
n keep blogging n always keep smiling :)
*whoppie* yup that was me :p
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 4:55 PM
Hey, thanks for visiting my blog and leaving your footprints. J I am flattered. And guess what, I just read the chhole recipe on your blog and felt that I may end up writing a post on project chhole soon on my blog if I ever attempted to prepare this on my own. :D I loved the idea of ‘eating’ chole but ‘cooking’… uff… oh… err… well…! ;)
Oh yes, Happy Birthday to your bloggie!! J I haven’t seen the old avatar of your blog so can’t say this look is ‘better’ than * that one * but all I can say is this is the ‘best’ look I’ve ever seen! Yumnyum rocks! J Glad I visited this place. Will keep coming back!!
P.S. – Loved the way ME, MYSELF & MEGHA section is written.
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 9:55 PM
well, i dont care whose bday it is if i get my party.
So happy bday to ur blog and now where’s my treat???
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 @ 11:13 PM
Hey Megha… this design is great…. great work girl.. n Happy b’day to ur blog too..
have a nice day….
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 @ 12:55 AM
[Nidhi] Ah, I had a feeling it was you the moment I saw your writing! :) My bloggy thanks you for all the wishes. And come by again! :)
[Fun_Da_Mental] Welcome to my home on the web and many thanks for the generous compliments. And c’mon now, the recipes aren’t *that* tough, are they? But then again you managed to burn Maggi (sorry sorry, I just can’t get over that part, so I keep bringing it up :) Okie, I’ll be nice now!) so *anything* is possible! Hope to see you around more :)
[shantanu] You’ll get a treat the day I figure out how to throw an online party. Howzat? :) And thank you!
[Prasad] Thanks! Glad you liked it!
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 @ 2:13 AM
congrats ! This calls for a boar feast
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 @ 10:04 AM
Hey Megha,
We have had inter-hall choreo yesterday. Guess what, I bunked my GD sessions and went to see the program and surprise, surprise, she was there in her hall’s team. Dressed as an angel, a white flower ‘mala’ on her head, and white clothes. Rest you can guess…(what happened to me :-))
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 @ 10:16 AM
[Vitalstatistix] Ah yes! With a touch of mint sauce, not to forget. Throw in some dinnertime music from Cacophonix and we have ourselves a royal feast!
[suneet] Yes, I can imagine! :) By the way, does she even *know* of your existence? Have you spoken to her (I mean dost types at least) or has all this happened from afar?
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 @ 3:06 PM
[suneet] And hey, I wanted to ask you — You mind if mentioned about this in a blog? Not about *you* specifically but about the topic of ‘telling someone how you feel’ ? As I was writing your comment, I just realized I had more to say, and rather than write a loooooong comment, I could probably write it in a blog. If you prefer, I can simply not mention you .. But I hope you won’t mind?
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 @ 3:18 PM
Hey Megha,
Congratulations on finding your calling..er…writing!Cherish the moment by feeding the readers more this year!
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 @ 3:20 PM
[Ramchi] Thank you! Yes, writing more often is definitely one of my resolutions for the new year (of blogging). Thanks for being a reader despite my infrequent writing. I hope to be better :)
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 @ 3:29 PM
Whoops. Late for the party.
Apologies, belated, etc, etc.
The design’s cool. Hurrah for TTQ!
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 @ 5:53 PM
[zigzackly] Not too late! The balloons haven’t deflated yet, have they now? And thank you! For the wishes and for being so kind in your previous comment.
Hmm .. the TTQ title is gonna haunt me forever hm? :) Which reminds me .. I am working on writing up a how-to for the expand/collapse thingy. It might seem like i’ve forgotten, but I haven’t!
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 @ 7:05 PM
Once upon a time, in the mountains of Meghalaya, there was a baby boy cloud or BBC called Baadal. His favourite actor was Bobby Deol. But his mother cloud did not rate BD too high in terms of the acting coefficient and so she beckoned the Meghadoota and gave him certain instructions to carry out a secret, clouded operation. Meghadoota returned after completing the Meghamorphosis, carrying a female child. The change resulted in her being called Badli and this remarkable transformation left everyone awaak(surprised) in the clouds.
Badli was very bright. She poured of music, movies, poetry, philosophy, sunsets, sunrises, Sooraj Badh jaatas, books etorchestra..She could talk for nuts and everyone thought, ‘Sir mundaate hi chole pade’. She talked and people listened in rrapt attention. With every passing cloud, her popularity kept reaching new skies and her downpours drenched everyone - from Boston to Bhaagalpur and Dallas to Dombivili.
Waqt badla to baby ki tasveer bhi badli and she became sunnier. Her mom got her a bright new dress for her 1st b’day and threw a party where everyone came to participate in the revelry and congratulate the mom-baby duo. As the guests stood clapping and singing HBTY, they cut the cake and blew the candle(since it was Badli’s first b’day so there was only one candle) and pledged to rerain happily ever after.
Here’s to many sunnier posts and frequent downpours!
Cheers and Happy B’day to AWITC!
-OM
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 @ 11:33 PM
ROFL @ om’s Mehgastory…U reminded me why I like your Very infrequently (unfortunately so may I add) updated blog! more such comments and blog posts please….
Thursday, February 3, 2005 @ 12:43 AM
Happy Budday. Keep up the good work. Will keep reading as long as you keep writing :) And when you don’t, I will ;)
Thursday, February 3, 2005 @ 1:11 AM
[Megha]-those were MMS hero-heroines of DPS fame…
Thursday, February 3, 2005 @ 2:36 AM
[oxy_moron] Someone once taught me that a story ought to be told the way it should have happened rather than the way it actually happened. With your tale, I now see exactly what they were talking about. Never knew one could romanticize the creation of a blog, but you have managed to do just that. And how wonderfully well, I might add! I am speechless. Also a li’l disoriented ‘cos of all the rolling on the floor laughing, but mostly just speechless. And as you know, that’s quite an achievement! :) Thankoo for that priceless story!
And I second [iii]’s opinion on your comments and your infrequent blog-writing. I understand that the quality more than compensates for the lack of quantity, but c’mon now, get over your mental blog, be nice to your adoring fans/loyal readers/whatever it is you want us to call ourselves .. and write!
[Dharmendra] Thankoo. And nice of you to leave a comment this time. I’ll try to keep up my end of the bargain and write :)
[Anbu] Ahhhh! Finally, the mystery is solved!
Thursday, February 3, 2005 @ 3:21 AM
Hey,
As for my existence, well, she knows of it. Knows my name and my department and that I’m in final year. Thats all. :-D (Yours sincerely is the President of his and her department here, so, it was me who hosted her batch’s official introduction function. Hence I guess she should have atleast the basic dept fundas).
As for writing a post or anything, well, you can write whatever you please. None of the people I don’t want to see the post will ever see it. You are the most famous Megha in the world, the same doesn’t applies to me. (Heard of that guy named Suneet Verma?) :-)
Thursday, February 3, 2005 @ 7:25 AM
Sorry am late…still ‘Hippy Happy Birthday’ :)
Err..any idea of conducting ‘Designer tuitions’ for novices like moi? :-D
Thursday, February 3, 2005 @ 9:02 AM
Megha ji- Am extremely pleased that my humble attempt at story-telling is appreciated!
And with you spreading so many smiles around, this is the least i can do:)
As per your instructions, the comments shall be more frequent..can’t say the same about my own blog though, you know how often i am at a loss for words:)
iii- Hey..thanks!. I have to tell you two things. The first one is that i will be telling you the second one on your blog
-OM
Thursday, February 3, 2005 @ 10:52 AM
You have come along a nice path.All the best!
Just curious what fontset would be this new avatar be?
Like it :)
Thursday, February 3, 2005 @ 2:39 PM
[suneet] My fame was short-lived. I am no longer the most famous Megha. *boo hoo* Par chalta hai. Teaches you some hard lessons about how ephemeral fame and fortune are na? :) By the way, I wasn’t going to write about you and coffee-shop girl specifically, more in general about how, in the long run, it is better to express what’s in one’s heart, rather than keeping it all inside.
Its good to know you’re not some random stranger to her. I think it might help your case if she hears about you a li’l bit more though. Generally speaking I mean. ‘Suneet was the guy that led this team’, ‘Suneet is the best person for XYZ’ types .. just let her get familiar with who you are first. Do you have some friends who can be your messengers for this task of doing some name-dropping around her? By the way, I assume she’s a few years junior to you?
[Kumari] Thank you thank you! And not late at all. Party not over till the last guest leaves funda. Designer tuitons! :o When did I get so high-funda as to attempt stuff like that! :)
[oxy_moron] One hopes you break out of your ‘kuchh na kaho, kuchh bhi na kaho‘ spell and have your readers be at a loss of words instead :)
[Paddy] Thank you! This is the illustrious font-khandaan of Verdana. Used some letter-spacing in the section headers, but the same font throughout. Glad you likes! :)
Thursday, February 3, 2005 @ 3:52 PM
Hey,
As for the google ratings, well, don’t worry. All your fans will keep troubling the google bots by frequent visits to your page and not rest till your crown is restored.
And for everything else, the famous line from alchemist should be enough as of now : If you really desire something, the whole world conspires for you to get it.
Thursday, February 3, 2005 @ 4:33 PM
This design is really nice and so pleasant !! absolutely liked it. The balloon pic blends so well with the background. A minor thing I noticed - if the blogger search bar(or watever bar that is) at the top can be stretched the whole length of the screen, the look will be even cooler *me thinks* (my resolution is 1024*768). It covers the screen when the resolution is 800 by 600 though. Also, happy birthday bloggie :).
Thursday, February 3, 2005 @ 10:24 PM
congratulations on your blog.
[suneet and megha] - the ranking was because this blog owner might be leaving comments in blogs with her name and a link to this blog. Though done unintentionally in this case, its a common techinque used by people to increase their rankings. Google has now introduced a noflow tag for all comments, which might have changed the rankings.
Also one should learn to love before giving advice.
Friday, February 4, 2005 @ 6:12 AM
[suneet] Ah, *now* you’re talking!
[pingoo] Thank you! Glad you like. And i’ll play with the template and see if I can make that navbar size change in a day or two.
[yahoo] That is an interesting explanation but it does not apply here. Thank you for the advice. So, who is she? :)
Friday, February 4, 2005 @ 8:28 AM
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Friday, February 4, 2005 @ 5:42 PM
Given the number of comments and tangents this post has generated I think we should bring this discussion to a close. Time to wind down the birthday party, clean the cake off the walls, and all that good stuff. Once again, thank you very much for reading what I write.
Saturday, February 5, 2005 @ 12:07 AM
Do you have some cake and that good stuff you made “to go”. You know how single guys survive. In all the halla-gulla of the bday, I forgot to take some. What say !!
Monday, February 7, 2005 @ 9:41 PM
[gvenum] A party to go? Well if one can have a blog-birthday party, anything is possible I guess. And you better be careful about proclaiming your single status on my blog. Some enterprising reader might insinuate that you read my blog only because you’re single :)
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 @ 2:36 PM
Congrats,really cool way of celebrating…your b’day comments in post are humours,nice blog,cheers:-)
Wednesday, February 9, 2005 @ 9:46 AM
just completing the 50! apparently its not 46 declared yet! its 50 and counting ;-)
Wednesday, February 9, 2005 @ 1:16 PM
[AJ] Oh thank you! Glad you came by. Do come again!
[iii] Nopes not declaring! Apparently people don’t want to listen to me. Thankoo for rounding off the numbers nicely and all. And by responding to the comments I’ve gone and spoilt it once again eh? :)
Wednesday, February 9, 2005 @ 1:46 PM
or maybe you are on your way to 100!
Wednesday, February 9, 2005 @ 3:06 PM
[iii] Now now! Even me, with all my megalomania, doesn’t believe that’s possible :)
Wednesday, February 9, 2005 @ 3:22 PM
Oh, finally it did not become 100! :-)
Nice blog, though!
Thursday, June 12, 2008 @ 11:54 AM