Taking baby steps into the world of blogging!

29th May 2010, 11:55 pm, Dhaka

Have been seeing the 'blogging fever' on an ever-rising high since the last couple years, but never really thought that one day I would also have a blog of my own! But today, when my social lifeline (aka Facebook) was cut off brutally by the telecommunications regulatory body of the country, I had no other option but to wander around in search of entertaining stuff on the net. And it this search, that eventually brought me to this BLOGGING site and I decided to open up an account of my own :-D

So guys, yes FB has been officially blocked/banned in Bangladesh, though no-one's coming right out and explaining why! Well, this is Bangladesh...and people like me are quite used to such unexplained happenings...though the human mind still wonders why and can't help trying to find out and assign reasons for such an occurrence. To cut a long story short...currently there are two stories doing the rounds...one version reasons that the site has been banned because of certain anti-state activities of someone using a pseudo-account on FB, while the other version is strongly trying to link the ban here with the recent FB ban in Pakistan! Who knows whats the truth and well, my question is 'would it matter?' Well, for people like me who basically live, eat, breathe, drink, sleep via Facebook, what matters is that their social life is no longer there! I know I am being hyper and going overboard in my reactions, but well what would one expect my reactions to be...when in this age of freedom of communication and expression...we are being cut off from the rest of the world! Though I am sure many would like to argue just for the sake of it, for me FB is an essential medium to be in touch with the hundreds of people who are/have been a part of my life (past, present, what does it actually matter?) and without it I feel so....alone!

Though the ban has not been able to prevent me from accessing FB (haven't u heard of the saying...'where there's a will, there's a way!') ... it still irks me to be doing it on the sly and not the usual, normal way! I have been receiving a number of mails in my FB inbox asking me as to how do I manage to do it (and these are mails from people outside Bangladesh)...and I really don't know if I should tell or not. On one hand, I am tempted to tell them all and then on the other, I wonder as to whether they are really that naive as not to know! Confusing, right?

Anyways, have to call it a day today and try to go to sleep, cos I have to wake up at 6:00 am sharp. So ciao buddies, hope to see u soon (dunno if I can make blogging a regular daily habit or not, only time will tell if this will be my one and only blog OR if more will follow it :-D )...so for now... good night, bonne nuit, buenas noches, शुभ रात्रि !