101st post :)

In the blink of an eye, a couple of clicks on the mouse and a few strokes on the keyboard, I have finally posted my 101st post. Some people commemorate their 18th birthday, their 25th wedding anniversary, their child's 1st month and so on and so forth. Ultimately, it is just a number and I guess that my 101st post is something worth mentioning, at least on this blog.

I published my very first post on the 20th of September last year, and I never imagined the post would continue thus far. Blogging started as something I wanted to try out for fun. There was a lot of fanfare going on about blogging and how therapeutic writing and hacking away at the keyboard publishing entires on the World Wide Web was. Initially, I found the whole concept of blogging rather ridiculous. Why would anyone in their right frame of mind spend hours posting entries online and maintaining a blog? I was a skeptic and I needed to see for myself what the big deal was. I posted my first entry, followed by a second one, then a third and I have never looked back since.

Blogging, as unlikely as this may sound coming from me, did provide me with the outlet I have been looking for all this time. I wrote down how I felt about certain events in my life and my take on some of the stuff going on around. Through writing, I guess I managed to let go of some of the angst and excess emotional baggage I've got lugging around with me all this time. In some way, I might even add that seeing my thoughts and going through my older posts did help me see things in a more rational fashion.

I have enjoyed what blogging has brought for me thus far and I guess blogging has now become an extremely significant event in my daily routine. This chapter in my life will soon come to a close upon my matriculation in June in three weeks time. It has been rather smooth sailing thus far and I hope the fair winds and smooth seas keep up for the next leg of my journey. I have some pretty ambitious plans laid out for the next one year to come and I just hope I have the mental tenacity and perseverance to see them through. 

This is going to be a long shot given the rather low readership on my blog but may I ask if there's anyone out there game for an expedition to the Himalayas come 2009, most probably around April and June?