Clap Clap Clap!!!

It's a big day for me folks....my counter reaches 100. Thanks to you, loyal readers. Need I say more? :)

Well, as it happens, I do !!! This has been a moment I have been waiting for the last three days. Watching the counter inch up painfully slowly, one at a time. So I'm not going to let it pass so easily! What made me really proud was this:

Yo, I felt I was a celebrity! People literally from around the world - Mexico, Norway, Spain, US, UK, India, Singapore, Taiwan... - were reading my blog, and that did give me a kick! Four continents, innumerable countries! Boy, am I famous??? :-/

(Ofcourse, the keen observer amongst you would see something fishy about the red spot there. I'll admit. Yes, it's mine. And so are probably seventy of the hundred in the visits. But my conscience is clear. I told the counter to ignore my visits, but for some reason, it tracks it every now and then! )

And now that it's touched the centum, I feel on top of the world. There have been others who've been there, seen it, moved on, but for me, it's a first, and I'll savor the moment! Know what? I'll publish my own interview. :)

But then handling an interview is a totally different game from blogging. That's a first for me too, and it gives me the jeebies. I've never done it before...I mean I used to cringe from even going up on stage and reading out my essay on 'The Cow'. So am not sure how I'd handle an interview. I'd been a cricketer, it would've been easy. The interview would've probably gone something like this:

Interviewer: So JK, a hundred, eh?

JK, the cricketer: Yeah, I just went out there to blog. It was a good day, the pen came onto the paper and the words just kept flowing.

Interviewer: So anyone you would particularly want to thank, for this accomplishment?

JK, the cricketer: Well, it was a team effort. The boys read really well. The new comers were strong, and the experienced guys supported them well by coming back. It was a crucial time and they clicked together.

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No problem if I'd been a celebrity either; it would go like this:

Interviewer: So JK, a hundred, eh?

Bleep. Security, throw out the paparazzi

Interviewer: So anyone you would particularly want to thank, for this accomplishment?

JK the celebrity: (Hands raised, glycerine in the eyes) This one's for you, my great-great granpa.

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Ofcourse what would've been awesome is if I'd been into politics. Those guys are born with the gift of the gab. Even if it makes others gape. It'd have gone like this:

Interviewer: So JK, a hundred, eh?

JK the politician: I am a poor farmer. I came here through reservations in higher education for the illiterate. I can't count. I'm a servant of the people. Numbers can be dubious. I do whatever parliament tells me. I follow my conscience. We will talk to all political parties and try to reach a consensus. Then we'll see what Soniaji......

Interviewer: errr.....So anyone you would particularly want to thank, for this accomplishment? Soniaji?

JK the politician: What can I say? This is an international conspiracy. Pakistan's ISI is funding. What can I do, I am an illiterate farmer. I will consider all points of view on what is right. Parliament is supreme. Decisions are taken by people who are more knowledgeable, and I will do what I think they are telling me. The West should stop trying to twist our arm. India is......

Interviewer: Errrr....thank you minister-ji.

But then, I'm just a simple blogger. And so here's how it goes:

Oh sorry, no interviewer.

So anyways, thanks folks, and keep coming back, with your friends and their friends too. It's in your hands to take the counter higher. And higher.And while you are there, don't hesitate to drop a comment once in a while! Especially if it's a juicy, good one!