Slacker blogger shares his thoughts

This is just my third post for the year. Wow. Not even one post per month. I'm now officially a slacker blogger. It's probably because of Facebook and Twitter. Somehow it's far easier to come up with a sentence or two and post it in Facebook and Twitter than a couple of paragraphs for a blog. And it's far easier for my friends to write short sentences as comments (sometimes not even complete sentences) in Facebook and Twitter.

Back in 2006 and 2007 when I still didn't have a personal internet connection I blogged more frequently. Back then, I would sometimes write a blog post in my offline PC at home, save it in a text file, bring it to work and post the thing using my online office workstation. Facebook and Twitter has certainly helped curtail my blogging days, but they are by no means the only reasons why I blog less nowadays. I have been slacking way before I had my Facebook account (started only in September 2009 to primarily stay in touched with my co-assignees as well as friends in Mauritius). With Twitter I think I only started late 2008.

I have always called this my own Muggle pensieve. It's something where I put my thoughts, whatever thoughts that I happen to have at a particular time so that I can go back and look at my past in a more literal way. Well, it's not looking any good right now. If I look back, for example, at what I was thinking about a year ago, I can read from my blog that there aren't that much. A lot of thoughts, I presume, were lost forever. It's easier to save what I see. I just take a picture and that's it. Not much effort. But with thoughts, well, they take some time to preserve. And I haven't been judicious to spend some of my time to preserve what I was thinking or feeling at a particular moment.

It's been a while since I last wrote something here other than a mini-review of a movie or TV show that I've seen or a book that I've read. It's been a while since I just wrote purely random thoughts on here. I wish I could say this will stop now. That in the next few days things will change. That at the end of the year this blog will be littered with far more random thoughts than ever before. I wish I could say it. I truly do. But only time can tell.