Anand Nataraj

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Dear Friends, Itz been 2 months I blogged last… Though I evangelise and force other to blog I had to take this forced decision…

So, Why did I stop blogging for 2 months?

• What started as a time filler eventually became hobby & finally addicted me into it… I couldn’t sleep if I didn’t blog in a particular day… I didn’t want to be addicted for something…
• It took a tool on my sleep… Many times I corp ides on my sleep to blog which seriously affected my productivity…
• Wanted to change my working pattern where in I wanted to sleep in nights and work in the morning… It took 2 Months to get to this routine…
• Was too frank in my writings… Frankly exposed my personal life which didn’t go well with relatives… Was immensely preserved by my parents to control my writing… I was not comfortable someone (including my parents) influence my writing…
• Reduction in comments also played a minor part…

Considering all the reasons I wanted to consciously take a sabbatical from blogging and wanted to see how it felt… There were moments where I was pulled automatically pulled to blog… But I resisted it and after a while I got used to it…

Not I’m fresh with new thoughts, new mindset, new work hours etc.. From now on I’d be consistent in posting a blog a day…

Not sure where is it going to lead… Weather it is for good or bad… But time is running like anything… This is what I did for last 3 days and it flew like a jet;

• Woke up at 11 AM…
• Went to GYM & Came home by 1 PM…
• Went to office for couple of meetings & retuned by 9 PM….
• Some mentoring work with startups in Coffee Day which goes till 11.30 PM…
• Talk to Cogzidel Technologies folks (Major & Bala) atleast for 30 min each (tentatively will finish the call by 1.30 AM)…
• Then  reading, replying sending emails for 30 min…
• Then reading Tech Crunch, Life Hacker for another 30 min…
• Read some blogs & post comments which till take another 30 min…
• Write my blog which is another 15 min…

Then I goto bed between 4 – 5 AM and the routine continues every day… In this tight schedule I missed talking to my sister in skype, had no time for my doggie, no time for my parents & no time to get in touch with friends…

Soon I want to create a life where I can get rid of Notebooks, BlabkBerries, Internet etc… I’m seriously considering of considering of buying some farm lands and concentrate on agriculture where in I can be attached with loved ones & nature …

For the first time in history I was deprived of Blogging since I religiously started it. Credits must goto Gaza Hackers who kept bringing our servers down and later our own efforts to fix the loopholes and get things back on track.

In the mean time a lot has happened and there are lots to write. I must thank all my readers who have been enquiring about the status of my Blog through emails, facebook, linkedin, SMS etc.

All those message are a great dose of inspiration for me to write. I’d like to thank Mr.Bala Krishnan for following up with the hosts and fixing things at the earliest. Without him it would have taken more time for me to get on track.

Thank you everyone for all your support.

Yesterday I got an email from an ex-cogzian & it was really motivating to get such email & only makes me more responsible to be constant and responsible in blogging…

Dear sir. . .
This is bismil razik here, how are you sir? Hope you fine. I am very
glad to send mail you. There is a lot of reasons. First i tell about
my self. My native is nagercoil. I am a B.E graduate. I think there is
no chance to know about me.  I have worked two months in cogzidel
chennai. That is a great chance for me to know about you. You also saw
me once time sir. That was a unforgettable moment. Can you guess? Yes
it was your last birth day celebration in cogziel chennai.can you
remember? I am also a one of the person in that group but
unfortunately im not working there sir. I really attracted by your
birthday speech sir. It was nice moments. I taught to tell you much
more. But now no words coming. K i tell shortly sir. I truely
attracted by your blog. You said to us about blog that time onwards i
also tried to make a blog but no ideas there that time but now i done
it. I wish  you to visit my blog  sir i want some more ideas, tips
from u sir. I need ur comments You are one of my role model. I also
wish to learn something new from you. I watched ur blog several
topics, all was amazing, nice postings, really interesting sir. Am
also a great thala fan sir. . .Me too want to improve my self also
give me some technical ideas. I wish you all success, may god wish to
fulfil ur all wishes, waiting for you reply sir. . Take care. . Kindly
invite you to my new blog. . . www.bismilrazik.co.cc

Itz been a while since I blogged consistently. Finally I started getting enquries from readers. So, I think it is my responsibility to make things straight. Let me list some reasons;

- Struck by loads of work at a time. Unable to prioritize tasks effectively.
- Too many personal things good & bad which can’t be made public.
- Over a point blogging became a responsibility than hobby. I don’t know how this happened.
- Too much of blogging & work led to fatigue.
- Fatigue stopped my brain working. So, was unable to grab an opportunity to blog.
- Again fatigue made me loose interest on movies, photography, drive, travel which use to be my topics.

So, I wanted a healthy break to come back strong. I thank you all for your wonderful support.

I can’t believe my eyes. I don’t know if I had this much discipline. Let me list down the list of events; 

• Reached office by 11:45 PM from alumni meet to see Rooban.
• Checked emails, had some word with Rooban and went back home.
• Directly went to Lu along with my notebook. Only to notice there is no net connectivity.
• Get upset with BSNL. But had some small grub, made some calls & settled by 1:30.
• Then thought I can run on treadmill but was upset because of BSNL & was in no mood to workout.
• Then tried to crash. Felt like mad without laptop next to me.
• Also not blogging my experience made me even mad.
• Felt tired & sleepy but was unable to sleep.
• Was awake until 3:45 AM and that is when I noticed I must blog.
• Then I woke my mom & proceeded straight to office and reached here by 4 AM. 

Only now I can realize how addictive blogging has become to me and I’ve no regrets for this habit. 

So I made couple of blog post and time to go back home and crash =;.

In tamil there is a saying “Patta Kal-liyae Padum Sutta Kai-liae Sudum” (meaning “Hit legs gets re-hittem & Burned hands gets Burned again”). Like that saying lot of challenging things happened to me at the same time. Last week i went out on two day spiritual vacation where in i visited 6 temples in 2 days. After reaching home i wanted to blog the experience and sadly;

• Internet was not working & in spite of giving repeated complaint’s nothing is happening.
• When i thought of using Data Card it didn’t work. Reason “Payment not paid” & thanks to my memory power.
• I settle all my bills online because there was no net i as unable to make payments and i delayed couple of payments from card to data card to insurance policy payment.
• I was unable to come to office as it was Christmas Holiday and also i was tired of driving continuously for 2 days.

The worst is not over. For christmas i got an invitation from a celebrity friend to attend a charity function at Green Park Hotel, Vadapalani. Everything went well until i met someone who is a pain in my a$$ and things turned topsy turvy that night and i fell ill on saturday and unable to reach office on Saturday.

Then Sunday there was a surprise birthday party of my friend organized by her fiancee. Again i was unable to blog the experience because of internet problem at home. Finally i checked all my mails today after a gap of 6 days. I think this must be the longest gap for not using internet in my entrepreneurial life.

Now i feel relaxed to post this blog and i’ve got to post couple of more pending blogs to be posted.

Last year I developed hobbies like; 

• Photography
• Blogging
• Tweeting
• Travelling
• Physical workout. 

That is because I was back from a big depression and I had lot of time and I wanted to divert my mind from all bad experiences. It was these hobbies which helped me to overcome strongly. 

For last 3 months my concentration on all these hobbies are slowly coming down. I don’t know if I must take it positively as; 

• I’m getting busy because of business commitments.
• I’m back from memories of all bad experience. 

Or should I blame myself for cutting down on my hobbies which have helped me in bad times. 

Though there is every genuine reason like; 

• System problem to download pictures shot from camera has diminished my interest in photography. In fact I stopped taking camera now-a-days.
• Blogging has taken a beating because I’m taking care of Sales for CCS where I travel to client places. So, I’m not sitting online like before.
• Same applies to twitter.
• I stopped travelling because of the long summer this year and still I didn’t get back to loop.
• Again this is because of my laziness because of travelling. 

But personally speaking I want to balance things and want to accommodate all the special things which were my companion during my lonely times. So from now I plan to be more professional and get back to loop.

I’ve been blogging from 2002 but I’ve become a consistent blogger only for last one year. So that made me a avid blogger? 

• I want to express my thoughts & experience to as much as possible.
• Want to document my experience and I can refer back to my good and challenging times and cherish them.
• After blogging my perception of looking at things got changed. I look for experience in every moment in life. When I come across traffic jams, corrupt bureaucrats I’m able to flush out my frustration by Blogging out.
• When I feel lonely I can engage myself because of Blogging.
• Blog is wonderful tool to market my company & thoughts.
• When I post a blog about any problem / challenge I get lots of help / solutions from my kind readers.
• After blogging I reduced on doing crap things that has saved lot of time & money for me.

There are more benefits I’m reaping because of blogging. I started blogging casually but I was taken by things I was able to gain and became a serious blogger.

It’s been a long break from active blogging. The reason is not that I was busy but it was because of technical issues which took time to get sorted… 

• My blog and company websites are all hosted in a single host and we have reached a point that we have to move to different host because of support issues.
• We were unable to transfer the files to new host because of Iframe malware which affected our web server.
• So we had to clean all the systems in the organization and then we had to clean the web server.
• Cleaning 30 systems which is used by developers and web server which is also actively hosting all websites is not a small task.
• Finally after all hard work for last 20 days we finally changed to a new host.

Now I’m happily started blogging. I must thank Kannan & Co for their efforts to make this happen amid all challenges.