Happy New Year and all that, friends! (though as of today, 2011 ain't new anymore)!
Right then - so here's to a wonderful new year, new ideas, new posts - and new, fresh thoughts.
And in continuing with my bout of fresh-uenza, I, after almost a couple of years of blogging, took a fresh look at my blog today, and realized - what the heck, I have never quite explained as to why really - why my blog has been named thus!
So here I am, writing this today, to dig into the etymology of 'Choc-a-blog':
Well, to start with, all that I cared about was that my blog should get a nice, sweet name...
...and so, I guess putting in a Chocolate flavor (Choc) wasn't such a terrible effort after all!
And ofcourse, there was also the small matter of indicating the intent of what the blog could have - all that was going inside my mind or heart (generally only these two organs - yup, let's not digress!).
This blog has always intended to be a platform for me to reflect and share, whatever has been going on, inside me, about whatever appeals to me, or makes me feel strongly enough to write about.
I'd like to think I do have many thoughts going within me, that react to every development, every news and every activity that makes me think/ask/write about my stand vis-a-vis them.
Since there are many of them everyday, I think my mind is indeed always Choc-a-bloc/Chockablock with so many ideas and thoughts.
So I just decided to perform some word-wizardry of the highest order when I played on the idiom Choc-a-bloc/Chockablock.
And voila, there you go - out came 'Choc-a-blog'!:)
I started slowly and inconsistently (not that my posts have reached any supersonic speeds now!) but have become more regular now. Atleast from mid-2009 onwards, I set myself a goal to write, at least once a month, about whatever appealed to me at that time.
So, there you are - so far, so good - but hope to improve beyond an annual turnover of just a dozen posts.
