A friend of mine works at this cool company that’s created this new social networking thing. Its called LifeBlob, and a part of it shows what’s called your “Timeline”. Its basically a history of stuff that happened to you it uses that to link up people. Its pretty cool actually, but that’s not the point of this story. When I saw this thing, I got thinking of my own life’s timeline. I tried to document what all I’ve done so far in my life:

1982: Born on Planet Earth. A lot of things went wrong that year.

1983: On my first birthday, I was telling stories apparently. No one else understood them, but it seems I myself found them incredibly funny.

1985: First day of school and I tripped and fell on my head on my way to class. Had to skip school that day. I bunked my first ever class on day 1.

1988: Pushed my Sister into a bucket of Gulab Jaamons that were to be served at my Aunt’s wedding.

1989: For the hell of me, I can’t figure out how to write the cursive letter “s”. I hadn’t seen Taare Zameen Par then, else would have claimed to be dyslexic.

1995: Introduced to computers through “Dangerous Dave” and “Prince of Persia” video games. I’m totally hooked.

1996: Set fire to my computer, literally, with smoke and all. I was trying to overclock the CPU because my computer wasn’t fast enough to play Doom. Tried to convince Dad it was a computer virus that burnt the motherboard and melted the CPU without success.

1998: A friend and I co-invent the reverse-proxy method of attendance acquisition. Forget to get a patent on it, now everyone uses it.

2000: Time to decide between Engineering and Tobacco farming. I pick Computer Engineering. Big Mistake.

2002: Bomb hoax at college, incidentally, on the day of the exams. I swear I didn’t do it, but if it wasn’t for that call, I’d definitely have flunked.

2004: Bought a PS2 on ebay with my first salary.

2006: Lost 6 Kgs on a trip to China because I couldn’t find anything to eat.

2008: Writing blog posts on a Friday night and trying to figure out how to get all this online on the lifeblob site. Yay! for all things 2.0!

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