UBC Day 1 : Jitters and Japes
Last evening, we went out for shopping and my mind was on blogging. I was looking at things around me a bit deeply.
I believed that I’d get some food for thought at the aquarium shop where we had gone to buy some stuff, but all I got was some food for our fishes.
I looked on the passing vehicles and billboards with renewed interest, to observe something out of ordinary, but everything was prim and proper like the life our relatives expect us to lead.
I observed the customers at a retail outlet to find some unique behaviour or mannerism but they were as boring as watching the paint dry.
When KG was sharing something interesting with me, my mind was working overtime on remembering something else which could be blog worthy and I invited an exasperated look from him.
After an hour of surfing on the net and looking for blogging ideas / daily prompt suggestions, nothing really caught my fancy.
The personal deadline I have set for posting each day’s blog post is of 12.01 am, which is just a few minutes away, and the words that can describe my current state of mind in panic stricken.
It’s the first day of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. And I am clueless and lost.
Am I biting off more than I can chew?
July 1, 2013 12:13 am|
Hahahahah this is what blogging does to us… esp. when it is about challenge… more so if it is a daily challenge.
But then someone had rightly said…. we find inspiration from places where and when we least expect it. 😀
Good-luck!!
July 1, 2013 10:08 pm|
Oh yeah! Blogging with a deadline, makes us do all these things!
Thanks Preeti! Need all the good wishes for this one! 🙂
July 1, 2013 4:11 am|
You are at it again Shilpa, I really enjoy your “straight from the heart” posts 🙂 Good luck for the challenge 🙂
July 1, 2013 10:08 pm|
Crazy is the word, right?! 😀
Thanks Reshma 🙂
July 1, 2013 6:51 am|
LOL!!
I should take it up too!! I haven’t visited my blog in a month!! 🙁
With these daily challenges, I just might get the motivation to write more!!
July 1, 2013 10:09 pm|
Oh you must, Pixie! Hope you join us! Let’s re-create the May magic 😀
July 2, 2013 6:21 am|
I’ve joined!! 😛
July 1, 2013 9:26 am|
These days, strangely, topics come to me and I don’t go searching for them! 🙂
Destination Infinity
July 1, 2013 10:10 pm|
Wow! Lucky you! 🙂
July 1, 2013 10:06 am|
lol!!! Happens with most of us!! When we are obsessed with blogging we check out everything with that perspecitve only 😀
P.S. With u taking up this challenge I am thinking of doing it too….but can i??
July 1, 2013 10:14 pm|
True… I was looking at everything and was contemplating if this or that is blog worthy!
Glad we are doing this challenge together!! Super like 🙂
July 1, 2013 10:09 am|
Why do you worry Shilpa ?Even your post on “I have nothing to post” is superb 🙂
All the best !
July 1, 2013 10:16 pm|
Aah! I have to worry… coz this is the state on Day 1 of the challenge and there are 30 more days!! 😀 Thanks a lot, Seena ! You aren’t blogging!? Busy?!
July 1, 2013 10:16 am|
I too get the writer’s block when there is a deadline that I have meet. Stop fretting and the words will start to flow. You have managed to make this post also so interesting. Just chill yaar 🙂
July 1, 2013 10:17 pm|
I know working with a deadline can be a daunting sometimes! 😛
Thanks V. I hope I manage to do this successfully! 🙂
July 1, 2013 10:20 am|
You can always chew that much. You have always done so. 😀
Whenever I go for shopping , I also look curiously to the new products & the packaging & all. It like a play.
July 1, 2013 10:18 pm|
True, there is so much to absorb and observe!
I hope I am able to pull it off this time! 😀
July 1, 2013 10:27 am|
So difficult to keep deadlines when it comes to creative pursuits, Shilpa!
July 1, 2013 10:19 pm|
True, while sometimes one may work best under pressure, and sometimes, it has the opposite effect! 😛
July 1, 2013 11:32 am|
If one I’d determined ,one cuts through the deadlines.
You did.
July 1, 2013 10:20 pm|
Agree with that! Thanks 😛
July 1, 2013 11:34 am|
Will be piece of cake… don’t worry! 😀
July 1, 2013 10:20 pm|
Thanks Kadambari! 🙂
July 1, 2013 11:35 am|
Read more books, watch more movies, go on a hol.. u wil get enuf material for a month 😉
July 1, 2013 10:22 pm|
True… books are on, movies are at a lower level and holidays… can’t even think about them now! 😀
July 1, 2013 11:49 am|
And when I am just done with a monthly challenge, am kinda feeling a void today. May be I should take up this one too?:P
July 1, 2013 10:23 pm|
I wish you had joined us too! 🙂
July 1, 2013 12:09 pm|
And that panic itself transforms to a post. Isn’t that awesome? 🙂
July 1, 2013 10:24 pm|
😛 Cant write gibberish posts everyday! looking for some serious inspiration! 😀
July 1, 2013 12:39 pm|
Lol, Shipa, you just described what i did yesterday… and for this very same challenge.
But don’t worry. This will be a piece of cake 😉
July 1, 2013 10:25 pm|
Aah! You too, Bhavya!! I know, this might be the initial hiccups… I am sure we will do it! 🙂
July 1, 2013 1:10 pm|
you are the champion of every day blogging….!! and my first post is dedicated to u! *hugs*
July 1, 2013 10:26 pm|
Awww!! 😛 Thank you so much S for joining in! 🙂
July 1, 2013 1:25 pm|
It happens to all of us! But worry not, you successfully managed one day. Now only 30 are left. 🙂
July 1, 2013 10:26 pm|
LOL 😀 Yes, only 30 days!! 😀
July 1, 2013 2:04 pm|
Wow! and see how you managed to make a post on your search . Keep going……
July 1, 2013 10:26 pm|
Thanks a lot, Asha. 🙂
July 1, 2013 2:12 pm|
If jitters can lead to such a jewel, you can relax. Shilpa, you are worrying for nothing. Looking forward to the adventure again.
July 1, 2013 10:28 pm|
Cynthia!! I know you are making fun!! 😀 Jewels are what you churn out! 🙂
July 1, 2013 4:46 pm|
When you dont have anything to write..you wrote such interesting post..so dont worry you can write about anything and everything anyway 🙂
BTW I have joined the challenge too 🙂
July 1, 2013 10:28 pm|
Thanks Rashmi! Glad that you have joined the fun of everyday blogging too! 🙂
July 1, 2013 5:03 pm|
loved your first entry in UBC… hope to read your daily dose here 🙂
July 1, 2013 10:31 pm|
Thanks Apala! And welcome to this blog! 🙂
July 1, 2013 5:06 pm|
Ha ha sometimes you can just gulp down, without chewing. And I am confident you are quite prolific with your ideas. You will come up with things like ’10 reasons why I did not find any interesting topic to write about’ 😉
Good Luck!
July 1, 2013 10:32 pm|
LOL 😀 Yes, one can gulp too!
You know me too well… see tomorrow’s post! 😀
July 1, 2013 5:18 pm|
🙂 And voila! You have a post! I love how everything we look at, looks like a topic! 😀
You’re going to be better than fine!
July 1, 2013 10:33 pm|
Hope this Voila works on rest of the 30 days too! 😀
Thank you so much Vidya 🙂
July 1, 2013 9:14 pm|
The part where your mind wanders looking for inspiration I can so relate to! Glad you’re in. You can do it – you’re a whiz! 🙂
July 1, 2013 10:35 pm|
Yes, with your support and push, we all can do it! 🙂
Thks Corinne for everything 🙂
July 1, 2013 11:05 pm|
You sure can do it. I know that…and I am so looking forward to reading more from your each day of this month! 🙂
Good luck!
July 1, 2013 11:06 pm|
Thank you, Kajal! Looking forward to read more from you too! 🙂
July 2, 2013 12:33 am|
I very well understand your position. If we take blogging seriously, whatever we see or whatever we observe, our mind thinks of how can we write a blog on this. When on vacation, never listen to the family. Mind is on which photo will look good on the blog. I wanted to be out of that thought. That is why in 2011, I stopped blogging. Resumed in 2012. When I stopped blogging, I was able to enjoy more.
Good luck with your Ultimate Blog Challenge.
July 7, 2013 11:28 am|
ur posts are a great read, u cant find what to write and ur clueless and lost thougts have begin to pour on screen and you simply wrote good post. thats so nice of you. u really inspire me to write more. keep blogging I look forward to read everyday, wish i would have also taken this challenge may be i would have tried to atleast. i always get clueless and leave it untouched but see u wrote that too WOW!!!! keep thinking and blogging.