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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?

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53 Responses

  1. 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. πŸ˜€

    Good-luck!!

    1. Oh yeah! Blogging with a deadline, makes us do all these things!
      Thanks Preeti! Need all the good wishes for this one! πŸ™‚

  2. You are at it again Shilpa, I really enjoy your “straight from the heart” posts πŸ™‚ Good luck for the challenge πŸ™‚

  3. LOL!!
    I should take it up too!! I haven’t visited my blog in a month!! πŸ™
    With these daily challenges, I just might get the motivation to write more!!

  4. lol!!! Happens with most of us!! When we are obsessed with blogging we check out everything with that perspecitve only πŸ˜€

    P.S. With u taking up this challenge I am thinking of doing it too….but can i??

    1. 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 πŸ™‚

    1. Aah! I have to worry… coz this is the state on Day 1 of the challenge and there are 30 more days!! πŸ˜€ Thanks a lot, Seena ! You aren’t blogging!? Busy?!

  5. 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 πŸ™‚

    1. I know working with a deadline can be a daunting sometimes! πŸ˜›
      Thanks V. I hope I manage to do this successfully! πŸ™‚

  6. You can always chew that much. You have always done so. πŸ˜€
    Whenever I go for shopping , I also look curiously to the new products & the packaging & all. It like a play.

    1. True, there is so much to absorb and observe!
      I hope I am able to pull it off this time! πŸ˜€

    1. True, while sometimes one may work best under pressure, and sometimes, it has the opposite effect! πŸ˜›

  7. Read more books, watch more movies, go on a hol.. u wil get enuf material for a month πŸ˜‰

    1. True… books are on, movies are at a lower level and holidays… can’t even think about them now! πŸ˜€

  8. 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

  9. 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 πŸ˜‰

    1. Aah! You too, Bhavya!! I know, this might be the initial hiccups… I am sure we will do it! πŸ™‚

  10. When you dont have anything to write..you wrote such interesting post..so dont worry you can write about anything and everything anyway πŸ™‚

    BTW I have joined the challenge too πŸ™‚

  11. 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’ πŸ˜‰
    Good Luck!

    1. Yes, with your support and push, we all can do it! πŸ™‚
      Thks Corinne for everything πŸ™‚

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

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