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The thought of starting a blog was there embedded in my mind always but it didn’t really materialize till today.  Though I have completed my Post Graduation in English Language, yet I struggled with my ‘writing’. Starting from primary school days to the university fun times, I’m not at all comfortable with words when it comes to composing answers or penning letters or general blog authorship. Instead, I chose to lift pencils, charcoal, colors and paint brushes.

In that regard, my friends are always kind enough to shower my sketches with praises and sugar words but to me the creations really didn’t match my expectation. Being brought up with traditional view point of a Bengali family I too attended a neighborhood painting classes when I was able to scribble sensible words and lines, but that ended up in honing the artistic skills of my teacher, not mine as I used to roam around the room with my toys whereas she used to complete my art work just to show my parents that I’m doing something on those Sunday morning classes.

After running around for a year it was time to participate in various ‘sit and draw competitions’ and it doesn't need any mention that my horrible drawings never used to pass even the first round of selection, keeping apart getting prizes. Whereas children of my age, smilingly used to receive grand prizes like ‘tiffin boxes’, ‘ color sets’ and so many varieties of so called ‘Oscars’ of our life. The more I used to fail the more I made myself distant from the painting teacher and her classes. Then came the insulting part, when kids younger to me became the celebrities after winning local Grammy awards in painting. My mother had a tough time imagining that I hardly take interest in my studies as well as in my painting classes and so she decided to stop spending her money and stopped the painting classes. I was relieved.  Now I could peacefully watch 'Mahabharata' on television which was a popular show on Sundays, sharp at 9 in the morning.

When I reached my middle school I realized that what  I used to scribble on the last pages of the notebooks my fellow classmates appreciated it and then these appreciation which were innocent and honest led me to take major interest in sketching which resulted to paintings too.. This blog is only for honest comments and feedback and that's why I have chosen the difficult part for me, ‘Writing’. I thank God for not having me to write with pen and paper as modern technology made it easier and thanks to Microsoft's auto correct too for my clumsy fingers act on the word pad!

 P.S: Miranda, the hot Mommy and Sulagna, the hot Teacher: thanks for the support and motivation.. love u both.

Emily..