Frankly speaking

Anything. That's what an astute KronoS tells me, blogging is about. Just about anything, no matter how mundane it be, the realms of a blog do not elude the ones who seek it. All and a blog is ONLY as incarcerated by guidelines, as your mind allows it to be. All you have to do is, be true to your motive, and in hierarchy to that, should posses wit as sharp as nascent shrapnel from shattering glassware. And that in itself is an apt summation of an otherwise astronomical list of guidelines for writing.

But its been a while since I've played dead to taking an initiative to write here, so here I am, against all odds, and most distractions, writing in jolly

abandon. * Cringes at the half wit dialogues (from cavern mates' laptop playing dubmass movie) he can't block out because they are too half wit and equally loud *

Its been millenia since lol, lmao and its metaphorical kinsmen called smileys have been lined up as medieval artefacts in a virtual anitiquity outlet. And as oft as my chat partner spelled lol, i grimaced for the action has been far from executed, 2 out of 3 times, and has been sent in a flurry of routine keystrokes, and catalogue of "protocol dictates replies ". The problem I perceive lies in the very foundation of communication online, mundanity. Half the replies, or reply seeking statements come from a well defined list of phrases, which circulate in a redundance glaring out at one who cares to think before typing. And at this rate, half * fears inevitable undercount * the people we chat with can be replaced by a 64 bit program that would randomly generate a reply, from a list of tops 10 options, and will accurately simulate a real person chatting. * Looks furtively for people peeking over shoulder * (Just the scythe sticking out, my bad)

So what I suggest, with all due humility * eyes shining with wisdom *, is to embrace a novel paradigm to converse online, where expressions can acually be conveyed, uninhibited by the jargonic confines of dim witted replies and unjustified lolling to seemingly anti-hillarious * this should be a real word!!! * comments and * rolls eyes * grammatically disemboweled sentences. (Grammar, shalt preach on that later) What one needs to do, is not go looking for "Witticism for

Dummies" or signing up for "SAFL" (Sarcasm as a Foreign Language). All they need is a hypothetical rap, crank, slam or kamikaze crash to their vestigial cognitive faculties. There is NO expression beyond the realm of words. So the next time your friend narrates a story he (yeah alright, feminists, SLASH SHE * no pun intended * ) thinks is funny but it makes you puke your gourmet dinner on your beloved keyboard, rather than lying of a much expected rotflmao, go for a * hits self with mouse on head... twice *. Benefites served : The expression is conveyed as it deseves to be, and you'r still the funny guy.

And no, please do not read this article as a confined " to do " list, diversify. Its not about seemingly funny phrases enclosed in a pair of innocent asterisks, who in all their typographic existence, will not know what they held therein. Its about not limiting the ability to express, just because the crowd, which is usually an assortment of dumb people, do it otherwise. Moreover, there are limited avenues for one to flex their aphorismic abilities. So why not make them, and bring them to our benefit? On a final note, for the time being, realise that your intellect is confined ONLY by your perception of it. Everything else, awaits an explorer, with crystal eyeglass, fluttering cape and a conscience dripping determination. And as I believe, "A word can paint a thousand pictures..."

R.I.P

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