I am watching “Bride Wars” – it is a typical chick flick… have loved the 20 mins I have watched so far. While doing all of this, I have been thinking, what will it be to be a wedding planner? I am gonna give it a thought. Lets see how that works out?

I work as an officer in the Compliance Team of a domain name registrar. Several complaints reporting some form of internet abuse are reported to my team and we take action against such defaulting domain names. A couple of days back, no different from any other day, we received a bunch of complaints and processed it. Unfortunately, there was a case of false positive which got me into a small situation.

I was sitting at my desk looking at the email sent by this client who threatened to take his business away on account of this situation and I was getting ready to draft a reply explaining the instance of his order being a false positive. I knew exactly what needed to be conveyed to his gentleman, but I couldn’t come up with the right way of putting it across to him. I just froze! Couldn’t type, or scribble on the notepad, or say it out aloud what I needed to write!

I am not a writer, but my job requires me to write stuff to save my company’s and my own reputation at times. I never fall short of words or techniques to write the most horrific news in a tactful manner. But this was one scenario when words just refused to help me.

I make a big deal of this coz I never in my life thought that I would face the much discussed “writer’s block”. I thought this was a thing for professional writers, novelists, journalists.

I was ashamed of myself to be in this positon and have promised to do better. As a practise, I shall write atleast one original article a week. I hope this helps me improve my not so poor communication skills. Fingers crossed!!

I am a person who loves to buy stuff. I get tickled by going to Crossword or Landmark and buy stuff and then, I just don’t read these books. This is not only with books; be it pens, notebooks, movies, software. I will have a lot of exciting things stored in my Apps folder on my Harddrive, but I will not be using more than half of it. Here is alist of books which I have to read, and I shall read it before my Birthday – May 26

• iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
• Die Trying
• Getting Things Done – David Allen (have had this book for over 2 months but did not go beyond reading one chapter)
• The secret – Rhonda Byrne
• Your money or Your life – this I am going to read along with my partner

This is just for now; more to come once I am done with these 4 books