Sunday, March 19, 2006

B(l)ogged down

Something happened to my blog in the last coupla days.

It went kaput.

'FORBIDDEN. You don't have permission to access this page'.

I have often felt like saying that to some people here, but the cheek of Blogger to say that to me? Me, the owner of Sayeshaz?? You forbid me from entering my own bar?
I need 'permission' from you?? What the...?!

I panicked. I did not know what the hell had happened. Everyone's blog was working fine, except mine. Had a MACker MACked into my blog and turned it off? Or was it true what Kini said - that Blogger shut down my blog because I was putting too many people to sleep?

Were all the posts and comments lost?


Then I saw that Virdi's blog had the same problem. "Yeay!!!" I went. (Sorry Virdi!). But soon after, his blog recovered, but mine was still down. Darn!

I emailed Bugger... err... I mean Blogger about the problem. They emailed back to ask me to see if their site had any info on the problem. It didn't. So I emailed them again to tell them it didn't.

"I can't view my blog! Please help!" I wrote, not even sure whether a human was gonna read it.

They emailed back a day later, saying everything is okay now.

Yipee! I went to check.

Instead of the familiar greenery, I was greeted by a blank page.


A friend of mine remarked, "Hey, your blog looks like your mind. Blank."

Gee, thanks.

If you have friends like this, you turn to strangers for help. I sent another email to Blogger. Now even they had started ignoring me!

Then I started bugging random people on yahoo, on gtalk, on MSN.

I told Ze Chapaat, "Mera blog theek kar de na!" For the sole purpose of flattery, I added, "Tu toh nerd hai, tu toh geek hai, mera blog theek kar de na!"

I realised it was the wrong thing to say when he brb'ed himself out of the conversation and never rb'ed again.


I felt distressed. Abandoned.

How could it happen the other way? I have abandoned my blog many a times, sometimes due to exams, sometimes due to vacations, sometimes due to work, and sometimes due to too many questions in my head.

But this is the first time my blog had abandoned me.

And it was painful. I will think twice about chiding smokers to give up their cigs overnight. Withdrawal symptoms can be maddening.


And the most frustrating thing is -- when something like this happens, that's when your mind is full of ideas for new posts, and there is no sign whatsoever of the 'writer's blog' symptom which all of us face every now and then.

As I saw other bloggers happily blogging away on their active blogs, and my blog lay there dormant, these lines from the song "Megha chhayi aadhi raat" crossed my mind:

Sabke aangan diya jaley re, morey aangan jiya
Hawa laage shool jaisi, tana marey chunariya

In this case, 'hawa' was the emails I was getting from people who could not access my blog, and 'tana' was Mr Ritesh Kini.

To vent my frustration, I even created a Sayesha's
back-up world.

It's over now. What a relief. Thanks to whoever - human or machine - helped set this right. You have no idea what my blog means to me.

(Thanks for Vikram too for using his contacts in 'high places' and making some calls to expedite the resurrection. Viks, don't blame me if everyone wants to be your friend after reading this!)

And I learnt something bigger from this episode.


We give a lot of bhaav to stuff we're getting to know, and in the process ignore stuff we already know very well. We put most of our time, energy and devotion into what we don't have, and end up taking what we have for granted.

And this holds true for people too.


And it's only when they go away from us that we realise what we had.

Finally, the song by Craig David (which I used to loathe once upon a time for some reason) made sense to me.

Real sense.

"You don't miss your water till the well runs dry."

So here, I am, back at the bar. Happy, jumpy. And wiser.

And here's a hug for everyone I know through this blog.


And here's a bigger hug for those I know a little too well.



29 comments:

Pi said...

Gold!!! Thank you Sayesha... a big hug to you too!

Deeps said...

Silver, silver, silver. Oh I am so happy..

Oh! I am also happy that you got your blog back. Must have been really hell. That reminds me to search for a software to backup my blog..

Unknown said...

yayyyyyyyyy
indeed sayesha, we were all getting withdrawal symptoms. not just you.

and well, bronze hi sahi, i came third AND left a meaningful comment . i deserve a cash prize too IMHO.

wb!
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Anonymous said...

hey there....absolutely loved the post on "Maine Pyar Kiya"....good that ur blog came back from the dead :-)

Anonymous said...

i can sense your excitement... as you are posting early on a beautiful sunday morning ... :-) ... good that is back up ... happy for you ...

Kathy said...

Oops Kawaii is back..ah Sayesha's is back !yipee ^_^ i thought i was banned here :( ,for not commenting and just reading your post last few days ago haha(just kiddin')...coz 2 days i can't access your blog.Oh my God where's Sayesha?My hubby is panicked too hehe..But when i'm checking puneet's blog i saw your comment there..oh my,sayesha is here,how come i can't access her blog?aargh..i went to sleep with many question in my mind haha..Even when were havin'our breakfast this morning ,hubby asked me if.. sayesha's is back?And luckily im here now writing my comment..hugss!
I've heard too that other bloggers had the same problem..
Anyway,glad everything is ok now..
enjoy weekend yaar^_^

love,
-kathy-

shub said...

oh yeah...i tooo had the same problem, though mine became okay yesterday.....while chking your i thought it was a problem with accssing blogs in Singapore....when i chkd come others I figured...it wasn't the case...good to know urs is abckn running...now pour all those posts in the head out! :)

shub said...

oh yeah...i tooo had the same problem, though mine became okay yesterday.....while chking your i thought it was a problem with accssing blogs in Singapore....when i chkd come others I figured...it wasn't the case...good to know urs is abckn running...now pour all those posts in the head out! :)

Anonymous said...

just cleared my back(b)log of ur unread posts and you distinctly remind of the daily columns that once appeared in a mumbai eveninger under the title "Busybee"... u r getting close & in a couple of years can start ur own daily column...

Cheers

oxymoron said...

sayesha, up @ 9am on sunday! hmmm. too worried about ur blog!
i can't remember when was the last time i saw sunday morn 9am or even 10am.

when i saw the 'FORBIDDEN. You don't have permission to access this page', i thought sayesha's cut-off all the drunkards!good to have ya back.

Kaala Kavva said...

oye congo shongo
ab to treat banti hai!
waise old lady!


By the way,

Sayesha aunti,

I did not brb coz of what you said to me, infact I would've had a great time pulling your leg owing to the fact that my blog was up all the time.



Sorry









Sayesha Aunty
















Pujya said...

thank god..ur back..missed you..:) and ur blog:)

virdi said...

UUiiii Mmaaaaa !!! You crushed my bones...

Virdi flexes his maskals and gives back Sayesha a Jaadooo Ki Jhapppiii... No pappi haatt haaatt...

Sayesha said...

#AP,
Haha! Bappi Lahiri again? ;)

#Deeps,
Yes yes back up your blog. I usually save the html docs on my hard disk.

#Ipanema Girl,
Hehehe... Cash prize huh? Gareebon ka mazaak udati hai?? Sharam nahin aati?? :/

#SS,
Hey, thanks for the welcome back! Am wondering if you're the same SS who used to post comments on my blog but had no link back?

#Anon,
Thanks dear! :)

#Kathy,
Hahaha! Yeah you're banned cos you abandoned my blog! :D
Thanks for the welcome back! :)

#Shub,
Yeah, everyone's became ok yesterday, except mine! :( Anyway, now I hope it'll stay fine. :)

#Well Wisher,
Thank you thank you. Hope Busybee was a hit! ;)

#Oxy,
I get up at 7 on weekends! (I allow myself an extra hour on Sat and Sun just so the weekend actually feels like a weekend. Uske baad assignments all day, till it's time to hit the gym. My weekends are not as chilled out as yours re... some day they will be! :)

#Vikram
Offo! :)

#Ze Ex,
Kitna sara comment space waste kiya yaar... tu bhi na!

//Sayesha Aunty

Aunty??

Bhateeja,
Dekh tera hota kya hai nateeja!

Muahahaha! :D

#Aethyr,
Thanks! I missed you guys too! :)

#Virdi,
You deserve a double crush, tera blog mere blog se pehle theek kaise ho gaya?? :D

Maskals?? Bhaade pe liya kya? :D

Anonymous said...

Reminds me of the issue faced by another blogger here - Priya, of priyaunplugged.blogspot. Her blog completely disappeared, out of existence. N she finally created priyaunwound. Even that had disappeared for a few days and i thought i must start searching for her next blog.

Glad all things are back to normal, as we know it. :)

V said...

Well, Yeah.Such things are becoming quite frequent with blogger, along with the fact that their site has also become slower!
Anyway, I thought I'll take a moment here to apprise you of the final shift I'm going to make, and that is to sumedhprasad.com/blog
So plz add "/blog" to my link.
NOt that you are going to visit it much, but still thought I'll tell you:)

Kaala Kavva said...

sorry

Anonymous said...

I was actually anticipating it when i started readng this post!! co-relation of the happenings to ppl in life and etc etc!!
U never miss a chance to co-relate any damn thng be it days/jeans/blog to co-relate it to ppl in life..
IT all has becom very predicatble and its loosing its beauty/uniqueness coz of repeating it again n again...!!!
--Naina

Dreamcatcher said...

I was wondering about whether you deleted it.And I felt truly horrified. Good to have you back :)

Negative Creep said...

Errr, i could access the blog. Everytime i got that forbidden page, i clicked refresh, and the page loaded.

Anonymous said...

Jab blog down hua to saari duniya sir pe utha lee aur jab theek hua to gayab ho gayi. Ladki kahin ki!

Tinku

Sayesha said...

#Jon,
Thanks! :)
ps: Yes, I thought of Priya's blog when this happened to me.

#Tequila,
AGAIN??? You changed URL again??? :/

#Ze Ex,
One big chapaat to you! :D

#Naina,
Thanks for commenting! :)
I'm sorry that my blog does not appear as beautiful and unique to you as it used to. But I do tend to take a lot of lessons about life from every day things, and I'm not sorry about that :)
ps: Easy with those double exclamation marks, girl. In case you did not notice, they have sharp edges, which can hurt. Owww!

#Dreamcatcher,
Delete my blog??? :O :O :O

#Negative,
Naah, didn't work for me. I clicked on refresh like a million times! :O

#Tinku,
Oye! It was night here and I was sleeping! Teri tarah nahin ki saari raat ullu ki tarah jago, and office mein so jao! :D

Kusum Rohra said...

Oh man!! thank god ur blog is back, even me was wondering if you had deleted it, had already planned to come down to singapore and give you the *how dare you do that* Look.. heheh am caught up in work (ya ya i do it occasionally, so don't be surprised) so will come back and read aaraam se laterzzz .. right now GOOD TO HAVE YOUR BLOG BACK :)

ritzkini said...

DAMN !! I get all-the-alphabets-on-the-keyboard impression on my cheeks again !!!
:P
good to have you back,yaar..
:)
btw..itna naam mat le,mera..everybody is anti-kini, for making statements abt sayesha-dadi's sleep-inducing posts..
:)))

Kaala Kavva said...

:O my commenttttttttttttttttttttttt
nahiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Sayesha said...

#Kusum,
Thanks yaar! Now I can breathe :)

#Kini,
As you sow, so shall you reap and all that... :)

#Tu Kaun,
Bandwidth waste karta hai? One kheenchke chapaaaaaaaat to you! :D

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