And the credit goes to...

At last, Manu has arrived in Blogosphere. And its time for the credits to roll. This would never have happened without the enthusiasm and support given by my friends (yet again). Here I would wish to place on record, the contributions made by some of them (even though I am fully aware of the consequences that many of them are not happy with the very prospect of "thanking" them!)

Let me start with A for Annie. She stands for enthusiasm and encouragement. Right from the day I told her I plan to start a blog, she has been after me egging me on. Thanks also to Jay who is still trying to find a better name for my blog. Keep trying dude, I’ll definitely come back to you!

Rani is easily the scariest of all my friends. For nine years now, she has been scaring me! Whether its quizzing, oration, writing, blogging, whatever… my objective has always been to impress her. And mind you, its tough. “She wouldn’t mind calling a spade a spade”, I had written in her orkut testimonial. Easily the most intelligent, definitely the most unassuming among my friends. If given a chance to select one thing that motivates me, my fingers will be pointing to her!

One thing I have always been fortunate is that whatever be the field, I always manage to have an “expert-friend”. Thanks to my dear friend Arun, with whom in mind, I wrote my first article on Federer. Thanks to Sajana without whom I would never have written that article on Adoor. I have more than one reason to thank Revi Sir. But here I would thank him for making me feel like a normal person after I declared boldly that “I saw Anantharam and I liked it!”. My exploration on Adoor would never have happened without him. Kalai was the first person to whom I showed the article on Adoor. Frankly, I thought that the writing lacked a clear line of thought and wanted to redraft the whole thing. But it was her “go ahead” that actually prompted me to publish it without any further editing. Full credit to her.

Thanks also to Gokul who despite his busy schedule of watching French open, took his time off to give a positive comment to my Federer post. Eventhough, I’m not sure he would have seen even one service game of Federer! :)

And finally, I come to the one person who did almost everything for my blog other than write the 2 articles that I have posted! Minu was the one who planted the idea of starting a blog into my head. When my time for starting the blog was running out, she even wrote in her blog “I am still waiting for Manu's blog launch. Given the fact that he is much of a self starter and is diagnosed with an acute case of verbal diarrohea (I'm stealing his very words here), I am surprised I am still waiting.”. Within a week, my blog went online. The entire layout and the style of the blog has been designed by her. She also did a “gender change exercise” to change my pleasingly pink background to a more masculine looking one. And if U liked “0-0~” that represents my glasses, then U know who should get the credit! And if U want more exposure to her unlimited creative skills, then probably you should vist her blog too. http://mybetaworld.blogspot.com/