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My Last Name Isn’t Kapoor

Sometime during the 8th grade, which was around 2005, my blog kept getting hits from people searching for Shahid Kapoor. From what I could tell, there was some cellphone video of the guy kissing Kareena Kapoor. The guy’s really big in the Bollywood movie industry. That was the first time I was confused for Shahid Kapoor.

Over the last couple of years, Twitter’s gotten huge and many celebrities are using it. At some point in time, people started tweeting to @shahid, my username, confusing me for Kapoor. Then, Kapoor joined Twitter (@shahidkapoor) and I’ve been bombarded with even more tweets intended for him. Some people leave a space in his name, typing it as “@shahid kapoor” while others omit his last name entirely.

Of course, my account was private for a long time. I recently made it public for a research paper and to try and communicate with Kapoor. This hasn’t worked yet.

Normally, I would have no problem receiving his tweets. The thing is, these are his fans trying to reach out to him and their messages are coming my way instead. Also, I have to decipher between replies sent to @shahidkapoor and those sent to me, @shahid.

I’m not exactly sure what to do.

Welcome, 2010

Quite honestly, I don’t remember when I stopped blogging. Well, stopped writing for Cafenut. I think at some point, I began to post things over at cafenut.tumblr.com instead of this site. Possibly because I had a feeling I wouldn’t be able to afford a renewal at the time. Last night, I decided to pull things together and resurrect the website.

After paying a few fees and working out some issues with Dreamhost, I was able to get the site up and running. I was afraid I might’ve given up on Cafenut and deleted the entire site. Fortunately, I had three backups saved on my laptop.

I was a little reluctant to keep up my old posts because I might’ve had things that would embarrass me now. But honestly, I could care less. Those old posts help me see what’s changed about myself and what’s still the same.

I’m not sure how frequently I’ll be writing here because I’m usually tweeting these days. Twitter has changed the way I blog. I think my early posts from Blogger (circa 2004-2005) are similar to what I’m usually posting on Twitter now. I’m still considering whether or not I should make my Twitter feed public again.

Anyway, this blog needs an overhaul. I think I’ll be working on improving my writing. I don’t have the time to focus on the layout of the site or anything. We’ll see where things go.

Old Posts

It feels nice to be blogging again, or at least attempting to begin again. I was looking through my old posts and I realized how much I’ve changed. It’s nice to look at the things I wrote back then. It let’s me understand myself a bit better.

I’m Still Alive

Wow, I haven’t written in a long time. Just so you guys know, I’m still alive. These past few months have been extremely busy for me. Summer vacation’s coming up but I have tests to study for. Also, I’m heading towards Bangladesh over the vacation so I have no guarantee as to how often I’ll post.

So much has happened to me since my last post. I wish I could begin to describe it all but I can’t. Two reasons: there’s just so much and a lot of it is personal. But, anyways, I need all the luck I can get at this moment. Wish me luck!

Offline Life

For the past 4 years or so, much of my time has been spent online. I may not always be using the computer, I might be just listening to music or something. However, for some reason, it’s become a habit for me to turn on my computer as soon as I can. I’ll admit, I spend a little too much time on the computer sometimes.

Something I’ve noticed is that many of my friends also use the computer regularly. This lets me talk to them online, whether it be through email or instant messaging. Much of my free time is spent chatting with friends and reading blogs and such.

It’s been so long that I can’t remember what people who are barely ever online do in their spare time. Are you one of those people? Tell me what you do.

I’m Back

After almost half a year, I’ve decided to start blogging again. Boy have the times changed. So much has happened to me over the past few months. Just so I don’t stop blogging again, I won’t try and write about the void.

See, the reason I stopped blogging in the first place was that I’d put off writing and try to finish posts. Didn’t work well for me.

I’d wanted to try a new design or something, but I have not time for that right now. That’s also another reason I got fed up with blogging, no time to redesign. Of course, back when I used to blog nonstop, I didn’t give a shit about the design as long as I could read what I published.

So that’s all for now.

Catching Up With A Meme

Since school has started and I haven’t been able to post anything since I came home from Canada last week. It was a lot of fun hanging out with my cousins. I saw a couple of movies and stayed up really late. Even went to an arcade and drove a go kart there.

What’s brought me here to write a post? I found a meme, courtesy of Biz Stone, and was bored enough to follow up on it. Basically, what you do is go in the URL field in your browser and see what auto-completes for each letter of the alphabet. Here’s what I came up with:

Some Quick Stuff

I haven’t blogged in a while. Why? I’ve been really busy and I’m almost always too tired to write. That’s why I’ve decided to post a list of things I want to say.

  • I got two tickets to the Decemberists’ show in November.
  • Recently, I got a lot of money because of the amount of hours I put into the after school program.
  • The NYC subway system is an amazing thing. You get to see so many different kinds of people everytime you ride a train.
  • It’s been super hot in New York these past few days.
  • I helped design a blog for YoYoNation, where they sell quality yoyos.
  • Jamba Juice is a life saver during the summer time.
  • I just realized that I can look for a photo lab near work and drop my film off during lunch.

That’s it for now.

Blogibido

I’ve created a new word. I’m pretty sure all of you bloggers have had a loss of blogibido at one point in time. Blogibido is your blogging drive. It’s similar to libido, but it deals with blogging, not something you get spammed about.

Videoblogging Week 2006 – Day Seven




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I seriously didn’t know what to vlog about. I’d play guitar, but I need to fix it up a bit. Maybe next week. (I’m gonna try and make a weekly vlog post from now on.)