671 days is the time between my last review and this one. No, I wasn’t far away .. I was always coming here.. reading reviews. Some times even commenting during all this while.
Than what kept me away from writing a review? Before I go and start analysing ( is this the correct word?) the reasons let me disclose that after my last review I decided I shall never write again. You see, I myself can’t stand such boring.. grammatically incorrect.. astonishingly short of good words … and no thought process at all... reviews. Yes it is a pain to read such reviews. Opps this is the problem with half cooked writers like me.. I said I would first announce why I was not writing and than go ANALYSE why I was not writing and within the announcement itself I now realize that I have nothing to analyse.. the reasons are apparent and no matter how much I try n fool myself I always I knew why I was not writing.
But wait a minute… what is the forum… It is Mouthshut.com and it is a consumer review site. So it is not necessary for you to be Chetan Bhagat, Arundhati Roy or alike to write a review here. You are suppose to come, share your thoughts/knowledge about a product/service/so on and so forth and hope that janta out there will be benefited from the “information” you posted. Guess my understanding was wrong, I think you need to be equally good at writing as your are about the product you are writing ( I sincerely hope that one knows the product ), otherwise reader will loose interest half way ( for the obvious reasons I listed before ) and hence your generous attempt to let everybody know things good and things bad about a product shall go in vain.
Now the point is why would one carry such “understanding”. The answer is “I don’t know”… yes I can share how I developed this understanding. Mouthshut can boast of one thing for sure… without any controversy ( there have been since last few days) that it has always been blessed with some extraordinarily talented writers. Around the time when I started posting reviewss there were Magicians of words like Premjit, Nikamma, Juggernaut, Suyog and many more whom I don’t see writing anymore. Some who have continued since than and newbie’s are mbfarookh, sndaya, Juhita , thakurman , matawalaboy, megs and a lot more.
Sh*t, I jumped once again, so the point I was trying to make was that at times you feel that you are encroaching into the space of these thoughtful writers. It looks like such a wonderfully knitted community in itself when you read comments on any of these writers that you feel how in this world can we spread this harmony amongst all Indians and I am sure many of these writers don’t even “know each other.
I ate something wrong this morning which is prompting me to disclose a lot of things about me.. and here is the latest. The fact is, I don’t really want to write reviews which can not even trigger 10 comments. So, I am jealous of all the writers I mentioned above and hence don’t; write here. See… the review which should have been wrapped in 4 lines ( the ones right above this) took ages for a misnomer like me to write.
As you can see this review has nothing which can throw some light on writing review on MS hence any rating above NU shall be seen as a modest attempt to drag somebody into writing who doesn’t know ABC of writing.
Disclaimer: This review has been first written on a MS Word file ( would it be called plagiarism?) and have gone thru “Grammar and Spelling” check thrice ( Damn.. those green lines are still not going). Any spelling or grammar mistake noticed still shall be a a responsibility of Microsoft.