I picked.

Remember the kid from the movie Kuch Kuch Hotha Hai, busy counting stars on a starry night? That kid is the inspiration for this post.

I have been asking myself a similar question these days. What do you do when you have nothing to do? How do you pass time? I know, different people have different answers. Some of them are happy solving the Barber Paradox, some of them try creating a few when they are free, while others have a target and move in the direction of their target and some of them blog. Yeah, there are sports, but haven't we pledged not to watch the game called cricket and was the recent French open a replay of last year's games? I don't know. So there is not much interesting there either, at least in the ones I understand. So sports ruled out. And movies, I think we talked about them in the last post.

I remember I fell in the category where people blogged in their free time, but its been a month and the blogger part of my brain has been inactive :-(

Keeping all of this in view, isn't it easy to spend time counting stars, like the intelligent little kid? That way we always have something to do every night. We can recount them everyday to see if our previous day's count was correct and most probably we end up being wrong and we have a new count to start :-) But there is a problem. The Hyderabad night sky doesn't give you the chance to do this. Serious people say it is because of pollution and 'global warming'. Whatever be the reason, there aren't any stars to count. So we have to drop the idea.

So I figured I could count my blog posts ('stars', thats what I call them) and pick the best ones. My first thought was to pick the top 5 but I ended up picking 21 of them :-(.
I had to prune the list and finally came up with a list of 12. The criteria being these are posts I LIKED, readers liked and for some of them, the comments provided some good reads, thanks to the commenters. So all in all, presenting to the reader community the best 12 posts of this blog. I have included them in a separate section on the right, so someone new can quickly take a look and get a sense of what this blog provides to the world :))

Any feedback will be appreciated. Inclusions/deletions will be considered :-) Picking 12 out of 75 was tough. Like the old sentimental saying "can you pick your favorite of the two eyes?" ;-)