Thursday, January 28, 2010

The genesis

The story has it that our own Akki noticed the words ‘Singh is King’ at the back of a truck on some highway in Rajasthan. He called up a film producer and then an entire movie was made just to justify the movie title ‘Singh is Kinng’. Similarly, twostopsshop.blogspot first occurred to me only as a non-serious alternative to its more common sibling. Now I think of ways to justify it as title of my page.

On a brooding note, I have had this feeling, without getting into much detail, that many of my achievements have come when I tried once again for a second time. One stop hasn't worked for me. I am yet to make up my mind whether I should be proud of it, but for now I have tentatively decided to focus on my achievements alone. On a frivolous note, a phrase with ‘two’ in it has a happier resonance than with a lonesome ‘one’; or may be five o’s in the name symbolize a spirit as noble as in the Olympics’ logo (shoot me).

But, the idea that I am finally going to sell is that, “what is generally touted as ‘one stop shop’ is rarely ever that. Here is a page, where if you do not get what you expected on your first visit, let me know. I will try to get what you are looking for on your second stop.”

I just hope that the outcome is not as disastrous as the movie.