Sometime back, I had a colleague in my office who had taken up evening classes in IT. One day I asked him how he was doing and was he learning. I am happy that I asked this question that day since the answer to my question led me to the world of www. He said that he had just begun to learning the web page designing. This was an interesting topic so I asked him to give me some details. So he took a paper and drew the basic tags of a web page (the thing). And that was the day I joined www.
The same day, I went to the market and bought a book on the basics of learning html and web page designing. Completely self taught, I made the first prototype of my website that I named “Pakistanpaedia”. I included some basic information and looked for free website hosting services. I soon found 0catch.com and hosted my website on it for free. And was glad to see my own website on www. I kept expanding it, when the same friend asked me to buy a domain name (like dot com, dot org or dot info etc). So I bought the www.pakistanpaedia.com and then there was no ending. Today, this site of mine has endless information on Pakistan including text, photos, videos and links to countless external sites. And it grows every day.
As if this was not enough, I bumped into yet another friend of mine, who had been lost for quite sometime ago and taken up to writing and had become a writer. So this friend of mine, who is known as SAJ Shirazi (of Doodh Patti fame) to a lot of people on the blog thing, asked to me to start writing a blog. I told him that I was not a good writer and my blog would not get any traffic at all. But he was instant, so one day I gave in and started a travelogue covering my travel experiences and places that I visited. But Shirazi wanted me to expand the scope and also suggested a new name for my blog: Jaho Jalal. With the new name taken, I entered into he world of blogs and really started enjoying. It is a place where one can write anything, express oneself and listen to the reverberations.
Now I keep adding whatever wanders into my mind, other than my travel experiences and sharing my photos, that I also share on the Flickr as Jalalspages. The forum also allows me to read what others are writing and how good. This would lead me to improving my substance and may be one day I also start writing as close to good as others are.
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