Having done my task for the day with my packing and paying bills and helping out some friends, I realized I am pretty jobless at the end of the day. And yeah, that's because I am technically jobless.
So I decided to update my blog with the "A-Z challenge". It's something I just made up :P All you have to do is open your desktop browser and type an alphabet from A to Z at the address bar one at a time. See what website appears for each letter, as the URL suggestion will be the website you visit the most (unless you regularly clear your cache or browsing history).
And considering this blog post number happens to be chapter 789 (get it? 7, 8, 9), it would be an apt to write this A-Z post. Just be brutally honest about which website appears on your browser, and let me know your results :)
My desktop browser is Chrome, and the last time I cleared my browsing history was probably, like, never, because I live alone and there's nothing to hide from anyone (sticks tongue out to all the husbands and boyfriends out there). Here is my A-Z list -
A - aws.amazon.com - This is my image hosting site for all my blog updates. Long time ago, pressing "A" used to lead to either arseblog.com (which is my favourite Arsenal FC related blog), or amazon.in for online shopping. Not anymore, I guess.
B - blogger.com - No surprises there. My blog domain, the reason why I am still blogging for the past 15 years.
C - cleartrip.com - Not that I book a lot of tickets, most of the time I would just compare different flight ticket costs and contemplate whether to visit another city during the weekend while sitting at home, alone, drunk, and 99% of the time I would eventually decide not to go, lolz.
D - dailymail.co.uk - My favourite British tabloid. But I use it mainly to follow American politics, lolz, and of course the British Royal Family updates, along with regular Premier League football news. It's one of those few sites where you'll read an extremely biased Pro-Trump article, immediately followed by an extremely biased Anti-Trump article, lolz. To be fair, I think that is more balanced than reading just CNN or just Fox News. :D
E - en.savefrom.net - Lolz, this is a site I use to download YouTube videos. However, on my Internet Explorer browser, pressing "E" shows eztv-torrent.com, my favourite torrent downloading site for movies and TV shows. I can't open this torrent site from my Chrome browser because of my Ad-blockers, and it is the only time I ever use Explorer on my PC.
F - figma.com - Surprisingly, it is not Facebook (which is second in my URL suggested list). Figma is a very useful online tool that I use at work to build prototypes and work flow for different projects. It is extremely efficient, cloud-based, and can be operated portably on my mobile for user-test scenario offline. Sometimes I would work on Figma the entire day, even for an entire week, until we have the exact proto model required for tech implementation, so yeah, no wonder it trumps Facebook.
G - gmail.com - No surprises there.
H - hotstar.com - I've been a Hotstar premium user since the time they started, as it was the first time we could also watch Game of Thrones without having to download from torrent, and I also use it every weekend to watch football matches.
I - imdb.com - I visit this site mainly to check out the ratings after seeing a new Movie or TV show torrent on eztv-torrent.com or Popcorn-Time app. If I am still undecided with the rating, then I go to youtube to check out the trailer and then decide whether to download or not.
J - jira.jetsynthesys.com - Lolz, this is another tool I use every day at work to complete tasks, track bugs, basically manage the entire project along with timelines and scopes. Now that I am no longer working, this will also be replaced soon from my URL suggestions like Figma above.
K - kima.in - My domain name. I seriously do not visit it that often, maybe just to check once a month to see if it is still active because I am too lazy to sign in to my godaddy account, lolz. It's just redirected to another static about.me page. But it is a part of my unique identity I want to keep alive online, especially since there are so many other Kimas. Even KIMA (Karnataka International Music Awards) has been after me for many years asking if they can buy the domain from me, but it's my name, it's something I can never let go.
L - livescore.com - My favourite site to check football LIVE scores and schedules.
M - mizohican.blogspot.in - Oops, talk about vanity, lolz, my own blog is my most visited site starting with "M". Well, I do read a lot of my old blog posts now and then, as sometimes they remind me of the silly things I used to do.
N - netbanking.hdfcbank.com - My bank.
O - opensubtitles.org - The best site for subtitles. I watch most of my TV shows with subtitles, it's kinda like a habit now.
P - pornleech.is - Ok, I'm not gonna talk about what this site is about :D :D :D Also, it has been down most of the time for the past few months, so I don't know why it is still there on the top of my URL suggestions. Hmmm...
Q - quora.com - Best site to ask questions and get the best answers.
R - reddit.com - Bang on. My favourite subs these days are r/RoastMe and r/Photoshop_Battles.
S - swiggy.com - Of course this has to be here, lolz. Sometimes I would randomly chat with Swiggy executives to discuss about food because I am lonely.
T - twitter.com - One site I cannot live without. If I don't read my daily dose of top tweets, I tend to go insane.
U - The only alphabet that didn't come up with any URL suggestions. I'm sure I visited UEFA site a couple of times, or Uber website to complain about cancellation charges, no idea why those aren't showing up.
V - vodafone.in - I guess this is here because I pay my monthly bill through their website. Also, not many other popular sites I visit start with a V.
W - wikipedia.org - The website that changed the world. And countless college assignment "research" time, lolz.
X - xda-developers.com - Ahhh, my favourite nerd hangout. It has saved me from soft-bricking my Android more than I can count. Right below that is xkcd.com, another favourite nerd comic of mine.
Y - youtube.com - Cool. And I'm so glad it's not youporn, lolzzz.
Z - zomato.com - Glad to end this with another food related website.
And so this is my list of A-Z websites on my browser. Thank God, just one porn site is there in the list, lolz. Let me know yours, either here in the comment section or on my Facebook comment thread. Just be honest, it's really fun, especially when you see some shady websites popping up, lolz. Your move. Cheers.
