Yaminie’s Underground blog

It’s spring break. It’s 2 o’clock in the afternoon. I just wanted to speak to my parents.

My father usually comes back home for lunch. By 2 o’clock we would have finished our meal. He would have put his legs up on the table and would have lit his afternoon cigarette. My mom would have been preparing to go into her afternoon siesta. And I would have just been rambling about something that’s been on my mind. The servants would have retired into their quarters. And peace would descend in our household…

I feel like rambling now. But my parents aren’t around. I can’t call them cause it’s not 2 o’clock  in India. It’s late night. And they are probably asleep. I want to leave them a voicemail. I want to tell them I miss them.

Would you also like to do something like this? Maybe some of you do…So i thought of creating this audio blog where people could leave a voicemail for their parents.

This, I think works because

1.) There is something about the spoken word that gets lost when you write about it

2.) You want to do it at that moment, and not after that.

3.) It’s easier to do it on the net cause a lot of us are uncomfortable expressing ourselves on the net, then directly to our loved ones

4.) And it’s best to do it at that moment…rather 12 hours later.

How it’s work

1.) First step : A wordpress/textpattern blog which has an audio file pluggin…you upload audio files of a voicemail that you might want to leave for your parents

2.) Second step: A mobile application that let’s you record your voicemail and uploads it to the open  blog.

Mobile capability would be nice as you can then record your voicemail even when you’re out. You might want to do it when you’re having some crappy pizza some where or when you’re not getting any sleep late at night and you dont wanna reach out to your laptop…

What should I call it?

imissmyparents.com?

voicemailformymum.com?