Ah, my first blog post. Funny how I've managed to resist all this while, the pull (and the attraction) of unleashing all my thoughts and emotions on a world so ready to plunge themselves into the lives of others. Mere strangers in fact. It's a strange thing, human nature that is. I always dismissed those who blogged as individuals who had no life; computer geeks who wasted their youth (and time) pursuing mindless passions and irrelevant information about people they didn't know, and would never know in this lifetime. I marvelled at why anyone would want to display anything about themselves or their thoughts for a world full of crazy people (read: stalkers, psychopaths, mad men) to ingest.
So why am I climbing over the fence right now where my nemesis would laugh right into my face?
Perhaps it was providence. Through several different avenues, I chanced upon a few good travel blogs. And I also discovered Food Network Asia on cable TV. And M bought a new fancy-schmancy digital SLR that I'm secretly dying to hog all the time. And after a recent Europe trip, I spent too much time putting 2 albums together and scribbling in captions, and then hawking it to different people whenever I met them. And then it hit me: I eat and travel all the time, and I love talking about them. Save myself the trouble, I'll just put it up on a blog! VOILA! (Yes yes, I know this should have hit me a long time ago. But it didn't. So there.)
I can see why it's addicitive. Even before writing this first post, I was spending an inordinate amount of time fiddling around with the various templates, colour schemes, swapping around layout options....and as I type this, I'm still wondering whether I should change the colour of my background. Hmm.... Decisions, decisions, decisions!! Gah!
I hate to admit it, but I'm actually kinda excited about this whole blog affair. And I think I've got my next post down pat in my head already. Ha.
