Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Blog Virgin

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.

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