I didn't really tell my friends about my blog here. I guess most wanderers (I doubt I have regular readers) here probably stray here from searchsg. I always say that I blog because I wanted to learn more about the web stuffs - that's my primary motive. However, when I trace back to my earliest blog, i realise it was all about driving lesson notes. Why do i want to blog then? Why not write them into a ugrade notebook?
Well i still remember clearly that I got so excited when i read the news about the ongoing blog scene here in Singapore. I thought that was pretty cool, you can be your own star in the virtual world. But i didn't really go about doing it until I took my first practical driving lesson. Alas, finally had a reason to blog: for record of pointers. At the same time, I picked up some basic html skill. So now I realise my upmost reason to blog then is just merely to help me recap what I learn from the lessons.
I started my first homepage using my school server. That time I didn't know what's Blogger, Greymatter, Xanga etc. So i manually added my entries into table. That was so cumbersome. But then I learn how to use Dreamweaver and know some html codings. Later on, I searched high and low for a free web account with no advertisement and medium sized diskspace. I had tried geocities', singnet's etc and none satisfed my requirement until I found the service provided by portland. Thus, i started using greymatter tool for blogging and learnt about server-side application and some javascript. As i was happily blogging for 3 months, suddenly portland was bought by some other service provider and there goes my archives for 2002 sept - nov. Thus I vow not use these cgi tool but blogger instead. At least it store my archives on its own server. If anything goes wrong with my service provider, I can just republish the entire files onto a new server.
BTW I only use free server cuz i know my interest don't alway perservse. If I pay for have my blog to be out there, I feel it is like a compulsory thingy for me to blog. I don't like being controlled. If got mood, i blog, no mood, heck care! So that why I look and look and look for a free and better server. Finally after searching for a long time, I'm currently using web1000.com one and if you're like me, going for free stuff, you can try that. So far so good. No downtime, no ads and 50mb diskspace.
Back to the point. If I go and tell my friends that I'm one of the bloggers out there, I guess their foremost reaction is why I'm so "wuliao". That's what I initially think so too. But the previous days when i recollecting my archives, I'm surprised I enjoyed reading my own blog. You don't puke! Not that i like my writing style(which i think it reaches the level of CMI and have given up on improving) but there are alot of things i have totally forgotten. Just to remind you that i have a memory of Dory. Sometime it feel like reading someone else's bloggie and sometime it seem to refresh my brain! No joke!
So i decide I shall continue to blog even when no one really come here daily to read. It shall be for my own purpose. My recollection of digital memory.
If you do notice that there is a break in between aug and dec 2003, that when i stop blogging in my public blog. I started a private one which only my sis knew. There, I bitched about my friends, school, religions, life, practically everything. A very raw and truthful piece of account. It turned out to be quite a shiok after writing each entry to let out the bottled emotions and thoughts. You may ask why I don't do the same thing here? Simple, It's sensitive and may jeopadize my relation with some friends so I'll leave that part for my private blog. I have no gut of xiaxue to do that.
That pretty sums up my blogging history. It's late now. Gota stop and go sleeping!
Well i still remember clearly that I got so excited when i read the news about the ongoing blog scene here in Singapore. I thought that was pretty cool, you can be your own star in the virtual world. But i didn't really go about doing it until I took my first practical driving lesson. Alas, finally had a reason to blog: for record of pointers. At the same time, I picked up some basic html skill. So now I realise my upmost reason to blog then is just merely to help me recap what I learn from the lessons.
I started my first homepage using my school server. That time I didn't know what's Blogger, Greymatter, Xanga etc. So i manually added my entries into table. That was so cumbersome. But then I learn how to use Dreamweaver and know some html codings. Later on, I searched high and low for a free web account with no advertisement and medium sized diskspace. I had tried geocities', singnet's etc and none satisfed my requirement until I found the service provided by portland. Thus, i started using greymatter tool for blogging and learnt about server-side application and some javascript. As i was happily blogging for 3 months, suddenly portland was bought by some other service provider and there goes my archives for 2002 sept - nov. Thus I vow not use these cgi tool but blogger instead. At least it store my archives on its own server. If anything goes wrong with my service provider, I can just republish the entire files onto a new server.
BTW I only use free server cuz i know my interest don't alway perservse. If I pay for have my blog to be out there, I feel it is like a compulsory thingy for me to blog. I don't like being controlled. If got mood, i blog, no mood, heck care! So that why I look and look and look for a free and better server. Finally after searching for a long time, I'm currently using web1000.com one and if you're like me, going for free stuff, you can try that. So far so good. No downtime, no ads and 50mb diskspace.
Back to the point. If I go and tell my friends that I'm one of the bloggers out there, I guess their foremost reaction is why I'm so "wuliao". That's what I initially think so too. But the previous days when i recollecting my archives, I'm surprised I enjoyed reading my own blog. You don't puke! Not that i like my writing style(which i think it reaches the level of CMI and have given up on improving) but there are alot of things i have totally forgotten. Just to remind you that i have a memory of Dory. Sometime it feel like reading someone else's bloggie and sometime it seem to refresh my brain! No joke!
So i decide I shall continue to blog even when no one really come here daily to read. It shall be for my own purpose. My recollection of digital memory.
If you do notice that there is a break in between aug and dec 2003, that when i stop blogging in my public blog. I started a private one which only my sis knew. There, I bitched about my friends, school, religions, life, practically everything. A very raw and truthful piece of account. It turned out to be quite a shiok after writing each entry to let out the bottled emotions and thoughts. You may ask why I don't do the same thing here? Simple, It's sensitive and may jeopadize my relation with some friends so I'll leave that part for my private blog. I have no gut of xiaxue to do that.
That pretty sums up my blogging history. It's late now. Gota stop and go sleeping!
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