Saturday, May 15, 2010 @ 3:17 PM
Happy 7th anniversary
Well guys.
It's the 5th year for me as a blogger on blogger.com
5 memorable years that flew past so fast.
To put it literally, it has been 7 long years since I started the habit of blogging.
Secondary 3. Thanks to a friend I made on Mirc, whom I later got to add on MSN and she posted her blog link via her nick name.
I clicked on it and found it a rather neat idea instead of always penning my thoughts down on paper which my mother was susceptible to find it and do it online instead, where my not so tech savvy mother would not find it and it would be much more convenient for me as well.
I started out with the now defunct blog-city.
Infinitus.blog-city.com I remember.
With the stupid standard templates and such.
Whole word chunky posts, with twit writing LyKe ThIs and no pictures.
Slowly, my blogging evolved, into paragraphing, and hot-linking pictures from livejournal.
I slowly delved into a more narrative style , and discovered photo bucket and learned HTML all from scratch. Til today I still use html codings for my posts.
And made a rather big decision to move over to blogger, where I would be able to customise my blog's template and such.
Blog-city deleted my blog after not updating it, and it was rather disappointing, there were much memories in there.
Started out with infinito-.blogspot.com
First ever blogspot post here.
I had changed the title over time and found that I could not change it back to infinito- due to blogger disallowing the hyphen.
Thus after much thought, and since I met Joel, I changed it to doteonme.blogspot.com all because I wanted him to dote on me more.
My stupid whiny confession post over here.
Reading it over, I wanted to slap myself for being so retarded and whiny. Maybe it was because of the lack of sleep that day,
However, it did rake in a whole lot of memories. From Joel's reactions and a lot of things which unfolded after.
Looking at that post and comparing the present with then, I am glad to say , not much has changed, but it is inevitable, people left me along the way.
Ever since that year, when Joel and I got together, I've neglected "celebrating" my blogging anniversary.
The rest of the posts which were near that date were:
4th year's
5th year blogging.
6th year
I guess this year, it suddenly popped into my head.
So let me summarise what has been going on with my life in a nutshell into the 7th year of blogging.
- I attempted and adopted different writing techniques
- I do know and am aware that I have multiple grammatical/spelling errors but I am just so lazy I can't be bothered.
- I've grown to be more pessimistic on the outlook of Singaporean men in general
- The person who I've centered my life around to has walked.
- I faced multiple set backs.
- I got my first job after my graduation and soon I have to leave it too due to my studying.
- Really traveled a lot since I got a job.
- Experienced many new things locally as well as overseas.
- I entered Uni, into a course which I actually can excel in because of my interest in it.
- My friendship with certain people have waned, and after some events, my bond with certain friends have strengthened.
So, everyone, in a post where I should say,
" Happy 7 years, here's to several years ahead!"
I am sorry to say, no, I can't.
I am going to start afresh.
I know it is a great pity etc etc, that this site has great ranking, great viewership levels and great networking across the internet scape but I'm sorry, it is also due to you guys that my site has reached such awesome viewer count and often, gave me great perks such as movie tickets or party invites.
If Doteonme, can garner such readership levels within 4 years, I'm sure in time to come, maybe my new blogging space may be as successful but I highly doubt so now as I really want a private space to work in.
I have plenty of stupid thoughts and ideas I want to pen down but held back as sometimes, I think I will regret posting it after reading, such as above said links.
Thus, a new private space for myself would be a great way to kick start my no holds barred writing again.
Once again,
Thank you.
I love you guys for all the support you've given me especially at times when you sense something in the manner I write, I find that a really awesome feat that you have been reading my typing for so long that sometimes, you just know what's off kilter and would be concerned over me.
Thank you.
For all the wonderful memories you have helped to keep doteonme going strong.
Thank you.
For the pride I have when I blog due to your constant encouragement.
Really,
ZR 拜谢。
