Long time blogger: Most of the extremely old posts from 2003 and such were initially written at diaryland.com, so don't be confused if you read any of them (although I hope no one is that interested in those posts, because I wrote a lot of rubbish back then). I started out at Diaryland and it served me very well for a few years. At times I'd have my doubts about Diaryland's service, but I never wanted to move because the thought of manually moving all of my blog posts (yes, I felt the need to keep all of my posts to document my life as much as I can to read when I'm old and gray) was terrible. However, I did it (YES, copy and paste. One by one, baby). So here I am today with my lovely wordpress blog with blog posts dating back to '03.

I found blogging very relaxing and therapeutic. Why is that in the past tense? you, the keen reader, ask? For the past year or so, my blog posts have been very sporadic and there have been very few posts with very big gaps in between. I don't know what happened, but as I dealt with the stressful things in my life, I just didn't feel motivated to blog anymore, even if the purpose was to relieve some of that stress. However, I'm hoping to get back into the feel of things again, and at least blog occasionally.

Regarding what I post on this site, it's like any other blog; I will post my thoughts and ideas. It can vary from a boring recap for my day, or a reflection on something in my life, or an opinion I decided to write about, tips I wanted to give people, random stuff like that. Why do I have a blog? Self-expression, self-exploration, a link to the outer world, and a documentation of my life to look back on someday. Because I use this blog to write for mainly myself, I will sometimes make my blog entries password protected or private. Can't be an open book all the time!

I'm a very proud user of WordPress. Why? They've got amazing plugins, a lovely user interface, so many options, and everything is just so professional and customizable. If you get the right plugins, ask the right people, or are just knowledgeable in coding, you can do just about anything with WordPress. I must admit, customizing the templates is a huge PAIN if you don't know what you're doing. It's still "trial and error" for me even though I've been using WordPress for some years now. If anyone is looking for a WordPress tutorial on how to create your own template, I highly recommend this link.

The cute smilies were made into WordPress format by NoktahHitam and he gives credit for smilies to David Lanham.

Here's a list of all the plugins used on my blog.