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Just a day after making my first blog post in half a decade, I somehow ended up impulsively purchasing my own domain name. So, here I am with the nth incarnation of my blog and personal site. It’s really been a longtime dream and this is pretty much the first time I had the chance to do so.

A lot has changed since. For one thing, I hardly use my laptop anymore (ancient beast that it is) and I’m mostly on my phone anyway. Unfortunately, this is gives me a number of limitations in what I can do as I don’t have access to things like an ftp client and Photoshop. Which is fine, I guess, because I hardly have the patience to create my own themes from scratch.

What I found challenging was having to tap out basically walls of text. And so I ended up also getting a wireless keyboard for myself. It’s pretty decent except I didn’t account for how large it is 😂 It does make things a bit easier at least!

A few days ago, I was hit by a wave of nostalgia over the yonder days of personal blogging which I was very much into during my early 20s. Before all these huge social media platforms had taken over and changed how we interact at the Internet – more for the worse, I daresay. But I got to meet some great people along the way so there is that.

I am not one for frequent updates. Oftentimes, I get far too caught up with the design and organising aspect of my blog that I inevitably lose momentum, focus, and drive to jot the churning whirlpool that goes on in this brain of mine. I’ve been used to typing out things on a laptop using a keyboard but these days, all I have is a my smartphone (first one I had actually!) Also, for the past decade or so, my Twitter have been subjected to my constant stream of thoughts to the point of obsession – something to reexamine at a later time. Perhaps. But thing is, even with the increased character count and threaded posts, there’s still that limit. Here I can ramble continuously and observe how far my English actually deteriorated from misuse hahaha.

That’s it for now. I need to sleep soon and focus on the week ahead.

… and two more weeks until 2015!

I type this entry even as I have tonnes of other things I should actually be doing. (C’mon, Anne, that dozen order of banana bread isn’t gonna bake itself.) I really wish I’m in the mood to partake with the holiday spirit but right at this point, I’d rather get some of my sleep back than join in on any festivities. Which I guess is sort of a shame since we Filipinos are known celebrating Christmas like no other. 😛

The year has flown by so quick. Wasn’t it only August yesterday?  Anyway, a number of things had happened in the second half of 2014 that I consider significant one way or the other:

• I came out! It happened a few days before my birthday, no less, and there wasn’t any marching band or samba dancers with elaborate feather headdresses or a big flashing neon sign. In fact, it was rather accidental the way it happened. Me and my mother were discussing arguing about some political issue and at the midst of it all, I blurted out, “but what if I’m interested in both sexes?” There was a short silence that followed and I could have taken it back, passed it off as a joke but no, it was too important for me. I honestly don’t know how to gauge her reaction but for now, I am trying to give her the space and time to get used to the fact.
• I reconnected with old friends and met up with new ones.
• I had my hair cut real short. It barely reaches past my ears now and I have to resist the temptation to run to the hairdresser to get the edges snipped off again because I feel it’s growing too fast. It did take me a bit of time getting used to but now I’m fairly comfortable with it. And the best thing is that I don’t have to fuss over it. Yes, I am that lazy. Granted this isn’t much of a big deal but it’s the first time in my life to have it at this length. So hooray for small milestones, right?
• Football became my newest obsession. Well it seems that my interest in the sport didn’t die down after the World Cup as I have initially thought and now my fate has pretty much been sealed by me waking up at 3 in the morning just to watch eleven guys chase after a ball.
• I have grown into doing calligraphy. Okay clearly I need more practise and if I have a clear goal in 2015, it would be focusing on honing this craft. The book was a lucky find at a bargain book store. I have also been looking into attending workshops (if only for the nibs and materials that come along with it) but I think my learning curve would be slightly different because of my left-handedness. I’m hoping I can drag along my friend who shares an equal interest because it seems more fun than having to do it alone.
  

  

  

  

  

Hello! As far blogging goes, this has been my 6th? 7th? attempt at keeping one and therefore, I shan’t waste anymore time trying to do an introductory post. I am terrible at that anyway.  So. I would consider this as a continuation of the previous ones I have kept throughout the years that I have been online albeit with a much fresher look.

Social media, mainly Twitter and Tumblr, have taken a firm hold of me but lately, I had this growing, incessant need to put down my thoughts into something that isn’t constrained by 140 characters or with massive amounts of fangirling in between. Back when I was trying to do my best as a serious (hah!) blogger, I often tend to be more caught up with all design process that I end up growing weary once it’s time for me to actually writing down stuff. I will try my utmost to avoid that as well strive to update less sporadically. Maybe this time around, I’ll eventually get the hang of this blogging thing.