I am not a ‘blog person’ nor did I ever own a diary or journal (unless of course you count my ‘dream diary’ where I log every dream I could remember from my sleep, which I also kept for only a week) back when I was at the stage when young girls are supposed to be keeping a notebook containing the day’s experience and list of unforgettable moments with boys and and locking it up in a tightly secured box where no one could see. I tried writing journals on my notebook and even shared a blog site with my ex-boyfriend. I also had many attempts to blog and promised to write diligently but I never really got myself hooked into this leisure.

I love to write – A LOT – but I don’t really keep blogs or journals or diaries, and that’s the irony of it. I don’t write regularly and diligently and the only thing that made me write journals every week was when my Religion teacher in high school and Sociology professor in college required the class the keep a weekly journal. The bigger irony of that is I used to write for the school paper back in high school (I was the editor-in-chief of the school paper and the yearbook). I also loved writing term papers, book reports and all imaginable and unimaginable articles and papers required in school (I could even write a 50-page-minimum term paper in one sitting, dang!). I also used to write for the parish newsletter and even contributed a lot of features article to several publications on a freelance basis. But I never loved writing journals or blog entries. I do not know why.

Maybe I am just too lazy to recall my day or week and keep track of the personal events that happened in my life. I prefer to do a scrapbook more than write every single detail of what has happened to me.

Then it hit me. I suddenly felt I was losing my art and style. Writing has been one of the things I love and writing school reports and term papers back in college and in my MA days as well as writing feasibility studies, information memorandum and business plan (some of the basic things that come with my job at present) does not necessarily count as “writing because you love writing”. They’re more of “writing because there is a need (or you are forced or required) to write”. If you know what I mean… So I want to write again not just because I am scared to lose my skill but things have been very busy with me as I get to different places, meet new people, experience something new everyday that brings me to this whole new wide world of possibilities and encounter.

Other people say that they are too busy to write and share their day to others, I am one of them. Then I realized that the more you become busy, the more you need to keep all those memories secured in a place where you could retrieve it after and reminisce the experience.

Since I am a busy person and my job requires me to always use the computer and connect to the internet, add the fact that almost everybody is hooked up in the cyberspace, I decided to blog.

I don’t have that much secret to hide and most of the things I want to put in writing are my thoughts about almost everything I encounter and enjoy doing, so what’s there to hide? Besides, I am no celebrity or royalty who needs to keep everything in strict confidentiality. I am also past the stage of puberty where crushes are meant to be hidden.

So what will (should) this blog site contain?

This will contain almost everything!

Simples Rants, Random Thoughts, Globalization, International Peace and Security, Religion, Politics, Economics, Culture, Travel and Leisure, Travel Journal / Log, Food, Arts, Photography, Dance, Social and Global Issues (in particular poverty, energy, global warming and climate change, education, human rights, environment, sustainability), Fashion and Style – all of which are my fields of interest and things I love… and maybe some other things which I do not love…

Enjoy!