Inaugural Post

Omigosh, am I finally starting my first blog after such a looong looooong time?

I've never been much of a writer, so why have I decided to write?

i'm also not the techy sort who flashes the latest gadget in the market. In fact, i'm a laggard (if this is the right term I recall from my uni marketing course)...the last to catch up with new IT products, and happy to stick with my Nokia 8850 with black & blue screen until about 2 years back when the phone-case started resisting my scotchtape attempts to hold my dear phone together....only then did I realise that it was time to let go & move on...& now my portable tool of communication is a Nokia 7250 (yup, i'm a Nokia fan) with coloured screen (fortunately i've upgraded) which has been with me for about 2 years....the phone is a bit bulky, the casing looks a kinda old, & yes i know everyone around me uses a 3G phone...but i can't let go. At least not till this phone gives up on me.

okok i've just realised i've digressed. What i really wanted to say is that i dun really enjoy writing, and i'm slow to pick up IT-related trends, which explains why I decided to start blogging only after so long. I also gather i'm a 'nostlagic' (is there such a word?). I often think of the past & dwell in it...the happy times, the teary moments....moments of loss, periods of joy...

As I write this blog, my thoughts are with an old friend of mine i bumped into yesterday. We hardly keep in contact now..we used to be good frens, sometimes i'm upset that our friendship ended just like that, but other times i'm perfectly ok with it, cos i know i'm happy with my life & i pray she is happy with hers. I once typed her an email, and she sent me an extract of her blog for me to read...i teared after reading it, cos i knew she was upset. But I also know there is nothing much I can do...u can't expect me to call her up to comfort her when we haven't spoken for months, rite. But contents of that blog stayed with me, & even as i'm clicking away on my keyboard, i'm thinking of that blog & i'm thinking of her. But hey, i'm not gay k. In fact, i'm happily married to a cute SMT =)

Before I start digressing again, let me figure out why I have started to blog. Hmmz, I suppose the reasons are:
1) Be in touch with myself and to express what I feel. Good avenue to vent my frustration, I suppose
2) Update my frens of the latest happenings in my life (well a good fren of mine is in Australia, & another is moving to New Zealand in 2 days...so I guess this will be a good mode to keep in contact)
3) Share photos! I love snapping pictures, & I wanna show them off! So hopefully I'll be more disciplined going forward in uploading the pictures of my life & my holidays (arrgh, i need another holiday soon)
4) (Ha, this is going to relect the realist side of me) Hopefully blogging will help me improve my writing skills. Good writing skills are essential at work leh, and would also help me with my upcoming GMAT exams (*stress*)

So here I go....the first blog of my life was completed on 30 April 2007, 2158hrs. Congratulations to myself (& a pat on my back!). Hopefully the next entry wouldn't take that long. Time to start hitting my GMAT revision....till then!