Mid-year Review
I'm back!
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for now.
This is the longest hiatus I've ever taken since I've started blogging. Halfway into 2011 without an entry, I was in two minds about whether to continue blogging or just shut it down altogether. So the time was ripe to revisit my original intent of blogging, as it has certainly evolved over the years,
During my army days, the sole purpose was to hone my writing skills. I was thoroughly convinced that I could guard the mindless wasting of my brain with some pseudo-intellectual discourse on my social life and current affairs. Of course, that pragmatic goal quickly retrogressed and my blog became a place where I could seek solace and bitch publicly.
In my four yearsof torture in NUS, it kept me sane (or so I think…) as I struggled through an engineering course, despite my apparent lack of aptitude for it.
It was great fun delivering verbal diarrhoea, knowing that friends and stalkers (or fans as I endearingly call them) would read my rants and raves. Yet because I knew intelligible life forms were actually visiting my blog, I felt compelled post regular updates.
On days when I was swamped with work, I resorted to posting an obligatory series of web comics. During periods of gruelling examinations, I would take a break altogether.
Just I thought I was really busy in NUS… Then I graduated and entered the workforce. The frequency of updates was proven to be directly correlated to scarcity of time.
Then came... Facebook.
If I wanted to announce anything to my circle of friends, I no longer had to resort to my ailing blog. If I wanted to make my friends envious (not deliberately of course…) of my overseas escapades, I could upload photo albums with a few clicks of the button. Complete with auto-resizing and reduced resolution!
In a nutshell, Facebook provided greater interaction with people I knew and cared for.
Yet surprisingly, I’ve found a good reason not to shut this blog down.
Public Comments
I never fail to be amused that my rants on NUS modules BN3101: Biomedical Engineering Design and MUA3201: Chamber Singers are still able to attract random viewers via Google.
Just Google "BN3101" to amuse me.
So what's next for this blog?
My guess is probably nowhere.
As a matter of fact, I cannot imagine Blogspot to continue on perpetually. The mere thought of visiting a blog already sounds so passé to me. But like an open diary, I might return to reminiscence the naive crap I've written over the years.
Of course, I might even add on to this ever growing list of incriminating rubbish from time to time. Probably not as often as I used to, but hopefully more frequently than once every 6 months.
Till then...
.
.
.
for now.
This is the longest hiatus I've ever taken since I've started blogging. Halfway into 2011 without an entry, I was in two minds about whether to continue blogging or just shut it down altogether. So the time was ripe to revisit my original intent of blogging, as it has certainly evolved over the years,
During my army days, the sole purpose was to hone my writing skills. I was thoroughly convinced that I could guard the mindless wasting of my brain with some pseudo-intellectual discourse on my social life and current affairs. Of course, that pragmatic goal quickly retrogressed and my blog became a place where I could seek solace and bitch publicly.
In my four years
It was great fun delivering verbal diarrhoea, knowing that friends and stalkers (or fans as I endearingly call them) would read my rants and raves. Yet because I knew intelligible life forms were actually visiting my blog, I felt compelled post regular updates.
On days when I was swamped with work, I resorted to posting an obligatory series of web comics. During periods of gruelling examinations, I would take a break altogether.
Just I thought I was really busy in NUS… Then I graduated and entered the workforce. The frequency of updates was proven to be directly correlated to scarcity of time.
Then came... Facebook.
If I wanted to announce anything to my circle of friends, I no longer had to resort to my ailing blog. If I wanted to make my friends envious (not deliberately of course…) of my overseas escapades, I could upload photo albums with a few clicks of the button. Complete with auto-resizing and reduced resolution!
In a nutshell, Facebook provided greater interaction with people I knew and cared for.
Yet surprisingly, I’ve found a good reason not to shut this blog down.
Public Comments
I never fail to be amused that my rants on NUS modules BN3101: Biomedical Engineering Design and MUA3201: Chamber Singers are still able to attract random viewers via Google.
Just Google "BN3101" to amuse me.
So what's next for this blog?
My guess is probably nowhere.
As a matter of fact, I cannot imagine Blogspot to continue on perpetually. The mere thought of visiting a blog already sounds so passé to me. But like an open diary, I might return to reminiscence the naive crap I've written over the years.
Of course, I might even add on to this ever growing list of incriminating rubbish from time to time. Probably not as often as I used to, but hopefully more frequently than once every 6 months.
Till then...
Random picture!
posted by Kelvin Lim at 11:28 am
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