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I wish I can follow and read all 200 blogs but…

So after my attempt to finish a one-page copy about Pay-Per-Click advertising, I remember that I have to clean-up my blog subscription list. I get overwhelmed whenever I log-in to my reader: instead of reading, I quickly log-out and read a book instead. Not good.

I promise not to unsubscribe to items with fair judgment. Each blog needs to argue its case: why they deserve to sit on my reader and be read at night when Daniel goes to bed, along with blogs that I love. I have to be careful, I might miss out on something great: something that will knock me off my senses, inspire me to go back on track when I feel like procrastinating, give me an epiphany of some sort, or just entertain me for the day. So I run my eyes — without batting my eyelashes — through my reader list: from top to bottom, from left side to the right side. I am overwhelmed once again. Too much information, too little time. No wonder I feel this way, I have like 200 blogs in my list. Two hundred blogs!!! How did I accumulate all that?

My mind flashes back to the time when I spent hours upon hours at the stationery section of SM: it has to be one of the best parts of SM, second only to the clothes and trinkets section. I was poking around stacks of neatly arranged notebooks, envelopes, and stationery sets. I was always attracted to beautiful things. I absolutely adored pretty and fragrant Korean-made stationery sets that I always end up buying a truckload and looking at them for hours. They’re my guilty pleasures and I feel good when I see them–such beautiful illustrations, pastel and bright colors, friendly to the nostrils, elegant, cute, yadda yadda. I have countless pink notebooks and stationery sets that I keep for years only to realize that there’s no way I’ll write on them all. Not when there’s Microsoft word and Gmail. Not when I want a reply right away.

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I feel exactly the same way with my reader. I feel that I accumulated too much that I don’t know what to read anymore. So, without further ado, let me get started.

I’m definitely keeping those blogs with really nice pastel-colored photos and short, meaningful entries. I love photos as much as I love makeup. I carry my camera everywhere I go, just in case I find something interesting to capture. I love looking at life, and capturing it.

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11 Years of Blogging

Today, I celebrate my 11th year of blogging. Yes, I am a pioneer blogger of my generation and one of the first Filipino bloggers. And yes, it’s been 11 years since I transferred from gaudy, ring-bound diaries to the more intangible and amazing cyberspace. I always liked the idea of paperless writing while studying at UP. Hauling volumes of multicolored diaries from one dorm to another was just too much. So blogging became the solution in the twinkling of an eye.

My earliest blogs were on the defunct Blog-city, which lasted for three years. It enjoyed its own level of fame and had a loyal following from all over the world, mostly amateur poets and lyricists. I blogged anonymously as I always dreamt of unfiltered and candid entries. My blog had no major drama and consisted mainly of posts on childhood memories, everyday mundaneness, and my life away from home. I also tried my hand in poetry, which eventually led to my first poetry book to be published.

As days passed and as the number of my readers grew exponentially, I had to look for a blogging platform that allowed layout customization. Blogdrive came to the rescue. By then, I was a law student at the Ateneo. My blog was my cushion and my lonesome ally on many nights at Starbucks (it was when most law students in my school spent hours upon hours at coffee shops) — I was able to vent out frustrations and disappointments in cyberspace while trying to remain incognito. It was cathartic to criticize my professors and the system. My words wanted to break free so badly and when they did, they were unstoppable. I had legions of readers (mostly law students) who followed my entries on a daily basis. Blogging was in a totally different spectrum as writing case digests and it offered a secure place for a law student’s deeper reverie. [Read more...]

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