Want to know me better? Read my blog!

Actually I really didn't know what I was doing when I started my first blog more than a year ago. I mean, it sounded so juvenile... hehehe no offence ya? But as the blogging went on... and after I tried blogging in chinese, boy, I can tell you that this is really quite interesting... and I'm sure no one would disagree on that!

Blogs are personal stuff... like someone said, it's really a virtual home, some "intangible" abode that people go back to, after a crappy day, some nice warm "living room" that you relax in, except that it doesn't exist anywhere other than the world of binaries and TCP/IP...

It's quite funny reading other people's blogs. What they have to say, what they experience, or simply their thoughts. The privacy is lost. For some reasons... like a friend puts it... it's like inviting uninvited visitors to your house and displaying all that you are or are not in front of them... strangers... yet... the interesting part is that we often get so engrossed, that we begin to feel that we actually know this other person being the monitor who's blogging down all those thoughts and feelings... and sometimes, we become friends... in the virtual world. Never met in the entire life... but we know all about the other party...

Of course, some blogs reveal soooo much about the author to the point of being crass. I mean, I would never want to publish my more intimate details or whatever, and expose myself like an exhibitionist. I have nothing against them, just that I myself wouldn't want to air my "dirty linen" out in the vast virtual field...

Well, perhaps one of these days, my blog entries might become a sort of autobiography... it'll be there... and perhaps my children and grandchildren and great grandchildren will be able to know their mum, grandma, great grandma better... through the existence of this blog... assuming blogger remains in business for that long... *grin*