On 13 Aug 1980, a chap by the name of Mok Wei Loon Alvin was borned...
On 15 Aug 2006, a blog by the name of A.M.O.K was borned...
I have to admit that in the past, I was totally skeptical about having a blog... I mean what's the big deal about your personal stuff that you have to post it on the web and let everybody know? To me then, bloggers are just show-offs, attention-seekers, attention-grabbers etc etc.. In a nutshell, I have nothing but skeptism for blogs and those who would spend hours in front of the computer screen to see people talk about their personal stuff...
It all changed when I started reading a blog that Daphne (my lovely baby and my other member in this blog) told me to go to... I was amazed that as I was reading the blog, I was getting more and more interested in the personal stuff of that blogger... It made me feel so
38 (for the benefit of any non-Chinese readers stumbling upon my blog, "
38" simply means busybody, nosey parker)... The blog captivated me! Ok.. Maybe I exaggerated but I was certainly interested. I started to read up a few more blogs and to my surprise, my previous skeptism of blogs was crumbling down to earth within me... I started thinking to myself... "It's quite interesting after all..."
This happened almost half a year ago and throughout this six months, I had the urge to create my own blog... A few things stopped me though... 1) I do not know what stuff that I can write in my blog. I mean its not as if my life is so exciting that people would actually take the time to read my posts. 2) I'm a computer nerd and I certainly do not have the expertise to make my blog look "aesthetically-correct" 3) I do not have the time as I'm juggling both my work and studies so you can imagine how tired I am every night. (Yeah, right.)
So people might ask, "Aren't you creating one right now, duh?" Ok ok... Let me explain. Let's just say I managed to overcome the three obstacles that I had mentioned earlier. First, I still do not know what stuff should I write but why should I really care whether people would browse through my blog? Second, there is such a function called "Help" that is absolutely helpful to people like me who knows nuts about IT stuff. Lastly, a freak accident while playing soccer left me with a hairline crack at the base of my 1st metatarsal (big toe area) and I'm on medical leave for the week thus I decided to create a simple blog for me as well as Daphne to write our stuff in it.
I think I'm too excited that I wrote too much for my liking but for people that have a chance to browse my blog, I hope my blog will churn out meaningful afterthoughts and even if it doesn't, a feeling of "good time spent on reading A.M.O.K" rather than "its a waste of time to read A.M.O.K" is what I hope to at least achieve.
Cheers.
