New Site, Same Blog
The last entry in my previous blogspot site dates back to almost 8 months ago. The plans then were to stop blogging for a while and to come up with my own personal online space. In the meantime, Twitter and micro-blogging was to fill the void. However, things dragged, the school term started, and I never carried out my plans.
The one thing I realised during this blog hiatus was that as much as how micro-blogging is the “in” thing now, it could never replace the old-style blogging. Many a times I found myself wanting to comment or just rant about something, and 140 characters were just insufficient. Furthermore, the influx of tweets just made it hard to track back to any entry, and things were just moving too fast. You see, blogging takes after the roots of the traditional days of “dear diary”, and micro-blogging is to say the least, different. As much as how the digital and social media age will take further leaps forward in the next decade, I still firmly believe that blogging is here to stay.
Well of course I had wanted to design my own theme and layout, but this is my first time using WordPress and am rather unfamiliar with the entire system. Therefore, so as to prevent any further extension of my blogging haitus, I relied on the ready-made themes and widgets and realised that they were rather handy. Eventually, I found this theme which suits the simplicity I was looking for, and is rather similar to a previous blog design that I created myself.
I have also redirected my old site to this new one, and have brought over all my older entries for valuable keep-sake. After all, one of my purpose for blogging was to archive these memories for future look-backs. While transfering the entries, I was amazed and intrigued by some of my own writings a couple of years back, but I guess these entries well plots how I’ve changed and grown over the years. One should not hide from his past, but learn and grow from the past lessons.
