The I’m still alive post
Blogging used to be so easy for me in the past and yet it feels much different now when I feel that every blog post should reflect who I am or has some sort of significant meaning behind it. Funny it is, but it seems that I spend more time thinking of what to blog than working on a single blog post. Guess it isn’t easy, finding a direction for where this blog should be heading and you can see it’s why I’m having huge time gaps in between each post for a month or so and they do not even have that substance that I want to see in my writing, besides occasionally being that random girl I am.
I do hope that I can soon be able to know what I want to actually focus in my blog. Then I ask myself, what if I never do? I can’t just let this blog die can I?
So here’s a post to say that Cheryl is still alive and kicking. 2 weeks to leaving Kuching, this beautiful city that holds much meaning and memories to me. I’ve been labeled as being a patriotic Malaysian due to my silly shot in my about page HERE (Not to mention being laughed at by certain friends). I do love my home country in many many ways, minus all those bogus issues that seem to pop up in the news once in a while that forces me to hide in a small, dark corner. However, I do still feel contented and grateful at the end of the day when I appreciate those little and sometimes seem to be less significant things that actually makes this place remarkable.
Silly Kevin, you’re not normal… you’re special.
I suppose I’ve been and will be spending weeks roaming little ol’ Kuching for places to hang out and not to mention hunt for lots of scrumptious, mouthwatering and not to mention (I just used not to mention twice in a sentence, bleh) rare food that I cannot find when I’m in Singapore to satisfy my taste buds. At this pace where we’re going, I do hope we can complete our food list in time.
Found this randomly while clearing my bedroom the other day. I’m fine too! Do miss you Qi Wen, lol.
I edited the above with a single click on photoshop (the “cross-processing effect” in curves). It looks pretty and awesome because it’s something I never knew until my little sister, Joan discovered it. I do feel like a kid in a candy store now, lol.
I think my brain seems to function better late at night because, I finally blogged! I’m alive, happy and going to bed now. c:
I used to crack my head to think what to update, what to write about in my blog. After all, what really matter is your own feelings, right? Contents is the second. =] Cheers!
Thanks for the advice. Maybe I’m more of a person who doesn’t want to express too much of feeling sometimes, not get too personal in public I suppose. All subjective to bloggers I guess lol.
and sometimes the idea just come out out of nowhere. normally i won’t force it, i’ll just go with the flow
anyway nice photos!!
lol, I do wish I’m like those who could just have so much ideas that can flow anytime they want.
I really like your photos and yes, better appreciate what you have before you leave them all behind and start to miss them. I’ve furthered my studies so I know how it feels being far away from home. Good luck to you though!
Thank you =) I’m sure i’ll miss my hometown very much.
Really Awesome pictures!
Thank you Lindy
I don’t think bloggers think enough these days before they blog. my problem is that I often have so much to say, but so little time to put them all in words. it’s so frustrating. It takes me several days to formulate a good post in my head and I spend 2-3 hours writing it out – before burning about 2-3 hours improving it.
Writing a good blog post ain’t easy I suppose. Takes much patience, especially ones with a lot of photographs lol.
I will visit your blog daily if i miss you =( [ clicking the ads lar]
=.= Okay…please miss me. lol!
LOL *likes comment*
lol =.=
hey that carpenter street shot of mel and kelvin is cool!!!
keep the blog alive!
lol, thanks and I’ll try haha. =)
Btw is that Seth in the first photo? Wow
Aww, I missed you too.
And i’ll miss you.
Stress makes a Seth thin. =s
lol okay haha. *hugs*
From your “The I’m still alive post” regarding this sentence “…it seems that I spend more time thinking of what to blog than working on a single blog post” – I would call this as having rising expectation of yourself (to a rather somewhat borderline unreasonable) and sudden awakening or self-awareness in ‘public’ or webspace. It always happens in a lot of situation in life.
When you go to further your studies, it will be the same all over again. At first you’ll put in a lot of passion to do your assignments, and probably get commendable grades out of it. (Hardwork usually pay off. Passion in work pays double) Then your ‘reputation’ sort of soar a little. And you have rising expectation of yourself and self-awareness that you have the reputation of someone who would produce good work. Then you’ll spend more time working on a single thing. It just accumulates until it reaches borderline unreasonable, where “time required to meet expectation” exceed “time alloted”. This is the hallmark or a perfectionist. I know one when I see one because I think I am one. (Yeah, I used three “one” in a sentence)
Most people would say, “try to inhibit your perfectionism traits and let the work output flow”, but I think if you change your current mode, you’ll lose the quality. Nonetheless, it is good to ‘reboot’ expectation once in a while. (Meaning that once you reach a high standards and cannot improve upon any further, you can on ‘purpose’ create a ‘lackluster’ work to reboot all expectation. Hmm… somehow it doesn’t make sense when I type it out)
Noooooo….. My paragraphing for the previous comment did not work out. Now my three paragraphs looks like a jumble of mess. Anyway, I have not mentioned this but kudos to you for typing sentences in full in your blog. Much easier on the eyes as compared to It’s becoming a rarity to see people typing properly in the age of MSN messenger. So don’t let the blog die.
Hi Jo-Han, well, people nowadays don’t type long comments anymore lol! Thank you for taking the time to write here. =) I’m sorry my coding sucks with a messed up comment section here, making your nicely written comments look like a jumble of mess
Anyway, you think I’m a perfectionist? lol because I don’t think I am at all :s But I do have that expectation in myself I suppose, to write better as I go. I think I do get what you mean, makes sense haha. It’s all a balance one has to achieve I suppose? (Which I haven’t :c) Though I have to say it just isn’t about the quality I want the blog to have, it’s also about the direction it’s going which I hope I’ll figure out soon enough. =)
The above were 2 paragraphs if you didn’t know, I agree, very messy LOL…