The Public Life of a Private Person. Or Persons.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 21:09![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cookiecutterNo, i'm not referring to facebook. I'm referring to this very blog of ours, the brain child of Cookie & Cutter.
So, why did we decide to blog?
It all started when I decided to leave Norway and get a job in Singapore. And since 1) things like different time zones would kick in, 2) I'd need to update my friends around the world on what's going on in our lives, 3) I'm prone to ranting and 4) the hubby takes wonderful pictures (anyone noticed that he has the uncanny ability to make my cooking look nicer than it's supposed to?), we should just consolidate alllll these things (Time zone-different-friends can check it anytime, I can rant even if the hubby isn't there to listen, and he can share the picts with the world) into a blog, right?
Sometimes I wonder if there are other reasons that I blog. I had a blog a few years ago - and through that experience, i know that blogs require sacrificing time, brain cells, and privacy - to make it a considerable read. The commitment to keep blogging ain't exactly my forte either.
Perhaps it was because my best friend also owns a dreamwidth account, and I felt compelled to offer her some form of entertainment; seemed kind of unfair to read HER blog but provide no reading material in return. Perhaps it was because another of my very-good-with-technology friend who works at IBM kept nagging at me to join Multiply and suggested that I should join twitter; I blogged instead as a feeble attempt to compensate half-way.
Or perhaps it was the need to remember my train of thoughts; things that I thought about at a certain point in time, only to forget these thoughts the very next day.
I should state that in some ways, this would be a typical blog - rants, song lyrics, pictures, events, updates. But most of all, it is a documentation of life at Time X in Situation Y; akin to a diary but open to comments. I will try to keep this blog as un-frivolous as possible, and put more social commentary and observations and take a stab at controversial topics. Or maybe not. Maybe there will be days whereby the postings are just plain descriptions of daily things. But I personally think, most of all... this blog seeks to record the life events of a husband and wife who are geographically separated, and it is this blog - my words, his pictures (I know, hubby puts mostly pictures, but heck, a picture is worth a thousand words. If he puts 5 pictures, that's 5000 words already) - this is the blog that holds us together.
And if, for any reasons pertaining to the contents of this blog, I end up fired by my boss, publicly humiliated, get arrested, stabbed in the back, poked by a grumpy old lady with an umbrella, refused due service at a chicken rice or bah kut teh stall, disowned by my family, shunned by friends, or turned enemies into friends, I have only my best friend and IBM friend to blame for the social pressure to start the blog in the first place. :P
This post is dedicated to the both of you. You know who you are.
So, why did we decide to blog?
It all started when I decided to leave Norway and get a job in Singapore. And since 1) things like different time zones would kick in, 2) I'd need to update my friends around the world on what's going on in our lives, 3) I'm prone to ranting and 4) the hubby takes wonderful pictures (anyone noticed that he has the uncanny ability to make my cooking look nicer than it's supposed to?), we should just consolidate alllll these things (Time zone-different-friends can check it anytime, I can rant even if the hubby isn't there to listen, and he can share the picts with the world) into a blog, right?
Sometimes I wonder if there are other reasons that I blog. I had a blog a few years ago - and through that experience, i know that blogs require sacrificing time, brain cells, and privacy - to make it a considerable read. The commitment to keep blogging ain't exactly my forte either.
Perhaps it was because my best friend also owns a dreamwidth account, and I felt compelled to offer her some form of entertainment; seemed kind of unfair to read HER blog but provide no reading material in return. Perhaps it was because another of my very-good-with-technology friend who works at IBM kept nagging at me to join Multiply and suggested that I should join twitter; I blogged instead as a feeble attempt to compensate half-way.
Or perhaps it was the need to remember my train of thoughts; things that I thought about at a certain point in time, only to forget these thoughts the very next day.
I should state that in some ways, this would be a typical blog - rants, song lyrics, pictures, events, updates. But most of all, it is a documentation of life at Time X in Situation Y; akin to a diary but open to comments. I will try to keep this blog as un-frivolous as possible, and put more social commentary and observations and take a stab at controversial topics. Or maybe not. Maybe there will be days whereby the postings are just plain descriptions of daily things. But I personally think, most of all... this blog seeks to record the life events of a husband and wife who are geographically separated, and it is this blog - my words, his pictures (I know, hubby puts mostly pictures, but heck, a picture is worth a thousand words. If he puts 5 pictures, that's 5000 words already) - this is the blog that holds us together.
And if, for any reasons pertaining to the contents of this blog, I end up fired by my boss, publicly humiliated, get arrested, stabbed in the back, poked by a grumpy old lady with an umbrella, refused due service at a chicken rice or bah kut teh stall, disowned by my family, shunned by friends, or turned enemies into friends, I have only my best friend and IBM friend to blame for the social pressure to start the blog in the first place. :P
This post is dedicated to the both of you. You know who you are.
