A blog of my own

I’m a very quiet and reserved person in nature. I don’t normally go all out to tell someone my opinion, or relate my tales to those around me. I consider things that happen around me are personal to me,  it’s not anyone’s business to know, except for those close to me. So, it has not occurred to me that I will be blogging soon, since this is very contradicting to my nature. But hey, here I am. And I’ve been thinking of this for a few months already. I do have a blog dedicated for my baby, but that is written from her perspective. I didn’t get to express my own feelings there. Many of my blogger friends told me that it’s ok to change the style of writing in my baby’s blog, but I just don’t feel comfortable doing so. Especially since that blog was started by my husband for my baby girl.

And the urge of starting my own blog becomes stronger due to a few circumstances that happened recently:

1. Pei Sze, my breastfeeding buddy who is also an active blogger started to tag me – especially on subjects about me rather than my baby.

2. I’ve been reading about how people get paid when they blog about a certain subject (Pay Per Post).  Any extra income would be very tempting. However, since I hardly have time to blog (I’m still struggling to keep my baby’s blog up to date, but it is still way behind), I am not sure if I am ready for this. So, starting my own blog will at least lay the foundation first and when I’m ready for that, I could just start right away.

3. I enjoyed writing – it used to be short stories when I was in secondary school, and have even thought of signing up for a writing course to prepare me to be a writer later. But the thought was abandoned since I still need to focus on my studies then. And now, after all these years, my writing skills is slowly rusting away, especially when I hardly have time to read any reading materials (other than work related, which is very technical and boring). You wouldn’t believe me if I tell you that I didn’t even read the newspaper! Catching up with life is just too exhausting for me, especially when I have to juggle my time in between my super energetic toddler and an R&D career. But luckily my interest for writing has not faded yet.  

4.  As I mentioned, I didn’t get to express my thoughts and feelings when I blog as my baby in her blog. I intend to do that here, so that when she grows up later, she could read all these and know what Mommy has been thinking all these while, also the reason behind many of Mommy’s decicions on her upbringing.

So, finally here I am - cheers to the blogging world out there!