Holidays At Home. And a Re-focus of My Blog

Happy New Year, everyone and thanks for all the wishes. May the auspicious year of the Golden Boar be good to everyone. Iâ€™m actually blogging this from my hometown in Johor during the holiday. I havenâ€™t been home for a long, long time due to many complicated reasons, but at the moment, its feels quite good to be home, for the moment.

Last month I just celebrated my second blog anniversary (or as they call it blogniversary in Net-speak), it was quite a muted event, considering how my recent lifestyle and career has impacted my blogging.

Well, over the past few weeks, I have had quite some time to think about my blog, or lack of time for it thereof. But I still love to blog, and have decided to still carry on this blog, for the time being.

What I plan to do is do a re-focus of the blog. I concede that in recent months, the blog has suffered a severe lack of focus, I think that is obvious to any regular readers who are familiar with the early days. Whether intentionally or not, this blog has become somewhat of an alter-ego of mine, entirely by me but not really entirely true of me. As far as alter-egos go, they can say things I may not necessarily say out loud, and vice versa.

Perhaps that comes as somewhat pretentious, for those who know me personally, or just unrealistic at the very least, but at least it won’t be anymore. I would say the gap between simontalks and simon the actual person would closing up quite a bit, although i won’t say it’ll be exactly me per se. But at least it’ll be more of myself.

Anyways, posts will still come at their usual rate â€“ at about 3 times a week, thatâ€™s as frequent as I can afford.

And so, a re-focus is launched. This blog, will be about me, my life, my outlook in life, and pretty much the stuff I do in life. For starters, Iâ€™m gonna update the â€˜About Meâ€™ section (tab above) when i come home from the festive holidays (and back on broadband), since Iâ€™ve never really divulge much about myself. Very typical of Malaysian Chinese, isn’t it? Always never really telling much about yourself, but somehow, well.

[tags]blog, bloggging, Chinese New Year, Malaysia[/tags]

10 Comments

Zer0

February 19, 2007 at 8:49 pm Reply

Ooo, are you going to put ur picture there?.

lilian

February 19, 2007 at 9:10 pm Reply

LOL, you got me utterly confused with it’s me but not me but it’s me but not entirely me but per se me….

Pat

February 21, 2007 at 8:10 am Reply

Not entirely sure what you’re on about, but for me what you say on the blog is more the “actual” you than the guy I meet up during weekends 🙂

One of the most wonderful things about blogging, I feel, is the ability for all of us to express a lot of our true feelings and thoughts that we would not have otherwise expressed in real life.

For example, most church friends that I introduce your blog to can’t believe how wickedly funny you are on the blog. They only see the quiet, serious Simon in church! LOL

So, I wouldn’t say your Simontalks alter-ego is not entirely you (if that’s what you were trying to say), but rather another aspect of yourself that is not obvious in real life.

Anyway, I look forward to what you plan to come up with this year 🙂