Humble Beginnings

The last time I mentioned how long I haven't been blogging resulted in me not blogging for a period of about 4 months so I guess I shall not mention the lapse in this entry. Perhaps I've been too busy (lazy rather) to blog every single detail of my 'interesting' life since that February entry. Well, most of my weekends have been all about shooting pool, watching and playing soccer and managing my great Man Utd team in Football Manager 2005. Yes, that's what my life has been revolving about. I did not take this four months to search for a partner, to the great disappointment of all my faithful readers, which I suspect the numbers has dipped after looking at the same February entry for 4 months. That should take the original number of 8 to about 3. Anyway, that shouldn't be a surprising statistic since blogs are such a common sight these days, with some of them even making the news.

This has been one hell of a stumbling block in my attempt to blog after a period of inactivity. Blogs everywhere are displaying more than just words alone. You get pictures, animations and even nude pictures as I found out recently. That's asking too much of my poor ol' blog and furthermore, I have to admit that I lack plenty of knowledge in these things. One of my faithful reader then pointed out that what my blog lacks in colours and sounds, it makes up with its content and excellent english. If only he was among those people at SPH recruiting talent, I might have been chosen for that Journalism Scholarship. (The rejection came in the form of a letter in March, another reason why I had lost my motivation in blogging.) Well, I guess in life, you just have to take things as they come.

With that hefty piece of summary of the last four months, I'm now a slightly different person and so has my blog. Now humble for its simplicity and its tiny readership of less than five people, namely Jolin, Jerome, sometimes Nicholas, Fabius rarely and an occasional visit of an unknown Tom, Dick or Harry who lost his way navigating through the Internet. Also with the encouragement of another avid reader Jolin, I decided to come out of the shadows in order no to disappoint them and of course, ultimately myself, for this is my passion and fruit of my labour.

Amidst the last four months, I had also found my other passion, driving. Having only started in early May, I didn't know what I was missing out on only when I began jamming the accelerator of the learner car in the school's circuit. It could be natural talent or interest or perhaps a mixture of both, the 33 lessons were a breeze for me and I finished them within 5 weeks. Even some instructors were amazed when they saw my progress book. Now, I can safely say that owning a car will be a priority of mine in the near future, way above getting a wife. In fact, my future car will be my first wife, not second as most people phrase it. The only thing to do now is to thoroughly convince the tester of my driving skills on 25 July and after that, work towards my goal of owning a Mitsubishi Evolution IX! Maybe till then after I passed, I may have to make do with my dad's trusty Suzuki Liana. Well, of course also not forgetting to work towards continuing this precious humble blog of mine...