Monday, July 31, 2006

Muqaddimah.... The Beginning...

Finally I decided to blog.... Why you may ask? Well, I must say that I was introduced to this world of blogging by my friends at my workplace.....

At first, I thought it was almost sacrilege that someone would publish their innermost thoughts and feelings on the Net. Its like writing a diary of your personal thought and let other people read it. I mean wouldn't you go bonkers if your sister or brother were to have read up your diary? (The last time I wrote in a "real diary" was about 14 years ago! Those were the days!).

I mean my diary was a private notebook which stored private thoughts of what happened to me on a daily basis. Its a place where I stored my feelings, frustrations, anger, dreams, ambitions and innermost thoughts. Its where I can "let go" and just write anything I want without other people knowing about it. And thats what I thought about blogging, initially.....

When I heard about it, I thought about these people surely wanted cheap publicity and attention.... but after looking at several blogs set up by my friends as well as on the Net, I now know that blogging is not just an online diary. Its more than that.... its a medium of expression... expressions of the human mind....

And so I said to myself, maybe I should start writing again like I did with my trusted diary last time... To start expressing myself again, my thoughts of what is going on around me and the world at large. To perhaps re-discover myself, what I seek from this temporal life. But in doing so, I don't think I can just "let go". In this medium, I suppose people may read my thoughts. So there has to be some self-restraint and mindfullness. Which is why I decided to name my blog as it is...

6 comments:

CheAyu said...

Bravo.. look forward to your mindfulthots...

Pak Uda said...

Yeah well dont expect too much tho.... still green in blogging thingie

Leilanie said...

allo.....
wah...... nice to see you blogging away (though it's just 2 entries) but 2 is a good head start :)

Welcome welcome Pak Uda to the blogsphere.

Pak Uda said...

Thanks Lanie...

Suhana said...

welcome to blogging, though right now you have more blogs than me..hehe

i love the way you word or express yourself, its filled with emotions that truely describes the whole scenario..

yes, bravo...!

Pak Uda said...

TQ, wifey woes!.... I suppose I got caught in the blogging trend here where everybody seems to have a blog of their own. Some use it as therapy, some to express themselves while some to record their frustrations at work. For me, I suppose I did it because I wanted to experiment what is it like having a blog of my own that is open for the world to see. Kinda weird for an introvert like me!