Cheerio!

It's kinda out of the blue, but I thought it would be a splendid idea to resume blogging, an activity that for some reason, have seemingly escaped me the last three years. Much has changed since then, and much has remained the same. Ever since the last entry, I have been in my job for coming to 3 years now. Time has passed, perhaps a little more quickly than I have hoped. Although filled with its share of anguish and disinterest at times, the job has been engaging so far, and provide a much needed source of funds to support my other engagements.=).

Anyway, it was not an easy task resuming blogging. For starters, my previous blog was hosted on Friendster. As I already have another blog here, I thought it would be easier for me to consolidate this foundation. First off, let me begin by saying I searched high and low as to how to migrate old posts from Wordpress into Blogger. The first search result I found involved some archaic steps on editing .bat files to run a java program. For some reason, this method did not work well with me, seeing it wont import dates of past comments. Finally I stumbled onto this. What simplicity. All I had to do was to export my blog from Friendster and convert it there. Likewise, the subsequent importing into Blogger was a simple affair. 

However, I did realised that the formatting is a little off. Paragraph spacings are a bit out but I guess thats something I can live with. In any case, I look back at my past entries with amusement. It is easy to remember what I must have felt at those times when you have a corresponding entry in soft copy to refer to. I find myself chuckling and shaking my head as I go through those past months in fast forward. Mine was not a glamorous or exciting existence, but still, it was an enjoyable reread.

That was actually what piqued my interest in restarting my blog. I have just come off a one week long break, and although refreshing, there were times when I felt that I should write certain things down. I was deliberating between getting back to journals or the blog. In the end, convenience won. I still have my old journals, and from time to time, I like to look through them and reminiscence about the past, although it gets hard when I come across faded ink and falling out pages. I guess thats not a problem when you are clicking instead of flipping.

In any case, it has been a while, and at the time of writing, we are coming to the end of 2009. It has been an eventful year and things can only get better as the days go by. I hope I will be able to document events as much as I can, though that is of course, subject to daily inconveniences such as work and sleep. I will be continually sprucing up the page layout as well, so expect to see minute changes every now and then. I will not be publicizing this blog much, so if you are reading this, you got here by yourself.=).