The History of Blog - through my eyes....

I am welcoming myself to the world of blogging.. Self - welcome to blogging. Blogging has been around for a while, so why now - just now - you ask - did I decide to introduce myself to blogging?

I suppose its because I just started to read a blogger - a pretty down to earth - not all about my life - blogger.. and I thought - y'know - I can DO this...

And being the cautious, premeditated, thoughtful, methodical person I am, the very next week I started reading this other blogger, I jumped... both feet in...

The History of Blog - through my own very very very nearsighted eyes - began when a friend of mine, we'll call him "Fisher" emailed me to read his blog on Xanga (sorry blogspot...).. so - I obliged..

I read pretty dutifully for a couple of weeks - being let into aspects of Fisher's life I wasn't really sure I wanted to be involved in -when it dawned on me. This is like a journal on the internet for people to read... Well - who wants to open themselves up to the entire world and share their thoughts (apparently me) but more importantly - who wants to read it? (apparently me- because I was pretty loyal to Fisher - even though - I have to admit, I skimmed mostly).

Once I decided I was on the verge of invading the very public private life of Fisher, I decided to not read his blog so dutifully - and left the world of blog-dom for a while. That was in 2000. It is now 2009, where the new fad is Twitter, and I feel - oddly enough - safe to start blogging, and reading other people's blogs. There are still the fair share of "this is my life, or my dog's life, or my kid's life, etc.. " out there.. But now - blogs have evolved, to open discussions, or places where the seeds of conversation are planted, and I like that idea....

Of course, I like it better when you inject it with a healthy dose of dyang...

I am dyang. A friend of mine in HS wrote that in my yearbook... You gotta get over the case of [insert friend's name] that you got... So - I added that phrase into my "key phrases I cannot live without" - and frankly - I cannot -seriously live without it now...

[On a side note, I recently facebooked my friend Fisher, and saw the above-mentioned HS friend in a pic, and I commented to him - and have hear nothing - so I am now officially over my case of [insert HS friend's name] that I allegedly had... ]

I used to think that bloggers were these special people who could write like Hemingway, with impeccable grammar, and wonderful prose... Thank freakin goodness it isn't like that anymore, otherwise, I would have no business blogging... I am neither good in grammar (I suck at it) nor spelling, (if you see a word followed by (sp?!) -its a desperate attempt for me to get my brain to work - and I'm yelling - through the computer - to my brain - to LEARN TO SPELL!!!

The only thing I got going for me is a couple of idears (you'll see the Brooklyn accent in me spill over to the spelling of my words. Just to avoid the confusion now -I pronounce China - Chiner -which I'll refer to frequently - cause I'm chinese...) and a good sense of humor (which I would never say about myself - but everyone I've ever met, or ever intend to meet, or ever will meet has said this about me...)

So - if you're looking to find out more about my personal life, people I refer to will be 'coded' if you will - and I will most likely inject things in my life that are happening, but I don't intend this to be a journal - necessarily.. Just random thoughts - of an Asian American chicka - with a nuclear (growing) family - with things to say - and now -thank you blogspot - a forum to do it in....