Blogging

If anyone missed my old blog (Joie de Vivre), you might be happy to know that I’ve imported much of the archives there into this blog.

You can read them by going through the monthly archives listed on the sidebar.

Sorry, but you aren’t seeing any new posts of interest because it’s been a dry spell so far, and I’ve got nothing to say.

Guess it’s a reprieve for some, and a groan of disappointment from others (hopefully there are some out there).

I’ve got some topics lined up, but somehow the ability to write has left me so I’m rather listless when it comes to facing the editor and actually putting words down.

So I guess this is as good a time as any to get to some meme’s that now have sore backsides sitting too long in the queue.

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Just a day more, and soon the new year will be upon us. What has 2007 been like for you? What has 2007 brought about in you? These are questions I’m sure most of us would ask ourselves either today or the eve of the new year. And I’m sure that there’d be many who will be making new year resolutions too.

This past year hasn’t been a great one for me in terms of success as the world defines it. There has been no breakthrough career-wise, much less financially. In fact, quite the opposite has happened — I’ve seen a fall in my take-home income and seem to be stagnant in terms of career advancement. There have also been some difficulties that had me tossing and turning in bed, worrying about this issue or that problem.

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I got tagged by Casey to reveal seven things about me that you do not already know, so here goes:

1. It used to be my ambition to be a radio disc jockey because I loved music so much. I actually had the Top 10 charts in the 80s clipped from magazines like Smash Hits and others.
2. I learned Japanese so that I could understand what the Japanese singers were warbling about when I was caught up in the Japanese music invasion in the mid-80s. Because of a lack of practice, I have lost most of my Japanese skills, but I can still write and read though understanding the words can take some time.
3. I prefer dogs to cats.
4. I spend more time in front of my PC than the television. About the only television programs I watch are House, CSI and CSI:NY, CNN, BBC News, and documentaries.
5. When I was a child, my parents got very exasperated with me taking apart every mechanical toy that my maternal grandmother gave me. I was trying to find out how they work, but could never find a way to put them back.
6. Though I no longer do any programming work, I am still a geek at heart and do like to fiddle around with code and templates once in a while as a hobby. I’ll die if you ask me to code full-time again.
7. I have a squint in my left eye due to an accident in college that I am quite conscious of, and therefore avoid taking pictures as much as possible.

There, now you know more about me. :-)

Here’s a tag coming your way, my dear brothers:

• Michael at Living Water for Those Who Thirst
• Daniel at Messy Pastor
• Dan King at Management by God

I’d love to tag everyone on my blogroll, but rules are rules, sigh!

Shabbat Shalom.

I have been with a write-for-money service since earlier this month and have just received my first assignment. According to the terms of the assignment, I stand to earn US$5 if my post were approved.

The money is sure helpful, but there’s just one problem.

I am unwilling to write it, because I don’t agree with the topic that was assigned — infant baptism.

To be more precise, the paid advertorial is for an online merchant selling invitation cards to celebrate the baptism of an infant.

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