Yes, Me Likey
Posted on October 23rd, 2007. Filed under: Friends & Family, Online & Tech.I’ve been blogging for quite a while now, 2002 if I’m not mistaken. Tomorrow actually marks my 3rd year in real blogging time back when I started at juiceee in 2004 but since I’m going to Singapore tomorrow, I’ll blog about it today.
Blogging has been a great journey for me. While some most of my friends don’t get it (I’m probably the only one within my group of friends who blogs like this), it’s taken me to places I never thought I would. It made me gain knowledge of the unknown, more up-to-date and definitely, more online-aware. My bff always asks me how I keep up with everything, from blogging, to maintaining a shitload of online accounts, schoolwork, friends, hanging out, etc etc. I just say it just does, I guess blogging has definitely become a part of my life I hardly even notice the impact it has on me already. My friends don’t see blogging like I do. Which is definitely fine with me, since if they don’t care then they don’t get to read any of my posts and I can’t rant about how I’m pissed at them or any of that stuff (HA-HA). They do ask for my blog add though, I just don’t tell them. I only have a few friends who know about this, including my bff.
I never would EVEN thought I’d gain offline friends through blogging alone. It made me join amazing MBs (*ahem* Snark *ahem*), talk with people online, and even get close with them, just like how I am with my RL friends. Things even change, it’s the most permanent thing, and it definitely applies to the blogosphere. The blogs I loved reading before might not even have the slightest bit of interest left anymore, or the blogs I thought I hated are actually part of my Google Reader right now.
Once a blogger will always be a blogger in my opinion. You just can’t help it, you have to fart your brain off. Once the brain starts to fart through the keyboard, it won’t stop. It just came to me that not everyone could be interested in this kind of thing. Lucky for me, I am. And it has definitely shaped me up. Hihi. And lucky for you, I’m sticking around. 
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Congrats for your 3rd blogging anniversary. Well in advance though. Hey I would love to meet you around December since I think you said you are coming in Cebu right? Coz Odd is also coming here and will be spending xmas and new year here.
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Whoa! Three years of blogging ain’t some kind of joke anymore! So, um, yeah, bring on those party streamers, glittery papers and the annoying sound of party horns, yo! Mazel tov and more power and more years to come and *insert more encouraging cliche here wtflol*. ;-p
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:08 pm
yaay! *partyyy*
happy 3rd bloggyversary JUICE! three years is definitely a long time.
and, i so agree. once a blogger, always a blogger. ^^
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Whoa, three years of active blogging huh. Cheers to ya.
My blogger also turned three last week, I think. NOt really sure. Haha!
October 23rd, 2007 at 6:56 pm
So that’s a total of three years. I also started blogging back in 2004, five months before you started.
I tried to get my high school friends hooked into blogging but I failed. Most of them know my blog URL. Actually, as far as I can remember, it’s one of my hs friends who suggested asteeg.net. As for my college friends, only a few of them — that you can count them with your fingers — knows my blog.
Like you, I have learned so much things, most can be applied in real life, thanks to the blogs that I have read.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:45 pm
I know what you mean about ‘once a blogger’. Now it’s just part of my routine: I get up in the morning, and I blog. It’s nice to have a way to express yourself that’s away from prying eyes of friends!
My friends believe that bloggers are people who don’t have lives or are just nerds. Apparently they must take ages to write.
Happy Blogging Anniversary!
October 24th, 2007 at 12:49 am
Hey! I started blogging in 2002, too! Haha, random.
Anyways, I agree with your thoughts on blogging. On how it’s just become a part of your life. On how it’s taken you to new places and taught you new things. Although right now I’m busy with having a life, lol, all those hold true for me as well. I’ve learned and met and all these other things a lot because of blogging. It’s great.
And meeting and getting close to people online?! That’s one of the major reasons I have for not entirely leaving the blogging world behind. I may disappear for months at a time, but I still keep coming back. I hate it when I lose touch with friends I’ve made. And like you said, once a blogger, always a blogger. ;D
October 24th, 2007 at 1:09 am
Aaaah, blogging. I have a draft saved for my 10 years of being online entry, but it’s boring as heck, so I have yet to make it funny before I publish it.
I didn’t know you post at Snark! I stopped posting there some months ago, lol.
October 24th, 2007 at 2:40 am
Isn’t it cool to realize how long you’ev been blogging? Just recently, I jotted down on a paper ALL the blog accounts (that I can remember) since I started blogging and started to read each of them. I am not even half way done yet. =] I remember JUICEEE, haha, been following you for ages! Yikes. LOL. But yeah, once a blogger, always a blogger… it’s really addicting. Great for the mind.
My sis has been trying to get into blogging, after trying 3 times already, she quit. Blogs are not for everyone I guess?
October 24th, 2007 at 4:32 am
Wow, three years is a long time! I’ve been a blogger for less than 2 months! I hope I won’t be stopping any time soon
I wouldn’t want any RL friends involved in blogging at all. I’d rather my blog stay private so I don’t have to worry about what I post.
It’s amazing, I never thought I would make connections with people online, either. I agree, Snark is amazing!
October 24th, 2007 at 5:51 am
Ditto.
You can just imagine how overwhelming it is to meet new friends and booze buddies. Even the press events that I got invited to just because of my blog aren’t that bad also.
I only let out in the open around 2004. That’s when I met my first blog buddies after years of keeping a private online journal.
October 24th, 2007 at 7:32 am
Look at you, Jus! Traveling to Singapore and everywhere every month or so! Don’t make me say it again.. Okay fine, I’m going to say it again, you are quite ballin’!
Yeaaah I know what you mean. I’m one of the few people in my group of friends who keep a blog and they say I’m a huge dork but they don’t know what they’re missing.
Have fun in Singapore! Lucky bum!
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Reply: Singapore is getting soooo tiring :| but fun I guess since a lot of my batchmates are already there
October 24th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Actually, someone introduced me to your old blog hosted at Blogger. I’m not a fully-pledged blogger at that time, though. Just a lurker. Lol. Remember MarcoBoi?
Hmmm. Anyway… Well, I just started blogging full-time last year but I already experienced its effects. I have gained a lot of online friends, my wisdom and knowledge expanded even further and I get to know some point of views from different people.
Blogging surely became something that’s in our system. It is a gift and a curse at the same time. It’s just that we only think that it’s just a gift. Lololol.
Keep blogging, my friend. Keep on farting your brain out! Haha.
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Reply: Hey, MarcoBoi rings a bell!! Please refresh my mind!
October 24th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Wow, three years? Congratulations! Haha, you better stick around :P
I’ve met quite a few friends over at LJ-land. I even exchange letters with one of them, it’s pretty cool!
Hmm… all my friends here in Canada-land are not as into the whole internet and its greatness like me, so I doubt they’d care about my blog :P That’s perfectly fine, too.
Have fun in Singapore!
October 24th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
why-the-name-yummeh ?lol
nice-bl0g
October 24th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
dont let your friends read your blog as much as possible, even if you’re itching to. you’d be a bit self-conscious if you’re aware that someone you know reads you.
3 years. you ought to publish a book. then you’ll know who your real friends are. cheers.
October 24th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Wow. that’s a long time.
My first encounter with blogging was when I was 11. I posted film reviews and shit back then. I think the site is still up.
BUT I AM TELLING YOU. DO NOT DARE TO GOOGLE MY NAME. I hate that website. I’m so jologs, and basta! I FUCKING HATE IT!
October 25th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Well, then. A reply to your question…
I don’t know if I can refresh your mind completely about MarcoBoi since I can’t find his first blog anymore - the one with the layout you made for him. I found the last one he made, though. It’s right here.
The last time I heard from him is that he’s blogging on his Multiply site now. He didn’t gave me the URL of it though.
OK, off-topic comment. Pardon me for that.