blog of my life

it's almost three in the morning here in rooster crow-filled mapagkumbaba street in sikatuna village, good ol' kyusi. never mind the date -- i'm blogging on a monday morn here. damn US-based server! but i digress.

was checking out my friendster account while i was dowloading some game demos when i came upon a bulletin post by a long lost friend, announcing he has a live journal blog. so i checked it out. and i'm glad he's in blog-land. he's one guy i can rely on for honesty, i guess, in this poseur-magnet pastime called blogging. as in, comments ko lately sa isang blogger 'bakit ang lilinis niyong mag-blog?' para yatang masyadong conscious yung ibang bloggers sa mga words na ilalagay nila diyan (it's like they check 100x before posting a freaking entry!), lalo na yung mga newbies or those who are oh-so-quick to label themselves as 'writers' or aargh even 'artists' (insert horrific kuh@pagbabago 2001 flashback here -- ayan, kaya nasusunog ang repofmalate eh!>:). ewan. bibihira lang ang honest blogs around, and i count old pep-friend carlo's and my favorite vet kia's (yehei nabuhay ulit blog nya! mabuhei! thanks ulit sa tomb raider lunch box hihi) as honest. and nicely done. i also like the compound blog site of indi's and my other writer friends who are murakami fans. drew, a friend in geneva, also has one honest blog, but it's rather too honest for my, er, reading. but still, it's good.

me, i don't know how many times i tried blogging. started way back in '02, i think. i have one at the original blogger site, but i'm not sure if it's still there. besides, i didn't really bother updating that, but i liked the color of that the most (orangey autumny). then i made a second one there but that, too, i abandoned. then our global fil-wherever literary workshop group opened accounts in a site called diaryland, but that's just too cheesy for a blog, eh. i wanted a live journal when i saw kris aquino's lj years ago, but they were not free then. (free na now. should i?). this one here is the result of beta testing. the woman who runs this is a member of a writer's list i belong to, and she asked if anyone's interested to test it. so i signed up. i kept it, as you can see, since starting this last june '03. so that's cool. i made another one, however, at blog-city, but i haven't been able to update that much as i wanted to. love the color of that one better (orangey rin). i'm contemplating on changing this blog na because i hate that i can't change the colors, especially the black text on white appearance. alam mo namang light text on dark background typist ako. sa office na, nawi-weird-uhan sila sa interface ng computer ko, akala nga ni len i'm doing some coding daw (haha i wish! technoramus here).

well, speaking of coding, len also taught us dreamweaver stuff as being part of the office web team. now they're testing postnuke, drupal and other non-proprietary open-source thingies. i hope those npos stuff have blogs rin, para i can choose a new one with more options. kakatamad kasing mag-maintain ng sarili mong site kung according to dreamweaver ang option kong kukunin. saka the coding. ngyar. oh well...

we'll see.


earth to libay...

islandville is where i think i will more be, soon, but now it's just full of my fiction works and works-in-progress and rants/raves culturati reviews

dahondahon's digital domain is where we post literary works in progress for workshops with writer pals nadine sarreal, veronica montes, susan evangelista, marianne villanueva and the one who made this work cecilia manguerra brainard (hm, i think i forgot somebody but i can't remember, sorry po!)

necessary nonfictions
was an essay project of sorts, junked it na rin

leaflets is the mother of all chuvas, but not anymore...