Some Random Thoughts
I started blogging way back in 2002. Don’t believe me? Check out the very first blog I created over here.
This should make me some kind of blogging pioneer, but around that time, I had also started writing my Babble On Column for the Sunstar Davao. So I decided, instead, to concentrate on the column instead of blogging. I did try and put my columns into an online archive in blogspot, but due to the difficult demands of work and writing for other publications in Beijing, as well as some internet censorship issues which often blocked my access to my blogs while I was living in China, I chose to just give them up. By the time I got back to the Philippines, law school beckoned and kept me insanely busy.
So why am I blogging now? Well, I lost a lot of my old columns when my old computer died on me. I think some are still over at Sunstar online, but I myself don’t have any soft copies anymore. Only a scant few old articles remain. Since I didn’t want that to happen again, I chose to restart my blogging and at the same time, backup my words and thoughts.
Another reason would be blogs like that of Penelope Trunk, Employee Evolution, The Modite and Blogie Robillo. All these writers are blog evangelists and in a sense, I guess I got evangelized. I like the idea of blogging. I like the idea of sharing my random thoughts and ideas to the world at large, and somehow making a difference by doing so. I have been trying to do that with the column for the last 5 years. I now plan on trying that with this blog too.
As time goes on, and as I find more of my old articles, I will slowly upload them here. So this blog will be updated fairly frequently with three things: old columns, new columns (every Friday) and my own random thoughts.
But what’s the goal of this blog? Well, I hope to make a difference, to spark some change or to offer advice or even to just share a different point of view with readers. To rephrase Wong Fu Productions (these guys make great video shorts btw) , “if at the end of the day, my babblings are able to make a difference in your life, no matter how slightly, whether it’s in the way you think, the way you look at something or in making you simply smile and laugh, then I’ve succeeded. “
I hope this blog and the articles it contains, can make a difference in your life in a positive manner, one way or the other.
Let’s Babble On!