Blogging, again

For years, I’ve been trying to blog as much as I could. I know I wasn’t able to update my “online diary” for quite some time now, but believe me, I never wanted anything else but share what I feel to my readers (if there’s any).

The past months were spent going craycray over Twitter, maintaining a cyber-status of being known – as if it is my own dose of self-esteem booster. To me, the more RTs, tweets, followers I have, the popular I get. In this very controversial social network, I showed the who I really am and had the chance to let everything out without worrying of how others would react to it. From a food tripper to a Secretary ni Kuya (PBB) to spoilers of Hollywood divorces to a movie commentator; even to a bitch who once started an online war – Twitter has showed me how vast the range of my emotions are. 

If there’s one thing tweeting hasn’t made me, it is to be intellectual. In the hours I spent in front of the computer or holding my phone, responding to mentions, updating everyone with what I do, I threw away the chance of having good grades. Most often, I’d take more time in this pleasurable yet somewhat ruinous activity than that of my studies. Plus, compressing my thoughts into 140 characters, trying to make shortcuts for every word possible isn’t of any help in expanding my vocabulary and comprehension.

And so I made a pact. That is to tweet less and blog more. Scratch that. Maybe just to blog more. I’ve no intentions of sounding brainy; rather, I want to be more interesting than what 140 letters can offer. Hence the weeks spent reading books, online articles, even blogs – I wanted to come back with a bang. Anyway, here’s to a year full of learnings and memories – be good or bad – to share.

Glad to be back, Blogspot!

P.S. I’ve nothing against Twitter. It is my haven, it is my punching bag which I can express my rage at, my mini diary of the kilig moments I spent with crushes, the powerhouse of my memories. I still love Twitter; always have, always will… but I just really want to blog again.