I may not be the only one in this world addicted to blogging. To date, I'm blogging at more than 3 places with different target viewers. Frequency of update ranges from twice weekly to once a month. Well, come to think of it, I don't fall in the hopelessly-addicted-to-blogging category yet. Maybe this is still quite normal and healthy. I can still live without blogging for a few days.

So, the blogs I have belong to different categories:

 

1. My blogspot: This is for communication with my lady friends where I'd rant on gossips, the challenges I face as a mother, wife and boredom at the workplace.

 

2. My ITToolbox: Here I share my experiences in the IT industry. Most of my entries are complaints and suggestions on the local IT scene. This community really help me in career development as some of my connections here are famous IT experts from around the globe.

 

3. My friendster: Just started this about three weeks ago. My main objective here is to document my journey to becoming an author. I plan to have all the relevant links and share some of my attempted writing pieces in this blog.

 

4. My pourtavie@blogspot: This has somehow becoming more like another ivillage type of journal. You can find 7 lovely ladies (including yours truly :)) sharing tips and info on women related stuffs like fashion, cooking, diet, internal decoration etc. A good stop for people who needs fresh ideas for the home, marriage and raising kids.

 

5. This myspace: Well, this site is mostly for photo sharing. I don't blog much here.

 

Some of my friends complained that most of the times they couldn't find the idea on what to write in their blogs. Not everybody is keen on the idea of documenting things that they do everyday in the blogs that will be read by the whole world. Some are only blogging on current issues and perhaps some only write about their feelings. As for me, since I blog in 5 different categories, whatever that crossed my mind and fit in any of the categories, can be used as a blog entry material. It's just a matter of viewing people, things, animals and even nature that surrounds you more carefully, then a whole new paragraph can be started and completed in no time.

 

Talking about author's block, that could also happen to bloggers. It's a complicated situation where you're suddenly unable to even complete a sentence you started. Then some story plots could come to mind, but you can't figure out how they could be expanded or elaborated. There will also be times when you managed to complete maybe a chapter, but upon re-reading, you couldn't see any point why that chapter should be published, ever. The worst case would be when an author thought that he couldn't tell any more stories and the mind is just stuck, as if malfunctioning.

 

The way I see it, blogging can be a training ground for budding authors. Keep an open mind, and take a step at a time. Sooner or later, you can take the full stride. Perhaps, I can say that blogging can become one of the healthiest addiction one could have.

 

I have been regularly visiting a blog that features recommended authors and books. The

blog owner happens to be one of the well known book reviewers in Malaysia. Out of

curiosity (and of course, part of my retail therapy), last month I bought 3 books, one each

by these authors: Marian Keys, Sophie Kinsella and Sue Townsend. I managed to finish

them all in 3 weeks.

All in all the three books can be categorized as Chicklits. They're for light entertaining,

breezy and made you feel like 18 again (most of the times).

Then, after completing them all, I felt kind of empty. So I bought 2 books written

by Sarah Waters as she had been nominated and won a few awards and prizes in

the recent years. I've finished one of the books, entitled Tipping The Velvet. It may

seem rather out of the ordinary for me to be reading a lesbian romance book. However

Sarah Waters is such a fine author, she wrote beautifully. Even with just simple

language her descriptions were accurate and all the emotional expressions really

touched my heart. Although I have no experience being a lesbian, the book really

taught me how it would feel to love another woman.

Now I'm moving on to her second book, entitled Affinity. Still at the early chapters, I

did not read any of the reviews in Amazon, so I don't know what are the surprises

waiting for me.

I suddenly felt proud for this, me reading 5 books in less than 2 months. It is an

achievement. There were times when I didn't buy or read any book for a few years.

By the way, those chicklit books, they're not about mushy gushy romance as light

entertainment only, I learned a lot on being an author and getting your book

published from Marian Keys' The Other Side Of The Story. As for the rest, there were

a lot of lessons learned too.

It's time to show off again, people...

I'll be on leave next Friday, to watch Grease, The Musical at KL Convention Center with Mr. Hubby.

It's been almost 5 years since we last watched a stage/play together. I know it's going to be awesome, and

hopefully Mr. Hubby won't fall asleep during the show. He told me he only watch football, not theatre while I love theatre, not football. We are so the opposite, I wonder how we manage to stay under the same roof for almost 6 years now.

Nothing much to write... just to show off the quality pics taken using my new 6280.