Happy 2 years?

Update: I have half a day off today, and I am flying back home tonight? Life is looking good. :D


Ok, this is totally random, but I just found out that ... I have been blogging for 2 years?

Just take a look at my first ever post. -________-

I am really not the type to strike a timeline and wish my blog a happy birthday every now and then. But wow, it's amazing how time has passed! It took me a good whole 3 years to start a blog, and though blogging for 2 years is nothing compared to a lot of my friends who have had blogs since high school/college, it certainly comes as quite a surprise to me that we (my blog and I wtf) have came so far. :P

To share a little tidbit with you, I actually had another blog EONS ago. When Teeny started hers, I suppose? And I still remember, the blog layout was this giant blue flower in the middle, and the text are all displayed on the it. There was a little scroll bar on the flower, and you get to scroll your mouse, and see words so swish swish swish on the giant petals. It was one of those Blogskin templates, and I thought it was so cool. And the blog's url, oh the blog's url. It was called www.life-is-a-potpourri.blogspot.com. -___- I guess if I have stuck with that blog, I would never have anybody read my blog, 'cause god knows that it is a hassle to type such a long phrase.Not to mention that sometimes even I have trouble spelling potpourri, hahaha. I had but ONE entry on the blog, which read something like "Voila, my blog is born!!"

I really need to come up with better captions. -______-

I never got to add any more entries into that blog of mine, I rather write in my diary. And soon, the blog became long forgotten and stashed away. In fact, over the years, I did try to key in the url, but the blog is no longer available.

And then, I don't know when it begun, but some time before I left for Melbourne for my studies, I started toying with the idea of starting a blog again. By then, I was an avid reader of a lot of blogs, and hello? Putting up my pictures and talking about me me me? That was a concept that I could totally click with. :P Although I made no action to actually start a blog then, I noticed that in my everyday life, I was starting to take more pictures, interesting pictures, and when I see/experience things, I run lines over in my head, seeing how they would sound, how I would relay them in text form. Without really realizing it, I was blogging-- in my head. Even during my Japan trip (slightly less than 2 months before I left for aussieland), I was already posing weirdly and snapping pictures of noteworthy things, things I want to share with people. :) But still, there was no move to click "start a blog".

Then I went to Melbourne.

I was lonely, I cried during my first few weeks. I needed friends, but I didn't know where to find them. I wanted my family and my boyfriend, but they weren't there with me.
And it was during one of those lonesome nights that, as the saying goes, "Voila, my blog is born!!" :)

The plan was flawless, blogging was something to fill up the time, and to take up my mind. I used to like doing creative writing in school, so this was an avenue as well for me to churn out my nonsense. And the main point was to share my life with the people back home-- my sisters, the boyfriends, my friends who were (and still are) spread all over the world. I could update them on my life, and it pleases me, to have the boyfriend and my sisters see my life through my eyes. And as I blogged about things I do, things I see, people I love in Melbourne, I relieve those happy Melbourne moments, and lo and behold, I fell in love with with my Melbourne life. :) When I first started blogging, I had a total of about 40 hits a day-- composed of Smalls, Kit Mey, Victoria, Jac, my sisters, the boyfriend, a handful of my friends back home (or elsewhere) and myself. -_- Every comment made my day (until I saw that they were spam comments wtf). Today, there are more people who read my blog, and still, every comment makes my day. :))) Sometimes, I get the sweetest comments...

"Your blog is my happy fix"

"... reading your blog makes me so happy...."

".... your blog has become a therapy for me... especially during stressed days..."

"I love your pictures!!! They make me smile!"

"please don't ever ever change anything about your blog!"

"... you are so funny... i love the way you write..."


Haha, I know I am really weird (and narcissistic wtf), but I collected these comments a really long time ago for a little project I was doing. :P And yea, basically I get very happy when people tell me that they are, err, happy when they read my blog! :D

...and sometimes, the sweetest emails. :)))


One of the emails from a reader that made me smile till now:

you know what, you're like a star. even from bazillion of miles away, you're bursting with energy. your mail made me smile. :) stay this way, its so wonderful.


My style of writing has changed so much too! Just peruse through my really really old entries (try here, here, here and here), and you will see that my entries were way shorter, more spontaneous in a way, and I tried to write with proper grammarn(lesser usage of slangs and Manglish). And definitely no wtfs. Btw, omg, how the flat hair flat has changed in term of looks! :P Some people complain about the usage of 'wtf' as a punctuation. But my intention is simple, it is used somewhat as a punctuation, but only to emphasized that I said something really really idiotic or stupid. 'Cause I am known to have quite an in-your-face humor (i.e. crude), and you have to admit it, sometimes people don't know when you're joking. There is nothing really different about saying "Yo mama is so fat when she turns around it's the next day wtf" or "Yo mama is so fat when she turns around it's the next day, haha". Both are punctuations! :P But that said, I don't use 'wtf' in real life, except for in its original context ("Wtf? You ate grass for breakfast?"), though I am guilty of adopting it online. ;) These days, I also write whatever that comes into my mind, which explains the less then erm, beautiful language. I also noticed that I end in exclamation marks a lot. -___- But in a way, this is a more truer depiction of myself. If you see me in real life, I am a very very excitable person-- I pretty much speak in exclamation marks most of the time. -_- "Isn't this ice cream good!" "Let's go catch a movie!" "I am so pretty!" hahaha. And I use way way way more expressions/emoticons, which is very much like me in real life too. The boyfriend told me that one of the reasons why he loves me is 'cause I am very animated. Like a cartoon. -__-

Blogging has also become a form of recording for me... for my activities, that is. Almost every significant event/outing would be blogged by me. The simple truth? Documenting things that I have done, people I have met, outfits I have worn WTF, may seemed tedious at the point of the time, but often, I have the greatest fun browsing through my old entries and just reliving those memories. :) And it's also a great way for my friends to keep track of their outfits, HAHAHA. Whenever they try to rack their minds for what they wore for A outing or B event, they just need to link to my blog, hee.


I don't really know how all this started, but I can't believe I blogged so much on, well, my blog! -_- Basically, what I am trying to say is... I don't regret clicking on my keyboard 2 years ago to produce the words, "Voila, my blog is born!" :P



And in true hui-wen style, what blog entry would be complete without visuals. :P
Work outfits from last week.



Monday blues. This was the day I got locked IN my room as mentioned here. T___T
(As you can see, when the picture was taken, the door was already opened. :P)




You can't see the ruffles on my black top, boo! :(
And this fish-tail skirt is too big for me. I hate to admit it ('cause what if I jinx myself wtf), but I am losing weight. All my skirts are a little too big for me now. :(




I feel like slapping myself when I see this picture. Why was I so miang, twirling hair and all! -_-





Vintage brooch! And ya la, I know I looked damn flat in this picture. T__T




And casual Friday, woot!

Yes, my company is quite strict on casual Friday's dress codes-- they insist on 'business casual'. BOOOO, no slutty outfits ar! :P



And just to recap on what I talked about... Hopefully I will be doing this for a long time to come. I can totally imagine myself blogging in my trimester of pregnancy and cursing my husband and all men in the world, hahaha.