Hurrah for First Post!

Wooh!

At last, I have made a blog, a decent blog, unlike all those crappy blogs I have made in Friendster and Multiply, which are just mainly composed of excerpts of poems or stories made by my online buddies or passed on to me through mail by friends and relatives.

These past few weeks, everywhere I look and go, my mind has been bugged and poked by some things which persuade me to make a blog. And these are some of the reasons why I decided to make one:

1. My brain can no longer bear keeping all these thoughts and ideas! I know I’m not physically active, but my mind is as active as a rabbit in heat!

There are lots of ideas spinning inside of my head which I want to tell to others, to write as an essay or to post as a blog entry… Well, they are just opposed by my usual alibi “Tinatamad ako.” XD

Excessive thinking is one of the effects of stimulants on me. Coffee doesn’t just keep me awake, but also make me think… A LOT.

Yesterday, I sneaked up (because I’m still not allowed) to drink a mug coffee at 6pm. And by 2am, my eyes are still wide open since my mind keeps on thinking and thinking about random stuff. As another effect of coffee, my body also got hyperactive (while lying in bed!) so my waist just automatically rolls from left to right and right to left repeatedly in the middle of the night. My body’s rolling while my mind is thinking.

By 3am, I finally and successfully fell into slumber. At 5 in the morning, I woke up; I arrived at school before 7; and I ended up looking like a zombie on my first day of the Summer Semester.

2. I live in a family of bloggers! All my siblings are… and now my mom… and even my 3^rd grader nephew!

My sister owns four blogs. My mom owns like three. And they are getting paid for all their blog posts… IN DOLLARS!

My other siblings own one or two blogs which function as their online personal journal. They prefer not making blogging as a career.

And my nephew… he’s 8 and he’s the best student among all the others in his grade level. He started blogging when he was 5 primarily because of the influence of his blogging mommy.

Last weekend, we just arrived at their house in Cainta from our vacation in Naga City. After getting bored from playing his video games, he started to make a new blog post about his latest trip. Several minutes later, I checked up on what he was doing, and I was like, “O_O What the heck? This could be a work of a high school student!”

Now, I believe that those milk brands they advertise on TV nowadays can REALLY mutate a kid’s brain. They make children superhumanly smart! So don’t feed your babies those milk! XD

Check out their blogs:

Mama's Blog

Ate Mau's Blog

Ate Do's

Kuya To's

Kuya Lloyd's

My Nephew Ralph's Blog

3. I need money… :( I see blogging as one way to earn money. Now that it’s summer, there are no students needing our tutorials, that means I will have no income. And even though I wanted to go for summer jobs, I still can’t because I have summer classes from 7am to 4pm. So I hope this poverty-stricken, materialistic, scorpion-snake will get a penny out of his blogs.

4. I need to. I took up Bachelor of Secondary Education as my course in college. And my major… English. Blogging in English would definitely help me for my future profession. This will serve as a training for me because I'm sure there will come a day that I need to teach my students how to write essays or how to make blogs. Who knows, maybe in the future online journalism will be included in the English curriculum.

So if ever you see grammar lapses on my posts, kindly tell me and I would feel obliged to change whatever unintended flaws I wrote.

I just wish I’ll make this blog as I had it planned: blog posts all made by myself, reflecting what I think of and what my whole day was like, explaining things I know to people asking explanations, showing things to people from a point of view of a simple teenager, and connecting to the psyche of all the readers how my clock ticks.

I wish this blog will last.

Lucky me.