I have had three published personal blogs before this one, two of them - had me making some money from advertorials because I used to have quite a number of visitors back in the days.
Just hours ago, I had an epiphany and spontaneously made up my mind to publish an entirely new one - on Blogspot, with you, my darling daughter in mind, for the reasons you shall find below.
My first two blogs (my very first blog was first published in 2004 and the second one in 2005) were hosted on Blogspot (blogger.com). Free and easy. Everyone else was using it. And even Postsecret was on it.
I had been blogging at the second blog for a good four years until I felt the need to have my own domain - at that time (in 2009), also to mark a sense of professionalism in a business I was a big part of.
That was when I ventured on fiddling with Wordpress. And how I was impressed and fell in love at first post! EVERYTHING on Wordpress was user-friendly, more efficient, faster, better layout template altogether and my biggest favourite and most apparent pluspoint that I did not get from Blogger was - Wordpress enabled me to tally, which comment was for which post (it might sound silly for many but trust me, when you had written hundreds of blog posts and somehow there are still people commenting for a post which you felt was written three years ago and had no t
The only downside to Wordpress back in 2009 was (disclaimer, the past paragraph and this one are written on my personal memory base and not up-to-date with what Wordpress and Blogger might be offering today), unless you were using a paid Wordpress, then cool mandatory features like (actually I only remember this one feature) enabling a YouTube embedded code was / is not allowed.
But of course that didn't deter me from getting my longest running blog hosted on Wordpress as I was going to pay for my own domain and storage space at Wordpress anyway.
And then you might ask me, 'If Wordpress was that good, then why the switch to Blogspot again, dear Mother?'
It happened twice within the almost five good years I had on the Wordpress / own domain blog where my webmaster forgot to update me on renewing my domain or hosting fee on Wordpress and I ended up with a 'server not found' page for weeks (web techies do go for beach holidays too, so I learnt..) and a dozen of emails with another tens of tweets from people who would sometime frequent my blog (I'm trying to refrain myself from using the words 'my blog readers') reminding me of something I do NOT not know.
And you know, my dear daughter, as much as I have been taking really good care of my health, eating clean, oil pulling, daily stretching (ahemm..), I guess I'll never know REALLY how long more I have in this body.
Home, Subang (November 2013)
I really want to be able to leave you my online imprints that hopefully, wouldn't have to (ever!) be renewed and paid just so that you could read and share my silly tips of how to's - that might never make it to pens and papers (scrapbooks are beyond awesome but they cost too much time and money and you can't even insert YouTube videos in them).
Oh Blogger, we pray that blogging for cheapskates is here to stay..
P.S. After publishing this post, I clicked to the above link to revisit Postsecret after a couple of years and guess what - even they have moved on to Wordpress! Oh, the irony..
Much love and light,
Your Mother
