.a humbling revelation.
and i thought i was good!! heh. i started posting simple short ramblings on friendster’s bulletin board before they make available the blogs and reviews section. i even make you guys wish that the admin should better provide us with one before i crowd the board. ingat x? ;P i was always a reader or visitor. an aspiring writer, a friend encouraged me to share my thoughts publicly. why did you eh? did you read something i wrote before the blog?
with the occurrence of this medium, to express oneself/fill free time/rant (choose your reason), that now is gaining popularity by the seconds (whether it is an appropriate channel to do so, is yet to be determined..or has, by some people ), i’m also motivated to do my own writing. let’s not call it a passion. but it is my soft spot nevertheless. for me, it takes time to finally share. i was afraid to open up. to bleed. i was cautious. heh? i still am. why shouldnt i be, there are always good writers around me, my bro, the closes one, then my ex roommate!~, and this guy i ‘met’ online and a few others.
but then again…why should i? too cautious, i mean.
i do blog-hopping once in awhile. and i found many exceptional writers and many not so great ones. why these not-so-great-ones make updates on what they do after brushing their teeth in the morning is still a mystery to me. and this morning, i went to one of the many featured blogs on friendster. i didnt read the whole blog though, that would take up my whole semester break or more, heh. he published lengthy entries. gathered that he writes from real life experiences, genuinely and straightforwardly. the result is simply impressive.
i should listen to my mom. even though she was talking about the famous-among-malays-only reality show where celebrity-wannabes attend vocal and acting classes for 3 months and perform in weekly concerts, what she said, partly as a jury (she’s good i tell ya!), students that get audiences’ attention (thus the votes, of course), other than being comel or hensem, is the glow of truthfulness that they projected, may it be in their appearances or on stage performances. the same idea applies in writing, me thinks. the featured blog i visited is alive with veracity. one of the many reasons that induces readers’ admiration, i bet.
everyone seems to make up something. to write. to be noticed or heard. to have that stifled grin of pride when readers drop by your blog. and last few months in the Star newspaper, there was a report on a bunch of girls that got their scribbles (shared during learning and teaching session in classes) published into paperbacks. what was that?! if given the chance, with all the notes and doodles that we passed between each other, jannah and i would probably have our fifth ‘Babbles’ bestsellers by now! muahahah!! but, reality check, we’re here and they are there. heh.
okay, jokes aside. frankly, my conscience says i shouldnt, but my heart is drenched with pride when someone, anyone, actually spend a minute or two reading my thoughts and care to comment on them (terima kasih! some even smsed me for a more personal compliments ^_^). but intently, always, i want to publish meaningful entries. that could create ripples in someone’s pool of thought or stirs up emotions in someone’s heart or even whacks the heck nonsense out of their heads. if you want to do something, do it wholeheartedly. and why not sprinkle a little constructive aspect, for the benefit of your readers yang rajin singgah baca.
