Finally I decided that I will keep blogging but definitely not in wordpress.com and I created a blogspot but I’m not going to use it, so I’m turning my tumblr into my main blog right now, it’s plonger.tumblr.com
I realise now that I live in a place where almost everything is conveniently set without being a particular commercial environment. Everything is just few steps (or blocks) away. I wish work and the world would be that close. This said, it’s funny how things have been simplified, such as being able to pay the bills and the rent online, to the point that I feel tired just by the thought that I have to walk 5 blocks to make a withdrawal.
I care a little bit when I’m reduntant while I’m writing (well…I apologize) but I have to say that cellphones are extremely convenient nowdays and people adore them so they manage to buy the latest models regardless of their price since there are 6-12-18 month contracts available. However, I had no idea that the term “budget phone” existed but seems that it’s even more convenient because it’s cheap, or at least it should be that way but in Latinamerica they aren’t. My cellphones before only were for make calls and as an alarm clock so the features of any other cellphone were tempting but I didn’t want to spend a lot of money…in fact, I didn’t want to spend money at all. The problem is that this model (Sony Ericsson W200a) was out of stock everytime I wanted to buy it, but finally there were some few left and I bought one for…free.
Either way, now I’m debating into keep using wordpress or move to a convenient update tool such as tumblr. However, wordpress as any other major blogging tool is about discussion through an opinion, while tumblr, twitter and etc, are more about sharing through what is going on at the moment, you don’t have to think that much. My problem is that now I can’t update as often as I can, it takes days or even weeks to sit down and finish an entry, plus the wordpress.com is a bit boring for me with the exception of this new theme that is for photoblogs, therefore it doesn’t apply to a text blog even if you try. So, if I can’t update quickly nor enjoy the look what what I’m udpating, I can pick what I think can save me from this blogging issue. And nobody cares of this blog but me.
And this all reminds me of the other Kings of Convenience. Misread is my favorite song by them and it’s from 2004 which means that time is flying and I should listen to that album again.
Oh well, last but not least, Happy mother’s day.
I remember I had an online buddy who once complained of my penchant for creating as many journal/blog accounts as possible because she couldn’t keep up with all my updates. Ironically she has created & deleted so many accounts that I don’t know how can I find her new ones…oh yeah my best friend google. As far as I’m concerned, that’s good because if you create something…it means you want to start over again and if you delete it, well…you want to start all over again.
I created a twitter and a tumblr. I can update twitter whenever I want, preferably in the bathroom or when I wake up. I don’t even have to turn the computer on for that, considering that I don’t tend to update about everything that’s going on in my life as it’s happening, twitter is quickly becoming into my new best friend…after google of course. I do believe that microblogging can be addictive but it’s better than flood your personal journal with one sentence which is usually full of shit and nonsense…I mean it’s someone from you to you.
Tumblr is a good service to share some of my love for music. Although I’m not the real music love who is into indie and such, I have my tumblr to update it with youtube videos, song quotes and my horoscope for the day. I can’t leave home without watching the horoscope on tv and wear the color they say, unless it’s white or brown, most of the time I pick something of the recommended color.
Let’s see how it all turns out. I have myspace, facebook and deviantart and I rarely update a blog there.
Holy week and I’m resting, despite the fact that I wake up with a headache everyday, probably that’s what a very shiny day can do to my eyes. Maybe I need a rest from my computer screen too or just adjust it as it had a filter before me but now it hurts while I’m reading at the morning, I guess that’s why I like to blog at nights.
Long weekend breaks are a blessing and I have plenty of them throughout the year. However, I expected to spend this quietly but my mom invited my relatives for lunch. I understand the value of my family as I’m getting older, we are very close and similar to each other. Many people had hated me because of the kind of relationship that I have with my mother (she is overprotective of myself and my money) but by talking to her on these days, I realise that she is the only reliable person I have in my life, I mean, friends and lovers come and go because of the way I am, So What is it left for me? My mom is the only one who supports me when someone else has backstabbed me. She can be critical but she doesn’t make me feel inferior nor bullies me on purpose.
It’s believed that people shows certain respect on Good Friday and I know that I should’ve been away from my computer but some livejournal users were on a “content strike” and since I’m a longtime livejournal user and I don’t have enough time to make the most of it, I just sat down, read my friends’ entries and commented. In my opinion, they should have taken into account that strike and livejournal are incompatible terms same as silence and blog. If you can have online access and decide to use it to vent and express your ideas, there is no reason to stop doing it. Therefore, you commit to voice your opinion then you have a powerful effect in your readers, regardless if they agree or disagree with you.
And it’s hard to fight for your rights when the Internet it’s so vast but it can be successful in the end. Just look at Trent Reznor: He recently released, as Nine Inch Nails, his latest album Ghosts I-IV and made $1.6 million on its first week. I’ve been a fan for 8 years and it’s one of my favorites, on the other hand, I won’t lie, I download mp3s because I know that recordstores and labels take almost all the money we pay for a CD so I only buy an album when it becomes a must have.
At first, when Napster came out, Reznor considered it a “theft” but once he learned that Universal Music Group’s retail pricing of Year Zero in Australia was $29, because “We know you have a real core audience that will pay whatever it costs when you put something out – you know, true fans. It’s the pop stuff we have to discount to get people to buy.” So he encouraged Australian fans to “steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealin’.” The price of Year Zero in my country was $32 as of January 2008, so I asked the salespeople why it was so expensive, they said it was because it came with that price. Finally, I bought it for $19 on Valentine’s Day. Ironically, I would like to buy albums by Australian artists and I must say that Universal Music does charge for them more than the other companies such as Sony and Warner.
As an online release, Ghosts I-IV has been well planned, same can be said of the concept and the music. I’m intending to buy the 2CD version and for that I feel happy to contribute with NIN with $10, knowing that it won’t reach a local recordstore to sell it at $50 and get $1 in return.
The original title of this long awaited…I mean impending entry was Feng Shui my ass but a bird told me that there was a group called The Raveonettes there forgotten somewhere in my brain and now I’m totally hypnotized by their new song Aly Walk With Me.
So…Feng Shui anyone? should’ve been a better title. Anyways, Feng Shui anyone? My mom is a huge fan and she always is telling me about the ways to place furniture at home and at work, she sleeps with a Feng Shui book and I guess she is right. I took the FCE exam a couple of weeks ago and I didn’t go to work for that reason. When I returned to my office, I found out that my chair back was against a window. I felt completely miserable because…they should have had some common sense! I can’t that according to Feng Shui, I can’t have my chair back against a window but it’s worse to say “you have poor design and organization skills”.
By the way, I’m totally addicted to miniclip.com
Dad and I were discussing Austalian Open’s singles finalists and how the world is embracing this recent breed of players from different countries and it challenges our ways of thinking towards origins and race, as has happened with other sports in the past. Many were sympathetic to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga from France, the finalist of the men’s singles. His looks served to make some jokes but what can we do about it.
Recently I read an article about genetics in a family, you know…we are all related but we look different from eachother. I think genetics is probably the only bit of natural science in which I’m interested. And probably I would have pursued studies…if it wasn’t because my biology teacher said that I was a slow learner for that subject. However, she was kicked off school for teaching contraceptive methods, therefore I never reached the genetics chapter in my biology book and many of my classmates got pregnant because of their prude parents. But genetics is as simple as complicated as wonderful as cruel and even if I’ve been reading, there’s still lots of stuff that I have to learn about it.
And when it comes to genetics, it also comes to us, humans in size, shape, color and weight. Yes, weight. I was reading a Vogue UK in the library while waiting for class when I found an article on men not so concerned about women’s weight but women concerned about women’s weight. In fact, it was obsessed not concerned. And then it says: “I think that much of the time, women want to be thin so that they can dominate other, fatter women.” I don’t know you but I believe it depends on how image-conscious a place is as every culture has its beauty standards. Sometimes my mom meets her old friends and co-workers and the very first thing they say to her is that she has become fat and some even dare to say too fat. Mom is 1.54 cm and weights 70 kg so she isn’t even closer to be an obese person but she comes home and the first thing she tells me is that her friend said that she was too fat. And there are the many classmates that asked me if they were fat. Come on, you only have wide hips…that’s all. Now I’m also conscious about my weight but it’s something personal and I try to find the way to lose some, I’ve started almost a month ago and I have gained 1kg, I have to learn how to eat healthy and excercise by bits too. Oh yes, the pattern construction trick! Shirts and pants that aren’t made according the real size therefore they are smaller, I once had to buy a XL shirt when my real size is M. Awful.
I know it’s taking me too long to blog, I’ve been working, I’m sick now. I think it’s a good time to rest and think about ice-creams and ice Coke.
It’s been 6 years since I tried to blog for the first time. And I still try and try but I’m never satisfied. I feel ashamed and then I cover my blogging trails. Althought there are some things I shouldn’t tell the whole world but I end up doing it. But that whole doesn’t bother me, it’s those things. It’s me. I start my life everyday but I feel that I have overrun the possibilities of blogging and I’m taking it too seriously.
But what do I win – or lose- with blogging. In the list of pros and cons, I simply can’t think of the reasons as it all comes from my guts and therefore, I don’t have an explanation about why I want to blog. I just can’t help keeping my mouth shut and I have to share.
I hope I’m on the right way this time.
PS. Heath Ledger is dead. He was 28. I’m 28. How sad it’s to hear that someone of your same age is gone.
