Happy 1st Birthday Brainsparks!

Yehey!

Happy Birthday to Me!

Happy Birthday to Me!

Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to Me!

I have been fooling myself for a year, literally, figuratively, and insert-your-word-here-ly. I started this thing because, well, haha… Also, because I have a lot of time in my hands (THAT is what I like to think). It never occurred to me that it has been a year already (thanks Angeline for the visit and reminding me, haha. Ooh, and linking you as requested.) I just also realized that it was April Fool’s Day of 2009 that I first published my post. I think I went out too far with this one, haha.

Seriously, I really have no faith in myself that I would be able to continue this blogsite like what it is right now. If you will be reading my first post and the “about me” page it was very pessimistic that it would live this long. I was giving myself a month or two before I start to give up on this site. I had no idea what to write here. I mean, seriously, I have no ingenious, unique and very interesting thought I could write about. I am not one of those gifted people who can talk and write about something and make it interesting for the reader (Ako ay may bato, malaki at bilugan ito. Sa ulo mo ipupukol, meron ka nang malaking bukol. Ang bato, bow!). I cannot express humor with the likes of those humor blog sites that are already in the blogosphere. That being said, I don’t know the theme/topic/ideas that I should cover or how my writing should be. I even had difficulties whether I would write this site in English or Filipino. And I don’t want to write emo stuff here (which I think was a rule I broke, haha). Not that I hate it, but it’s already like 75% of what you stumble upon on the Internet, I don’t want to add up to that (scratch that). Thanks to Jasper (http://thebackpackboy.com) and L.A. (http://www.umleo23.com) I managed to have the cajones to hold on to this one (they were the first to comment, someone reads the crap I write!).

And with those thoughts, I formulated my rules on what to write here: No restrictions, no censorship, no rules. Write what I like, what I want, and how I want it. And yes, I can say fuck you if I want too, haha!

Luckily, I had the Palawan adventures (part 1, part 2, and part 3) to talk about (God, I miss Palawan, see you again in August!). Now my site had content. Then come along our Baler adventure which started our surfing addiction. And if you would notice the next two posts that I had, I really, really had no idea then what to talk about. I was grasping for ideas for the audience (I like to think that someone reads this crap). Youtube was a life saver.

I even switched from blogger to wordpress as my word processor (take a lucky guess what it is) has a good connection (read as not complicated) with WP.

Then the adventures started again with our Baguio-La Union getaway (part 1, part 2, and part 3) and our Zambales trip (part 1 and part 2), which had a repeat on November of last year. I was not able to write about that repeat as I was busy last December what with my birthday (which I really had no plan of celebrating, thanks guys for celebrating it with me even if I didn’t want to!) and Sachi’s day. Then we had some office stuff to do on the holidays of December, so tough luck for me. And the rest of the adventures follow suit.

Re-reading just what I wrote, I realized I didn’t run out of ideas to share. I hope you like the crap that you are reading here, whoever/whatever/however you are. Hey, don’t forget to leave your comments on the posts that you read. They are very much appreciated!

And again, after a year, may Oliver never run out of ideas to post so this one never dies.