.:: Back ::.

It has been close to a year since this blog was updated. Why is it that I keep coming back knowing that this blog can be read by anyone online? How much is too much to share online?

Blogs has many reasons but one I could clearly stand to is because -- I like to express. Not for any search of self-display or what one may put it as otherwise. One of the many questions would most likely be - Why blog? One fact I could respond to is maybe because it has always been - blogging since Summer 2004, that is 6 years as of today. And farahdee.blogspot.com as the URL, was only made effective in October 2008.

I can never know who reads this site (either by stumbling upon it through a few random clicks or perhaps through word-of-mouth) but one thing for sure is, this blog of mine is more than a way to just communicate. It acts as an ongoing diary that reflects on my life and those that encompasses it. If the Internet acts as an ongoing technology in the many years to come, then I hope for this blog to act as a means of collections for my future generations - my children, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren and their children's children to browse through my posts and perhaps have an idea who I was and what were the going-ons in my life, be them ups and downs, good or bad. It talks about my journey. The Process. My Experience. Of course there are other ways of sharing, for some it would be through photo albums or scrap books but for this purpose of my blog, I share to make it my voice. Yes I do look forward to sharing my stories and experience with my loved ones and friends, in person, but on that day when I can't, I know this blog would act as my voice, of who I was and what I had been through.

There may be a small number whom are regular readers, there may be some who were from my previous blog address and got linked into this current one. And there may also be trillions who check in once every three years into this blog. All in all, blogging enables me to track development of ideas, development of writing style, and it shifts in areas of interest. This creation of a personal archive has been some of the most interesting and valuable aspects of blogging for me.

My post is titled "Back" and as the protagonist I'm happy to confirm that 'Yes that's right...This blog is back..alive and kicking again..' Thanks for the support throughout these years, Dear Readers.