Who did you write your essays for in high school? When asked this question, many people would blurt out that they labored over those essays for their teachers so that they could get good grades and got into their teachers' good graces. Apart from these goals, I primarily wrote essays in Chinese for my own pleasure. In some ways, I regarded the writing process as emotional dumping. In addition, I also liked the fact the I got to play with the Chinese words when writing. I thought of writing as more of an intellectual game than a dreadful task.

It has been a while since I first started this blog. No one put me to this. I have been always doing this for myself. And the interesting thing is only when you know you are doing soemthing for yourself can you go all out. There were times when I put pen to paper, and words just flew out. Yet there were aslo times when I experienced what they call "a writer's block". The bottom line is this blog has persisted through time and I have been enanomored with writing in English. I gotta say keeping a blog is such a wonderful way to organize your thoughts, practise your writing skills, cleanse your soul, and hopefully entertain and inspire other people.

I read my blog from time to time. Interestingly enough, if I read what I wrote a while back, I feel like I'm reading somebody else's blog or a magazine. Maybe I am narcissitic, which in fact i am, but I get amused by this "writer's" way of putting together words and thoughts. In a sense, I am both a writer and a reader. To let you in on a little secret, some of the English expressions I used were completely impromptu. And I make a note of those expressions later on and try to commit them to memory.

I know.