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One of the little things that I would like to accomplish this year, as part of Karen’s checklist of “things to do during your twenties”, is to create a blog filled with stuffs about my personal travels, foods, current events, interesting people, movie and book preferences I’d love to tackle about through writing.  I have not chosen a particular theme or main label to associate with this blog since I’ve intended to create this just to serve as my online journal or sort of like a cyber-portal that will lead any reader into my creative zone on a superficial level. I have so many plans for this blog and I’m super excited to fill this up with interesting contents. I just really hope that I’d be able to find the will to maintain this considering the fact that I am lazy. It even feels painstakingly challenging to think of trying to manage this thing over time.  Although I love English as my favorite school subject, I admit I’m not really good in it especially when it comes to proper grammar composition and choosing the right verbs, adverbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives to suit on whatever I’m trying to mean in every statements I say.  I also find the need to widen my vocabulary.

 Blogging is a hard task. Yes, easy to begin with but seem so difficult to maintain for months or years  but I’m quite determined to give it a shot and part of the difficulties I’m aware I’ll constantly struggle with is my not so good English writing or my wobbly thought delivery. I guess my deficiency in writing and composition led me to doing this because I assume blogging will help me harness my English skills. Each blog post I’ll be writing in days to come will be a perfect mean to practice and before I knew it, my English proficiency is developed. Not that being an expert in English language is a big deal but since I love to communicate and express my thoughts through writing, I want to get better at it. I want to excel on things I love doing. Anyway, a few people will probably wonder why I came up with naming my blog “Notebook ni Karya”. Well, I did not really base it on something extraordinary. The idea of naming my blog as if it’s a piece of a notebook is fitting to how I used to keep my random thoughts in an actual notebook, where I would scribble on any matters that appear memorable to me on a particular day. I did not necessarily call it a diary, just a mini journal. It started and often happened during my high school days and some days during college. Sadly, I lost those notebooks and the memories inside it. I’m still a big big fan of using pens and manually writing things on a paper but with all these gadgets in front of us to make things more efficient and organized, I’m turning my writing into typing and putting these words into the internet so I can share it to anybody, except telling anything too personal and emotional of course.

 It’s easier to revive and recall a memory when some visual stuff triggers it. May it be on a photograph, a video, an artwork, an old object,  a letter, or any written materials for that matter, it’s quite helpful to put down a precious memory or thought into something that will hold it and preserve it for quite some time. On my case, I’ve decided to keep it through blogging so that someday when I’m a bit older, as long as I and the internet lives, there’s always a big chance to recollect the important things that used to contain some bits of my silliness, idiocy, innocence, fondness, and honesty, those important things that will make me remember what I used to love, to hate, to enjoy and to cherish during some time in my past.. and maybe by the moment I reread them in the future, I can easily compare If I am still the same person I used to be when I was writing those blog entries  or whether some part of me has finally changed.