…and we can catch up over a delicious
cup of coffee or tea, perhaps?

It’s been six good years, and it’s time to move on.

I started this blog sometime in August 2001, mostly because my then-boyfriend (now hubby) Markie was playing around with this new technology called blogging. Back then, I didn’t know what to write in this blog, so I wrote mostly random thoughts during my breaks at work. I would then peek over at Markie’s blog, and see what random things he wrote during his breaks at work. Yes, life was that simple then.

There were not many of us on the blogosphere yet, and the first “blogger EB” I went to was made up of Markie, me, Shiloah, and BrownPau. I asked my bestfriend Trixy to come along, although I think at that time she wasn’t a blogger yet. Markie and Pau did most of the talking…I was still a kinda-shy twentysomething who wasn’t much into EBs. Hahaha, how times have changed!

On a side note, back then, Ev was funding Blogger mostly out of his own pockets, and in the next few months he would be asking bloggers and other kindhearted souls to donate money for his fledgling IT project, because he needed new servers.

Yes indeed, how times have changed.

Over the years I continued to blog, for many different reasons.

At first, it was to find my writing “voice” again, after years of not writing anything but business reports and proposals. Then, when I moved to Florida, it was to keep in touch with Markie, who stayed back in Manila for another year. Our blog entries filled in the spaces in between our phone conversations. Later, my blog posts provided a venue for me to write about and make sense of the new world I was living in. Finally, turning outward, it became a means of renewing old friendship and making new friends across the vast distances of physical space.

In 2005, however, I found out via a random Google search that I shared the name of another website which is almost an antithesis to my own. More disturbing to me was when, in 2006, someone from that website wrote a couple of friendly comments on my blog on two different occasions, finding and acknowledging my blog specifically because of it’s name. Those comments were blocked by my anti-spam filter, but by then I had considered the idea of retiring this blog.

So now here we are.

But I’m not saying goodbye.

Instead I want to say thank you - to you, my friends both old and new, who’ve shared this six-year adventure with me. Thanks for reading my posts and viewing my photos, and sharing your thoughts with me as well, via comments and emails.

I will continue to visit your blogs and Flickr accounts. And of course, we can also keep in touch via email, snail mail, and text messages.

And so, writing my last couple of posts on this blog on a beautiful, sunny, warm summer day in the Bay Area in Northern California, I send you all hugs and kisses, and my warmest regards!

See ya ’round!

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