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Norm Yip
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is blogging the true diary of your life?

i have been thinking about this world of blogging and it's meaning, it's usefulness and it's authenticity to the realness and truthfulness of the individual. it used to be that a diary (or journal) was written in privacy, in secrecy. no one got to it with the exception of the person who wrote it. it was meant for recording the feelings and emotions of the person that day, so that years later, one could recount the past. it was not held for public viewing. writing such daily thoughts would help clarify my ideas of who i was, where i wanted to go in life, my boyhood fantasies and love and hate interests. it was sort of self edification, a way of cleansing and purifying one's self without having to go to confession. if i write it down, it would keep me arms away from hell's gate, but i'd never be pushed inside, cause i confessed in the diary. read it and weep. when the internet first made it's way to my bedroom, i started writing my 'diary' in old html fashion. it was not called a 'blog'. i wrote about my pain, my struggles, my desire, the loss of my brother, and the n my father in those first few years. it was not meant for public viewing, and i never envisioned a real audience in front of those words. never. i have been thinking greatly about the power of the blog nowadays, but feel that in some ways, the authenticity of my writing has been somewhat commercialized and bastardized by my idea of selling myself, because after all, blogs now have audiences. i will say with all truthfulness that getting an audience gives me a high, but then i somehow want to keep all the really bad feelings inside. so i was thinking today that i should buy a notebook (the paper kind) to document my inner thought of where i want to go and what i want to achieve in life. i never used to think of the future, always living for the moment, after all, this is the way of the Buddha....

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very true. people definitely feel the motivation to 'sex up' their blogs because they know other people will be reading. also there's the motivation to get your camera out anything time you see something cool, thinking 'this will be good for my blog!' :-P (and for sure I leave the really important stuff out... )
16 年多 ago
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a 21 year old friend was determined that i see this teen movie called 'mean girsl', so we had a dvd date to get the low-down on the true-to-life meanies of school life. i agree that such writings as a 'burn book' can have devastating effects on the people close around you. but i disagree with to JRS that writing person thoughts and feelings, although per se negative, is a bad thing, and that it will come to haunt you. writing to please others is fine, but here are deeper, spiritual goals in me that need to be addressed. my artistic effort allow for a part of it, but it hardly suffices to have someone just criticize my work to make life meaningful. perhaps this blogging is really just about sharing (our thoughts, our dreams and desires, our pitfalls, our creations), where before, there was no one to listen. and although i will continue to blog, the paper and pen still seems tempting... but you guys...thanks for taking the energy to write back to illuminate me on your thoughts...
16 年多 ago
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I remember the first blog i read in AnD is this one. and I always go back to this blog for the meanings of blogging to me, thanks Norm.
15 年多 ago
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hi kit, actually, the personal journal now is lost i feel in the world of the internet. the only way it could become a true personal journey of emotionals and struggles is to type your journal on a computer that does not have internet connection. hey, maybe that is going to be the next best thing. wow, writing on a computerized typewriter that has no connection to the outside world, so where really your truest thoughts really remain hidden from the outside world. something that is YOURS.
15 年多 ago
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I still keep a physical journal actually, like a book that i can draw, write in different language, different color and different pressure, sometimes I put a flower in between, and a few pages after I could find a dry leaves from somewhere... [sounds like a children's game, and it's a bit disorganized but I think we all needed it...] the book is so personal that all the writing inside dont need any respond, reply, no fellow up, it's just for record, no collective memories. The blog, is for something that "I THINK" that people can share.... "soft promotion" some of my friends would said it from a business point of view. "eye candy" in the context of "popular culture"...
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Never in my dreams as a little child did I ever think I would come to live, work and play in Hong Kong. Born in Canada to Chinese parents, I moved here in 1994

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语言
english, cantonese
位置(城市,国家)以英文标示
Hong Kong
性别
male
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May 31, 2007