I started blogging in 2006, from the comfort of a tiny room I proudly called my office, in the middle of nowhere.. somewhere in the heart of the jungle of the Peninsular.. ( ok, I kinda exaggerated on that jungle part). I just had so many things to write about and not to forget too many times to spend writing. But then I moved out of the jungle into civilization. Worked like most of those in the so called civil world did. Left home at dawn and came back by dusk.
Less than a year later a friend messaged me to accept her invitation to join facebook. Which I did. It was the most wonderful thing that could have happened in my life then.. (besides getting married and giving birth to two brats of course..). I got to get in touch with long lost friends, many of whom I fondly remember but never had the chance to meet again after we went our separate ways either after high school or college.
My facebook friends were full of my real friends who I haven't seen for ages or real friends that I personally know. We had loads of fun poking at each other, sharing memorable pics, exchanging silly memes like "20 things people don't know about you" etc.I could basically say anything and my friends knew what I meant. If it was serious or if it was meant to be a joke.
But by the end of 2011, I found that facebook no longer had its original appeal. There are just too many people I know (but not that keen to be connected to) on facebook. Numbers are not the problem. But the quality of people is. Keyboard warriors, back stabbers, butt licking dickheads and bimbos... they are everywhere infesting facebook (and perhaps other sites too). These lowly creatures really messed with my online life ( some even managed to extend the misery offline). But I appreciate the ease of being able to be connected to my friends via facebook that closing my account because of those idiots is not a favourable option at the moment.
I'm pretty sure you have some on your fb list. That friend who is extremely vocal telling the (fb) world this and that but when you try to engage in an intellectual argument, they become butthurt and one even defriended and blocked me just for one episode of discussion regarding whether a photo was authentic or not. I was trolled, asked the same questions over and over again and silly me tried to answer in the most humbly possible way like, " this is just an opinion, and I might be wrong.. but.. bla2 bla... ) and she rebutted with " see, you are not sure about your opinion! why bother giving one! " kind of answer. Ah well, sad to see her hate me to the extent of blocking me, but looking at the bright side, at least my home screen is now relatively free of language pollution. She was older than me but liked to use the styles normally used by the not so bright and young people in our country.. like " lerr.., khennn" Doesn"t make sense to you? To me neither.
And there was this case when a few friends and I were discussing a newspaper article condemning a department in my office, . I know it was not the brightest thing for me to do.. to openly discuss something like that.. on my fb wall.. But then, I was pretty happy that someone else realized the flaws in that department and dared to make a public statement about that, albeit via a pseduonym, still, it was really stupid of me to think that my fb wall was my private property and all my supposedly friends on fb are really friends, not pretending to be one. That one really put me into hot soup. It was a big lesson for me. Huge! Remember folks, never be emotional on facebook! Keep calm. Keep calm.. and if you can't. Go offline.
And when you post food photos, some complained that posting food photos is the single most useless thing to do on facebook. And when you put your travel photos, some said you are showing off.. kids photos, show off, house? show off.. cars? show off.. everything you post.. you are showing off. But when you post something sad, then you are the drama queen. When you are always mad, you need serious mental therapy... well, basically.. everything you do isn't right on facebook. Scary, huh?
Some friends told me that I should really slash down my facebook friends.. just keep real friends. Well, that is my problem you see. I am not sure now who are real and who are there just to find flaws with me. I know all 400 plus of them personally. Except for mr Awang Goneng who is a writer residing in London, whose writing I really love... and another young writer called Zaidel. But I doubt these two had the time to make my life miserable.
So you see, this is the reason why I don't post things too much on facebook anymore. If you who are reading this is a friend of mine on fb, and has an awful lot of time, go and read my timeline. You'll see what I mean...
I basically write for a different blog. For more serious stuff.. not that serious but not as light as what I plan to do with this one. Well, we are finally here, to the part where I shall tell you why I am writing this blog.
I am now living 6000km away from home. And I dragged my family along :) . This blog will be the collection of stories about our life here. Especially about raising brats in Tokyo. The contents might sound light to you but they mean a whole lot me. Don't like it? Get out of here! :p
*Sideview of our humble 43sq metre abode.. among others.
