I aten't dead

It's been a slow blogging week... partly because I've been busy, and partly because I just didn't feel like writing...

Let's see, what happened this week?

Over the weekend, Little Sis and I went kayaking on Saturday with one of the coaches, so that she could learn how to paddle, and on Sunday afternoon we had our first canoe polo practice. One of my friends from Uni brought three of his friends, so we had enough to play polo with. The wind was blowing a gale so I thought the coach would just give us a training session on land, but noooooo... lol... but he had us use the waterpolo pitch, which is the same size as a canoe polo pitch is supposed to be. It was sheltered enough that surface of the water was calm, so although the wind was still spinning our boats, it wasn't too bad. And playing polo was fun! I like ramming my kayak into other people's! heheheh...

Surprisingly enough, only one person got hit in the head by a paddle, even though sometimes we had three or four kayaks all struggling for the ball... not surprisingly, I was the offending player... *sigh*

*resolves to be more coordinated*

Both Little Sis and my friend will be bringing even more people to this weekend's practices, which is really cool. I put up a poster in my faculty with full-colour photos, but no-one's contacted me. I tried to get my class, and one of my lecturers, to join in, but no-one wanted to. Oh well, their loss...

Music practice, church, and a ministry planning meeting filled the rest of my weekend.

The week was similarly busy, mostly with lectures. Our exam timetable came out (really early, wow!). It's not so bad, except that the hardest subject is scheduled just two days after the second-hardest one. We're asking the Faculty to change the date, I hope that it will work out.

In other news, my vertebra is coming along (but I haven't updated its blog). I now have a complete barrel instead of half of one :-) and I'm currently working on the horrendously complicated wing. I was up until 3:30am this morning fiddling with bsplines (you don't want to know). I'm rather pleased with myself actually *smug grin* because of finding ways around problems. At one point, I was using the keyboard like a mad pianist, muahahahaha.

Anyway, back to the grindstone...

Comments

[Mark Anthony Spiteri]

It's good to see that you are still alive hehe Good luck on your project, I know how must be feeling in the last couple of months with all the stupid reports and all. But before you know it everything will be over :) There is always a light at the end of the tunnel...

[Lena]

Good to know you haven't given up on blogging ;) I too have been feeling similarly. Whenever I start writing about something on my blog, I tend to think 'Do they really care?' and I end up backspacing everything and returning to my books/tv/food lol.

[Mark Anthony Spiteri]

Lena, i think everyone tends to ask that question.

However remeber that whatever you find interesting to blog about, even if you think its extremely stupid, will also be interesting to somebody outthere.

I have been following blogging since it's beginning now and the most succesfull blogs out there although having some main category will also have a social aspect to them. For instance a blogger that comes to mind talkes about his weird dreams, his sicknesses, going to therapist and so on.

Although people are interested in specialised content (for instance programming) blogging is meant to have a social aspect. So my point is: Don't give up, it may not be today or tomorrow but one day you are going to write something that will catch people's attenetion.

P.S. Sorry about the rant and probably very bad grammer/spelling but this is the first thing I am doing today - I just woke up hehe.

Cheers,
Mark

[MaltaGirl]

Thanks Mark :-)

Lena, actually, I don't write for anyone, so I don't have that particular problem... when I first started blogging three years ago (on another blog) I didn't even tell anyone about it! :-) because it was for me to write, not for others to read, and as far as I know, I didn't have any regular readers on it. I blog because I enjoy writing (for several reasons like, no-one can interrupt you, and it's fun, and I like making people laugh, and it's how I express myself best). Before, I used to get it out of my system by writing incredibly long emails to my friends, and when I found out about blogging, I was delighted - it was as though someone had invented it with me in mind :-) so now my friends get shorter emails, lol.

It annoys me when some bloggers write "Oh, I'm so terribly sorry that I missed a day of blogging, I don't know what I was thinking, here, I've written another post..." as though the world comes to a standstill if they don't blog - seems kinda arrogant to me!

Where was I? (see, I ramble when I write, that's how much I enjoy it)... anyway, when I don't write for a few days, it's usually because I'm feeling down for some reason, and I don't feel like writing. Except if it's the weekend, because I'm often too busy to blog on Saturday or Sunday!

I do the backspace thing when I think I've written something that I shouldn't be putting out there for public viewing :-) (usually one of two reasons: too much personal detail about someone, or too much biting sarcasm/ranting, heheheh)

Anyway, I really do enjoy writing a lot (it was almost my career) and my friends say that they love reading emails from me because it sounds just like how I talk - and having people out there who like reading my blog is just a bonus :-)

And I think that Mark is right, that even what we may feel are the mundane things of life can be interesting to other people. I personally enjoy reading 'personal' blogs more than the 'political' blogs!

Ok, I'll stop going on about it... off to catch up on reading other people's blogs...

[Kenneth]

I perfectly agree here. When I started my blog I actually wanted it to remain private, or rather, undiscovered by people who I don't know. But I guess I didn't take the necessary precautions to keep it private (anyways, how can you expect something to remain private on the web?) and when I saw that people I don't know were getting to it all the time, I took a different approach in what I blogged about and wrote. That's all, mainly. Actually, I'm thankful for that having happened because it's never safe to disclose ultra-personal details on the internet in any case.