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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

2011 Personal Challenges

Title: I'm Posting every week in 2011!

I've decided I want to blog more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I'm starting right now. I will be posting on this blog once a week for all of 2011. 

I know it won't be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and wonderful. Therefore I'm promising to make use of The DailyPost, and the community of other bloggers with similiar goals, to help me along the way, including asking for help when I need it and encouraging others when I can.

If you already read my blog, I hope you'll encourage me with comments and likes, and good will along the way.

Signed,

Gladys David.

As anyone can guess, I copied and pasted the whole thing from the sample from The DailyPost and plopped my name in at the bottom. Hehe.

I first found out about the challenge from Chegu Carol and committed myself to it almost immediately upon reading her post. I think it is an interesting way to keep blogging faithfully every week, especially with the constant prodding in the form of email newsletters from TheDailyPost. The challenge is targeting Wordpress.com users but I guess there's no harm for someone like me - a blogger.com user - in joining in, no?

Postaweek2011 posts shall be tagged as such and my take on the challenge shall begin next week.

On another note, I'm also doing my reading challenge this year too, calling it - obviously - 50 Books Challenge 2011. I wasn't able to finish all 50 books I've slated for last year - only managed to finish a bit over half of the sum because I'm easily distracted and l.a.z.y. - but I will continue to be optimistic this year and well, read on. A page will be created here for my easy reference and accountability. I'm desperate to finish my stack of books because I buy books faster than I can ever finish them. Le sigh.

So, there's no resolutions or whatsoever for me this year. I failed 80% of my resolutions miserably last year. Too. Mostly because they're forgotten right after I hit publish. I think I do challenges better.

Wish me luck, Amis.

Sunday, January 09, 2011

Happy New Year 2011!

Pardon my late new year greeting.

I'm happy to announce that I'll be hanging around + lurking more now that I've temporarily solved my laptop display problem. I got myself a 19" LCD monitor from Karamunsing yesterday and it is now permanantly attached to my laptop. My desk now looks like the picture above (as Kuro sees it).

And the picture below is showing the flickr-ness of my laptop screen compared to the crisp and huge display of the monitor. To avoid headache and distraction I taped an A4 paper over it (again, as seen in the picture above) and might be using it as some... light box, maybe? I'll think about it later.
Everything seems okay for now except for the fact that I have to look to my left when using it as opposed to my instinctive urge to look straight to the front while typing.

I find it kinda funny.

In a weird way.



I'm going to prove its weirdness with this.


If it so happens that you and I ended up chatting on Skype or Yahoo Messenger, you'll have to get used to me not facing the camera, but constantly looking to its left.

Any way, I'm just happy I can participate in the online rumble again ^^