The Return of Blogging

At long last – after months and months of procrastination (or just lack of motivation or reason) to revamp/update the site – it is done!

About bloody time I’d say. But who blogs anymore these days? The world has changed so much since I wrote my first entry towards the end of my internship with KLUE magazine. Camera-phone were painfully mediocre, iPods had no colour screen and could only hold no more than 20 albums, 3G was a dream and well Streamyx was still the best thing that had ever happened in our lives. That was in 2004.

Fast-forward 7-years later, 2011; iPhones (or any other smart phones for that matter) are now a standard issue requirement, nobody buys mobile phones anymore. We shoot videos with our phones in HD, we have fibre optic internet and iPods can hold your entire lifetime collection of albums.

Not to mention to rapid emergence of Facebook (which subsequently killed Friendster), Twitter and heaps of other “social-networking” sites which contributed to the demise of blogs. Or did it? I’m not saying blogs are making a comeback, on the contrary, I believe blogs were never really killed off but rather, it took a back seat. Sure, it can’t compete with the speed and functionality that social networking sites can provide. It survived for one reason; it’s old-school.

Much like iPads and the introduction of iBooks - real, printed books will never truly die.

So, here’s to the second or third coming. Blogs are not making comeback, because they were never really outdated to begin with, in retrospect, it is me that is making a comeback!