It’s never easy when a hobby is based on creativity.  You can only do so much and will run out of ideas sooner or later.  But if you’re passionate about that hobby, you will find a way to keep it going.  I have been blogging for eight years now.  I may have had stretches of being “quiet,” but never did I consider giving up on blogging completely.  After all, being a Gemini means that you crave communication; and what better way to make myself heard and to express it how I want it than this particular avenue which started out of an idea of wanting to keep my thoughts and ideas organized.  And it turned out to be one of the most significant things I’ve done in my life.

The decision to transfer to a new blog provider was born out of necessity.  I.ph sent me an email in March saying that their closing their free blog services later this month and asked me to register–if I wanted–to keep the blog active for two years at $14.00.  Honestly speaking, I don’t quite get the idea of spending close to a thousand pesos to maintain a blog site with limited customization possibilities, not to mention technical support capabilities for two years.  So I passed on their offer and started the painstaking task of archiving all of my blog entries since 2004.  But I still had to choose where to have my new home.  After creating accounts in LiveJournal, Blogger, and WordPress, and navigating through their individual dashboards, I settled here.  Yet, in fairness to I.ph, they did send me instructions on how to transfer all my entries (including comments) to WordPress.  This happened while I was already halfway in manually copying and pasting all of my entries (I was about a week in).  At least they saved me more time and helped move up re-launching my blog.

I suppose this was also what I needed to revive my passion for blogging.  Doing a manual copy and paste of entries made me read most of them and made me realize why I started blogging in the first place.  In person, I may not speak much, but when I write, ideas seem to flow like water on a river going downstream.  Yes, I may have had attempts to get myself writing again before, but I guess maybe a transfer of homes is just what the doctor ordered.  I thought of re-launching this yesterday, but I felt it’ll be better to have it today, the start of my birth month.

So, welcome to my new home.  Hopefully this will be the final transfer I’ll be making.  I suppose with WordPress, it should be.  I hope that my regular readers (thank you for your continued support) would continue to visit, as well as entice new readers to take a stab my entries in hopes of making them regular followers.  Make yourselves at home, and like I always say, feel free to comment on what I write.  Don’t be shy.

Scorching hot outside, ain’t it?