Web Log

More often than not, I become really obsessed with keeping my archives organized (at a certain compulsive extent) that I aim to post at least once a month.

However, by some unfortunate turn of events, I missed March 2014 since I started this drill October 2013.

This post is entitled so because I feel compelled, as a blogger albeit an inactive one, to explain the origin of the word "blog" in the manner that I understood it when I began way back early 2000s, and how my definition of it still affects me now that I've had much experience.

I aimed to document some things that I've seen, heard, ate, smelled and felt while I was starting. I thought it was the very essence of the web log: to serve as a record of the things that you experienced, be it ecstatic or melancholic or just plain stupid. It became an outlet both of my youthly restlessness and of the writing skills that I was willing to practice.

Between the course of my first two years in college, I became an active bloghopper. I saw one blog which was same as mine, mainly containing rants and rambles of a college student about grades and everything else academic (or sometimes, the "extra-curriculars"). That was the time when I took writing seriously. Not that I'm really serious about writing, but of logging the events that I undertook to become an engineer. I felt that I needed to document the escapades, the thoughts, the regrets, the joyful moments of my college life: to create a giant back storyline for my licensure gig years later. Hence the tagline: An engineering student's what-it-takes and how-it-makes.

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Seeing how I even outdid myself, predicting that I will pass the boards (because I felt it even before I first stepped in Room 301 of the UE-Manila College of Engineering building), and now, telling the stories about my mishaps at work and life in general, there is a feeling of relief and pride. Relief because I came out as a victor through it all, and Pride because I actually managed it. I couldn't even remember the number of times that I went on a hiatus for more than months, changed the hosting service, made a new blog and totally forgotten this, and finally returned and settled to my home, Blogger.

This is not goodbye though. This is merely a celebration of the years that I've written my heart out, poured my creative juices on select posts, and gain friends through the power of communication and common interests. While it is true that my Twitter account takes most of my web logs now (not to mention the diary/planner where I write down some bursts of cerebral impulses these past few months), Blogger still has its very special place in my heart that I just can't ignore.

I haven't updated this blog yet since I became a licensed engineer, but as a gift to myself, I will try to reinvent EngineerJosh. Rethink my taglines, create a better profile, get more writing inspiration and write frequently. Writing definitely helps me ease out my stresses and this therapeutic ability that blogging has over me has to continue, else I might lose it all. This post will be the catalyst. Changes are coming.