Days of Being LJ

So it’s been over a month since I’ve last posted. I’ll try and keep this one short.

Reasons why I haven’t been blogging:

• Nothing that interesting has happened
• Work has taken over my life
• I can’t bitch about work because of confidentiality obviously and also the risk that people at work might read this
• because of the last point there really  isn’t anything to blog about now since for me for the past 5 years or so blogging = bitching about something

What will happen to this blog?

I’ve been wondering whether I should renew my hosting for the next year (I think my 1 year plan ends in November). Obviously I love to continue blogging but it’s turning to be more of a hassle less of an enjoyment more and more. I guess with so many years of reading other really well written blogs, more and more I’m drawn to the professional blogs which focus on one main area e.g. Tennis, Technology etc and if most people are like me, personal blogs just aren’t read anymore, unless you’re a friend who I like to keep in touch with but even then I’ve found that microblogging is more immediate and satisfying.

So in essence I’m bored about writing about my day to day life. I think when I named this blog I didn’t anticipate the sheer boredom of “Days of being” me.  Seriously I’m bored of living my own life, why the hell would anyone else want to read about it?

So my plan is from now until November (or beyond should I fancy) is to use this blog as a point of expression for being creative with language. I’m going to focus on longer essay type posts (about whatever piques my interest and allows me to keep up my academic writing skills), op-ed pieces, random poetry and other word burdened creative pursuits.

Life updates, what I find cool, short form fan wank and other updates of the personal nature will be kept on Facebook as of now.

In reality little will change since I’ve been focusing more on longer opinion pieces since this new blog started but now I’ll actually have a plan of attack and a focus.

Posts in the Works

• Beautiful People – Catching the Gen Y Nostalgia
• Torchwood, where compelling drama comes at the expense of character attachments
• Roger Federer, Goatmaster
• Love and loathing of Shanghainese part 2 (Stand Up Comedy Shang Style)
• The death of blogging

The above is a list of posts I’ve been thinking about developing longer opinion pieces on. If anyone is still reading this blog and has a preference for any of the above, let me know and I’ll bump up the priority but otherwise I’ll just work through these in the next few weeks between my new found obsession for Tennis (have I mentioned I finally started lessons?)

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Last week on went on a glorious road trip with my favourite allies and I think I’m finally coming down with the physical results of drinking, talking, eating too much, and sleeping little.

It didn’t also help that this week has been fairly tough at work with a few deadlines, meetings and various issues. Yesterday I got up at the crack of dawn to attend the opening of a new concept store in Bondi Junction. It was fun but it didn’t do much for my plans of avoiding sickness these few weeks.

Every day my urge to travel and go frolicking in awesome places of the world continues. I hope to embark on a longer snow trip this year and work on my abysmal snowboarding skills but I can’t help but feel envious every time I’m bombarded with pictures of far off picturesque locations such as Chile on facebook.

Most depressing is the sudden realisation now that I will only have 4 weeks of travel time a year, 1 week in the snow and another planned for the Australian Open early next year may mean that I only have 2 weeks to frolic around overseas. That doesn’t do much for my plans of driving around Lake Garda ala James Bond, languishing amongst the olive groves of Sorrento and perhaps a side trip to Spain?

Yet I can’t help thinking all these wants and plans are just a method of compensating for my own loneliness. The more I see all my friends paired off and walking into the sunset the more I feel like the need to go out and collect new hobbies and experiences to fill that void in my own life. It’s sad but the brutal end will come as I pass out, face pressed to some cold pizza , vodka by my side and Alsatians nibbling at my toes.

Anyhoo for the positives in the future, the ABC will receive $167 million of extra funding over the next 3 years. A bulk of it will go to producing new local content (up from 20 hours to 70 hours) as well as content for its new Kid’s Channel in the pipeline. Methinks I should really start writing my opus, a dramedy based on my experiences at Uni. It’ll be totally compelling…to me and my friends that is.

But now is a good time to be creative, to start off that slam poetry, create that TV show and make money and fame off my perculiar blend of geeky ethnic youth intellectuality.

If none of that works…perhaps I’ll go become a roving travel guide.

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