Blogging, it really didn't start today

It just occurred to me that I started blogging in year 2000. I had this website called 'my y2k joint'. I remember as the year hit year 2000. I promised I would revisit my writing so I wrote a number of short stories and blogs which I published online and I remember it was on a free website called xoom. com. For some strange reason they folded up yes the site vanished from the face of cyber world and there when my site and my writings. now the interesting thing is that I still have the stories in hard copy and still working on transferring them to soft copy to republish them. I think it would be a good read, to see how much or not I have changed in the least 9 years :-) time sure does fly.

I met a friend last year who asked me if I still blogged and the language seemed so foreign, I thought ‘blogged?’ He then turned to his friend and said, 'this lady started blogging even when people didn't know what blogging was’. I still didn’t get it then. I guess what I knew was that I had a website which I wrote stories on, most about my life and my thoughts on funny issues. I had funny titles like 'Ashewo na ashewo', 'the price of gari', 'journey to Alcatraz'. Gosh, you must be thinking what was I on then. I will post them again; one by one and you can have a good laugh yourself.

I have just always had this dream of being a writer. I don't think it was ever meant to be my primary profession but my first memories of writing is a children’s story I wrote and I must have been about 7 years old. I wrote the story and then I created the book myself with illustrations on the opposite pages. I can’t even remember what the story was about I just vaguely remember the illustrations were of a girl with spiky hair that resembled medusa. When I finished I remember folding it and stapling it into a booklet. Then I presented it to my dad who said he would have it published. I am still waiting till today.

My next real attempt came in secondary school where I started writing an autobiography in my 4th year. I lost that somehow and abandoned ship for a long time till the 'y2k joint project' after which I abandoned ship again, then I wrote 2 short stories the year after and the last attempt was in 2005 where I went through a phase and wrote several (4) articles which were professional based. Well so far this year, I have revised one of my articles and it will be published in the next coming weeks. Because I am an HR consultant, it's on 'Managing high tech employees'. My writing competes with other things which I also enjoy; my hr career, a constant quest for knowledge, consulting, imparting knowledge through training, seminars and workshops and making a difference. The ideal for me will to be successful in all the aforementioned areas.