Scarletized

New Template!

2006-01-27T21:41:00.000+08:00

Much better. Took me a couple of days because I kept getting interrupted. There's nothing I hate more than getting interrupted when I'm working on code, ugh.

Sarah Michelle Gellar up there (I'm a Buffy nut). I'm pretty satisfied with it.

This Template Bores Me

2006-01-26T14:04:00.000+08:00

It's quite lovely, but I can't stand it. It doesn't make me want to blog and fill it up with entries, like the templates of my former blogs used to. I haven't been designing for a while, so since my desinging skills are a bit rusty I thought I could stick with a simple template for the time being. But the perfectionist in me just can't do it. I need a better template, and I need it now.

Da Vinci Code: In Theaters May 19

2006-01-24T16:59:00.000+08:00

I haven't been keeping close tabs on the production progress of The Da Vinci Code because I'm quite an impatient person, and after spending most of last year waiting for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and of course Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, I felt that I need to take a break from anticipation overload.

But today, I read all about this unexpectedly. "The Da Vinci Code" will be the opening-night movie at the Cannes Film Festival in May, organizers said... the film will debut at the Riviera festival and in French theaters on May 17, the festival said Saturday. The rest of the world will have to wait two days, until May 19."

Just like that, I'm looking forward to a film's release again. I guess I sorta missed that.

Hell Yeah

2006-01-23T13:50:00.000+08:00

This has gotta be my 88th attempt at blogging (that's not a very close approximation... I've just lost count to be honest). Not that my previous blogs weren't successful. My very first one was quite good -- I loved doing it and I had a small following of some sort. But I closed it down because at one point I just didn't feel like blogging anymore.

After a few months I started another one, but again I closed it down after a while because I no longer felt like sharing my thoughts with the world. I was going through a really rough time then, and what I usually do in the face of impending depression is: I retreat into my own world, and turn the outside off. Which is what practically everybody does in that situation I suppose.

After that I tried blogging again a few times. Everyday I kept thinking up things I was itching to blog about, but because of my track record I talked myself out of it. That didn't stop me from starting a few up though. Obviously, I ditched those blogs. So here we are again.

What's different now? What makes me think I can keep this blog alive, knowing that I let so many others die? A few reasons:

I'm now officially separated. Kicked him out of the house once and for all. So I don't have to worry about him wandering in while I'm in the middle of blogging (I hate the looking-over-the-shoulder thing).

Because of the separation, I have more control over my time now.

My 4-year-old daughter just started school, so I have more free time. I'm a full-time mom (since day one), so free time hasn't always been easy to come by.

Here's hoping.