10:12 | about mikelcleus
ako ay isang maangas na bata. hindi dahil pinili kong maging maangas, o pinilit akong maging maangas. pero dahil tayo ay nabubuhay sa isang maangas na mundo, at ng mga maaangas na tao. at kailangan maging maangas din. angasan na ito!
from Salipawpaw (2005)
i was introduced to blogging in january of 2005 by palanca-winner sir mykel andrada. i was taking humanidades 1 then and all course-works and outputs were posted on our class blog, which sir mykel put up. incidentally, i have one short story that is still posted on that site [plus you can read some of his students' sexual autobiographies there]. the rest, as the cliche goes, is his--my--story.
my first blog was titled salipawpaw. being a newbie in the blog world [i still am], the site was a wreck. the template needed tweaking. the entries were bordering on being stupid. simply put, the blog did not generate any traffic. after some time, i lost interest in blogging and had forgotten all about salipawpaw.
i was in second year college then. young, stupid, and fresh from the province, i was at the peek of my soul-searching in a university that is best known for challenging rules. then came a point in february-march 2005 when i was lost in my own fantasies. i ran unopposed for a position in the college student council. i was seventeen and a marxist. i was invited to join a fraternity. life is opening up its many doors to me.
i don't know if it was hormones or psychological instability, but i left. i was disillusioned. i left everything and decided to transfer to a new campus. i was lost and needed guidance.
that was when i was introduced to globe's g-blogs, and started blogging again. i called my blog der ubermensch amikus, and it became a repository of all my existential angst. the blog did ran for one year, but, because of poor costumer service, i decided to leave g-blogs and switch to a new provider--blogger.
i had two blogs in blogger in early 2006. the first is this blog, mikelcleus, my primary blog, and another called test-site, which i use to experiment on css and html. in 2007, blogger was bought by google. experimenting on css and html on the new google-blogger blog was, for me, harder [besides that, i guess, everything became better when google bought blogger]. it was really lucky that i have two accounts from the old blogger.
now, what is mikelcleus about? as its maker and author, i don't know. i know nothing. like my past blogs, i guess this blog will be a repository of snippets of me in time. many times i had deconstructed this blog, to be reconstructed again to something new which better represents who i am [or who i want to be] in a particular point in time.
come, travel with me as i try to unravel what this called life is all about.