People may say that I have been blogsite-hopping. That I am restlessly changing the sites in which I post my blog entries. I am guilty of that! However, there are tons of reasons why I am back here in blogger. Yes, I AM BACK! I made my first ever blog here 3 years ago. That's about 2008. Quite a long time. So how about some "Welcome Back" streamers out there bloggers?

I started blogging here when I was about 4th year High School. Eventually, I got bored. I knew of not even a single friend who kept their own blog. I was on my own. And everytime I look at and read my old blogspot page [ emopunkprinz.blogspot.com ], I always laugh at my childishness. The posts there are so unplanned, unmanaged, and impulsive. Except for some pictures, it is worth to be hidden from the open. However, I want to keep that as a record. My first blog. Oh come on! That's for my children to read.

The same story happened with my multiply account. On the peak of multiply's 15-minute fame, I left blogger and jumped there at the same year. Still, I had to leave my page [ emopunkprinz.multiply.com ], which is a proof of a dark-loving personality I once conquered, because I got tired of blogging when only a few people follow me. Sadly, those few people are those who viewed my page through accident. I just hope it was serendipity for them. I changed home again.

I stopped blogging after 2 consecutive site failures. But not writing. I never will. When facebook came out, I posted some of my write-ups there as NOTES. Since it's a social networking site, I got the taste of what it's like for my pieces to be scrutinized, rejected and appreciated. Yet, there was still a hole. Something that kept my writing satisfaction on the edge.

I should give credits to Eia Guimbor for directing me to tumblr.com. I saw 30 reasons to love tumblr. *quoted*. I loved the photos there. Undisputedly, it's the best site for pictures. (Try it if you haven't been there!) So I also started building my own tumblr home. I was too delighted by the pictures that maybe my page [ iamnorbert.tumblr.com ] almost resembles earth's ratio of water to land. 70% photos, 30% words. And wait, I want to be a word-blogger and honestly, tumblr is for people with DSLR cameras. And one more thing, I got helpless when posting wordy blog entries in tumblr when I realized that it was inconvenient for readers to leave their comments. Pathetic.

I embraced wordpress after I saw a link on a page of someone I follow on twitter. I was initially floored. Shoot! It was way to cool. [ iamnorbert.wordpress.com ] The widgets: hoverPics, Twitter posts, blogroll, calendar, tag cloud, category cloud and blog hits, they all amused me. Getting me do a single overnight to make the entire page look good. But it's the header thing that greatly pulled me. I always wanted something like that in my blog and so, my wordpress header is something I worked hard for. My problem however with this site is the uploading of photos that must be included in your blog posts. Darn. It really consumes much time. Crunching and Saving suck. It bothered me again but I just let it that way. It was the only one that's not good about wordpress.

Here comes a lady of words, photos and links. *chuckles*. Sittie Ayeesha Dicali's blogger account [ ayeeshamd.blogspot.com ] made some hissing sound. Wooh! I just think her blog is awesome. And I swear to the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus that her header is flooringly eye-catching. I was like, "I shouldn't have left blogger if I knew I could do and have these stuffs her blog brags." Furthermore, I opened Ogie Diaz' Twitter page and clicked on the link of his website. I found out that it is here on blogger and man, he has 1000+ followers. Come on! I wasn't amazed by the number. *really*. I was with the F-O-L-L-O-W-E-R-S. People finally mind reading you.
Isn't this what I was born for?

And so, I am here again. Starting a new blogging life in this site. I promise to keep this updated. And well-structured. Not bad with the site with the highest number of bloggers. Not bad! Click. I am home.

P.S. --> my tumblr and wordpress accounts will still be active. I'll be posting special stuffs to see and read there. Some stuffs fit for them. :)