AT THE BEGINNING...

As I sit here at Starbucks starting this new blog, I can't help wondering if this blogging phase will ever end or is this what the new 'generation' and new 'era' is all about! Everyone is blogging these days. From the tea lady to corporate bigwigs to journalists (who already write in their newspapers - one wonders why the heck do they need to write some more in a personal blog!) to politicians, MPs and government Ministers!!! Suddenly, the internet is the Mainstream. From being scorned at as alternative and unreliable, it has suddenly been accepted as the 'holy grail' of information. Something is really wrong here!

Anybody and anybody could just create a blog, website, information portal and proclaim that what they have and their information is credible and genuine! Ok...don't get me wrong. I'm not anti-internet. In fact, I'm just the opposite. I've been hooked to the internet since I got my first taste of it way back in 1993 and got my first email in 1995. It was so cool when I exchanged emails with my fellow youth leaders at the UN World Youth Leaders Conference in Seoul in 1995. Now, I'm practically on the net all the time, what more with 3.5G phones and unlimited access!

However, I can't help but worry about how this is going to shape our world in the future. From the looks of it, I can see that the world that we know is slowly crumbling. Everyone (me included) is so disassociated from one another where we're completely glued to our laptops checking emails, sending emails, surfing news portals, blogging, uploading photos and videos, facebook-ing, friendster-ing and you-tubing, etc. that hours of our lives are spent on the net. It's amazing that I've already spent my whole morning and mid-afternoon setting this up on the net and I know I can go on for more if not for my stomach screaming for food!

But I guess that's what life is all about. Times change. People change. We either adapt or stay where we are and be left behind. I wished it needed be like this but it does and I've gotta accept it. Wallowing in the past ain't gonna change the fact that change will happen. So here I am, at 35 (though not feeling a day older and still acting like a 15 year old!) ... embarking into the world of blogging and hoping to ride the wave of change like a pro-surfer.

Lord, bless this space...