Three years of blogging had taught me to believe in myself (a little) and to know the things I am capable of doing. For an easy going and was been tagged as “irresponsible” happy go lucky parasite( I just made up this, please mother don’t get mad at me), blogging turned out to be my crowning glory.

I was nothing but a freeloader when my parents and my sister resolute to bring me to Singapore to look after my niece. There, I end up using my free time browsing the net – I was not allowed to chat anymore for they spent hundreds of bucks during my one month stay some years ago. There was no DSL and cable internet that time.

I didn’t chat this time but I discovered a whole lot of new things that I thought were far different from wasting time bitching with other bitched online. Sad to say…the latter part of my chat life wasn’t good. People are fighting over – I hate to say this- money, power and boys.

I have no money, powerless and boys were not born to get close to me, so I better stay away with these people or else, they will eat me alive.

I saw this Filipino site and made me sunk into reading, I didn’t know that it was supposed to be called a blog. I hopped from link to link until I realized that I was spending my entire days lurking to these brilliant and intelligent people’s work.

I said to myself, I cannot do what they were doing. I don’t have the knowledge. I don’t know how to write but of course, I can pretend that my former Psychological Physiology professor was giving me an essay exam on how physiology affects the behavior of an individual…Presto! I know, I can make one post, but I don’t know when I can create a new one.

I started blogging using my native language and learned that I am better at that. I started posting my wonderment on Singapore’s modern infrastructures and started comparing my country with this quite a new country.

At the same time, I learned to tell my disfavored childhood life in an prudent way.

I vented my opinions on Philippines society and politics and most of all, I made friends through all walks of life.

My family in the Philippines, even the officemates of my aunt are reading my blog, and if may I quote what they have been saying about my writing pursuit, “THEY ARE MY BIGGEST FANS”.

Now, I don’t feel like a parasite anymore. I am their idol parasite.

Recently, I was dogged to blog using the English language to convince myself that I can do the same thing in my 2nd language. It is my self-esteem that draw me and swayed me to do the things that I am not good at, but in the long run, it is also my self-esteem that pushes me back to the thing that I enjoy most…Do my blabbering in my native language….

Bobang Pinay is back with not just a tagline but with new domain name. I hope my friends who used to drop by will come back too.

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