Lately I’ve been thinking about this blog. Sometimes I question and wonder why I even blog. Often I ask myself who my target audience are. Then I start self-doubting myself on my own blogging and writing ability.

This is not existential angst, people. This is what I call “blogential angst”.

Maybe it’s because I’ve been blogging since 2000. A decade has passed and personal blogs have really come a long way since. I’m not saying I’m an expert of blogs or anything, but I can say I am one of those “ancient” bloggers from the past. Well, that’s what I feel like, anyway. I just feel immensely old compared to all the younger bloggers on the Internet.

Anyway, let’s go back to my list of “blogential pondering” at the beginning.

I question and wonder why I even blog.

Why do I blog? I’ve always said I blogged because it’s a way to document “interesting” happenings in my life since I’ve moved away from paper journals. Yet how interesting is my life to document? I know I wouldn’t want to read about my daily routine on a regular basis. How many of those “I woke up, ate, went to work, came home, and wasted my time on Wikipedia” entries can I write before I sound repetitive and unoriginal? One of those is about all I can stand when I read blogs, so I don’t expect others to want to read my mundane life story every day. But I still blog the more unusual events in my life, and whenever I go back to re-read the entries, I find them to be quite helpful. I also wince when I read my earlier entries because I find myself wishing I’d been a bit more mature back then . . . but that’s a different story all together. Continue reading this entry »

On March 2005, I had decided to start up a music rotation site — called Capriccio — because I wanted to spread my interesting choice of music to a lot of people. When it comes to music, there are a lot of songs I’ve heard in my life, but I would never know the names of the songs! I know there are plenty of people like me out there, so when I started to put up songs that are commonly heard with obscure titles and composers, I’ve had plenty of people thank me for solving that mystery for them. A lot of these songs are instrumentals, and I’m always pleased to know there are people who still likes them instead of only liking those popular mainstream songs.

Now, five years later, I still try to do that and introduce people the beauty of instrumentals and classical music. I throw in oldies and Jazz. I select Asian musics that have caught my interest. I just try to post up an eclectic bunch of songs that I think need more loving and exposure. To me, Capriccio is a fun little project I’ve dedicated myself to for half a decade. Five years is quite a long time, even if the years have practically flown by.

When I started this site five years ago, I didn’t really imagine to last this long. Most of my previous websites would die a fairly quick death in a year or less at times, yet not good ol’ Capriccio. For its fifth anniversary, I decided to put up a new layout (a layout similar to the other new layouts I’ve put up because I like that simple style!) and put up a special rotation. I am not quite sure what the future holds for me, but if I can keep Capriccio up and running for another five years, I’ll be happy.

Happy Birthday, Capriccio. Thanks for being a constant steady project for me over the years. :)

Regarding the sound problem from this post . . . I think it’s fixed, and I hope it stays fixed! Long story short, this is what happened in the past couple of weeks.

1. Thought the sound problem started with the WiBro software, so I uninstalled the software. The problem still persisted, so I reinstalled the software back on Portie.
2. It hit me today that I could do a system restore from a day in January and then reinstall the WiBro software. So I did that, and the sound worked and the WiBro worked!
3. But another problem came alive . . . let’s just say I forgot I had updated my anti-virus software a week or so ago, and the system restore was from January . . . yeah, I ran into some weird problems.
4. Luckily, Cat suggested something, and while I don’t think I did it correctly, it solved the problem nonetheless.

Now. The sound works, the WiBro works, and my anti-virus programme works. Dearest Portie . . . PLEASE STAY WORKING.

Anyway, aside from my adventure of computer problems (I’ve been having some issues with my desktop, too. WTF? Is this a month where technology just hates me), I’ve been writing, writing, and writing. It’s funny. When I write other stuff, I don’t feel like blogging as much. Then again, I’ve been writing over 70k of fanfiction and role-play in the last two months . . . so yeah, I think I have a good excuse as to why I haven’t been actively blogging and reading blogs.

Such is life.

Insidious Disquisition has a new layout up, featuring fanart commissioned by my friend, Jenken! After years (I think four?) of keeping the old one, it was time for a change.

On the flipside, I am pissed off at WiBro the software and driver. For some bizarre reason, it affects my sound driver on my netbook! Now, certain sounds will not play (stuff like Youtube videos and PC game and Windows’ wave files) unless it’s through a media player. O_O;;

This weekend is Lunar New Year weekend. I shall raise hell at the KT office next week. What a way to greet the new year.

Honestly, I have gone and died in heaven. I . . . I’m just shocked by the best two and a half hours of my life. As video gamer and a musician, tonight was an experience I will never forget. I saw this wonderful concert, and I can say that if I die tomorrow, I will die a happy person.

Oh, by no means am I saying this was a perfect concert. There were some issues with it, but overall? It was almost perfect. See, I always wanted to hear video game music performed live. When I mean live, I mean in a real concert hall. To hear such a thing always felt like something out of my grasp, but I was given a chance to finally hear the famed Final Fantasy songs in one of Seoul’s grandest concert halls. Without further ado, here’s my review on a fabulous night. Continue reading this entry »