C is for Charles

Mood: Calm under pressure

Currently listening to: Fort Minor - Where'd You Go

Welcome to the newest evelight/skyless/husht. Husht unfortunately died pretty soon after I renounced Photoshop. I have been tempted to get it back, but am still holding well against my kleptomania. This new blog is currently operating under the working title: "the letter C". I find myself still saving my images in the \husht\ folder under \charles\. Simply as an act of conformity, I'll continue doing this until the end of the school year. How this is relevant to you, my reader, is completely oblivious to me. My hypothesis is that this behaviour is a symptom of "blogger-syndrome" (Wong, 2006), where we (bloggers) feel the unfathomable instinct to unnecessarily express ourselves. It's slightly weirded out, I know. I am moreso frightened at the fact that I presented a hypothesis.

Some dear friends of mine are MSN Spacers, LiveJournalists, and (yes, I am not kidding) BlogSpiriters (i lol'd). Now, for one, I've totally gotten over the fancy artsy layout factor. Layout is not what makes a great blog. While the aesthetics are important and also provide a more comfortable read for my demographic, those who know me (artistically speaking) will empathise with my liking to minimalist designs. Come on, I am Charles Wong, the guy who is most likely to do anything, and nothing. It's either conservative or radical. I can't be the inbetween. I don't know how. I claimed this many years ago and it would appear to still be true this very day. Now I mentioned these other blog-service-providers (BSPs?) because I want to see a flamewar happening. I also just went back to the start of my post and started bolding random stuff.

My hypothesis is that this behaviour is a symptom of
"blogger-syndrome" (Wong, 2006), where we (bloggers) feel the
unfathomable instinct to unnecessarily express ourselves.

Well, (probably inproper use of a new paragraph) see, I'm a Blogger (yes, literally) because I have a slight amount of discrimination for the other BSPs. MSN Spaces were great, until Microsoft decided to "revamp" the scheme of the interface. Now it's plain retarded. The only good thing about MSN Spaces was the embedded photo album. Nobody can disagree on that. But even then, the photo album feature went downhill when they removed slideshow navigation. Now it's plain junk. Writing a post in MSN Spaces also causes it to lag like you're playing 5 instances of DOTA on highest video quality in the background. I am not kidding. This is the very reason I deserted my Space and came here.

LiveJournal is not so bad, other than the fact I have no idea what's going on when I write in it. My good friend Emily keeps a very clean and tidy blog on LJ, hats off to her. Gotta love the mood emoticons. They own. I think they wouldn't let me use any of my common passwords, not even with numbers or whatever. I simply couldn't be bothered remembering an extra password to keep a blog that maybe 5 people at maximum will read. And BlogSpirit just sounds retarded. K? I have no idea how this information is going to affect you. I don't think it will, and I also think I just wasted some valuable minutes of my life typing this junk.

At last, we can have a little section regarding the post title. Yes, that's right, C is for Charles and nothing else. No, not even for chocolate or cheesecake or China. Just for today, the letter C stands for nothing else. As a bonus kickstart to my new blog, check out this Mii (Nintendo Wii Avatar o_O) of me (this "me" of me, haha):

For avatar-whoring enthusiasts, you can make your own at http://www.joystiq.com/media/2006/10/mii.swf

*EDIT: After previewing the republished version of my blog with this post in full, I officially declare that I sound like an intelligent and well-informed teenybopper. This is a great day for the Socialite World Order (Wong, 2006) and a terrible day for fine journalism.