Peace

Facebook, MySpace, Multiply, Friendster, Hi5, Yahoo 360, Windows Live Spaces...looks like the social networking community has expanded too much...I've actually been sent so many invitations and some of them from people I do not know from Adam. But that's exactly the point right? To gain new friends but keep the old.

As for blogging, I have only this and Windows Live Spaces. And I remain faithful to the old run of the mill journal entry ala Bridget Jones. Finally saw Moleskine being sold here in Page One. And it comes in different colors! I'll probably buy one soon as soon as the old diary's filled up.

One of the partners in the largest Singaporean law firm told me that she never took up writing as a profession because it was not lucrative. I guess that remark firmed up my determination not to work for her (or someone like her).

"Do you do it for the money, honey? The answer is no. Don't now and never did. Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it… I have written because it fulfilled me. Maybe it paid off the mortgage on the house and got the kids through college, but those things were on the side–I did it for the buzz. I did it for the pure joy of the thing. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever."

On Writing

Stephen King

I was watching an episode in Discovery Channel about a Japanese zookeeper who handraised a polar bear, which he had named "Peace." Now that's what you call a great job.