Blogging

Blogging.
Just a verb. Just one word.
To think it took over my life.

It all peaked when my camera spoilt, and I seriously "die-die" needed a camera (my camera phone at that point of time couldn't upload pictures onto the comp: Nokia 6610i).
I saw this blogging competition at Youth.sg, and I decided to just give it a shot. And boy was I lucky.
I made it to the top 20 for the last and final round, my chances of getting that camera became SO REAL.
I worked tirelessly for one entire week, chionging around school, asking for votes.

The results were out, I WON. I got a new camera, and following that, I got a lot more fame.
I was so self-absorbed, nothing else in the world mattered.

It was then when blogging got the better of me. I didn't know at that point of time you see. And I even dare say, "I LIVE FOR MY BLOG".

This continued on for a while, and I felt like a mini celebrity. People coming up to me saying, "Hey, love your blog babe."
WOW, the feeling was overwhelming. It wasn't short-lived as many people would believe so.

My blog hits just got higher and higher and higher. Until I decided to take part in the grand finals of the blogging festival, and then (really unfortunately) I made it to the top 20 again.
This time, I swear I was MINDLESS. I just rallied for votes like crazy. Like come on man! Who doesn't want that Apple MacBook.
I lost myself during that period of time. And I didn't even realise it.

Sure I lost, but my hits just shot higher, higher and higher. After all this time of clamouring for attention, I've finally got it!
Nat, here's YOUR CHANCE to shine. Come on, the world loves you, and they just want more of you. Give your all! Give your everything to your blog.

It even climaxed to a point, where I felt that I needed an online identity. And I called myself NUTNAT. I changed my blog URL to nutnat.blogspot.com for a moment of time.
And I gave up my entire iwantamoment attachment.

Well, this URL means a lot me personally.
When I was younger, I've always been looking for God, but I didn't think I would find him in this life. EVER. And I also thought that putting the word "Jesus" in my blog URL was lame.
And so I just left it as "iwantamoment(withjesus)".


Until YISS came round, I felt that I wasn't ready to leave my blog. Just stagnant there for so many days. So vulnerable to the internet world. Well, I could have privatised it, but something told me, no.
I left my blog anyway.

Now, I'm back.
And I'm a new person.
Sticking to iwantamoment.
Sticking to the old Nat you knew, yet a new Nat altogether!