Commencement

I didn’t know how I’d start this blog. I didn’t want to start this blog in the first place.

Before, my notion of a blog is a time-consumer. I’m just gonna waste my time in front of my monitor, thinking of something sensible to type, typing nonsense anyway, and causing further damage to my 200-200 vision.

Besides, I’ve always believed that the medium for writing is a pen and a piece of paper, not a computer keyboard. So where’s the sense of blogging?

I was answered last Mar. 25, 2011, lunch time. Our lunch table at the office is actually an absorber of arguments, laughter, complaints, news, thoughts, emotions – in other words, of daily chitchats. And today, I have come to realize how simply reading blogs could affect people.

This, alone, led my fingers to commence this no-nonsense. I’ve been writing since age 11. Yes, campus journalism had been my life for almost a decade. It actually consumed 60% (or more) of my student life. And now that I’m obviously at the campus no more and I’m holding a pen and a piece of paper no longer, I guess a computer keyboard is not a too bad alternative medium for my passion.

Some write to impress. Some write just to express. (I’ve also been in that trap before.) But now, I have discovered a whole new purpose for writing: I write to inspire.

There goes the backdrop of how Asterisks began.

In my blogs, expect me to talk about much Love, my joys, my pains, my sorrows – my life.* Expect me to talk about particular events in my life, about some people I have bumped shoulders with, and how they’ve moved me in one way or another. Expect me to talk about fun, about food, about places, about movies. Expect me to talk about what makes me smile and what makes me cry.

And yes, expect me to talk about God – our true and living God. Expect me to talk about my walk with Him, and how He has carried me all throughout this journey of mine.

Expect me to talk about my Asterisks, the beautiful highlights of my life…

*The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters, He restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. Psalms 23:1-3