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I was recently undeservingly flattered with regards to this barely updated spot - someone had forgotten and subsequently rediscovered how fun it was to read here! Entries that dated back to some time last year were then referred to. Yes. Not a very good sign, that, it isn't.

I suppose there are a few reasons:

1) Life is relatively good now. I updated the most at points when I'm under the most severe stress - check 2004 and the later parts of 2006 for prime examples. Those were the days of incredible hundreds-to-thousands words rants because things appeared to be going to pieces. I was taught that the cathartic effect of writing can be pretty incredible.

2) Related to the above point, I do not wish to bore people with narration of all the myriad annoying and mildly interesting things that ever happen in my life. Rest assured there are plenty of the former and a considerably less but still statistically significant amount of the latter, but the minutiae of life makes for neither enjoyable writing nor enjoyable reading. Also I am not a teenage girl and so I do not have these EMO or RANDOM thoughts where I talk about self-abuse and string polysyllabic words together in no particular order. Not that I believe anyone I know would enjoy reading anything like that.

3) The ST Forum has become exceedingly tedious for the past few months. People are bitching about low road tax rates for weekend cars. Right. This is no doubt an issue intimately close to the hearts of many a dedicated Singaporean motorist, but seriously it's boring. I'm pretty sure there are stupid opinions to call out on the issue, just as there are on every single issue, but I don't feel enough about the issue to even bother. No more fire-and-brimstone letters about sodomites despoiling our perfect heterosexual Eden, none that deplore the collapsing values of our heavily Westernised and thus Satanised society, a distinct lack of demands for higher education places for sub-standard but allegedly hardworking children - what can I do about that? Maybe the forum just stopped accepting those because they too realised it's fucking stupid. But this is the Straits Times we speak of here, so I don't think so. Either way I have run into a lack of material of late.

4) I forgot how fun it can be to update here. Maybe I wrote too many essays and that put me off writing. But that remark above has hauled me back a little.

But anyway, here's hoping the ST Forum sends some good stuff my way soon. Otherwise I might have to begin putting down my piss-poor attempts at fiction here, and that would be to the detriment of all.