Wanting to blog more
Unlike some loser I know, my blogs are read by people. Professors and PhDs tell me. (I suspect even the military read me.) Only lately I’m asked more often why I don’t post as much as I used to.
Like many bloggers I dream of writing a book and being published. Well, I’ve been published in anthologies but I want a book of my own. I have a novel dying to be finished but since I became an FT I never found time to sit down, write and finish the damned thing. Instead, I wrote for all sorts of publications both as polwork and a source of income.
Blogging is my tension-tamer, my stress-buster of sorts. When I’m pissed I blog more. Judging by my output the past three years I must be unhappy. But I also write about good things, so things are really not that bad.
Last month someone thought I must had too much time on my hands because I was blogging so much. So she wanted to recruit me to do some writing for human rights organizations. She was late this time. We were then busy starting a radio program which explains my absence from the so-called blogging scene the past month. Instead of ranting here I spend almost all of my waking days writing drama and radio scripts. Once recorded I help edit the audio outputs. I never enjoyed a free weekend since we started. (Kaya Natin To, Kids! DWIZ 882 khz, every Saturday, 4:30 pm)
The work is satisfying, just very difficult. Our talents are urban poor kids, many of whom are out-of-school. We talk about incest, rape, gang-rape, domestic violence, child trafficking and the like. Sometimes they are the victims themselves. It’s depressing at times really but at least we’re trying to do something about it. (Which is more than what can be said of the government’s puny efforts, if it’s not the actual perpetrator of child rights violations.)
I also wrote some things for our volunteer group, especially when we launched relief operations for victims of Typhoon Frank. That also contributed in taking more time from my blogging. This I do not really mind because we are doing actual help, with the help of our international volunteers. (www.volunteerphilippines.com)
My radio work load may lighten up a bit in the weeks to come—although I may be unduly hopeful at this point. But I still wish I could go back to blogging regularly.
In the meantime, visit my photoblog (www.snap.shutterchance.com) What I can’t put into words, I try to do it with pictures. Oh, and visit my Facebook page too. I pay it more attention than my Friendster account. And add me up. As to the loser earlier mentioned, don’t bother, asshole!
But the real reason I feel compelled to post a new entry is this new GMA 7 teen show entitled “Ka-Blog!” Jusme! Baka naman maisip ng iba hindi ako ang orig ng title ng aking blogs. So dyahe naman. Artist pa man din ako sometimes. I just hope their TV show isn’t crappy!
