Writing For The Picture
I don’t know if you know, but I’ve been trying to find placeholder pictures for each entry, just so my lifestream looks pretty. Honestly, its not the best way for me to get my catharsis out, it becomes one more obstacle, which then becomes a barrier to free form writing.
But no more! For I have created the placeholder image for such purposes, as seen above, and maybe i’ll change the background image when I feel like it, but for now, this is it. Actually, I didn’t exactly create the image, I just got it off this website, and added the text on Picnik, which is a great web-based photo editing solution.
So this week kind of came and went, I don’t know how or why, but even though I’m not working, I’ve been keeping busy. Mainly recording on Monday & Tuesday nights for a music project for a secondary school, asking schools if they have relief positions available, and doing a fair amount of writing. My article has appeared on Happyesque, and it’s entitled “The Elusive Search For Happiness“. Adib has also designed a wallpaper to detail the life and death of a new year’s resolution. Oh, Adib is the creator of Happyesque, just so you know. And, I also covered the 2010 Singapore Tat2 Festival for Singularity Industries, so yes.. things have been rather hectic in a good way. The bad way is that there’s no money involved in any of these things. Yet?
So there have been a couple of things pressing on my mind lately, one of the most prominent being how am I going to balance my blogging duties? Everything sounded like a good idea at the time, but in the midst of the storm, and you have a responsibility now to editors and an audience, running a blog takes a different level of discipline. I’m not too concerned about my personal space, but Singularity Industries and Happyesque are perhaps where I should be diverting most of my writing energies, to help build it for what it was intended. I now think that building these blogs was perhaps the easy part.
Also, I need to find a job teaching soon. For monetary reasons more than anything else. So why not any job? Because my application to MOE has not been finalised yet, and it might only be by the end of February whether I’ll know if I’m going to be a full-time teacher or not. With this up in the air, it does limit my options to finding work, as perhaps I should only be finding part-time work, which isn’t such a bad idea.
But all in all, I feel like I’m in a good place. My personal relationships have never been better, perhaps because I use the extra time to actually be around and not float from my family to another friend. The extended time out has also been useful to plan the next course of my life, which is something I never really gave much thought prior to entering the workforce, but even I recognise that this timeout has gone on for just a tad too long.
So, there are a couple of things to look forward too as well. Shelves will be rehearsing soon, and we’ve got two gigs lined up. One on the 30th of January, and the other on the 5th of February. I’m actually rather looking forward to this, as it’s been awhile since we met up, everybody sort of took a break during the festive period. But we’re hungry for a piece of the action, to share our music with the people.
I don’t know if that’s all there is to it. It feels good to be writing, or chronicling things they happen.. but mostly that I know I don’t owe anyone, anything on this blog, which was why I started this in the first place. Huzzah!