An Apology For Blogging
I’ve always had a downright disregard for blogs. Some detail verbatim the acts and occurences of their daily life, and their reactions to them, as if they are the only person who has eaten a hamburger or been late for work or watched a particular television programs. Though this is naieve and annoying, it is a blessing compared to sophisticated bloggers who know we all live the same lives but feel that their sensibilites provide far more insight into life’s various mysteries and banalities, and egotistically believe that they can make you accept their perceptive dissection of day-to-day experience as your own, and resultantly imbue you with greater self - awareness. The waves of blog - parodies mocking the trivial, self-important pretension of the average Joe Blogger have had quite an effect of me.
The e-mails at the start of my trip were many and personalised, they became general and addressed to larger groups, and now I think its fairly obvious that they’re just one-off, impersonal discourses. But as long as China’s still got interesting things to offer up, and everyday it invariably does, then I’ll write it up. Hopefully it is interesting to anyone at home who reads it, while it is also enjoyable to put down my thoughts on the page. It should also keep me in contact with peeps from back home, although it feels more and more like a one-way thing.
I might do well to look back at the well-meaning hypocrisy of this despatch while I am preparing the tenth draft of went to work… then the gym… watched big brother… in six months time.
August 4th, 2005 at 10:01 am
remember me, the aussie from cape trib?
let me assure you, you’re keeping me entertained. keep it up mate.
Morgan
August 4th, 2005 at 11:50 am
Ha! Y’all say ‘peeps’ in Olde England? Or France? Or wherever the heck Jersey is? Heh. Cool.
August 4th, 2005 at 6:50 pm
How can you forget a guy with whom you play badminton in a tropical rainforest, and teaches you Waltzing Matilda on the uke? Most of the other people I met up the coast were filthy chavs on a gap year.
[disdainfully taps ash from pipe, adjusts smoking jacket and turns troubledly from the faltering hearth]
August 14th, 2005 at 10:59 pm
I can relate to your hatred of blogs. I can think of one in which a girl had an entire section devoted to what beauty products she is currently using and how they are going for her. And yet, being a foreigner in China changes one mind about a lot of things, doesn’t it? Well, I mean, I still harbor a little hatred for the general idea of blogging but… in practice, the China blog community makes life in China seem just a little less lonely. Plus, the act of putting your thoughts down on the page is kind of soothing. Yours is a great blog though, as we all can attest to, hope you keep it up forever.
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