Showing posts with label Blog-a-versary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blog-a-versary. Show all posts

Friday, 2 August 2013

33 with a 9 years old blog

And yes like every year, 3 days separate my blog's Birthday (31st of July) and my Birthday (2nd of August), I'm 33 years old with a 9 year old blog :}


When the millennium (Y2K) was about to come, a lot of fuss went around and many thought that the world would end, forgetting that those 2000 years are actually from where we started counting after an event! A thing that is not related to how old is our world. After that I realized how relative time is, how we with certain events make it matter or not, and that a year added to our age is simply a representation of a count from the event of our birth. Age was never related to how old we really are, its more related to how long have we been in this world, we are as old as we want to be, yes biology and physics rule, but our pretty minds do have a say in it.

So at 33 years old, I stand still and look back to what have I did, been through and experienced in those years, its been a joyful ride. Happiness like sadness is an essential part of life, you choose which you want to stick to :}

I am happy that I am alive, passed through every bit of my life, those sad bad days have molded me to the person I am now just as the many happy good days did, I am grateful for all the eyes who reached this line, the people I met in the cyber world, the real world, mostly my friends and family.

The best two concepts I gained and very proud of, are:

1- Life is simple, its a journey, we are visitors, one day we will go, think of what you will take to your grave and what you will leave behind for people you love or the world, be simple, simplicity is the BEST thing you can live by and it doesn't cost much :p

2- Change is the only constant, I made a huge change in my life, which I will soon dedicate a series of posts to share, change even if it looks or feels hard, is in the end doable :}

Of course the Iraqi invasion on my beloved Kuwait back in 1990 comes to mind in this day, I keep praying for those who dedicated their souls to Kuwait, and for us, the ones who stayed alive, to learn and not just remember the 2nd of August as the day Iraq invaded Kuwait....
الله يرحم شهدائنا 

Monday, 30 July 2012

8 years

Yesterday , Sunday 29th of July, my blog has been around for 8 years.

I admit over the years I had my peak and low moments of blogging, yet it has been around, always there for me, my dear blog. Its one of the very rare things I kept close, till now there is a weird thing that attracts me to it.

Anyhow, this post is dedicated to my dear blog, my quiet tiny space online, every "bit" of you is loved :} Keep on Chill'n

Friday, 29 July 2011

Been blogging for 7 years!


Sure it was not a constant practice and not on the same pattern, there are some writer block, boredom (I am easily bored!), busy with life periods but the connection was never cut off. I honestly do love my blog very much and blogging for I know, is the longest hobby I kept on doing along with painting/drawing and reading.

What made me go on? The new world I came to discover and the new me, that I with time, came to share with the world, how text and pictures (365 project) can make you express your ideas. The joy of writing is ironically, to me right now, un-writable. It is a joy that I can best express with my smile while writing this post right now, and it is a really big happy one :D

Other than that, the blog-o-sphere around me has taught me a lot, interacting with people from ALL OVER the world, with various mentalities and ideas, that with time I became more tolerant with, it all eventually taught me more than I had imagined I would ever, in my lifetime, in the comfort of being in front of a screen! Other than the exposure to other ideas, mentalities and ideologies (I even learned the meaning of ideology :p) has made my view more broad to the world, in a simple unconventional way (like books for instance). The different stereo types of people to be faced online, the different situations you are placed in, either with comments on the blog, e-mails, IM’ing and personal meetings, has defiantly added a lot to me.

So here, the tribute goes to my blog, the simple space for me to express and interact, a HUGE thank you to who ever invented the idea of a web-log and the service providers (blogger, wordpress, maktoob,,,, etc.) and a gigantic thank you to whoever has entered my life, be it good or bad, negative or positive experiences, all were beneficial and helped much to make me the person I am today. I thank you all.

Last but not least, the story of how I got into this enchanting world! It all started with Mad M2000’s Yahoo e-mailing group! So among the messages from active people in the Kuwaiti underground cartoonist’s group was Zaydoun, it was the first time I ever knew the web-log thing existed! So looked around and got me a blog, with all do thanks to those two in particular.

Then as I decided to quit, after two posts ONLY! the next major influencing person has hit me, Nibaq, who I knew the meaning of his nickname more than 3-4 years later, he gave me the light on the community he has built for us, the Kuwaiti/ living in Kuwait bloggers. Nibaq of all the people in the internet is the one person I can say has worked silently and made a HUGE difference in the Kuwaiti blog-o-sphere, caring for the activity of blogging ONLY, he did succeed in building a simple virtual community for his peers! I highly appreciate his efforts in Kuwait blogs and Safat "the Kuwait blogs aggregator" and wish that it gets up and running again. Safat was a major morning stop for me, right when the blogroll contained 20 something blogs till the boom in 2005/2006 where I lost track of how many bloggers are in it. To Nibaq a huge thank you.

Afterwards the list goes on from bloggers all around including the ones who commented on the post above (Rampurple and Goliath) to the many others I have known. A lot of bloggers have left the blog-o-sphere, quietly or with an action filled dramatic way, in both cases I felt like I missed a lot and still do. A lot of bloggers out there that I have NEVER met did influence me in my life and my view of life greatly. To all of those who I met virtually, in real life, blogged or interacted with me (commenting) I say thank you.

So my dear blog, journey of blogging, people I knew or read, I appreciate you all and love you all :)

Monday, 2 August 2010

214 : 30 with a 6 year old blog


29.7.2010
My blog turned 6 :>
2.8.2010
I turned 30 :}

also a lot of memories came to mind, I wish I had the strength to complete the post I wrote about my memories of the Iraqi invasion on Kuwait back in 2.8.1990 but am too tired to do so, had a long day, will post the next part of it ASAP

I'm not into birthday parties & never had one actually nor like to have one, but I do like to have a good reason for cake :p so took my favorite Red Velvet in Kuwait from November Bakery & tried their 3aila "Dark chocolate" cake which was also good!

Sunday, 2 August 2009

19 - 5 - 29



29.07.2009 : ChilloutKuwait is 5 years old
02.08.2009 : Q80-ChillGirl is 29 years old :D

Still the memory of the Iraqi invasion on our beloved Kuwait is fresh in my mind, although it is 19 years back but I still remember the morning I woke up thinking that my birthday was the most important thing in the world, to see my mother crying to the news of Iraq invading Kuwait! Today bares a bitter sweet memory, bitter for being occupied and having the most important proof of our national identity stolen! And also sweet for being liberated again, re-built again to be the Kuwait we have today. Defiantly not a perfect one and we always aim for the best, still it is so good to have a country :)

So 2009 marks the last year of my 20s :D I still don't feel that I'm as old as I should be and defiantly plan to rock in my 30s & as long as I live inshallah :>

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

4 Years old

And in the 29th of July, 2004 I started this blog with a comment-less post and never thought that I would go this far with blogging :) I was 24 back then and soon will be 28, four years :} I feel that we grew together me and my blog *:


الى بلوقي العزيز اهدي هالرسمه الارتجاليه اللي رسمتها بمطعم ماكارونيز جريل اللي حبيته بسبة هالفكره العجيبه انهم يخلونك ترسم، اعتقد انها للاطفال بس بالنسبه لي ما اطوف اني اشخبط لا انا ولا خواتي
:>

Sunday, 29 July 2007

3 years

Today my blog is officially 3 years old,,

3 years back, in 2004 I almost left this blog, to my surprise Nibaq the owner of Kuwait blogs dot com has found my blog & with his comment he pushed me to stay & become a blogger. Of course now in 2007 I would like to say sorry for the big "bdleya" ya NiBaq not NiPaq ;p

The best thing about blogging is that the only commitment I have is towards my thoughts, they make me write, also the idea of documenting some parts of my life is nice too.

To all the bloggers out there, I knew, commented on their blogs or they commented here in my blog or even passed by silently, bloggers or not, I love you all :D Because in a direct or indirect way you touched my life, some of you are like family to me, others are like friends, some made me learn lessons, some made me think several times before saying any thing... All in all I grew with this blog & along my personality too :)

I enjoy blogging
I will keep it up as long as I can

I love you my dear blog :*
Happy 3rd year for us

Friday, 29 July 2005

To my dear blog

Happy birthday :} you are 1 year old, its been so much fun with you & you have been the best of friends & brought me a lot of good friends too..

I started out with "Nothing meaningful will be written this is the first day ...… I will chill out :P" ..

Today after a year I learned that you don't have to sound meaningful to your self or to any one to blog :} simply because its ur blog & ur space, weather you want to be a philosopher or null headed its perfectly fine :> as long as you deep inside stay Y-O-U & not try to be some one else to please you or others :)

You will stay as my chill-out-of-life place although publicity suffocatedd me a little but I learned how to reduce it & keep a margin of free space for me :}