Why I blogged

In 2006, I started blogging when I migrated to the concrete desert of Dubai. My former colleagues in Shenzhen inspired me to create a personal website as they anticipated I’d be bored stiff in the Middle East. Besides, Blogger was blocked in China and I could never have blogged about my great travelling experiences when I was living and working in the socialist nation. True enough, I couldn’t find much to do under the hot sweltering sun, except to explore the new media world during my long hours listening to Arabic trance on tv.

Why I had to stop

Early this year, I found that Blogger had started to block me from uploading my photos and had been prompting me to pay for extra photo storage. As I hit my limit to upload more photos taken of my life, I decided it was time to call it a day. After all, this was meant to be my photoblog, not my online diary.

Of course, I had other blogs elsewhere in cyberspace, but I no longer can commit to blogging about my otherwise prosaic life in Singapore. Yes, I’m back. And no one is interested to read anything about boring Singapore. Neither am I inspired to write anything about my job, not that I’m allowed to broadcast.

In the meantime, you can visit me at: http://www.facebook.com/amandagoh68 to find out more about what I’m up to these days.

Thanks for your support. I’ll surely miss my good old days as the carefree wife of a diplomat.