Eshin Direct

One of the things that you encounter when you don’t blog anonymously is that people have the power to use your site to basically find out everything about you before you meet them. I had that situation this week when I met up with my old friend Wendy and her boyfriend Peter. I had never met the guy yet he seemed to know so much about me already by reading my site. Of course, since I hadn’t updated certain areas for a while, he seemed to be under the impression that I was a vegetarian and a non-smoker after my failed experiments last year.

The recent Asian Weblog Awards have made me wonder whether I’m blogging for popularity or myself. One of the questions that I asked myself is whether or not I held back because I’m open about who I am. Should I take the cowardly approach to blog from anonymity and without the need to censor what I say for fear of consequences in my offline world?

At the end of the day, it is nice to blog in the light, so to speak. While it was strange to meet someone who knew me more through my blog than actually ever meeting me, it puts it out there on the table. I pretty much write what I think. I might be wrong, I might be right, but in any case, it’s me. You won’t know the whole me, but you’ll go further in knowing me by reading this site. If you don’t like what you read on this site, chances are you probably won’t like me in person but then do remember that you might not know the whole me.

One of my uncles seems to be a regular reader of the site and since I don’t get the opportunity to speak to him all that much, it was kind of cool when he said to me that he felt that he knows more about me through my site than the time we’ve seen each other. It is nice to know that my site helps to foster that connection between people I know and people I don’t yet know.

Even if only three or four of you can be bothered to comment on my posts…