It’s exactly 2:53 AM… and it’s still dark outside, yet I’m already fully awake! I tried getting some more sleep but I just couldn’t. That’s the problem when you’re used to working at night and sleeping at day. During rest days, you just can’t enjoy a nice long sleep at night. You become "restless" on your supposed to be "rest" days! Sigh!
Anyway, looking at the bright side (well, that’s what I am always good at), I could actually enjoy the stillness of the night by catching up on my reading. I have a big pile of books I just bought recently that I haven’t read yet… not to mention a 5-inches thick book that I have to finish reading before taking my exam on November! Geez! It reminds me of my college days in UP… what others read for a month, we "have to" read for only a few days, not even a week! Oh well, that is life for Philosophy major students!
Reading would be a very productive way of spending sleepless nights… that is if you’re on the mood for it. However, at this moment I’m just not in a mood to read at all… I’m thinking of doing it… but it stops there… just "thinking"… haha! Writing would be the next best thing to do… and that’s exactly what I am doing right now. Obviously! For goodness sake! Haha!
I just started another profile again. This time in Yahoo 360. My first ever profile online was in http://www.Friendster.com (http://profiles.friendster.com/dhita18), Second was in http://www.Multiply.com (http://marius2autumn.multiply.com). This isn’t really my 1st profile in multiply but it is the only one active. Third was in http://www.MySpace,com (http://www.myspace.com/dhita98) and lastly, as I just said, in http://360.Yahoo.com (http://360.yahoo.com/dhita98). Some of you might wonder why am I creating profiles in different sites. Well, very simple! To be connected with most, if not all, of my friends. Not all of them has friendster profile. Some of them created one as soon as I invited them but some just shrugged their shoulder, deleted the invite and told me that they don’t have friendster profile and has no intention of creating one in the said site. They do have profiles in other sites anyway.
I used to have only 1 profile: my friendster profile which has been on since May 2003. Most of my friends are connected with me through that site. I guess it is the most famous networking site here in the Philippines. Then an officemate introduced me to multiply. It is a great site for storing and sharing media such as music, pictures, etc. That is where I usually search and download a song. My MySpace account was created just this October. I had received several invites before (way back in college days) from some of my friends. I believe I created an account before but I never updated it. Moreover, I don’t remember anymore my username, password nor email that I used to create it. And it would be a big inconvenience for me to try figuring out the details to log in it again! Haha! So… I just created a new one… and now, I am looking for those friends who used to invite me… I am starting to like MySpace than Friendster. It is faster to load… or maybe because I only have a few media in myspace than in the latter.
Now, why Yahoo 360? No reason at all. As I said in the beginning of this blog, I just woke up in the middle of the night. Couldn’t sleep and didn’t feel like reading so I turned on my PC and started browsing. While checking my yahoo email, I saw a line about Yahoo 360 and clicked the link. Walla! I just created my 4th online profile! All my profiles contain the same information and updates about me. So no need to jump browsing from one of my profiles to another.
My sweetheart will definitely "question" me again why do I need these profiles. So to end this blog and before my sweetheart asks, let me state a short answer. First of all, I feel glad that I am still connected with my friends in spite of the distance. Most of them are now working and living abroad (most are in Singapore and US). To correct some misconception, these aren’t dating sites but are sites made with a concept of being able to connect with just anyone specially with friends. Second, I guess it’s a cultural thing. Filipinos love to chat about anything under the sun without needing to have a special bond. Etcera.
Connecting with friends is the main reason why people creates online profile/s. Sometimes, profile gives reason and topic to talk about. Isn’t it weird sometimes when someone, a neighbor or a friend whom you seldom exchange words with, would suddenly call, email and/or even approach you and tell you… "Hey, I’ve seen your profile!", "Have you really read those books?", "Where and when those pics were taken?", "I couldn’t believe what I read!", "I didn’t know you went there!", etcetera.
To all my friends out there reading this that I missed to invite, just add me… But for those whom I don’t personally know and just want to be added to my network, I’m sorry but I don’t just add anyone…
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Published in my Friendster Account on October 27, 2007
