....*poking around*

*pokes around*

Well.

In a way, I never thought I'd be here. On a blog, I mean. I read blogs, I do.  Mostly music blogs, I admit, following all the latest news and releases from my favourite bands in Japan because people are kind enough to translate those things and my Japanese is rather... poor. (Dismal, actually).

But writing a blog? Do I even have the committment for that? Me, who doesn't even have the committment for Facebook, able to sustain writing a blog?

It's a challenge. But it's one I'm fully prepared to accept for a few reasons, which I shall outline:

1. I need a de-stress thing. And solitaire isn't cutting it anymore.
2. As I said, I no longer use Facebook, which is freeing up a surprising amount of  my time. This would be a more productive fill in, I think. It really can't be any more of a giant blackhole sucking in and erasing time than FB was, can it?
3. I want to have a goal, and a place to order my thoughts, share things I like and hopefully find people with similar interests - Goodness knows there aren't many around where I live!
4. And perhaps most importantly - or at least, what has given me the push - a very good friend of mine (someone I respect very much) has recommended it to me.

So here I am, beginning my blogging journey.

This is Shi, starting a blog!

(Wish me luck ^^')