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The idea of blogging, or more generally writing, has not appealed to me until I discovered some of its benefits. A series of events occurred that lead to the creation of this blog. As much as I could recall, one of the significant catalysts is the conversation that I had with one classmate a couple of months ago.

I must confess that the conversation had been truly "ear-opening", more so with the fact that I was being given advice by someone about 8 years senior than me. And from someone who has involved in a project that awarded him a five-figure pay (at his twenties), I listened attentively for his words of "wisdom" - hoping that I may profit from it too. My classmate shared with me about the idea of reading a lot on a niche topic in the industry one is concerned with, and upon which one can then write a white-paper to enhance one's credibility.

Intertwining with this event is the episode when I read about "Making Writing As Your New Year Resolution" in one newsletter called Early To Rise - dubbed the most popular health & wealth newsletter in the Internet. Again, many of the tremendous benefits to be reaped from writing are described. The reading on this piece of article on the day of Christmas 2008 further strengthen my conviction - and the will on my part about embarking on a journey to write. I feel blessed that I'm here now.

Every ideas that I think of, I hope to be able to crystallise it - to make them come alive. At least doing so would enable the sharing of ideas with others. These ideas are basically juxtaposed, threaded and meshed - in the process enabling the incubation of "new" ideas. Oh well..said another way, these are not exactly my ideas - but a jigsaw-puzzle of many pieces of interesting stuffs from many people of whom I am fortunate to relate with. This got me into thinking of the remarks uttered by my lecturer a few years ago - that ideas don't just drop from the sky!

As for treasurable memories, each one of them is also a wonderful lot - a million-dollar experience that is worth noting, and which will make one smiles when recalling the precious moments. Hence my longing to capture and immortalise them through words.

And here I am - ready and poised to share my humble ideas and thoughts for the benefits of others. And hopefully through this springboard I can enhance my writing skills too.