Purpose

Main Entry:	purpose
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	intention, meaning, aim
Synonyms:	ambition, animus, aspiration, big idea, bourn, calculation, design, desire, destination, determination, direction, dream, drift, end, expectation, function, goal, hope, idea, intendment, intent, mecca, mission, object, objective, plan, point, premeditation, principle, project, proposal, proposition, prospect, reason, resolve, scheme, scope, target, ulterior motive, view, whatfor, where one’s headed, whole idea, why and wherefore, whyfor, will, wish

Quoted directly from http://thesaurus.reference.com, good website to find well, synonyms as above.

Anyhoo, enough with the wish-washy flashy copy pasta quick and lazy work (too many adjectives).

Main purposes of this blog are as the following:

• Journal to keep track and induce progress in life.
• Collection of information for the general viewing public.
  

Goodness, reading back, it looks too formal and simply ridiculous. Lame. Dry.

But I can't be wet all the time, like a doggy's nose. And lameness exists so that handicapped people's homes exist. Or the other way around. Having a tad amount of writer's block now; sad.

Point of the matter is, this blog is going to be written inductively. Inductive is the antonym of seductive, er I mean deductive. Wait, that previous sentence just compares apples to oranges, hence a fruitless effort (what a pun). In short, the blog is inductive; as in to go about points from specifics to general terms. In just two words, generalisation of concepts (oops, that's three).

Feeling vague? Don't worry, I do too.
Examples would do the trick.

This blog isn't intended to bore you away with my daily rantings of what time I woke up, which gyroscopic movement (self-coined term) I used to brush my teeth, what facial soap I use, breakfast (I love breakfast!) and so forth. Those are specific things. What happens in a day, happens in a day, it's a fleeting experience, live through it and it's over.

But what's really interesting and longer lasting is the fact that the general idea about how it was done, rather than what it is, bears more weight or meaning. Referring to the paragraph above (if you skim through my posts, you'd miss it so I'm reminding you now);
a post about the irregularity of wake-up times and the factors to it,
a post about the relation of face-scrubbing to noticeable effects and psychological imprints to it,
a post about what a facial soap should be and it's many other uses (this one's a little dry),
a post about breakfast in general (yeah, did I mention I love breakfast?);
all these posts about simple trivial things complicate themselves and well, become more inflated in substance.

In truth however, it is pretty much represented by the last phrase "inflated in substance", as they are just simple, daily routines. A rose, no matter how you look at it, is a rose.

But a rose is a symbol of love, roses are red (also blue, yellow, pink, white and whatnot with genetic engineering), roses are beautiful yet thorny, roses that are meant to signify everlasting love eventually whither and die.

(I just used an example to explain another example)

Mm-hmm, I have a knack for wasting time.
Spam companies should hire me.

Back to the point.

Why would I bother to drive into unnecessary detail and complexify (the word's wrong) things?
Simple; because I can.

That, and as well as to give people paradigm shifts (I like big phrases). Start looking at the world differently. Our world's population is climbing steadily (until the oil runs out, or a massive epidemic occurs) and each of us are just regular Joes and Janes.

Wake up and smell the roses. Be different. Prod every single detail not just once or twice, but until your prod-er breaks.

And even if you don't wanna do that, just read through the luncheon meat (spam) I produce, and watch my attempt at twisting and turning your world upside down.


Note:
A quicker method to turn your world upside down is to buy a map from Australia. They, apparently, produce maps that place their nation as North. So they're up. An upside-down world.

Wow and I seriously thought for a moment that I had writer's block.

Blog Format

Yes, the ball is rolling now.

Ouch, that ran off in a certain, dry manner. But I just wanted to link this post to the one before, partly because then it would entice readers into reading more, and also allow me to see how blogspot.com works, as whether they sort posts by time or alphabetical order. Sorry, I'm new to this whole business of blogging.

And yet another paragraph that has absolutely no substance whatsoever.

This post was created to set the format and style of the remainder scribblings (are they scribblings, they're all just bits and bytes) of.. my first new blog! Okay, ignore those last three words, sooo amateurish.

Actually ignore the entire previous paragraph, I feel sort of embarrassed that I didn't know how to spell "amateurish".

So why'd I want to set standards and format?

You see, I believe that change can only be measured if there were constants that could be compared to it. A developed country is considered developed if they're less developed ones to be compared with. White is truly white with presence of black around it. Certain groups of certain colours seem smarter when compared to other groups of.. wait that came off really bad.

Point is, it'd be nice if there were references and well, constants to be compared to as mentioned earlier. Scratch that colourful analogy.

So, as format and rules go hand in hand (actually they do not), I henceforth set rules to my own posts:

Rules to my own posts (redundant title)

1. Always keep proper, correct English. Yes, a lot of what I post are colloquial-styled form of the "E" language, but grammar-wise and to most of my target readers' eyes, the "E" will do. Also, because many bloggers seem to claim that they blog to improve their "E". Saying that and posting horrendous, indescribable sentences, very comparable to the compliment-insult "beautifully ugly". Does that term even exist? I think it does.
   
   
2. Posts are collections of paragraphs, which are collections of sentences, which are collection of words, which are collection of letters. Hence, some format for them:
   
   
   • Paragraphs are to be short. Nobody loves big blocks of texts (no offense to some people), but instead, small one-liners tastily placed around a post enhances the main driving point. I like that idea, I wonder if others do. But this is my blog.
   • Sentences are to be articulated by use of commas. This is because I usually write long sentences, short ones are used less. I write exactly how I think (wait doesn't everybody?) and I think with alot of pauses. The commas denote points where you would pause when you speak, well that's unless you speak like a robot.
   • Words used are to be internationally recognised, unless I coin my own terms (which I do). Nothing much to be said here, conduct of English governs this pretty much.
   • Letters include a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, t, u, v, w, x, y, z. One letter was accidently left out, made missing from the list intentionally, see who bothers to investigate which one it is.
     
     
3. Target readers:
   
   
   • Myself. Okay, very obvious fault in that. Why post an online blog, available for the eyes of everybody to read if the target reader/audience (nothing to hear though) was only myself? But yes, I do want to have a sort of journal to mark my progress (or the lack of it).
   • Everyone else. The blog is written as partly monologue, partly direct one-on-one dialogue. I use the term "you", well it sounds very chatty and personal. Something I lack of, because I prefer one-to-many relations as compared to just two people talking. More on that later, very much later.
     
   
   
4. Blog titles are to be kept short, simple and sweet (recycled phrase, but effective). What's the point if the first sentence of an amazing story is used as a title? Already as is, I almost never begin any of my works (work if you wanna consider it that way) with proper direct openings. And even if I do, I make it a point to let it be known I put effort into it, hence making an indirect direct introduction, hence not a direct one. Wow, convoluted sentences.
   
   
5. Content. Actually, no rules here actually. I would never start a post unless I knew what I was going to write. Fortunately, I'm able to write for any given title, well maybe most titles. Ask me to write about US politics or how a salamander sticks to a wall and I may stutter and fail at it. Hmm, thinking back, I'd sorta find a way to go around it and pull the content to somethign else more writable. Hence, no rules.

Five (5) rules set at 10.29pm, November 18th 2008.
More rules to be set, but to be added below this and labeled with respective dates.
Sorry for inconsistencies, don't think I'd be able to list all of it now. No country ever set its rules in a short time frame, unless you live in Malaysia.


An abrupt end.

To get the ball rolling!

Originally, I wanted to start off with a flashy and catchy title, a post with content that contradicts itself and an ending that seems like an opening. In essence, well, an amazing first post!

But so did I want to travel through time, go to space, marry a certain person, learn to ride a bicycle, have more willpower and finish my dinner (fish and beans, go figure). Peculiar how I sort of displayed myself and my present situation, actually, in fact I do want to do all those things, except two. Wonder if you can guess them.

But I digress.

Anyhow, knowing my knack of going on and on, beating around the bush and the bush itself, I believe short and simple and sweet and and is not to be used twice in a sentence. Hence, this first post comes to an end, and as the title says:

"To get the ball rolling!"

At least I reached one objective, an ending that seems like an opening.