my journal

a long time ago, no, not really a long time ago. maybe a couple of months ago, i thought of starting a new paper and pen journal, much like i used to when i was in high school and college. it served as a record of all the things that happened in my life, from the most mundane (ruined school shoes) to the serious (passing UP, and UP law). my old journals are still at home, tied together with green satin ribbon, a testament to that part of my life which i recorded for future posterity.

note: i cringe every time i open one of those and read out a random entry.

i stopped writing in journals when i was in law school in UP, perhaps because i didn't have much time for anything other than studying. or maybe because there wasn't anything interesting to write about. no, wait, i actually stopped writing in the year 2001, when i was in 3rd year law at UE. there. because...i don't know. i was busy? or maybe i was...busy?

when i went to the states in december 2001, i bought a journal at disneyworld in anaheim. it wasn't exactly a journal, more of an autograph book which the kids normally bought together with a disney pen with the mickey mouse ears. i wrote in that journal a lot during my 3 week stay, even recording the temperature every single day, and loving it because it was wintertime and i was experiencing a california winter, which was so different from the winter in july i spent in melbourne in 1995 (i wrote about that, too).

in 2004 i started an electronic diary, harking back to the days when i watched doogie howser MD writing in his electronic journal at the end of each episode. my first online diary was in diaryland, then tabulas. i still have the tabulas account (http://wandergirl.tabulas.com), but i don't write in it much. it was a record of my days as an agent with peoplesupport, when the site was not yet blocked, and i could write entries after every shift.

my tabulas weblog also has the details of my second trip to the US for my brother's wedding in 2005, as well as my travails and other extra things (read: sundry stuff) while reviewing for the 2006 bar. i think it also has some stuff about my current employer. my last entry was on february 6th, and since then i haven't written anything there since i have this new one.

so, when am i going to do the paper and pen journal? i don't know. maybe later? i have a spiral notebook in my bag that i bring along everywhere, but it is still blank. i tried keeping a journal, the pen and paper one, with a glamorous journal i bought in the states in 2005, with a pink and orange satiny cover and gold sequins and thread all around. i started in 2006 with that journal, then took it up again in 2007 or 2008. the last entry i have there, if i remember, was the one i tried to write while on the ferry to bohol during our holy week trip last year. since then i haven't opened that journal, or even completed that last entry. i think i should, if only for the sake of memories.

now if i can only remember which bin i put that journal in....