A New Start

Finally, I have managed to do an overhaul of this abandoned blog of mine, though incomplete yet. I started out trying to recapture my childhood days' memories. I have collected some jokes related to children and education and placed them here. But due to the lack of time I have not been updating this site for a while and have been spending more time at my other blog.

Now my theme for this blog has changed from that of 'childhood days' to something more academic on 'education research' and it is also different from my other blog that is purely on thoughts and reflections as an Educator. I received quite a high readership for the other blog though I actually intended it to be more of a personal journal blog. I have about 500 hits per week for that blog now since I started blogging in late Oct 03.

I have learned recently that someone is doing a research into the effect of blogging and language development. I find this to be interesting since I personally have discovered that blogging is a very good way of improving my writing and thinking skill and also discover my creativity. But of course the reverse may be true, depending on the bloggers. Most bloggers in the Asian sites are using written languages that are beyond recognition to the Western English speakers with too many spoken dialects and mixed languages within the same blog. I am not against the use of 'la, lei, ma, lor, etc' to add punch, 'colours' or fun to the blog. But the overtly use of them in the sentences might make it unreadable to the western English speakers and even locals might find it tiring reading them. Well, one might say, "That's precisely the point -- to make it unreadable!" Then my reply would be, "Don't publish it, just save everything as Draft. " Do you see the logic?

I have yet to submit my own research topic and is wondering how I may 'kill two birds with one stone' by capitalizing on my newfound interest in blogging and the many things I have learned since. Perhaps I should make a thesis statement such as: "Blogging helps one manages one's learning and teaching."

Hmmn...Good food for thought, right? I need to further refine this statement later.