June 19, 2013

  • Origin Story

    I joined Xanga on 8/30/2003. I don’t remember why I joined, probably cause everyone at the time had one. I knew my cousin Chris had one, and I even copied his profile’s naming convention (his was cbunggay, so I named mine ebunggay). I really wasn’t much of a writer, let alone a blogger, and it’s quite evident on my first couple of blog entries. My first entry was in June 2004. I remember that I started to write because I had just graduated from college and wasn’t quite ready to look for a job yet, and was bored, a lot.

    I was an infrequent blogger at first, mainly complaining about my life. Then I got the job in Roseville, and started to write almost everyday. Looking back on those posts, I don’t remember a lot of what I wrote, and then I remembered that one of the reasons that I started writing is so that I would remember all the little things that happened in my life. If it weren’t for those posts, I would’ve never remembered what “taking the monkey” or “going to Disneyland” actually meant.

    The reason I started reading my old posts again was because I just found out that Xanga might be going away for good. With their revenue & user base declining, they can’t afford their host servers anymore. So they started a crowdhoster (very similar to kickstarter) to raise funds to migrate their service to something like WordPress. They want to raise $60k, and with less than a month left, they’ve only raised $27k. If they don’t get the full $60k, Xanga will be shut down forever & ever. Sad face single tear drop (I find it funny typing out emoticons instead of using the actual emoticon).

    And for some reason, because of this, I’m going to start writing about stuff again. My writing lately has been very infrequent, and I haven’t been voicing any meaningful opinions. I’ll try to write more and write things that I actually think & feel. And if Xanga does go away for good, I’ll start writing on Blogger or WordPress or wherever.