About The Blog
This is where I captain my reminiscing boat.
I have been on-line since 1996. I’m not a technical geek, I’ve just been lucky and am surrounded by awesome friends who are true geeks.
Year 1999
I created a simple website ‘Suan’s Corner’ and later ‘Suan Online’ (being young and terribly unimaginative) using Trellix, hosted for free on Tripod. It was a static website with an updated a section called ‘Life’s Like That’ which works somewhat like today’s blogs. I was a massive Michael Jackson fan (smeared my bedroom wall with the words ‘I LOVE MICHAEL JACKSON FOREVER!’ using a green marker, which didn’t please my Mom) and created a web shrine for him. I scoured the net for MJ and the Jackson 5’s history, and the MJ shrine consisted of his biography, discography, lyrics and photos. It was very well-received, mind you… 12 – 15 year old girls (mostly from the USA) would e-mail me with messages for MJ or myself, thanking me for the information 
The shrine is long gone but some of my old time readers fondly remember the phase (i.e. Ah Seng)
I was also heavily involved with my local YBF (Young Buddhist Fellowship) activities, and had a large section on Buddhism, alongside with my youthful rants thought up by a near-20 year old me. In fact if you would give a shit and read back the Buddhism stuff that I wrote, you might see how I’d matured in my thinking over the years. Or not.
Year 2003 – 2004
I’d purchased the domain ‘Suanie.com’ for a year or two. ShaolinTiger decided to build a proper blog for me using bBlog as my birthday present. In 2004 the domain name expired. No thanks to cyber squatters, I was unable to renew it using a different domain reseller in time. So I purchased ‘Suanie.net’ instead and moved most of my blog posts there. Except for the large chunk which was lost because I’d forgotten to backup my database.
Year 2005
bBlog got to be quite unusable. In Oct 2005 I decided to jump ship to Wordpress and deleted a lot of my older entries in the process. 2005 was also the year when my blog first received publicity in the local mainstream media.
Year 2006 – 2007
I tweaked my blog templates a couple of times; below is a shot of what Suanie.net main page looked like with KY’s awesome background drawing.
Here’s what it looked like before I switched themes and made Suanie.net to a 3-column.
I’ll run this blog for as long as I feel like blogging. I blog because I want to and because I can. Whether or not it’s important in the grand scheme of things, I don’t know and honestly don’t give a f…
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