I must confess, this is my second attempt at a blog. I was too lazy at maintaining the first one, not writing and posting regularly, until I actually became ashamed to go back to it. So why try again?
Two reasons.
Since young, I've been telling everyone that I love to write, that it's been my passion, and I always dreamed of becoming a prolific author, writing bestseller after bestseller, entertaining millions and earning billions(I'm not materialistic, I'm okay with the other way around too). Yet I often feel like a hypocrite, because I never got round to actually writing anything substantial, like a novel, or even a collection of short stories. It always seems like at any one time, I have something more important to do, like finish my exams, then get settled in my work, then get married, then after my postgraduate degree, et cetera, et cetera. And now, at the ripe old age of 37, I have yet anything to show for in the way of literary works. So I tried to write a blog a few years ago, tried to progress this dream of mine. Well, that crashed and burned. Why do I think it will work now? That brings me to reason number two.
My wife and I recently found out that we are going to have our fifth child. Nope, not a typo. FIFTH. No. 5. Lima. 第五个. Can you imagine that? Who has five kids these days?? This is almost.....masochistic behaviour!
Anyway, as we were mulling over the prospect of adding one more to our already crazy madhouse of a family, a fellow church member told us of a mother in our church who has 4 kids, and is actually thinking of having up to 6 children! After getting over our disbelief that anyone would want to voluntarily do this to herself, we found out that she works by running a blog, sharing about her family, and how she copes as a mother. Curious, I visited the blogsite, and was impressed by what I saw. The writing was novel and interesting, the pictures posted were beautiful, and I could see why it was a successful blog.
I then realised that there are many blogsites set up by mothers, talking about motherhood, family, and raising kids, things most mothers could relate to, and they sort of provide a source of comfort to mothers, reassuring that they are not alone in this long, arduous, terribly difficult journey. I mean, even Frodo needed Sam, right?
It then struck me that there are hardly any blogsites detailing the adventures of fathers. In fact, I don't know of any blogsite like that. I'm sure there must be, but surely the number must be a lot smaller than motherhood blogsites. So I started thinking, why not start a blog about how a father copes? The role of a father in the family has been, in my personal opinion, underrated for far too long, not helped by the popular media, with movies and TV shows about family depicting fathers mostly as simple-minded, beer-chugging, football-watching, backside-scratching men, not caring about taking care of the children, and whose only contribution to the family appears to be bringing home money. Sounds familiar, Simpsons fans?
Anyway, being a father is so much more, should be so much more, and I want to bring this to greater awareness, and hopefully get people to start thinking about what it means to be a father a lot more, and maybe show a bit more appreciation to fathers. I mean, it would be nice to have one or two songs dedicated to fathers for once, don't you think?
One more selling point to my blog. My five kids. Okay, the fifth one is still in my wife's womb, but it's only a matter of time. So even if there are other blogsites about fatherhood out there, I can still boast, "Ah, but does he have five children?"
I'm not good with IT stuff, or pictures, videos, whatnot. So my blog looks pretty simple right now, no fancy gadgets or whatever. But I'll try to post pictures to make things more interesting. I want to slowly introduce you to my wife and kids too. After all, this is a bit of a journal as well, recording down all the memories, so that my kids can look back on moments like this:
and laugh.
Okay then, keep an eye on this space. Do share with others if you enjoy my posts, and leave any comments that you may have. Would love to share and discuss everyone's experiences as a father.
Signing off for now.
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