The reason why I am doing this is because I want to be able to manage all of my blogs well and with the day job coming this September, I’ll definitely have lesser time for blogging so I thought that it is better to keep fewer blogs but manage them well than to keep all my blogs and leave most them unattended.

So anyway, I like my old theme and it worked well for me but I’ve been using it for a long time so I thought of using a new one for a change.

I think my new theme is great! ElegantThemes.com has some really handsome themes and I particularly like this one because of it looks clean. The photos, if you noticed, are not related to the blog posts but for aesthetics’ sake, I placed one photo on each post. This theme looks way better with the photos and in the future I will try to put photos that are related to my blog posts. There’s one thing though… and I would do it if I could but I my PHP knowledge is very limited. It is actually not even enough to place the “recent comments” and “random articles” on the bottom of the page instead of displaying them on top.

And then there’s also the reminder from Sterndal that since I merge some of my blogs, I also have to fix some links. She’s right but I’m not sure if I would like to go through all that hassles. This blog alone has almost a hundred posts and I after putting photos on each of them, I don’t like to imagine going through each post to check if the links are linking to deleted blogs. But maybe I’ll do it someday. Who knows? It’ll definitely make my blog better.

That means I will have less time for my blogs.

I still have nine blogs and I am thinking of merging some of these blogs together.

Initially he said that he’ll only give it to me on my birthday but he gave in to my constant request to be allowed to use it earlier.

I am actually using my iPhone now to write this entry and it is just so cool! I am still learning and trying different iPhone apps but I so far, I can say that this Apple device is great!

Momentan ist Blogging ein perfekter Job für mich, aber in der Zukunft möchte ich wieder als Lehrerin arbeiten. Kinderunterrichten ist meine erste Liebe deshalb wäre ich glücklicher, wenn ich in der Zukunft unterrichten könnte.

Who are you to tell me I should mind my own business? Who are you to tell me I should shut up?

Am I not allowed to say what’s on my mind? Is it a crime to give an opinion? If so, all people should be jailed because I am sure that at some point in our lives we all gave opinions.

Why not start your own blog? So you have somewhere to air your opinions about what I wrote because your hateful comments are not welcome in my blog. I think am sure that you have something against me personally and that the reason why you so attack me through my blogs. That is so Kindgarten so pluuhhhhlease, leave my blogs alone!

I arrived at Shanghai’s Fudan University’s main gate at around 12:00 noon. I went to asked one student which building/conference room it’s going to be held but he doesn’t know what I’m talking about and so he referred me to the guard who doesn’t speak one word of English. I stood there for a bit hoping to see any sign of Wordcamp like a banner or people wearing wordpress shirts but I didn’t see any of that. So I grabbed the next “I-can-speak-English” looking person and ask about Wordcamp.

Laura and her friend, Heidi stopped by and offered to help me. Their English were not good but they seem to be friendly so I continue explaining what I came there for. They seem to understand because they told me to follow them so I did. We walked for about 30 minutes but when I realized that we are heading to the students’ residence part of the campus, I stopped and ask them again if they know what I was talking about and they nod in assurance. But they took me to this small office—the kind where incoming freshmen go to ask what courses are offered in the university. They thought I want to enroll for a course!

I started to panic because Wordcamp’s registration is supposed to start at 1:00 at it was already a few minutes to 1:00. I kindly asked one the clerks if I can use his computer so I can show them what Wordcamp is because it seems that the words like “blogging”, “blog”, “bloggers”, “wordpress”, “meeting”, “conference” are not part of their vocabulary. When I got a nod from the clerk I immediately googled “Wordcamp China 2008” and showed them the site.

The site is written in Chinese. There was an English information page but it was not sufficient. Fudan University is huge and we were totally clueless because it was not mentioned which building or which road the Wordcamp will be held. After showing them the site, they still didn’t know where it is so we went out of the building without anything. I continued to walk with them while wishing to see a sign of Wordcamp but there’s none. I’ve seen a geeky white guy who looks like he might be interested in blogging and asked him about Wordcamp but he doesn’t have any idea what Wordcamp is although he blogs, he goes to Fudan University, he can speak Chinese, and such conference is something he would be interested in. He said he’s sorry and left.

I was almost crying because of desperation. Heidi was quiet the whole time but when she noticed my disappointment she brought her cellphone out and called one of her friends. She said that this “friend” works as a student assistant in the university’s computer department (that is what I understood from her broken English). Luckily, her “friend” knows about it and told us to call a number. That’s how we found out the exact place and from where we were, it would take another 45 minutes walk. It was already 1:15 so I told the girls that we should get a taxi instead. I got there at exactly 1:30 pm. It was scheduled to start on that time but it took a few more minutesbefore they finally started it.

I didn’t finish the whole thing. After Matt Mullenweg finished his part, I took off. I would have stayed if I can understand Chinese. The rest of the conference is in Chinese and I would certainly feel a like a big bother if I stayed and asked my seatmate to translate everything.

The keynote of Matt Mullenweg was worth it but I am still utterly disappointed about the fact that  the conference was so (in my point of view) unorganized. No fliers, no banners in boards within the campus. When I got in the conference room, there were like 2 banners there plus two on the hallway… it wouldn’t hurt if they would have placed one somewhere where people can easily see it….like the main entrance of the University. There’s one big banner outside the building but who goes to that building? The banner is not even visible from the road. It’s really no wonder why there were only 40 or so attendees.

I will write about Matt’s speech in my next post because it is something worth sharing. But right now, I just would like to say that those of you who experienced Wordcamp Philippines 2008, consider yourself lucky. I so envy you guys. Looks like you really did have a lot of fun.

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