The LJ portion of this journal is FRIENDS ONLY.  Comment if you wish to let me know you added me as a friend as I'm hopeless with LJ notifications. Feel free to friend this journal; I don't bite! ;)

I cross-post all entries from my blog to this journal as well.  You are more than welcome to friend this journal if you are interested in reading my ( Read more... )

If I were to offer readers of this blog a prize, what would you want that prize to be? Jewelry, online gift vouchers, books, handicrafts, etc. Those are just some ideas; sky’s the limit for your suggestions.

This is a Very Important Question, as I may or may not be planning a series of giveaways on this blog in the near future and the prizes are ( Read more... )

I have a little less than a week left of vacation before my spring semester starts and I’m quite enjoying all this free time on my hands. I’ve gotten very accustomed to sleeping in and moving at a nice, leisurely pace - all of which I am savoring because I will not be able to enjoy these luxuries when I return to Beijing!

I’ve been reading a ton, ( Read more... )

Just like I did last year, I’ve put together a list of my blog’s “best of” entries from the year 2010. I have listed them in chronological order and have linked entries that I felt were either thought-provoking, interesting to write, or shared something useful with the rest of the world. It’s been an awesome 2010, and here’s to 2011! :D

Read the ( Read more... )

I’ve had my current theme up since January 1. It’s a very nice theme and has everything that I want. Lately, though, I’m getting tired of looking at this theme and have been searching for a new theme in which to dress up my blog. The search has been rather difficult though, as I’m not a designer and my skills are pretty much limited to very ( Read more... )

I have always toyed with the idea of making this blog known among my offline friends and acquaintances. While I’ve never kept this blog a secret from my offline counterparts, I’ve never come right out and talked about it, either. I mean, I wouldn’t lie and say I didn’t have a blog and/or I am not the person behind this blog if they somehow ( Read more... )

I finally got around to downloading the WordPress app for iPhone and now I can blog on the go. Hooray!

Too bad I currently don’t have anything of importance to blog about.

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*crickets chirp*

Somehow, I assumed simply blogging from my phone would make my entries seem much more epic. I guess not.

Cross-posted from breakthesky.net. Please leave ( Read more... )

There are so many factors people use to statistically define what makes a blog successful: average number of comments per entry, amount of visitors per day, number of feed subscribers, Google PageRank rating… the list can get quite lengthy. And while those are all important factors when it comes to measuring a blog’s popularity and success, just ( Read more... )

Now that my Twitter contest to celebrate my blog relaunch is over (congratulations to the winners!), I can highlight what’s been tossed from my old blog system/structure and what’s been added as a result of the revamp.

• No more weekly blogging schedule
  Honestly, it just wasn’t working for me anymore. It worked like a charm when I first launched my ( Read more... )

As promised, I’m back! It’s finally January 1, 2010, which means that it’s time to show off a newly revamped breakthesky.net! But before I get into the nitty gritty details of what’s new around here, I want to delve into the exciting stuff: I’m holding a Twitter contest to celebrate my blog’s relaunch!

Longtime readers of my blog know I like to ( Read more... )