PURPLEHEART IS A-YEAR OLD ALREADY!!

Norma baru tersedar yang blog Purpleheart ni telah melangkaui umur setahun rupanya. Cepatnya masa berlalu.
Sedikit awalan cerita bagaimana blog ini dilahirkan. Semasa di UiTM Dungun tahun lepas, ramai pensyarah dan kakitangan yang agak bersemangat mengaktifkan aktiviti penulisan mereka, ada yang sibuk dengan menulis buku, membuat penyelidikan, dan beberapa aktiviti lain selain daripada mengajar.

Unfortunately still plenty of us...yes let me repeat, 'us' means including myself hardly have time to actually sit down and write. All that I was busy into was my teaching and my administration works and my students and my children and bla...bla..bla but not writing! One of the approaches that the university has engaged to increase the writing activity amongst the academician (like that we have so much time to do that!) was to promote the blogging activity.

One lecturer confirmed that an easier and time-friendly writing activity would be to have blog ourselves. You can write whenever you have time and whenever you feel like writing...there is no end to blogging...there is no need for a conclusion in blog writing. It is just you and your own space...it is just you and your own 'title' along with your own concept and idea...nobody was to to tell you any wrong!!!
There would be neither specific theme nor specific analysis to be used in blog writing...all you just have to do is write! Easy wasn't it?? Unlike the endless research and analysis findings of a
specific topic that you'd sometimes do not know what it meant??...hmmm

Workshops, courses, and talks were held to promote the blogging activities...and most of the lecturers were interested to join in and the blogging activities began. I joined in too, just to see whether I could manage one, eventhough I hardly had any gap to fit in the 2 - 3 hours of workshop!
One friend who has started blogging much earlier than me and has got three different blogs herself was encouraging me to start one. I was quite reluctant at first with the thought that I would have NO time to write. Thanks to her for her support!

Gradually, I began to tame myself to the world of blogging...visited blogs of others and learnt myself that this is what I wanted to do...even my students were so surprised towards my attempt for blogging. And I told them, "Puan Norma would have no time to entertain you guys anymore...because I'd be very busy writing down memoirs of myself!" ... and I could see some doubtful faces from the students....they knew...a busy person like Puan Norma, has she got time to write about herself???

After all, it wasn't that knotty. I enjoyed it and still enjoying it. One-full year has passed...with far less number of entries than I would expected...still I survive.. have not decided to quit...but anything could happen that will change my decision.

Till then, I will still write...enjoying much to myself than with others, but to those who came and dropped by...so much thanks because you could somehow share some blissful experiences and thoughts, humble stories and chronicles of an ordinary person like myself...