24/7

24/7/07 was the first time I posted my entry in this blog. I can’t believe I’ve been blogging for three years. How time really flies. Even though I’m not a hard core blogger who posted every single thing every day but at least my blog is still surviving. This make me think three years for Phd student using the thesis mode, they surely almost finish writing the thesis. If I compile my writing in this blog can it be converted to Phd thesis?.He3x

How I started blogging? Actually there was a course handled by the university to encourage lecturers to start writing and giving their opinions. Another objective is to improve the lecturers writing skills and the university believed one way was through blogging. I didn’t go to that blogging course instead I went to another course. A friend who attended that course came to my room and excitedly told me about blogging and she started to teach me how to create blog. So, here I am still blogging after 3 years learning it from kak Taherah.

I started out with my full name but later with the advice of my university’s blogger friends I became anonymously as Azuriy. Well...... I was not trying to be anonymous but it was due to the safety reasons that time especially from our students. The name Azuriy is not something unfamiliar to me because Zuriy was extensively used during my days in a boarding school. It was not a glamourous name far from being my nickname but we always used our five letters of our name to be embroided in our school uniforms. I still remembered our PE white t shirt, track bottom and track top too was sewn in red with five letters of my name. So, my teacher called me using that name during my PE. My bed also had been marked with a sticker written my name Zuriy. I still have that sticker until now. I didn’t understand why they put my full name but it was a girl’s school thingy. It didn’t last only during my school days but when I become a lecturer, the university gave my official email address using that five letter words also. So it seems zuriy is very synonym to me. But for my blog I added the first letter of my father’s name which was inspired when I was sitting for the international exam. I saw alphabet A infront of my name in the exam slip so that was how the name of Azuriy been created. Here I am after three years of blogging, writing about the history of my blog’s name.

The first time I started to blog, my blogger’s friends who read my blog are my university’s friends who attended the blogging course. They have their blogs too and were eagerly updating their blogs. I truly enjoy reading their blogs and they read mine too and sometimes gave their comments. After three years I found either their blogs are non existence or hidup segan mati tak mau. So, after three years at least I should be proud my blog is still exist and I’m persistently updating it even though it may be once a month. He3x

After three years I have posted 182 entries. It means on average I have posted about 5 entries in a month and about once a week.May be the first year of blogging I posted entry once a week but now it doesn't seem to be. The most visited entry was my writing on hajj a journey of the lifetime -my experience during the hajj. I hope those who read it may gain some benefits and inspired by reading it. Those rambling entries just ignore if you find it just a waste of time. If I've hurt anyone's feeling with my writing too I'm truly sorry.

One thing for sure I don't share everything in this blog. It is not an online diary. If it is a diary then my secrets will become public secrets. My family members read it too so karang teruk saya kena kutuk. He3x. This blog it just my random writings which I feel like to express or what I believe or experience. I never force myself to write and always I never looked back what I’ve written so if there was a lot of grammatical error and spellings, Pardon me and please just ignore it. I’m not good in writing anyway. I also don’t know whether I’ve improve my writing skills through blogging but who cares because my sv said writing a thesis is not like writing a blog. So blogging won’t give any big impact to my thesis writing but I think it just one way of keeping me to stay sane throughout my postgraduate years. So after three years I’m still surviving blogging. Wow…. What an achievement!!!. He3x and hopefully I can survive and persistently write in my Phd thesis too.