Sometime in 2001, my friend Lynette started a LiveJournal. Shortly after, I decided it was cool and got one of my very own. Being a teenager, I proceeded to populate it with hair-cringing mopey posts of angst.

In 2003, after having graduated from junior college, I decided that LiveJournal didn’t offer enough customisability for me and registered lo5t.blogspot.com (now defunct). Perhaps that was a premonitory act by the Googlefan within me, since Blogger was acquired by Google just a month later. I continued archiving my life in the army there, until I was due to go overseas for further studies, whereupon I registered lostinyork.blogspot.com to use while in university.

Sometime during my final year of studies, I got wind of a lifetime hosting plan which allowed me to pay a one-time payment of US$95 to get my very own domain name and webspace for, errr, 99 years? Thus was thecoffeespoon.net born, and after graduating from university I decided to start a new blog, collating all my old blogs into it as well.

So, basically this site contains all my past blogs PLUS all the new stuff for hopefully the rest of my life. As long as my webhosting company doesn’t fold. (Please don’t!)

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