da great dabbler

All my life I've dabbled merrily in stuff...music, dance, acting, learning languages, acquiring hobbies, even my friendships...never followed anything through to the next stage.

Lacking a killer instinct/a drive to excel/an intensity which has exasperated many of my good teachers/lecturers/parents/well-wishers. I realize that I have it in me to be be an ace at the stuff I had taken up at various points of my short life. And I am most definitely not talking about my abysmal Maths or Physics experiences here.

But I mulishly inherently almost always just skim the surface. Testing the waters or rather sampling a bit from all the pools...

Except for maybe writing, reading and hmm, photography. When I say photography, I do not in the least want to sound like I presume to any aspirations of an Henri Cartier Bresson or Eisenstaedt or Diane Arbus...but I do take pictures and have done so for some time....mediocre mostly with flashes of Aha-ness....

and Flickr has me hook, line and sinker...the great leveller...where wannabes like moi, pros and hungry amateurs are all offered a platform to display our wares and see some of the most amazing stuff the world has to offer, from all crannies of this planet. I think its one of the best things to have happened to me (circa Jan 2006) and the Net, circa I dont have the faintest.

Its almost like a little world unto itself...the familiar people 'contacts', their handles and the buddy icons, the zillion groups and their silly or not games...a parallel world...even if I have not a single frame to post in a day, I can just get sucked in jumping into strange lives and seeing the beauty they see...

like with the blogosphere, more than the happening places where the whole world and its granny seem to congregate (becos they have some great stuff and becos some are just da gurus), I prefer stealth-bombing into strange not so frequented spaces which have even more unusual takes on life...ordinary people who might not advertise themselves in group pools like me and everyone else....

I could go on and on till the cows get itchy....but to cut to the chase, I'm proud that I do have something I have been vaguely consistent about finally...and yes, my erratic blogging is another.

I think I'm done for today...