Ok, I took a lonnggg break from my blog and there are a number of reasons for this actually…
It was taking up too much of my free time. I spend about 2 hours or more on average just prepping photos and writing a post. This is mostly because I wanted the blog to look good. I was a perfectionist, and I hated spotting grammatical and typos 2 days after a post was uploaded. Even after countless proofreading – it still happens.
You may also have noticed that I don’t bother writing my innermost thoughts, fears, insecurities, gripes, problems, hopes, etc. and I sorta got the impression that the whole blog was pretty one dimensional. Not really an issue in itself, but I did ask myself.. what was the whole point? I didn’t need to protect anyone / worry about hurting somebody’s feelings.. I didn’t need to hide either..
Conclusion, instead of blogging for myself, I realized I was starting to blog for my viewers. This was really not my initial intention..
Also, my PC’s graphics card finally died on me. Then Ching came back from National Service. It kinda forced my hand – he needed a new PC for his college, I needed a new graphics cards. I ended up getting an almost entirely new unit for myself, while donating my old mobo, cpu and RAM to Ching.
Now with the new PC, I started gaming again – a past time I’ve deprived myself from for far too long. And we all know how much more time consuming gaming is compared to blogging. Heck, now I don’t even have time to go on my movie marathon streaks anymore!
In short, got distracted, discouraged and lost direction. 
BUT
I ended up coming back to this good ole blog, and reading some of my old posts – repetitive movie reviews included – and I realized that this is at its core, a catalogue for all the minor events and accomplishments in my life. The sum of which at the end of the day is greater than its parts. And if I did not continue, all of these small little memories will disappear into a forgotten past.
I had to keep this going even if it means lousier unedited pictures, shorter less thought out posts & fewer updates.
FoOie’s back. 
Emily T on May 30, 2008
“I spend about 2 hours or more on average just prepping photos and writing a post. This is mostly because I wanted the blog to look good. I was a perfectionist, and I hated spotting grammatical and typos 2 days after a post was uploaded. Even after countless proofreading – it still happens.”
That paragraph up there sounds eerily like me! I spend like 15 minutes (okay exaggeration alert) stringing every damn sentence! And I reread my completed blog post at least five times before hitting ‘Publish’ and another five more after I publish it (not an exaggeration). Sigh I think we need to do something about it!
jen on June 2, 2008
weeeeeee ~
finally !!!!!!!!
welcome back !!~
cl on June 2, 2008
foo you the sucked !
FoOie on June 2, 2008
cl : you the sucked too!
jen : yay i’m back too.. haha thanks!
Emily : wah! you managed to find this blog. Hmm not sure why your comment wasn’t automatically approved, but here it is.. thanks for dropping by!
BTW, yeah.. we really NEED to do something about this.. this.. time draining effort of a hobby. Short of slowing down Earth’s spin.. any suggestions?
Edmund Loh on June 6, 2009
Yay! Fuu Fuu is back!