Archived
Ever since I was young, I felt it was important to capture memories and record my life through photography and journaling. I have albums and albums of photos – capturing every moment of my childhood, adolescence, and adult life through my eyes. I have numerous handwritten journals and a really old computer program called “Journal” on my Thinkpad that I started in college. A guy named Jesse Lim gave it to me. *wink wink* I also had a web log (before it was called a “blog”) since 2001 and remember the days of having to code EVERYTHING in html. To preserve my earlier entries, I incorporated them into beakatude. You’ll find some old entries dated back to July 2001.
When I read them, it was like looking through a time capsule. I wrote about my internships, planning my wedding, and even Jes’ accident in 2002. So weird. Much has changed since then and so has my site. It’s evolved from a geocities site that I built from scratch, then went to my own url with dreamweaver by my side, and now it’s so automated by wordpress that it doesn’t take nearly as much time and effort to keep it updated. Uploading and sharing photos is so much faster now too. I can still remember making my own thumbnails, arranging them in a table, and making links to each one individually. Man, that was time-consuming. I just love how technology now allows me to journal and share photos all in one place. Long live beakatude.com!