I'm finally old enough to drink in America. But that's not important - I don't like drinking anyway. Birthday was a little meh, until I had dinner out and romped around town with my boyfriend, taking in the sights and sounds of the places my previous age wouldn't have let me close to. Now I realize it's not as much a hoot as others make it, so I'm happy, curiosity satisfied, and amused by a techno-didgeridoo player busking on a bridge.

As for birthday thoughts, there's just one reflection I'd like to share.

When I joined BZPower, I was thirteen or fourteen years old, in secondary/high school, and writing such terrible epics, not really knowing what was good or bad but just writing and plonking it into BZPower. Even funnier was me apprehensively asking my mother that night whether it was okay for me to join an online forum. XD

During the next eight years, BZPower was the very first website I visited whenever I went online. It was the time I was just discovering what the Internet was, and where its (non-existent) boundaries were. BZPower ate up most of my Internet curiosity, thanks to the Library (which I haunted and read avidly) and my very-fueled belief that Premier Members were really special members the admins chose to have that rank. Seriously!

Many more epics and a few years later, we arrive at the present date. There's the ECC, there's much less epic-writing and more of epic-reviewing, there are tons of new sites that I visit every day, and strangely enough, the queer thoughts of 'Maybe I should do some Short Stories every now and then', or something to keep my imagination buzzing. My writing went on its ups and downs, its hibernation and active vibrancy, and the usual dabble into things not so Bionicle, to keep the writing flowing.

After all, there are some things that I want to keep from my now-past childhood, and the BZP memories, lessons, and a talent I figured out here are definitely in that list.

(P.S. White wine is the bleh! >.<)

-<dd>