Today, I celebrate the 3rd anniversary of my Tumblr blog. When I signed up for Tumblr in August 2007, I didn’t know what to do with my brand new Tumblr blog. For the first two years, I just used it to promote my blog entries from the blog you’re reading now, my defunct comics blog, my defunct Plurk themes blog and my defunct emo blog. I didn’t really use it to post stuff until April 2009.

STEVE HOLT!

It didn’t take long for me to start creating niche blogs for Dr. Doom, villains, lesbians and more. Of course, it also didn’t take long for me to shut them down and just do Tumblr blogging from one blog. The first few Tumblr blogs I followed were those of people from UPLB. It was Twitter on steroids and I loved it.

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It’s safe to say that most of us have had our hearts broken. I’m not talking about your parents telling you that you’re a big mistake or your friend bailing out on you that one time when there was a raid in that whore house and you were too drunk to make a run for it. No, I’m talking about failed romantic relationships and brutal rejections. It’s a very confusing experience, this heartbreak. This is me trying to make sense of it all.

Well, since my baby left me, I found a new place to dwell. It’s down at the
end of Lonely Street, at Heartbreak Hotel. *stab, stab, cut, cut*

Stage 1: Denial

Someone just broke your heart and you’re like “THIS IS NOT HAPPENING.” You keep telling yourself that this is just a hiccup in your fairy tale romance and it will pass. It’s surreal at first, but the cold hard truth will eventually find its way into your head. It’s over. The initial shock kicks in. It’s over.

Stage 2: Anger

You’re now in a constant “WTF?!” mood. Still trying to figure out what’s happening, you’re like a rabid dog who just lost its chew toy. You’re going to bark at everything. You’re going to bite everything. Your sole purpose in life right now is to write angry emails, post rage-filled Facebook status messages and Twitter updates, draw devil horns on people’s photos and kick puppies IN THE FACE. Casualties: Your friends, your family, your dog and countless innocent Internet bystanders.

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I’ve been looking to make a few positive changes in my life for the last few weeks and I’ve been getting signs from a higher cosmic being that I’m on the right track. I mean, I started watching Pushing Daisies, a TV show that teaches me valuable lessons every episode including “don’t kill people”. The show also introduced me to the song Morning Has Broken by Cat Stevens. The song now inspires me to wake up every morning �looking forward to a beautiful day. For the first time in years, I attended mass. I liked it. This morning, I started officially hating Facebook. And then there’s The Girl Called Trouble. It’s all coming together like the perfect storm… in my mind. I’m shaking hands with a hurricane. Disjointed thoughts, I know. To distract you from my scattered brain vomit, here’s a bunch of haiku poems about Dr. Doom:

DOOM
Your superior
Monarch of Latveria
Behold, Doctor DOOM!

DOOMAIN
Scarred and left alone
Fought the Devil for his mom
Triumphant always

DOOMINATION
Dreamer of big things
A nation is not enough
Earth belongs to DOOM!

DOOM DOOM ROOM
Mighty iron fist
Unbreakable iron will
Sexy iron dick

DOOMTASTIC VERY FANTASTIC
For you, rage so pure
Curse you all, Fantastic Four!
On your knees for DOOM!

Remember when we were all on Twitter, dumping our thoughts and ideas 140 characters at a time and having the time of our Internet lives? No? Well I do. That’s why I’m currently marveling at the war raging on for microblogging supremacy in the Filipino community. Well, in my mind at least.

Whose side are you on?

I find it astonishing to see Plurk being overrun by Filipinos. A few months ago, the majority of Filipino plurkers consisted of bloggers, web developers and online marketers who made the great switch from Twitter to Plurk approximately a year ago. Now, Plurk is the new deal among the Filipino Internet literate crowd. Also, Facebook. But that’s a blog post for another time.

Plurk’s charm is slowly dying on me. I’m starting to update my Twitter more often now. Internet gods help me, I’ve entertained the idea of moving back to Twitter permanently and leaving Plurk altogether. Fortunately, I haven’t seriously thought of actually doing it since, you know, it’s not really a big deal. I’m totally considering adding several items to my Plurker’s Manifesto, though. But yeah, there’s the itch of just sticking to one microblogging service where I can tell you guys what I’m eating, where I’m going or what TV show I’m currently watching but secretly hating.

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Here in the Philippines, school is out. Most young professionals are taking a break from work because it’s Holy Week. This means a lot of people will be spending their time dicking around the web, probably on Facebook. And if the last couple of weeks is any indication, we’re going to see a LOT of quiz results on our News Feed.

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