Okay, once people start visiting this blog, we probably will get a question about the name "twona". What in the world is "twona" you ask? So, we'll be proactive and answer that for you before you even ask. Yes, you're welcome.
A long time ago, when I became a Christian, I felt like I needed a better email address than the one I had at that time (carnage_thanos). Suffice to say, that email address wouldn't represent a proper Christian belief (how in the world I came up with "carnage_thanos" is a whole different story). I wanted to be creative, so after a few hits and misses, I settled on "tunafish". Of course, it was already taken, and I really thought "tunafish" was cool and I wanted to use it so bad. Just then the story of Jesus feeding five thousand with five loaves of bread and two fish came to my mind. Granted it was not recorded anywhere in history that the two fish were tuna fish, but it was too good to be true, I could replace "tu" with "two" and still sound alike. Way cool..... I'm now the proud owner of the email address, "twona_fish".
Not too long after we're married, Laurel thought we should at least identify ourselves as belonging to one and the same family. She thought "twona_fish" was pretty cute, so she came up with "mrs_twona_fish" for herself. And now with Benjamin, she gave him the name "lil_twona_fish". You see the progression there? Yup, virtually everyone in this household have "twona" in their blood now, and we're sure the next kid will have it too. So why waste time thinking of another name for the blog when we can use what we already have?
Monday, August 29, 2005
First ever blog!
Hi there!
Well, we have finally decided to take a shot at this growing phenomenon called "blogging". Before we explain the reasons for starting a blog, let us take a moment to welcome you to our blog. If this blogging thing turns out to be what we hope and expect, it would be for months, years to come a place for us to share and cherish thoughts, memories, conversations, and more...
Why blog? We have primarily three reasons, but the first reason really applies more to me:
1. I recently received an email from a long-time friend asking where I’ve been. He gently rebuked me (and rightly so) for always waiting for others to take initiative to write first. If you know me, you’ll know that I’m really bad about writing emails. My thought is that with a blog, I can publish a blog or two from time to time and that would at least offer some ways for friends and family to know what’s up over this part of the world.
2. Emails can do only so much (i.e., plain text). But pictures can paint a thousand words; a link to a site of interest can disseminate information quickly; thoughts and topics can be discussed. Blogging can do these, and do it better.
3. Make Jesus known to others. Blogging is such a big thing nowadays that you can have blogs of all kinds. With the advance in technology and everyone is basically connected via the Internet, we believe we can play a small part in God's larger plan by living out our Christian faith to the Internet community, and what a large community that is! Just imagine the potential.
So that's our story. We hope that we will not be the only ones contributing to this blog, but all of you. If you're the first few invited members and you are reading this, you'd notice that the site is not completely set up yet. Please bear with us.
Well, we have finally decided to take a shot at this growing phenomenon called "blogging". Before we explain the reasons for starting a blog, let us take a moment to welcome you to our blog. If this blogging thing turns out to be what we hope and expect, it would be for months, years to come a place for us to share and cherish thoughts, memories, conversations, and more...
Why blog? We have primarily three reasons, but the first reason really applies more to me:
1. I recently received an email from a long-time friend asking where I’ve been. He gently rebuked me (and rightly so) for always waiting for others to take initiative to write first. If you know me, you’ll know that I’m really bad about writing emails. My thought is that with a blog, I can publish a blog or two from time to time and that would at least offer some ways for friends and family to know what’s up over this part of the world.
2. Emails can do only so much (i.e., plain text). But pictures can paint a thousand words; a link to a site of interest can disseminate information quickly; thoughts and topics can be discussed. Blogging can do these, and do it better.
3. Make Jesus known to others. Blogging is such a big thing nowadays that you can have blogs of all kinds. With the advance in technology and everyone is basically connected via the Internet, we believe we can play a small part in God's larger plan by living out our Christian faith to the Internet community, and what a large community that is! Just imagine the potential.
So that's our story. We hope that we will not be the only ones contributing to this blog, but all of you. If you're the first few invited members and you are reading this, you'd notice that the site is not completely set up yet. Please bear with us.
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