Oh golly, so many social networking sites YET SO LITTLE TIME! Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and TiffsBloggy: How the heck am I going to take care of all of you children? To add more chaos to my growing family of social networking shtuffs, I signed up with Pinterest. I never would have signed up if it weren’t for the internship I’m in–oh! And the internship is going really great by the way. Since I signed a non-disclosure agreement, I’d prefer not sharing much about it. But all I can say is that I help with graphic design and marketing, and so far, I know this sort of position or job is where I want to be instead of my current job as a technician for an optometry office.

Well, anyhoo, Pinterest. If you’re not aware of what it is, it’s really like an organized, digital format of an inspiration board. And since I’m really into arts & crafts, jewelry-making and interior design, Pinterest is there to shower me with a crapload of inspiration and motivation. It’s really great. Sure, it may look like a huge f*cking mess of random hipster-related images piled together, but once you give the website a chance, you’ll understand why it’s laid out that way.

Follow me on Pinterest!

That’s right! I’ve started using this website exactly four years ago from today, and I haven’t truly stopped since.

However, I’m not so certain about the future of this site. In the past, I use to write very long, detailed and personal entries, but now I’m starting to notice that it’s becoming shorter, safer and typically replaced with pictures. The thought is disturbing to me because it means I’m either getting dumber or I’m simply going along with the current e-trends. Seriously, I can’t write stuff like I use to write back in ’09.

Can’t you guys tell? We tend to skip reading a lot of words in long entries and only note the key words which clearly reflects in our comments now. We’re more attracted to blogs with pictures because we don’t have to use our brain muscles to read and pay attention.  Heck, Tumblr is growing twice as fast as WordPress, and 99.9% of Tumblr blogs are only made up of “reblogs” of images. No one ever decides to stop and write their own crap nowadays, we just take other people’s posts and share them with the internet.

This is why it is very difficult for me to get into Tumblr, believe me I am trying! Tumblr is definitely a great site–whoever created it is really a genius. But following a person’s Tumblr blog which is made up of “reblogs” from OTHER Tumblr blogs is not appealing to me at all and it SURE AS HELL ISN’T CONSIDERED A REAL BLOG. Yes, at times it can be entertaining but it’s just lazy and everything there seems like it’s constantly being reused and recycled.

Don’t mind me I spose, I’m just an old fart who’s resistant to change. Sigh. Happy Birthday, blog.

In the blogosphere, 2011 was a good year for me. I came back after taking a very long break and nearly closed this site for good. Even though I had to start all over, I had a lot of fun rebuilding this site and meeting and interacting with new bloggers.

In the spirit of uh, recapping (huh?), I’d like to share some of the posts I had a lot of fun writing in 2011. I hope you enjoy it too!

In chronological order:

1. Top 10 WTF Files I Kept from the Teenage Years – When I was younger, I used a lot of blank CDs to save all of my files every time I thought my shitty computer would crash and delete everything. I still have most of the CDs to this day, and the files pertaining to them are well, things I wouldn’t think would be worth saving today.

2. Top 9 Guilty Pleasures – I first hesitated publishing this only because I was actually kind of embarrassed by a lot of these habits that I was about to divulge on the internet. After posting it though, I don’t feel so bad about it anymore.

3. Hot Topic Store: Past & Present- I’m just showing some obvious proof that Hot Topic was once a creepy dark store made for freaks and now it’s become a lot more friendly to the general kids of America.

4. Blogging Trends of the Past- Blogging, like fashion and clothes, definitely does have different “trends”. Most of them don’t last very long and boy am I glad they don’t.

5. My Top 5 Chick Crushes – What more can I say? I love women too, especially the hot and smart ones.

6. Top OLD 10 Karaoke Songs to Sing – These were the kind of songs I listened and sang my heart to back in ’00. These songs are also very specific to region, so if you don’t live in Southern California, you might not be familiar with any of the songs I post. Still, it’s good!

7. Top 5 Man-Crushes (Literally) – “Eww, old men are gross!”–NO, THEY ARE NOT. They are smarter, stronger and more experience than you therefore logically hotter than you (but if they’re really old, like senior citizens kind-of-old, then I’ll have to pass).

8. Top 6 (Justin) Biebers of my Time – It’s really just about the young cute actors I had huge crushes on when I was a little girl. They’re probably just a bunch of sad has-beens by now, but it was fun while it lasted right guys?

9. Tiff Puts on Her Face: A Walkthrough – I noticed that no matter how minimal my makeup is, I will still look drastically different without my makeup on only because I have a very simple Asian face. Oh well, I think it’s pretty cool to watch the transformation though.

10. Tiff, in 34 Years – I’ve always thought, “God, how weird would it be to continue blogging when I start having grandchildren?” It’s weird and like the weirdo I am, I’ve practicaclly summed up my future (of blogging).

May 2012 bring us fun/weird/awesome topics and stories to blog about. Have a wonderful New Years!