Sincerely, Sawda

The most difficult thing about starting up this blog was the blog title itself, because blog titles are meant to be representative of your blog, and I had no* 1 idea how I was supposed to do that in a blog title. One thing I did know was my blog was going to be personal, which meant that the blog name had to reflect me in some sort of way. "Simple", I thought to myself * 2 . All I had to do was describe myself, make it look like a title, and I'm set. But it wasn't simple, because I didn't know how to describe myself. I find it awkward, and not easy to tell people what you are. Besides from the facts, like being female, Nigerian, Muslim, I couldn't find a selling point for myself.  So I went to a few friends and asked them to describe me: in a few words, three words,or one word. I got good words, such as 'smart', which is great to be described as, but to put that in a blog title wouldn't be good enough. I also thought intelligence is relative...

Myself. To the world of blogging. Its summer, I'm quite bored and I figured 'why not?' I also told myself and some friends that this is something that I wanted to do, purely because the prospect of having a blog was intriguing.There are also other reasons like: A) I feel that sometimes I quite a bit to say, which isn't always appropriate for Facebook or easy enough to constrain into the 140 characters of Twitter. Either way, a blog like this would be a good way of sharing and expressing my thoughts, and possibly sorting them out for myself in my head for myself. I have an opportunity to write out what I want to say in enough detail to keep myself content, and avoid misunderstanding (hopefully). B) I like to look into things, and then share those things with other people. Not just opinion like I've said in  point A, but more like facts, how-to-dos and knowledge about random things. I think it'll be pretty cool to be able to know that I could be a base of...