Am Finally Doing it...

After a lot of coaxing, prodding and, not to mention, nagging from my sister Ena (Nuraina) and friends (Rocky and Zorro, among others), I’m finally taking the plunge.

I have been toying with the idea of starting a blog but never got round to actually doing it. All I did was open a blogger account with Google early this year but I didn’t set up/create a blog simply because I wasn’t sure if I would be able to sustain it. Besides, I was unprepared to open up myself to strangers.

However, I haven’t totally abandoned the idea. I was waiting for the right time. I blog-hop a lot and this has set me thinking that if I could spend so much time surfing the net, why not have a blog of my own. That was when I told Ena and Elviza of my intention.

Not to worry, they assured me. They would help when they (and other bloggers) see me on Tuesday for mee rebus - MRT (Mee Rebus Tuesday).

“Very easy lah, Kak Ton” Ena said. She doesn’t quite understand why I couldn’t figure out how to put those bloody links (which is another reason why I didn’t proceed further).

So during the MRT session at my house yesterday, blogger Elviza literally got me started again - not without any hitches, though.

She sat next to me with her laptop, opened it and said “Ok, Kak Ton, go sign in.”

“Now you need to name your blog,” she said.

I blurted out a few names and finally came up with “Gutsy Grandmother”.

Why Gutsy Grandmother? She asked.

“I AM a grandmother. About being gutsy, well...that's a long story lah,” I told her, “which I’ll keep for later.”

And, Gutsy Grandmother it was. But, of course, I have now changed it to “Tok Mommy”.

Yup, simply “Tok Mommy”, nothing fancy. And, Tok Mommy is a grandmother to Adam (8), Ayra Qistina (2) and Ayna Larissa (1).

To cut a long story short, here it is at last.

Thank you, Elviza. I finally managed to get the links right. I have blogrolled most of the bloggers whom I know and the MRT regulars and linked blogs that I frequent. I might have left out some, but will add them later.

Now if only I can keep up.