It’s only after you lost everything that you’re free to do anything.

As ambitious as skylines may look like.

Making this blog is another attempt towards personal blogging. It might be a vague attempt towards stardom or fame; personally, it’s an attempt towards surpassing my former achievements from Utakgago or at least satiate my desires with even the humblest achievements.

What a speech.

I have had eight blogs for the past two and a half years (I made one at Friendster, three at Blogspot, two at WordPress, one at MyJournal, and one Utakgago.com) and this would be my ninth blog. Sadly, or not, all of those blogs are either inactive or nonexistent (such as Utakgago.com).

Now, the questions you might want to ask.

Where’s Utakgago.com?

A number of my blogging friends have been ranting about my abandoning of Utakgago – probably the only blog I have made that became “successful” – and I can’t feel anything but sympathy since I myself am helpless with the case. I haven’t explained much of the details to everyone.

I acquired Utakgago.com last April 2007 from a blog which has this promo of giving a one-year domain for free to the first ten people who posts a comment on that post. A blogging friend (by the name of Chico) informed me about it – I gave my best shot and commented on that post and after a week or so, I got the domain and named it Utakgago.com.

Surprisingly, it was February 2008 when Utakgago.com “expired” without any notification or warning (it was quite weird that I sensed it, though). I was not shocked but I searched for explanations. Unfortunately, I did not have any direct contact to the one who hosted my blog in hopes of renewing the domain. Now the website is parked free.

Of course it was saddening to know that that website is, the way I put it, a “waste of time” since all my archives are gone. I am stupid enough to make a back-up file without even knowing if I’m doing the right thing.

As what Chuck Palahniuk in Fight Club had said, “it’s only after you lost everything that you’re free to do anything.” So I still have this consolation prize after losing that blog.

Why name it Menthol-Guy?

Simply because I want this blog to sound lousy, OKAY? And I have my lousiest and lamest reasons for naming this blog as Menthol-Guy:

1) After days of brainstorming a new website name, all of those candidates (I really want this domain to be nincompoop.net but it’s not available anymore) are either not available or too corny

2) I smoke Marlboro Menthol back then and

3) I should’ve named this as Menthol-Boy, whatever.

Name your (ambitious) plans for this website.

This website would be exhibiting more of my so-called self-proclaimed “skills” in photography, fictions, video narratives, draft-on-demand (that is, if I got drafts) and everything personal. But of course, most of the plans are made to be broken, so I’d rather not enumerate my plans for this website and instead, keep it to myself.

Anyone to thank?

Of course I would like to thank that fairy gay-mother (as what she prefers to be called) who’s kindhearted enough to host Billycoy and I. And to Mr. Derek Punzalan (if I got his name right) for making such a guh-reat layout that defies the usual blog templates.

For other questions, either related or not, fire them all at the comments section.