26 hours till the New Year, and here I am...

Just came up with this idea: why don't I start a blog.

I had no idea how to make a blog, but have visited millions and millions in the past couple of years or so, often unexpectedly (guided from a google search). Usually blogs turn out to be quite useful when I search for information about specific things on the Internet. For example, the last blogs I happened to visit were about the famous Swedish Kalles Caviar manufactured by Abba Seafood (no relation to the 70s singing sensation) - I was looking for 'real' people's voice about using the cod roe paste as pasta sauce!

But really, like the majority of bloggers out there, for me, the main purpose of starting a blog is NOT to supply useful and accurate information to the world, but to keep a catalogue of my thoughts and publish it.

To be honest, the 'publish' bit is secondary. It's just a gimmick to motivate my writing. I know saying this makes me sound completely pretentious. But it IS true.

So what's the primary reason? I suppose I am alcoholic - but the term is probably not that fashionable and not that often used in the medical profession, so I should say I am alcohol-dependent. Or whatever. Doesn't matter what to call my condition, but what's important is that I HAVE DECIDED TO QUIT. COMPLETELY.

OK, perhaps for the 100sth times. But I won't shout to the world that this time will be different.

But the important thing is: I feel determined. I feel the time is right.

Coming from the Far East, the new year is special. A good timing to start something new. And my psychiatrist (wow, I sound like a celeb! - or was it a therapist they are supposed to have?) suggested I should consider total abstinence.

And he also suggested I write a diary.

So here I am. Listening to Joss Stone, and drinking COFFEE. I am taking my very first step.

Step to freedom. I really hope so.