hello blogger it's been such a long time....
sigh it seems like i'm gradually giving up all my blogging platforms lol i stopped dayre-ing for quite some time too because 1) my life is too boring 2) no time to keep up with shit.
so ya it's 1.17am on a random monday morning and i just felt this random urge to blog about something.
there's nothing interesting going on in life right now, and i'll probably blog about my year 1 sem 2 after all this shit is over lol school's keeping my hot on my toes rn i don't rly have time for anything else besides eating. sleeping, studying and having a teeny bit of social life.
so anyway, i was scrolling through my instagram profile the other day and a random thought just occurred to me.
i see so many family photos on my feed that's posted by my friends especially during the festive season like chinese new year, or maybe it's their birthdays and whatnot.
and it kinda occurred to me that i stopped posting/hardly post photos of my family/parents/grandparents anymore.
i think it got to the point whereby in my end-2015 trip to korea that lasted 10 days, i didn't post a single photo of my family even though i travelled with them - and my friend thought that i went alone (bc most of my photos were either scenery/food + with myself)
i only post ootds during chinese new year too and not a family photo.
if you are the usual quick-to-jump-to-conclusions kind of skeptic, i'm pretty sure you will assume that i'm not at all close to my family.
hahaha you are absolutely wrong!
we're actually quite bonded i would say, and we do take a lot of photos on random occasions that we go out and all.
i talk to my mom about almost everything and anything under the sun and she's my ultimate favourite confidante.
if you were to see how i behaved at home, i'm sure many will cringe because i'm always talking "kiddy" to my sister because i like to spend time with her too.
my dad is also the one who's always taking care of my secondary needs like driving me around, getting things at good deals, working v hard for the family all the time.
what i really cherish is the fact that we try our utmost best to gather at the dinner table everyday (maybe except nights that i'm out for dinner or thursdays when my dad is out playing old-man tennis haha).
as long as i'm home, even when i'm not eating i'll still make the effort to sit at the table with them because i care about this bonding time.
i actually really cherish my family a lot and i hold them very dear to my heart, but the reason why they hardly appear on my instagram anymore is because i feel the need to distinguish my private life and my personal life.
not that this is done because i'm some popstar or what but, i just suddenly feel that there's a fine line i need to draw within my social life and my private life.
my mum constantly asks me, "jamie, is your instagram account private ah?"
and when i say that it isn't she'll have this perpetual look of dissatisfaction mixed with slight worry.
she says that she doesn't really want her colleagues or friends to find out about what i'm up to in my life.
probably going to invite a lot of unnecessary comments from those middle-aged ladies although i couldn't really care less about it.
but i guess it works the same way - i don't really want my friends to find out what my family is up to 24/7, where we went, where we work/school at. well i guess that's how my family and i work.
after all, instagram is a social media platform.
and what is a social media platform for? to showcase happenings about your social life: friends, food and the places you visit. family goes under private life.
i'm a rather traditional person and i believe the best way to keep family photos is still in the home.
if i want to document nice photos of our holidays together, i'd rather develop them and put them into a nice photo frame or make a nice scrapbook so that it's strictly for my family's perusal.
i don't really feel the need and neither do i feel comfortable with sharing personal photos on my social media platforms.
my friends also sometimes remark, "you are the instagram queen, everything also post one"
hey guys who says ahahahaha i DON'T post my family even though we have a lot of photos tgt ok haha i have my reasons.
anyway i always felt that instagram is pretty much a 'fluff' platform for you to fancy up your social life as much as you can.
not that i enjoy partaking in this kind of activity of keeping up with an active social life but well, i'll just keep at it to fluff my profile up since i've been at it for so long already.
it's become more of a habitual thing rather than an obsessive thing if you know what i mean.
idk if this slightly odd thought started to develop because i'm turning 20 this year (and age and tradition are catching up to me), but this strange importance in keeping my family matters away from the limelight of instagram is sinking in to me quite strongly.
and oh, if you were to be invited to my home it means that i really trust you and i don't mind opening my doors into my humble abode that houses my most cherished people on this planet.
so yes with all that being said you're probably never going to see my family photos on instagram anymore haha!
not that i wrote this post with the aim of proving someone wrong, but well, just to share an interesting thought of mine.
