First post and it’s for the About page. Very apt.
I’ve been meaning to write a lot of things but now that I’m staring at the screen, nothing pops up.
Have you ever had that moment when you have a thought one minute and very certain you won’t forget it when you find your phone only for that idea to vanish a few seconds later? That’s basically me recently.
I get a lot of ideas when doing the laundry, or when taking a shower. You can’t really bring your phone in the shower so I have that excuse.
What do you write about to launch your blog? Something witty you came up with? Something profound? Or something mundane like getting off work early today because you worked long hours this week?
Let’s not overthink this. Let me start with the basics.
Hello, you can call me Sera.
From the day I was born, I’ve lived between worlds. Between different cultures. Between the idyllic past and the innovative future.
I grew up on fairytales and browsing through topics in dusty encyclopedias (both lived on the same bookshelf in my grandfather’s house).
I didn’t know what college course to pursue after high school so I decided on computer science because that’s where the money was. Halfway through, I realized I can’t envision myself working as a developer so I shifted to the arts (much to my parents’ dismay).
I got a job taking photos of people after graduation but came to the same conclusion I had in high school that technology really is where the money is at. Let’s be realistic, I can’t feed myself on a couple of bucks a month no matter how much I loved the job and the people.
So there I was, full-circle moment. Someone told me I ate what I vomited.
The first few weeks in that company, I felt like an exhibit specimen. Random managers would drop by in our training classroom and ask to see (sometimes audibly) the “art major”. It wasn’t that bad. I’d also be curious to see the fish learning to fly.
But see, I have a talent: pattern recognition. It didn’t take long for me to be on top of everything and people noticed. Put me in a project I barely know anything about? Sure, no problem. Make me do something without any training? I’ll learn it all.
A decade later and I’m still here: looking for bugs before they become fatal issues and actually learning to code my designs for automated tests. In the end, I’m still doing art but just using a different medium.
I didn’t know how to start this maiden post so it wouldn’t be a surprise that I wouldn’t know how to end it.
Here’s a picture I took of a random community cat a couple of months back.
