" Tissue, Anyone"

I used to wonder why tissue paper has always been white. I couldn't understand why it can't be dark-colored like brown, dark green, navy blue, or my personal favorite, black. Did the tissue gods decided to stick with white as the official color of the only (hopefully) piece of paper a person will entrust to wipe a dirty ass, furniture, appliances, spills etc? What's the significance of a tissue paper's color (or lack of it) to its use? You should be able to take any piece of it and wipe mess with that.

I also couldn't figure out why people have to look at it after they use it. I mean you know that it's gonna be dirty. Experience has thought everyone that if you use something to clean up a mess, it'll also be dirty. Why should a tissue be different?

Then it hit me. A tissue paper's color has use. It's white so that you'll know if it's dirty. It's white so that you wont use it anymore if it's soiled. It wasn't meant to be looked at after use; it's supposed to be checked before doing so.

People are like tissue paper. You need to check people for dirt before you get to know them unless you want to end up wiping your ass with soiled tissue paper. I know that a person's character shines through only when you get to know them, but I firmly believe that a good first impression is enough. Life's a game of hit-or-miss but if you end up accidentally taking a dirty tissue paper, you can always get a fresh one from the roll.

"First Time"

This is my first blog posting. Heck i didn't even know what that meant until i looked up today what a blog is. It's defined as an online diary that an individual (that would be me) poses on the Internet. With that definition, I'm supposed (nay expected) to pour out the deepest recesses of my soul here and make it available to everybody through the Net (Suddenly the blog title "Silent Musings" isn't really a nice idea after all. I should do something about that later). An interesting concept; and one I'm willing to participate in for everyone's (including hopefully my own) amusement.

So I'm really excited about this! Before I started this endeavor, I looked at other blogs for inspiration, asked in which website I should use for my blog postings, and asked around regarding other intricasies of a blog. Then came the big moment of creating one. It turned out that doing so in Blogspot comes in only three easy steps. It was a breeze (Well except for choosing a username, blog title and blog URL. THAT took me several tries... each). After a few minutes I was done. Probably after a few more, I'll be finished with this blog posting.

Well this activity somehow reminded me of my first sexual experience.
1) I was also excited!
2) I also tried to know more about it before I first got it on (I always believe that it's best to come prepared). I read magazines, watched movies and asked around regarding sex a few years before I did it. With my bountiful knowledge, I felt I was fully equipped to handle the situation when my friends decided to do it before we go to college.
3) There were also actual preparations before the actual event. I took an unusually long bath, put on perfume, dressed nicely and had a few drinks.
4) It was also over in a few minutes.

It turns out that first times tend to be that way. There's a lot of anticipation and eagerness before the actual events, there are preparations done so that you won't look like an idiot doing it, and it oftentimes fall short of your expectations. You look at the finish product and hope that other people somehow enjoyed it... Chances are they won't. But you know that you'll be better afterwards. You'll learn that the first time is also your first of a lot of similar experiences. Suddenly you'll know from each experience where you've gone wrong and how to correct them. Yes this is my first blog posting. It may be crappy but I know I'll be better. Heck all good things must start from its own first time.