Goodbye Raisin Cookie Land

I am changing the outlook of my blog (again). I hope my goofy face up there doesn't scare you. Basically, I just want to have a cleaner template and a more mature looking site. Remembering that I'm a year away to a quarter decade old (geez, I make myself sound like I'm dying), and because the new year is only a couple of days fresh, I think it's an appropriate time to make a little change in appearance. And I will try my best to do the same in reality.

Raisin Cookie Land has gracefully lend me its space for lots of ranting, sharing, and therapeutic writing. It's the place where I feel safe and at home, no matter where I am. It's the starting point to others' spaces or sites that I visit for a daily guilty pleasure. It was named rightfully because I run to it for comfort just like I did when I ran to Seattle's Best Coffee on campus for an oatmeal raisin cookie on a bad day (well, okay, on a good day, too).

Now that I no longer do that (no worries, I have other comfort food), I wanted to replace it with something else, and also something that is for goodness sake, not food related. And, man, it's always hard to think of a name. Branded by design came to my mind because I read a book recently that talked about how we (humans) are all wanted, created, designed, branded, and thus are special because of that. I actually read the book when I was quite sleepy, so I might have just created that interpretation, but what the heck, I like it :) So I guess, I wanted to change my own perspective about this blog: not a place that I run to for comfort and confirmation of existence, but a place where I just share myself and my thoughts, where I share what I'm designed for.

So, welcome to branded by design, welcome to 2011! Happy New Year!