Twin Names

Like the separation of the Church and the State, I tried to take apart my names.

Jeniffer, Jen and Jenny are for school so if someone calls me by these, I am pretty sure he/she is either a teacher or a classmate.


And I only hear people calling me Rio at home or in Church.


That gave me peace then.


But when I entered the corporate world, there are too many 'Jennifers' around (the spelling doesn't matter), so I had to use Rio which I thought was more unique. But now, I also have an officemate named Rio, so I really don't know which name to use!


Hence, it's JenRio for this blog. For those of you who have known me as 'Jeniffer' or 'Rio' -- I hope there isn't much of a difference. And besides, I'm a Gemini, so maybe it's okay to live by the 'twin' principle sometimes. :)

I always want to believe I've hit at least five of these. Judge me?

A Blog's Birth

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper 

until drops of blood form on your forehead.
    -Gene Fowler

If a blog is indeed born, my labor pains are long overdue.

For the third time, I am attempting to create a blog. Please help me God.

Welcome to tabula rasa, conceived by the child in me who keeps on whispering that I can write.

In Latin, Tabula rasa is the epistemological theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that their knowledge comes from experience and perception. The term equates to the English phrase "blank slate".

I  hope that every blank paper (or Word document) I stare at turn into a writing worth reading.