Although this will be my first published journal, I have actually been writing journals for the past few years but have only kept them to myself. I thought of writing an online journal more than once, but at the end I always decided not to as I don’t feel comfortable sharing all my thoughts and feelings with everyone. I want my journal to be a true and honest expression of how I think and feel, of what I experience, without worrying how other people think and feel about it. However, I do want to share some of my thoughts, my experience with people and hope that my family in Indonesia and my friends can also keep up with my latest update and happenings. Don’t get me wrong, I still don’t feel comfortable opening up everything to everyone, but I just found out that we can create password-protected entries…yeay…go wordpress.
Ok, that’s a bit background on why I decided to write the online journal. Now, why do I even feel like I have the need to write a journal in the beginning? Well, as suggested in my journal title, I am trying to capture my life in words. Life passes by really fast and so many things happen in one’s life but I just don’t have room to keep everything in my memory. I think it will be nice if I can once in a while look back at what has happened in my life.
I am also not very good with writing essays, so I thought it would also be a good way to make me practice putting my thoughts and expressing my feelings in writing, especially in English.
So here I am….we’ll see where it goes from here…..as I grow comfortable with sharing them, I might even post some of my old postings in here 
