Soft Edges

IT'S FINALLY DONE! After 2 WEEKS of mental anguish and physical torture (lack of sleep), Soft Edges is finally done! Yes, Soft Edges is the name of my latest blog template (:

I call these occasions the 'soft edges', instances where the things you seek elude you just as you thought you were about to have it.

Have you ever felt like you were just about to chance upon a certain epiphany, but, somehow, just as you were to grasp it with your fist, it was abruptly snatched away from you, never to be found again? Have you ever dreamt that you were chasing a person round and round your dreamscape as you persist to find out who he or she is, only to find yourself awaken by the incessant alarm just when you were about to find out the person's identity? Have you ever felt like you were about to fall in love only to have your sentiments blunted by a kaleidoscope of things unknown and unnamed to you, eventually having to return to the comfortable and static status quo? Perhaps you have. Perhaps you have not. In any case, I call these occasions the 'soft edges', instances where the things you seek elude you just as you thought you were about to have it.

It is messy, it is chaotic, and it is totally random.

I didn't want to portray it to be a dreamlike experience because it isn't. It is messy, it is chaotic, and it is totally random. Unable to anticipate its arrival, and unable to predict its final departure, that's the nature of 'soft edges'. Perhaps some grains of truth can be glimpsed from this phenomenon - that special moments are, indeed, fleeting: like the shooting star that comes in such infrequency, it was spectacular while it lasted, but once it was gone, it was like it never happened before, leaving behind a trail of wistfulness, of bittersweet regrets.

Anyway, I'm glad that this template is finally done! It's probably the most difficult and protracted template that I've ever done (the BB one was the next most difficult, but it was easy compared to this because there is a clear identity that I can follow). Technically, the incorporation of a Flash movie as a header was tedious too, and the search for an online host for it was equally daunting. Now that I'm done, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief, and proudly proclaim it to be my best work so far :D