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My second nephew loves to eat crabs, both hard-shell and soft-shell types. For hard-shell crabs, he likes to eat crabs cooked in different flavours, ie. the black-pepper crab, black-sauce crab, butter crab, crispy-oat crab but not so much on the chili crab and steamed crab. This is probably because the chili crab is too spicy and the steamed crab is too plain for kids.

Recently, my nephew had been bugging me to buy some deep-fried soft-shell crabs for him to eat. So I went to the nearby seafood stalls hoping to buy his favourite crispy deep-fried soft-shell crabs for him. But to my surprise, most of the stall helpers either had never heard of or were not selling soft-shell crabs. They only had hard-shell crabs cooking in different flavours.

Then, I went to the shopping centres and did my hunting for the deep-fried soft-shell crab at the various restaurants. I remembered that I had been to one of the Vietnamese restaurants that was selling soft-shell crabs so I headed towards its direction. When I reached there, however, I found that the Vietnamese restaurant had already been moved out of the shopping centre. Gosh!

I consoled myself saying that that were still many restaurants around so I continued my hunting for the soft-shell crabs. I walked towards a Japanese restaurant and was delighted to see the picture of soft-shell crab was displaying in their menu. After I placed the order, the waitress came back to me a few minutes later saying that the deep-fried soft-shell crabs had already been sold out. I was disappointed again.

I’m wondering why soft-shell crabs are seemed to be uncommon as compared with the usual hard-shell crabs. Even if you have the money, it just doesn’t mean that money can buy whatever things that you wanted to have. Well, I will try my luck again some other day.

I have taken up a web-hosting plan and gotten a free domain name from BlueHost. Finally, my personal Blog is up and running. So, welcome to my Blog!

This is the first post of my personal Blog and I have been asking myself what I shall write about in this opening post. Well, after thinking for a while, I feel that it is better to make things natural by writing whatever is coming to my mind. After all, this is what Blogging is all about, isn’t it?

Actually, I have three Blogs altogether but this Blog is my first personal one. I have had taken up a WordPress Jumpstart short course that was set up by my friend and his business partners one year ago. That was the time that I got to know about using WordPress platform to start a Blog although I knew very little about Blogging.

I thought that Blogging is the toy of celebrities, teenagers, journalists, etc. in the past. However, I was wrong after joining the WordPress Jumpstart course because anybody can set up his or her own Blog quite easily by following what we have had learnt in the course.

Frankly speaking, I have to admit that setting up a WordPress Blog and get it hosted on a paid web hosting with a purchased domain name is not something that is easy to do if you don’t have the technical know-how.

It won’t be as easy as setting up a Blog on a free hosting such as the Blogger.com. Probably, this is the reason as to why some people still prefer to host their Blogs on Blogger.com, Multiply.com, WordPress.com, etc. to getting a paid one. But for me, I still prefer to get my Blog hosted on a paid web-hosting service to a free one so that I can have more control over my own Blog site and won’t have to worry about my Blog being shut down by the free web-hosting service provider without prior notice.

So, that is my web hosting preference. Now, you do know how I started my Blogging journey, don’t you?