A Post-Valentine Breakfast Date, Sealed with a (Chocolate) Kiss!

As much as I want to take my wife out for a date last Valentines Day, our busy schedules (We are both working parents) really did not permit us to have one.

Well, who says you can only have a date on the 14th?

Not being outdone, I discreetly planned a post-Valentines Day "Breakfast Date" with not only my wife, but also with our daughter on February 16, a Sunday - so we may call it a "Sun-Date", I guess.

An Apology, Defibrillation, and...Title Change!

 "If there is still a pulse, you can revive it!" 

Hello! I guess I had been gone too long. (I almost expected cobwebs in this page when I opened it for this post)" Too long" is an understatement. Let me see...last post February 9? Dang, It has been over a year since this blog got a follow-up post from the introduction I did.
Okay, first things first, I owe this blog an apology, a real fat, big-sized apology, to that extent.

When I started this blog a year ago, I thought "Yeah! I have so many ideas that I want to impart to all who will stumble on my blog"; however, I did not expect that there will be so much stuff that I will have to attend to and put first in my priority list that I literally forgot about this blog.

"Forgot it, left it on the side to die" - that is how bad I left this blog hanging in the air.
This blog may not be a living thing, but I will throw normalcy aside because I think I am at fault for what happened here and be a man to admit it;

To Ko-Ecks Domain, my first blog, I apologize for abandoning you after creating you with so much promise. My deep, sincere apologies.

Okay, now I will not blame you if you will belt out a "...He's Crazy!" line like Olaf the Snowman said in the animated film, Frozen. After all, here I am like Kristoff talking to stones; in my case, talking to a blog, right? But, fact of the matter is, I treat my works (songs, drawings, poems, term paper,  scribbles, and yes..this blog) as animated objects that I breathe life into when I made them (ala Elsa from Frozen, again) and when I feel like I do them wrong or what my plans for them come undone, then I feel the guilt and as crazy as it seems, I think I got to apologize to them. So yeah, as you see that is what I did and "Gumagaan naman ang pakiramdam ko" when I do that, so no harm done I guess.

Moving on, now, not all hope is lost for this blog, and I believe it still has a "pulse" and yes! When there is a pulse, you can revive it. So I guess all of I have to do is just pump life back into it - ala Defibrillator (the one used in Medical Institutions).

How to do it? "POST SOMETHING FILLED WITH HOPE FOR THE FUTURE" like this post I am doing, right?

One more thing, since it has been a year, unfortunately, I also realized that "Ko-Ecks Domain", as good-sounding as it is, is not the title of a blog that will attract attention. I may be contradicting my first post, but Hey! A year made me realize that I need to re-christen this blog to give it a more  unique-sounding name and also to signify the "back from the ashes" revival that this blog will undergo for the next days to come. I may have elaborated in my first post the reason why I choose "Ko-Ecks Domain" as the blog title, but this time it will be different. I will just put it there and let you all do the thinking.

Without further ado, Former "Ko-Ecks Domain", I now re-christen you as "Kiroku Tensha Eriko", I look forward to better blogging with you.

...and I promise, I will do better this time!

See you in the next post.

Ciao 

First Post!

OKAY, FIRST POST! (An Introduction to my Domain)

Hello! Good Day to all of you, Welcome to my Blog! This will be my first post so for formality's sake, let us put in here a proper introductory post.

Who Am I...Who I am:


First of all, I am Jericho Christian T. Dizon. Nice sounding name huh? (Well, thanks to my Mama and Papa for giving me a name like that) I am now 29 going to 30 years old and is happily married and has a (very beautiful) daughter.

Now, why is my blog called "Ko-Ecks' Domain" you say? I know, it is not as catchy as the other blog names out there, but to tell you frankly, it is the most personal title I can give to this little blog of mine...really!

You see, throughout my entire 29 years of existence, I go by a LOT of nicknames, my relatives refer to me as Jeck or Jhek, then in my elementary days, a classmate christened me as Jec-D (kinda like a rapper name, LoL!) which I then revised and added an "H" to become Jhec-d and was the nickname I used throughout my entire secondary school days. Come college time, Jhec-d has been deemed too long and was slashed and shortened to just "Jec" or "Jhec" and on top of that, I was even called "Echo" (Oh, thank you Jericho Rosales for that, but err...no thanks!) by some of my friends and colleagues. Wooh! that is a lot of nicknames, you follow me? However, I soon realized that even though those are cool nicknames, all of those are fabricated by other people and I have no control over that, so I said to myself, "I want a nickname that I personally made myself, and will also serve the purpose of describing who I really am!" After thorough thinking, I personally chose that I want to be called "Ecko", it sounds cool and also corresponds to a brand name (Ecko Unlimited) that I really find "unique."

Another tinkering of my nickname finally made it "Ko-Ecks", which I believe a nickname I can really call my own. (I even made an email address using ko_ecks in it and not even a single "hit" that someone has used it before, I guess that really makes it my own, right?)

Now, when it comes to naming my blog, I thought that this blog will be my little nook in this vast universe we call the internet; my "domain" per se, so BOOM! I just simply named my blog just like that, my own personal little domain, and even though it may not seem much, believe me, this blog here is as damn personal as it can be.

Whew, that was a lot of words thrown just to explain my blog's name. If you have read all of it up to this point, Thank you! At least, I know you were *THAT* interested in this blog. I appreciate that, he he he.


My Motivation for Blogging:


Now, I am really a Jack of All Trades, but a Master of None..and hell yeah! I am proud that I am like that!

Ask me what thing best describes me and without further delay, I will tell you that it is a Swiss Army Knife.

Why? It has all the tools..some that you may need a lot of times and also some that you may not need at the moment, but when a certain time or situation comes, you will be happy that it has those tools rather than not have them at all.

A Swiss Army Knife will also be the best thing that will describe this blog of mine. I am not going to concentrate on one single theme or topic. I may post something about food or hobbies one day and then post a political rant another day and then just post pics of photowalks on another day.

I know that it may sound crazy, but Hey! Life is like that! Our lives does not revolve on one event that goes on to loop over and over "24/7 and 365", right? Since this blog will be about me and things in my life that I want to share, then I think the best way to deliver this blog is by going over as many themes and topics as possible that the only common denominator of those is "it provides information for that certain event, time, and situation that may prove to be useful to others when the time comes." It is just like what a Swiss Army Knife does and that is what I want to provide the ones who will stumble upon my blog, Certain Information for a Certain Situation, event, or whatever. So if you are down with that, then COOL! I am happy to blog for all of you the best way that I can.

Reactions?...Violent?..No Problemo!:

Constructive criticism is always welcome because I do believe that feedback will make me a better blogger. This is my first blog, so any comment and even criticism from readers will be a good thing.

The only thing that is not "COOL" here is foul language...That is not COOL and "I spit at the face of people who don't want to be cool"....I'm just kidding, but again, foul language is not permitted in this blog and I will appreciate if you are down with that too.

Okay, and that is it! An introduction that tried to be as personal as possible. If you have read through all of it, THANK YOU and I encourage you to come back and read my next post/s in this little Domain of mine!

Ciao and God Bless!