Six Years of jlhabitan@yahoo.com, jbata5 and foruming

    Wow! I can't believe that it has been six years already since I have a reigistered email address and of ruining people's lives on internet message boards and online forums. So in line with my 17th birthday, I'll be celebrating six years of my email add.'s existence and six years of foruming (is that even a word?)

    It was August 2001, just a few weeks before my 11th birthday, I was super jealous that my 2 older siblings already have their own email addresses. So I begged my mother to register my own email add. The difficulty for my part was, since I was 10 turning 11, I was not old enough to register my own since Yahoo! only allows people 13 and above to freely register without any hassle. Those below thirteen must need their parent's permission to have their own so it's kinda hard really. Eventually, my mom had me surprised when she called me up from her office in DC, telling me that I now have my own email address, jlhabitan@yahoo.com. Yeah and my password was pretty easy to remember (considering I already know it personally). At first, I don't have anyown to email with but a year later, I was able to use my email add to communicate with some of my friends in America and eventually to a whole lot. Overtime, I registered several other email addresses but it was really jlhabitan that really stood by me through the course of the years. now I use jlhabitan@yahoo.com for YM purposes. So HAPPY 6TH ANNIVERSARY!


Now on with the foruming. When I was at the states for a year, I was really curious with the message board website of the Disney Channel's teen block (Zoog Disney) and so with the help of my mom's email add from the World Bank, I have myself regsitered into Zoog Disney's online forums. Now, that was when we have a bogus computer with a slow dial-up service. When we got a new Dell PC with a better dial-up service from AT&T, that's how it really began. July 2001, my family visited our relatives in Normandy Ave., LA County, CA. there was one Filipino I've met who was surfing the net one night and logged himself in to a website called NEOPETS. At first it was an online chatroom so I got curious. Just before we left LA, I quickly remembered the name of the website-NEOPETS.COM. So in no timie at all, using my own email add, I regsitered myself into Neopets and  my first known username  was jbata5. Well, talked about that! Then I should have mentioned that it has  been six years since I first used my usernmae jbata5! hehehehehe! So anyway, not long after that< eventually got hooked on other online forums especially when we came home the year after. I registered myself under several names (which reflects my personality and personal favorites and everything that starts with the letter "j").

    Some well known online forums that I've been to are the following: Neopets.com, zoogdisney.com, nick.com, kpopmusic.com. sokorean.com/forum, soompi.com, igma.tv, forum.abs-cbn.com, forums.abs-cbn.com, pinoyexchange.com, gendou.com, and a whole lot more. You know, I have been too much exposed to this foruming thing that you may as well call me a veteran. I still can't believe that I've been into it for six years now and still doing it.

    Less than a week by now will be my 17th birthday so not only will I celebrate it, I'l be celebrating jlhabitan@yahoo.com, jbata5, and my online foruming thing.

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