About this Blog

Honestly, I never imagined myself starting a blog.  But here I am... finally had the guts to do it!  I just hope to fill this space with random thoughts and opinions about things, places, people, and anything I find interesting and worthy of sharing.

I am a certified food addict (healthy, unhealthy and anything in between - but Japanese, Chinese & Italian are tops for me!) and I enjoy cooking.  I love reading books, especially espionage stories, suspense/thriller, fantasy and yes, love stories.  I like to draw; and as an aspiring photography hobbyist,  I take pictures mostly of nature & people.  I am an adventurous person, a dreamer, a lover, a fighter, a survivor, and will always be... a child at heart!

Now, you might be wondering - why "open & shut"?  It actually took me a while to decide on a title for this blog because I wanted it to be something akin to me.  I like to keep things simple... basic... grassroots.  So, I came up with "open and shut" which is synonymous to "uncomplicated."  A lot of things in life are pretty complicated.  Me?  I try to go back to the basics, try to "uncomplicate" complicated matters - whenever possible, that is.

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." 
~ Confucius

Hope you enjoy reading my posts.  Feel free to comment on any of my blog entries (constructive or otherwise... I can take it). 


Note:  I am an "ellipses" and "hyphen" addict so you'll find a lot of it in my posts.  I also like stressing or elaborating my point by way of phrases or sentences in parenthesis.  I hope you won't find them annoying. :-)