I love going back to my old posts and reading them again for nostalgia's sake. They help trigger memories I had long forgotten, they remind me of how I was when I was younger, and I can't believe I had ever written such things so long ago.

Which is why I find it quite sad myself that the number of blog posts I have been writing year after year is steadily decreasing. In 2005, when I first started the blog, I wrote 170 posts. It still remains my highest post count for any one year. In 2009 I wrote 126 posts; in 2010, 69; and in the first half of 2011, 20. With A-levels looming this year I doubt I'd actually write any more than 60, at best.

It's sad because I had four years in RGS to cover, which I did rather well actually. 157 posts in 2006, 42 in 2007, 160 in 2008 and 126 in my last year. Yet, for the two years in JC I've only written 89 thus far. Only two years, and this is how much I've covered? Of course, perhaps the quality of the posts is better, but I loved reading my old posts because they recorded practically everything that happened. Now, they're only left to record whenever I feel like blogging. Mostly abstract thoughts and ideas, random snippets, little about the goings-on of actual life that would be interesting to look back upon as I do my older posts.

I doubt I'd see my post count pick up sharply any time soon, though. A-levels and all that. But I think I am planning to do a recount post sometime soon, I think I'd at least want to record how TSD has been so far, being such a unique point in my life.