Ghost from London

While brosing thru my site stats, I've found out that somebody searched for vaj.blogspot.com as the keyword then, as expected, that somebody had this blog as a search result. I'm not sure if he had intentionally meant to type the URL in the address bar and just mistakenly entered it in the Yahoo! search box. Anyway, I got curious so I tried it myself. I typed the URL in the search box and what I found out actually surprised me a bit.

Aside from my various posts in this blog, the search engine also returned results for pages entitled (read:london). You probably know by now what the next thing I did. Of course, I clicked on the link. I got quite intrigued when I saw that the URL of these pages begin with my blog's subdomain. Hmmm... I must've been missing something. For a moment, I thought that I was sharing this blog with somebody else. Partly true.

It turns out that this subdomain (a.k.a. blog URL) is used to be inhabited by another blog named (read:london). The blogger's name is Jilly and she was assigned to work in London for the time being. Kinda reminds me how I got started with my own blog. I was also "exiled" (that was how I put it back then) in a land far and away. Eventually, I called it home.

Now, I'm not sure if Jilly if Japanese or if Japan is the place she refers to as "home" in her August 2001 archive. She never mentioned it so far as I have read but she does put a signature at the end of her posts: ke kite ano. Again, I'm not sure if it's Japanese. She lives with three guys and it seems as if she's always waiting for the weekend to come, just like many others.

Her blog had been active from Aug. 2001 through Dec. 2002. I'm just starting to read it and I'm finding it quite interesting. I'm wondering if she ever found a boyfriend in London. She mentioned some guy came up to her. Afterwards, she accidentally lost the piece of paper containing his number.

Been also wondering how she came to abandon her blog and this subdomain. One year and eight months later, I claimed it for myself. Happy to know that I've got company, though.