I have to thank my big brother for being the first to get me interested in the whole "Internet crave"...or at least
he attempted to. During my elementary school years, my brother created a website for me, called "Sailor Saturn
Online." It was simply a personal site for me, with my favorite sailor scout, Saturn, decorating the front page.
However, that site stayed dead for some years since my parents don't believe that little kids, like I was back then,
and the internet are a good match.
My love for computers and the Internet really sparked when my friends in 6th grade introduced me to the wonderful,
virtual world of Neopets.com. Caring for a virtual pet, playing games to earn "money," and chatting with other people--
yes, I loved it. Eventually, it persuaded my dad to get my sister and me our own Internet connection, since my
brother needed his own for high school. I continued with my Sailor Saturn Online site, still maintaining it as a
personal space for me.
Now, my passion for web designing came into play when I created a "guild" at Neopets.com. To make it look flashy,
I had to learn HTML. So through some trials and errors, I managed to succeed in that. When I reached the 8th
grade, my brother installed Adobe PS on my computer since I needed it for a science project, once. This also
attributed to my interest for web designing since I could (and still now) use Adobe PS to alter images and
design graphics.
To cut the story short, I turned my personal site into a graphics site, hosted at Hostultra.com first, then
thankfully and greatfully at Kishuku.org (then owned by Na2). Of course, like other people, I craved for a real private
place of my own. After giving it much thought, I brought up the courage to ask my dad to buy me a domain and space.
To which he said yes--thank goodness, and I'll love him forever for it. And...that's how Shukuya.com came to be.
What happened to Yabureru?
Ah, yes...my blog was on a separate subdomain, but I decided to simply merge it with the actual domain.
This was mostly due to the domain or "front" of Shukuya being rather inactive. Plus, with my domain also acting as
my blog now, I think it saves space and hassle for me. Instead of updating two different places, I can update
files in one spot. I feel it'll leave things more
convenient and neat. The blog portion of Shukuya will still be named after Yabureru as a sort of tribute to the
ex-subdomain.
- Name: Shukuya [.com]
- Owned by: Christine
- Purchased on: August 14, 2003
- Purchased from: Godaddy
- Hosted at: E-starr
- Total Disk Space: 800 MB
- Bandwidth per month: 20,000 MB
Why that name?
At first, I was choosing between 'lovely-designs.net' or 'rikku-girl.net'. But a friend from
DDG MB suggested I pick a word that was special to me and translate into another language.
So I decided to pick the language Japanese and eventually found the word 'shukuya'-- from what a couple of
dictionaries have told me...it means "from morning till night." and I like that
idea of morning till night...almost like a sense of "eternity" or (open) 24/7. I made it shukuya.COM since I had seen
a lot of .net and .org already.
