Living and Loving

It was Christmas time 2004 when I became a member of the 'Opera Community' . Christmas is a very boring time in my industry, people are far too pre-occupied with the Xmas/ January sales so I had a lot of 'surfing' time on my hands. I had recently just upgraded my phone to the snazzy (at the time!) Nokia 7610. Being the complicated phone it was, it took me a good couple of months to utilise all of the features. The last of these features was the red 'O' in the middle of the screen. Wanting to know more about this feature, I looked it up on the internet and Voila! the Opera experience had begun! I browsed the site for a while and stumbled across the 'My Opera Community' and seeing as I always signed up for almost everything, I thought 'why not?'

Although I was blogging elsewhere at the time, I would copy all of my posts over to Opera religiously. After a couple of months I had some regular commenters and people who really did seem to enjoy my writing. It was a much more mature audience that I was attracting, so I decided to eventually give up on the other site and continue with my Opera blog! I updated almost every day with all the juicy gossip on love, life and work. In December of 2005, I was named 'Member of the Week'. I was shocked that my blog was that popular but I was overjoyed by this recognition.

During my almost two years here, I have made some incredible friends from all over the world! Joni, Ivan, Lokutus Prime, Q-Ell, Karen, Sarah, Dan and Yum to name a few.

Another of my main reasons for my divine loyalty to Opera is in fact the Opera Team themselves. They have done an amazing job with the community in the past year. Going from a very simple, not very attractive layout to what it is today - Brilliant! They have always been very personable, helpful and keen to get feedback so that they can improve and be the best.

Thank you Opera for this experience it is one to remember


FB xx