+ alias: ecila
+ dob: 11 days before the eyes of March
+ location: The Greater Toronto Area - Canada
+ nationality: Canadian
+ ethicity: Vietnamse/Chinese
+ wish List: amazon.com
+ loves: sugar and spice and everything nice
+ destest: a lot of things

+ dmb related:

• been a member since: 2001
• been a member for: about 2 years
• friends: i made A LOT of friends on dmb! a lot of idols, and wonderful people whom i look up to :) for example for friends: dodo (naturally ;)), daynah, sarah, and i have to say i've gotten real close to two friends i met on dmb in real life: wendi & kozzi :) People i look up to and admire, and i remember their sites from long ago: lele (i remember the real simply layout she had when she was once hosted, and took cam pictures with an intel pocket cam was it?), lauryn who i found through dodo :) & lan-anh :)
• i'm probably one of the 'older' members that still make a heck lot of spelling and grammer mistakes,
  *so bear with me while reading this xDD

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+ Once in a little town, far, far away, a little girl came out to play.

Alright, so maybe i didn't start out that way :P hahaha I found dmb quiet simply really. When i first got internet access, i remember surffing asianavenue.com... YES! i know what you're thinking.. like, "eEeeeww!! aSiAnAvEnue?!" yes... there. And i ran across a page, it could have been possibly kahyen's old aa page. I remember i saw a page that had her little "mood" banner, type things. But i'm not sure if that was the page i saw that led me to dodo and sooner or later dmb. And if it really wasn't that page then pointless that little bit of information wasn't that? But yea, i remember it was a page... and the page had a link to Grace's old site which was hosted on f2s. Remember "freedom to surf"??? Hahah.. So yea! I found grace's site, and it was very pretty, and helpful! had lots of goodies... and me being a n0ob to the web and very much WOWED... i clicked around her site, and feel on her links page where she had her "sister's" linked. And well, well, well.. one of them was DODO!! So i clicked, and i think i found dodo's new world!!! I'm pretty sure it was that site, but it could have been easily regretless. But nonetheless, that was the first time i fell upond dodo and her sites :) From there on, i remember bookmarking it, and visiting it fequently; Esp dodo's new world! It was so helpful! the tutorials, and shareware programs!! Do you believe that i downloaded ColorPad, and Editpad Lite off of her site, and i still use both?! I'm using the two programs right now!! Hahah, so yeaa, i would visit feqently to her sites, and a bit of pure-essence, and her (now gone) group blog. I remember a halloween layout the site had (i saw some months/time later) that featured a black kitty cat, and a very coooool ghtml featured scollbar =DD But enough about that ;)

I must say, in those early months i visited dodo's new world a lot! and kepted on visiting, and learning A LOT! =) If you want to narrow it out, i think i visited around the time dodo added the early psp tutorials xD But yeaa... dodo at the time on her tutorial site had a mini little forum which people would post questions, and ask for help on html, and css, and this weird thing called php i remember, i think xDD And i would ask for help a lot there too!! I remember i would be afraid (or possibly embarassed) by all the questions i wanted to ask. So i remember posting topics, asking for help by different names.... *blush* as if i was different people. I wonder if dodo ever caught on, or just ignored it? LOL! but yeaaa! All this happened within a time frame of i don't know HOW LONG! I just kepted visiting, hoping for updates, and free stuff XDD And i would also stalk (sorta) dmb for time to time. The first time i think i layed eyes on it, was when it was on the ikoniboard was it? *SHRUG* it had a tulips default theme, and there was a notie saying how dodo was going to change scripts :) And she did, to xmb! I still didn't join, and it wasn't until a long while.. when i think the little mini-board dodo had at her tutorial site was closed x( So alas, i think dodo linked dmb where the mini-forum was, saying if anyone needed help to join the board. And guess what?!

i don't know if it was right then, and there, or if i had waited a bit. But i tried to join! But of course i failed the entrance test the first time i tried xD Boooo.... and i think some time passed after that as well... but i tired again and made it!!! Thus, then... sometime in 2001 (possibly november) i believe i joined dmb :)

Long story wasn't that?

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+ it's about two years later and i still visit dmb :) And i guess you can say i've worked myself up the ladder :) From your regular member, to (maybe... partly possibly?) post number fanatic, to star member :) and got access to the (once was) private star forum ;) What can i say? i felt l33t! hahaha XD After that, lol, here's another story. I remember a day when i found kozzi got promoted to a mod! I don't think i knew her that well at the time. And i'm not totally sure why i felt that way, but i felt really jelous of her :P Yes... I AM pretty sure i was jelous of her that she got promotted to a mod. What can i say? i was pretty young wasn't i? And i got kinda mad as well. Kinda felt like i was ripped off?? lol, what can i say? i was such a kid on my slow windows 95 computer :P But yeaa.. and i remember (actting like a little kid) leaving dmb for a period of time. I don't know how long, maybe a couple of weeks to a couple of months? yet alas, xD who would resists? after i was over that, i continued posting again xDDD

come to think of it, did i get the timeline mixed up? did i leave then came back, THEN got jelous? or was the time period so close together i can't remember well enough? xD but yeaa, something silly like that happened. But eh, i came back (eventually), started posting again, and i think by that time, did i get to know kozzi more? *shrug* I, myself, eventually got promoted to a mod :) Mind you, from that point in time to when i first joined dmb, was a LONG TIME!!!! (i think :P) So yea, from mod (i remember it was the anything else forum ;) then feedback or was it the other way around? hehe then when the debate forum was born, i modded that forum for awhile as well ;)) I got promoted again!! to dundunDUNDUN!!! superMOD =DD lol! mwuahahah the power!!!! though the sparks of the position lost a bit of my made up sparkle, i'm still there :) and i still love the board, i learned A LOT from the board as well! A lot of php, html, css skills (yes even the limited php ones) i learned from the board and dodo :) in addition xD... i had good (pathetic maybe even?) times prunning 14 pages in the anything else forum xDDD Blissful times i tell you :)

So yea, i guess you could say dodo and her sites, and esp dodo's new world, and the board had a large impact on my 'online evolution' xDD but of course not just that, but social experiance :) which led me to know great people off the board as well :) Which i guess explains why i love the category "Friends & Webpages" on the forums the best :)

past avatars:

past blinkes: the crappy one i made and used to use :P the uttra cute one Angel Girl made me like one month ago?? xDD i've never really had a blinkie until i asked for one on the board xD hahah i LOVE ducks! =D

my buddy icon: About one of the most creative things dodo has coded hard for the board :) to bring members closer together. Do you want to be MY buddy?? :)

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+ while making this little page, i've been thinking: wow! it's been awhile hasn't it? Though i've only been a member of DMB for only two years, and there are a lot of other members who've been here longer then i have... i really must say there has been a lot of memories at the board :) a lot of good times, and bad, and entertaining stuff, and sad times. Who would have guess that total strangers at one point, and have the courage to post topics about their pain, grief, as well as personal joys with each other? Friends from distances closer, every day growing up a little bit more, because what is just an age? Growing up is based on experiance, and just being on this board, at least talking about myself, i think i've grown up a bit through this past two years. Living off others' experiances, mistakes, trials, and events... i think possibly others can think the same thing too, the ones who've been here for awhile. What some newbies have thought about the board is that it's a board for webhelp, period. Well no, it isn't.. not just about the internet, html, and webpages... it's about making friends as well :) We all live in a (maybe not so) little world called the 'net, and at once place maybe friendships are made, many things are learned, and remembered.

I may not be posting at the board in two years, (but most likely i will ;)).. but i hope feature members will get the chance to really experiance board to it's full potential.. not just for website help, like i may have joined up for... but for the sence of belonging in a community. Where perfect strangers, can be nice to each other, share experiances, pains and joys, what people go through on their side of the world... and of course learn new things along the way. I really think dodo has succeded at created a fun, helpful, friendly and i think one of the most importaint points, safe communities for not just young people, but as well as the young adults, and adults to be together. :)

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