{"id":154,"date":"2007-07-25T17:19:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T07:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mja.id.au\/blog\/internet-studies"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:25:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello, and welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m Melissa from Queensland, Australia. I live a fairly quiet life with my husband, work part-time as a finance officer, and spend a good deal of my time supporting family. I\u2019m especially close to my sister, who lives with disability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve always been a private person. I tend to notice more than I say, and writing has given me a way to share some of those thoughts more comfortably. I\u2019m drawn to honesty, kindness, animals, gardens, nature and landscapes, and to the beauty captured in art, photography and music \u2013 the way they can stir something in us, or express what words sometimes cannot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This blog has been with me since 2005. These days it is less a diary and more a collection of memories, reflections and poems \u2013 a place to keep the things I don\u2019t want to lose. I also keep another blog,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/luminosita.blogspot.com\/\">Luminosita \u2013 A Learning Log<\/a><\/em>, where I document my study journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the posts begin with my own memories and pieces of writing, which I shape with the help of AI. It helps me distil thoughts and feelings I sometimes struggle to put into words, while keeping the heart of them mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for being here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-duotone-grayscale\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2448\" height=\"1632\" src=\"http:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original_a7cfbe76-9a6c-4761-aa4c-856b72ef7589_PXL_20211225_013308319.PORTRAIT-edited-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original_a7cfbe76-9a6c-4761-aa4c-856b72ef7589_PXL_20211225_013308319.PORTRAIT-edited-1.jpg 2448w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original_a7cfbe76-9a6c-4761-aa4c-856b72ef7589_PXL_20211225_013308319.PORTRAIT-edited-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original_a7cfbe76-9a6c-4761-aa4c-856b72ef7589_PXL_20211225_013308319.PORTRAIT-edited-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original_a7cfbe76-9a6c-4761-aa4c-856b72ef7589_PXL_20211225_013308319.PORTRAIT-edited-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original_a7cfbe76-9a6c-4761-aa4c-856b72ef7589_PXL_20211225_013308319.PORTRAIT-edited-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original_a7cfbe76-9a6c-4761-aa4c-856b72ef7589_PXL_20211225_013308319.PORTRAIT-edited-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original_a7cfbe76-9a6c-4761-aa4c-856b72ef7589_PXL_20211225_013308319.PORTRAIT-edited-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2448px) 100vw, 2448px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, and welcome. I\u2019m Melissa from Queensland, Australia. I live a fairly quiet life with my husband, work part-time as a finance officer, and spend a good deal of my time supporting family. I\u2019m especially close to my sister, who lives with disability. I\u2019ve always been a private person. I tend to notice more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-154","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":335,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6619,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154\/revisions\/6619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}