About

Dastle – the word

Dastle is a word of my own creation back in college. It means David’s Castle.

I have been using this word on many occasions ever since. For example, my wifi in my room is called Dastle.

Dastle – the blog

The blog was started when I first entered college in 2005. It was kept on and off until 2011 when I graduated from college with my master’s degree.

In 2012, I started my first official job. It was at that time when mico-blogs such as Twitter/Weibo started to dominate and blogs started to die out, so did mine.

Starting again

Since I started my first official job in 2012, I have been experiencing and gaining much, and thus began to comprehend the world deeper yet I was not able to write down all the stories.

I was very lucky to have had a conversation on 25 Fed., 2018 with my tutor back in college. I think it was the third time that she encouraged me to write down all my stories. I had planned to start a subscription account on WeChat but refrained from that for my concern about my private information at the disposal of Tecent if I did that. So voila, I re-started this blog.

Something not so related – I think 25 Fed., 2018 is also a very important date for my fellow countrymen.

On 28 Feb., 2018, the blog was finally on again. I was also very happy to have retrieved backups of my blog from my beloved IBM Thinkpad X40. When the recovery was done and I was going through all previous posts, somewhere soft and deep down in my heart was poked – it’s so good to see something written years ago.

I will continue to write down stories.

Theme of the foreground

I found this theme, b4st, from this page on Github. It was made by Simon Padbury based on Bootstrap 4. Some modifications were done according to personal preference of mine.

David Z on 28 Feb., 2018
Updated on 8 Mar., 2018
Written into English on 16 Mar., 2018