World's Oldest Blogger

If you have read the newspapers a few days back, you'd notice of a topic that was covered, "World's Oldest Blogger".

Yes, my post today will be about the late "World's Oldest Blogger".


She's none other than OLIVE RILEY.







Taken from Wikipedia.org:

Olive Riley (October 20, 1899 – July 12, 2008) was an Australian woman, believed to have been the world's oldest blogger.

She began her blog The Life of Riley in February 2007 at the age of 107 and made her final post on June 26, 2008 from a nursing home in Woy Woy, New South Wales, complaining of a cough about two weeks before she died at the age of 108. She had posted over 70 entries, as well as several video posts on YouTube.

A video of her singing :






Her actual blog is here. Click


A temporary blog of hers, that is edited by her friends. Click



I think Olive Riley is an inspiration, not to the older generation, but to the future generations as well. Olive showed that she was capable of making herself useful, and being "updated" in the present generation by blogging.

She should be a role model to fellow elderly who think that they are useless, and a burden to their families. Olive proved that she is still young at heart, and capable of doing many things, such as blogging, that people would not expect elderly to do.


To all those who are seeking for sympathy, take a look at how this 108 year old lady was capable of touching many other lives. She showed that she was not going to be someone who would wait for death to come knocking on her door, but rather keep active, so that her mind and body are fit to delay death.


People always say that life's too short, but I think that Life is the longest thing you can ever have. So don't waste it, but make it useful, make yourself useful, and live a Life like how Olive did.


She brought joy to her life, and brought joy to others in her Life.


By the way, I'm rooting for LAO ZHA BOR at "http://laozhabor.blogspot.com/" to be the next oldest blogger!