Origins Of Diary Of A Mad Chaos

Diary Of A Mad Chaos is a daily diary written by Toni Eleninovski from March 1996 to the present day.

Toni Eleninovski was born in the state of New South Wales, Australia in 1979. His parents migrated to Australia from Macedonia in the early 1970’s.

The diary record process began with the keeping of paperback diaries. These paperback diaries mostly contained gym and bodybuilding records from between 1993 to 1995, when the author was 14 to 16 years old, respectively.

Personal notes and life milestones were also recorded in the paperback diaries using a secret alphabet that the author created in the year 1992, while he was in year 8 studying in Airds high school.

Crossover From Paperback Diaries To Digital Diaries

In 1996, when the author was 17 years old, the paperback diaries crossed over into a digital format.

The first digital diary entry written on Saturday, March 9, 1996 at 4:45 am was written on an Amiga 500 computer using a basic ASCII text editor.

The diary entry on March 9, 1996 is when the Diary of a Mad Chaos was born.

The original diary entries were saved onto 3.5 inch floppy disks formatted for an Amiga 500 computer.

The Diary Partitioned Into Eras

As the diary grew in volume to tens of millions of words over the course of writing diary entries over the decades, a natural partitioning system was devised.

The diary is now divided into periods of time, known as eras.  The natural boundaries of eras are defined by major life events. The stories within these periods of time serve as the novels, memoirs, and literature of Diary Of A Mad Chaos.

The Memoir Of A Mad Chaos

In periods where diary entries were not written, a memoir has been written.

The memoir uses recollections and memories extracted from the diary proper (when the author recalled a memory that had not been written), to create a memoir document with historically accurate entries.

The process to write for the memoir thoroughly combines records, photos, videos, audio, letters, messages, paperback diaries kept between 1997 to the present date, as well as time and date stamped records.

The method incorporates a flashcard process, where records (matched to a specific day) are shown to the author, to which the author recalls those events in detail to include in the memoir.

Diaries Of The Generations

In comparison, Col. Ernest Loftus of Harare, Zimbabwe holds the Guinness world record for keeping a daily diary for over 91 years.

In terms of longest diaries by word count, Rev. Robert W. Shields wrote a 37.5 million word diary, Edward Robb Ellis wrote a 21 million word diary, and Arthur Crew Inman wrote a 17 million word diary, respectively.

Major Books From The Diary

Individual books and book series have been created;

• The Lost Years:- an exploration of young, entwined love,
• Wubao In China (猎艳奇缘) Book Series:- provides an extensive comparative analysis of the cultural differences between Eastern and Western societies.
• Foreigner (华人):- an exploration of race relations in Australia.

Diary of a Mad Chaos book and online editions are written in both English and Chinese.

The Official Diary Of A Mad Chaos Website

This official Diary Of A Mad Chaos website hosts original content, from the inaugural diary entries of 1996 through to the in-depth articles exploring the cultural differences between China and The West, as well as to record the societal upheaval due to the coronavirus pandemic while in China and Australia.

The mission is to publish the entire diary to the public, both in online and book editions, with the addition of videos, audio podcasts, and an online store to make book and product purchases.