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A year of Blogging, A look back. Part 1
Bitched on: Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Time: 12/27/2006 12:31:00 AM
It has been exactly a year since I started this narcissitic I-hope-people-read-my-blog hobby called blogging.Time: 12/27/2006 12:31:00 AM
And as much as I hate it initially (cause blogging an entry can take up at least two hours of your time a day), I admit that things have been fantastic. My 'Engrish' has never been better from all this bitching and whinning. Support from my friends and relatives have been great (they will even pester me if I haven't updated after some time). Even strangers dropping by have been giving me great 'reviews'.
I really love the attention (I admit... blogging does make your head balloon up a bit) especially when strangers (other 'non-friend' bloggers) quote you (I have no problems with copyright and stuff) or 'promote' you in their blogs.
Gosh... Now my neck is hurting... haha...
Well that's blogging. If people don't read your blog, then what's the point right? Might as well write in a diary.
Of course there are those who wrote hate-mails to me. Who cares? Its my blog and I write whatever I want. Screw it. Bet you don't realise it but I can even track down who visited my blog. Thanks to Sitemeter.com. So I know where you live... muahahaha (*evil laughter*).
So I read some of my friends' blogs and surprisingly almost all of them are writing about the same thing at this time of the year - Blogging, its purpose and its power as a tool for communication.
Here's my two cents worth:
Some people blog about their personal lives (with pictures of what they had for lunch, dinner, yadda yadda yadda... pictures of them clubbing or holidaying... yawn...) while some try to make their blog 'intelligent' (with debates, controversional essays and even propaganda writing... yawn...).
Whatever the blogger's style of writing is, isn't blogging about writing your thoughts and life for the whole world to read? Its posted on the web, isnt it? Face it, my fellow bloggers, we all have a lil' bit of exhibitionism in all of us (not in a sexual way... but... that can apply to certain people...). We blog because we want people to read about what we blog -our opinions, we want to be acknowledged, we crave the attention. We want complete strangers to know we exist, to admire us, to sympathise with us, to envy us and to love (or hate) us.
I know that some people might argue that they blog about their mundane day-to-day stuff for their own recreation and for therapeutic bull crap and because they want to, but really, they blog because they want blog surfers to read about it (and even leave some comments)! Its true no? You want your friends to know how well you are doing. You want your friends to like reading about your life. You post aesthatically pleasant pictures of yourself or whatever you think would make your blog cuter. You post lyrics of songs you like. You try to make your blog appealing. And for what? To have more viewership!
If you still insist you are blogging, not for the sake of having people read about what you blog... I say, STOP. Write in a diary then. But of course there are people on the other end of the spectrum who blog because they want to be famous (think celebrity-big) and have hundreds of thousands readership per month and at the same time get paid for blogging... I say, try journalism. No one is as lucky as Wendy from Xiaxue.blogspot. Plus, stop being delusional and don't quit your day job.
And there are some people who write controversional stuff like racism, religious issues or like the recent 'elitism' bull crap, expecting people to violent react or protest to what they said... I say, get a life. There is no room in this world- cyber and real, for any form of prejudice and intolerance. We shouldn't tolerate those kind of people (see the irony in that? haha...).
And what did I do? What did I blog about?
I tried to make this blog very much ME.
Now I know that that sounded like I might be getting too big for my boots but listen up, this blog is very much like myself. To those who know me (in person) would agree with me on this. I am bitchy and loser-y at the same time. Just like this blog. haha...
I blog about almost everything I feel that is worth blogging about. I will put in my two cents worth and I will also share an anecdote or two at the same time. Plus, I will infuse some humour to make my blog entertaining. And that's my style, I guess. So don't expect insightful argumentative essays in my blog (that's all for school).
But back to tracking visitors to my blog, I've noticed that (aside from my friends or wandering blog surfers) people come to my blog to look for these things (in descending popularity):
- Tammy NYP video (10 months and there are still some perverts hoping to find the video in my blog)
- Dawn Yang (or Yeo)'s before and after photos
- Colin and Kero
- Minah Tudung (Women in headscarf) sex videos (which I don't remember blogging about...)
- Miss Izzy (the SPG)'s naked pictures
- And finally something non-sexual, (life as an) architecture student.
Of course there are other links to my blogs, which I won't bother mentioning. Somehow, people come to my blog to search for so-and-so nude pictures (which aren't any, except if you count Britney Spears' crotch shots... and that I have shrunk the picture sizes on purpose).
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