Archive for July, 2007

I was just writing about how time consumming blogging is. Its so time consumming that the only way I can catch up with reading blogs is to read them from a feedreader. I use the web based bloglines feedreader to read blogs.

During my early days of blogging, I used blogrolling and it helped me to know when certain blogs were updated but a feedreader is much better. When you subsribe to the feed of your favourite blogs, you can see updated posts on the left pane of your pc and you can view a summary of those posts on the right pane. You don’t have to leave your feedreader to visit your favourite blogs. This cuts down my blog hopping time a lot.

My bloglines feedreader allows me to paste a code on my webpage so that the blogroll on my blog gets updated whenever I subscribe to a new feed or delete one from my existing subscription. I did not paste the code on this blog though so this blogroll is very outdated. So if you don’t see your link there don’t despair. I’m still reading you through my bloglines feedreader. Haha.

The blogroll on my blog is definitely obsolete now. I no longer click on the links there. The reason its still there is because I like to see my link on other blogger’s blogs so I suppose they would probably like to see their link on my blog too. Lol!

Is your blogroll obsolete too?

 

Thank you BKWorm for giving me this Power of Schmooze award.

The Power of what? Say again? Just what exactly is Schmooze??!

My search for “schmooze” on google yielded rather different results. ”Schmooze” is…

• the number one party spot in Toronto
• is a small friendly college established in 1994
• the fourth edition of the American Heritage Dictionary
• a bar in Toronto
• a NY based rock band

Hahaha. But for this award it means “a blogger skilled in the art of small talk”

I also found the link to the origin of the award from my google search. It came from Mike at Gummy the Lovesick Alien. He said..

“Schmoozing as defined by Dictonary.com is the ability “to converse casually, especially in order to gain an advantage or make a social connection.” When it comes to blogging, schmoozing is your ticket to making new friends, getting yourself noticed and building a reputation. Some bloggers are gifted with the ability to effectively schmooze and others not so much.”

Now that I know the meaning, I feel really honoured and would like to pass on the honour to other bloggers gifted with the Power of Schmooze. They are…

1. 5XMom – She can really Schmooze on any of her 13 (?) blogs. (Sorry I lost count on the number of blogs she maintains.)

2. Ah Pek – now that old feller can reaaaaly Schmooze too and he composes poems like writing ABC.

3. Pablo Pabla can Schmooze yes he can. Afterall he is a lawyer. Lol!

4. Yenjai can Schmmoze. He provides After-Meal Gossip on his blog.

5. Jason yes, this young man can schmooze too especially about food.

Not sure why I gave this award to mostly men, young and old. Must be the muscles and the blue badge. Lol! I hope you all like it. You deserve the honour.

 

When I first started blogging, I thought it was such a fun activity. At the time I only had several blog “kakis” / “gang” and we visited each other’s blogs and left comments on each other’s blogs happily. I spent some time posting on my blog and commenting on those few bloggers that I knew from the early days.

And then I found out that apart from just writing, I had to learn some new blogging jargon and other new things like a little bit of html codes and how to tweak my template a little. And so I spent some time doing that.

And then I monetized my blog and discovered that I had even more things to learn and a lot more posts to write because you have to write some original posts in between all those sponsored posts that you write. And so, I started a few more blogs and had to spend some time maintaining my blogs and writing more blog posts.

By now, those bloggers that I know had also grown and most of them started having several blogs too. I’m having trouble keeping up with and following those blogs that I like. I do enjoy reading many blogs and following up on those blogger posts that I like but its impossible.

Yes. Blogging is time consumming. There just isn’t enough hours in a day to write blog posts, maintain several blogs, blog hop, write sponsored posts and continue to learn. Its an ongoing learning process and you don’t stop learning. You discover new things and new blogs everyday … if only you had the time.

• There are so many more things that I need to learn and do for my blogs but I just don’t have the time.
• There are so many more blogs as well as blog posts that I would like to write and maintain but I don’t have the time
• There are so many blogs that I would like to read and leave more comments on but I don’t have the time
• There are so many more sponsored posts that I can write but I don’t have the time
• There are so many new and good blogs that I would like to explore but I don’t have the time
• There are many more avenues to improve the earnings of my blogs but I don’t have the time to explore them

If I were to do all the above I’d have to sit in front of my PC 24 hours a day and do nothing else. I wonder how everyone else seem to be able to do it. Tips anyone?

Sasha tagged me me to help contribute another RM127 to the Darul Izzah Orphanage. 

The meme is about completing at least seventeen out of the following twenty seven sentences…….. When you are done, just drop Idham a comment over at the tag’s original page.

1. A person is only as good as ……… he thinks.

2. Friendship is always ……. good for the soul.

3. To love is to……….. give of oneself.

4. Money makes me…….. shop!

5. I miss …………… driving and the freedom and independance it brings.

6. My way of saying I care is by ………… giving a hug.

7. I try to spread love and happiness by…………… giving more hugs.

8. Pick the flowers when……. don’t pick!

9. To love someone is to………….. give without expecting anything in return.

10. Beauty is …………….. in the eye of the beholder.

11. When I was thirteen, what I remember… wanting to grow up sooner.

12. When I was twenty one, I remember…….. my sister almost lost her life in an accident.

13. I am most happy when ………… I am with my family.

14. Nothing makes me happier than …………. my family.

15. If I can change one thing, I will change……….. myself.

16. If smiles were banned……. the world would be a very sad place.

17. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could…… make everyone happy?

18. If you want to ask me to smile while taking my picture….. say “Smile!”

19. Money is not everything but……. it helps.
20. The most touching moments I have experienced is… when someone gives me a hug or say something nice to me when I least expect it.

21. I smile when……. I am happy.

22. When I am happy, I…. smile.

23. If only I don’t have to…. do housework, then…. I still won’t have enough time.

24. The best thing I did yesterday was….. teach my children patiently.

25. If I ever write a book, I will give it this title……. Be Happy!

26. One thing I must do before I die is…… not to regret anything that I do.

27. Doing this meme, I feel like …… smiling.

The rule is to complete only 17 out of the 27 sentences but I completed all since its really not that difficult. Would the following bloggers like to contribute RM127 to charity too? Idham pledges to contribute RM127 on your behalf if you do this tag before the August 26 deadline.

1. Immomsdaughter

2. Montessori Mom

3. Miche

4. Blur Mommy

5. Julian

Anyone else who wants to contribute RM127 to charity just by writing this blog post, feel free to do this tag.

This is what happens when it rains heavily.

I was leaving the shopping center. The rain had started to gush into the lower basement car park where we had parked our car. We had to drive our 15 year old car slowly to make sure it didn’t stall.

We continued driving slowly to make sure our car did not stall since the road was flooded. The big bus behind us was getting impatient. He honked. And then when he got the chance he overtook us quickly and in such a manner that he splashed water all over our car! Bus drivers like that should be at home jobless. Its really annoying! He continued to speed down the road, overtaking car after car. The rain was heavy and the road was flooded and slippery. The bus driver was endangering the lives of his passengers as well as other road users! Simply terrible!

Anyway, we manage to get home in one piece … only to find that our roof was still leaking at the same places … after fixing it two times.

&*%$&^&$&*(!!*&^%!

Now, thats what happens when it rains heavily!