* I'm not trying to advertise things here, but wanna share my own experience as well as listen from other's.



For me, I started my blog after I finished my PMR. You know, the exam finishes on early Oct, so got ~3 months of free time to kill.
One day I googled my school and stumbled upon a senior's blog. Was excited to read what he's been writing there because it's all what happened in the school.

So I started my blog on the 7th of Nov, 2004. It started out like most teenager's blog, life in school, whine and rant etc. I just blog for fun that time.

The blog basically remains the same until sometime in 2006, when I decided to overhaul the entire blog template.

Before:


After:


A major change in the blog design marks a new style of writing. Since then onwards I write more to the public's interest rather than my own interest.
It's year 2006, World Cup 2006, so I wrote a few stuffs on football that time and attracted quite a number of traffics that time. Too bad I haven't use any tracking service so I didn't got the exact figure.

I'm still experimenting Adsense that time. It shows slow but convincing improvements months after months.

I kept doing the same stuffs until another template change in 2007.



Blogging has been fun, I've got to know friends through it, blog-hopping from one to another is fun back then, you can just laugh all the way reading on other's post, as well as cross-linking here and there.

I noticed that the blogging has helped me to be a more matured person. Instead of complaining and cursing in the blog, I try to reason out the good and bad on things happening in life.

I realised that what happened around is no really a big deal, so you don't need to make a fuss around because life for you is really good already, you shouldn't be complaining but instead you should appreciate it. (just like the lyrics in Jay's new song "Rice Fragrance")

Today, blogging has been a part of my daily routine. It's simply more than just the blog itself, with the branching out from the blog I came across a few contacts on the net, which is pretty cool. To get to know people from various fields is good for your future planning.

Current template, going to redesign it soon.


A blog can really change a person's life.


It's just a few more days to go before my blog's 4th birthday, so wanna share a few thoughts of mine here.

Great =D I always believe efforts are put will be rewarded. As for me, I am climbing up slowly, blogging is real real fun, how i wish i have more time for that, but too bad exam moment. Anyways, glad to know new friends especially our brothers, goldfy, aaron (once who very hao lian- for me la, now not), Kidkiller, cassplayer, frostfox, vkeong, yatz , clf and more la.. haha.. I always believe that earning comes after we enjoy blogging

Very true.

You see, company like Nuffnang don't just create opportunity for us to earn money, but to setup a blog community as well.

Currently it's the hottest trend around MY blogsphere. PPS is very quiet nowadays. I still remember PPS had a bash party in 2005, but those are mainly for elder bloggers.
I mean, there're still youngsters there but it's much more "grown up" compare to the current Nuffnang gang.

I think having a local blogsphere community is good to keep in touch with each others, hanging out together and later blog about it.

i agree..blog communities are always fun to lepak with hehe..happy 4th anniversary

Thanks frostfox.

So... how bout you guy's blogging experience? I'd love to hear from you.

Bro, what is hao-lian?

blogging is not only fun... through blogging... i can become blogmaster/webmaster... learn more about html codes... make friends.... and when blogging as a hobby... we also can earn money... thx to KiDKiLLER, vkeong, goldy, frostfox, aaron that help me out last time when i got some html problems... as well as recomending me some websites and teaching me about Nuffnang

Ehh, I noob about HTML. When I did help you on this?

happy 4th Anniversary to you. I've started to blog since a 10days ago. just kinda moody and bored recently so hav a thought to do so...nothing much experience so far...haha...but yea blogging is a kind of entertainment. at least..it's an activity that we could have by ourselves.hoho...cheers bloggers~

not oni u... i meant all those people that help me out last time la... lol manyak hao lian la

edit: oops... have to plus khairolnizam also LOLOL

This post has been edited by cassplayer: Nov 5 2008, 11:21 PM

Hahah, just like a person, every blog started out humbly.
Slowly accumulate the reputation to make it big.

hmm having publicity is a good thing.. but it can be a bad thing at the same time... stupid jealous people come spamming in ur blog... with stupid comments coming out from their stupid minds.... unless u have ways to cool down those losers... if not... blogging can really make u feel like quitting... those /b/tards

edit: typo error

This post has been edited by cassplayer: Nov 5 2008, 11:29 PM

^ i dunno if that's the problem with blogspot. if u used wordpress, akismet filters out 99% of the spam

So far I didn't encounter this problem. Did you?

hahah that's why it's important not to have enemies out there!
just like in real life. to have one more friend is better than to have one more enemy.

Some bots spam the comment box, which I deleted immediately. Those left msg in the chatbox, cannot do anything but to reply them sarcastically, I love to do this.

I have...when i started my blog after 3-4days...there are peoples spamming my shoutbox..'blogwhore is blogwhore' for like more than 10times..and they didnt filter it..=/

Chatbox, shoutbox or whatever box cannot be edited or moderated, as far as I've tried.
Let it be, there's really nothing we can do about it.

Sometimes random people just too free, but nevertheless must thank them for making up another unique visit count.

to vkeong... not those bot spammers... those as in people which u dunno.. and those ppl dunno u... but is too damn lifeless so have to spam some stupid comment....

and those msg left in cbox.. i delete it..... then i took off my cbox..... i'm glad i did it

yea i deleted and banned it too.but just felt disappointed when i received that. anyway just once..hopefuly no more...

akismet can help you block it. because blogspot assumes the comment is legitimate when a CAPTCHA is entered correctly, regardless of the content

while akismet will scan for suspicious words, and block it until u approve it

This post has been edited by vkeong: Nov 5 2008, 11:49 PM