Well I just realized that last Wednesday, on April 3rd to be exact was this blog’s first ever birthday. I know I started it off in April, but I was not aware that it was that early until I checked on my first posting to look for the dates. Well, what else should I say? Happy birthday!
Now because I am not the sort of person who celebrate birthday, let’s have a look at something else that I love; history, facts and a little bit of numbers.
Alright, I have mentioned in my first ever posting that this blog is merely a continuation of my Friendster blog that has existed since late 2005. I guess I shifted to Blogspot for the reason that I simply found Friendster as boring, and the layout for blogs offered by them was horrible. Convenience was probably another matter, whereby I see Friendster as lacking one. A couple or so close friends have already been using Blogspot back then so from there it was basically an easy choice.
I must state here that I stopped blogging on Friendster for a pretty long period before actually setting up a new one on Blogspot, so basically when the first few entries were posted the queasiness was there. You know the feeling when you stop doing something for a long time and suddenly decide to come back, you are a bit unsure about the reception of people around you and whether at one point in the future you would again give up on that. But Alhamdulillah, from there it was a smooth ride and the responses in particular were marvelous. I only have you guys to thank for for that.
I have written on a wide range of topics in the past one year, but the focus, if you guys do notice, is on the national front. That is my key interest, and I love to share my opinions with many of you on that. However I would not say that that will not change in the future because there are in actual fact many other subjects that I wish to venture into but have no time to. I will try to improve on that and in the meantime, you try to improve yourself. That way, you can bring a good argument next time you come to comment on my blog and we can both benefit.
Anyway, in this space of one year, I have managed to write a total of 89 entries. That is 0.244 entries per day or 0.243 if you consider the extra day in February this year, or roughly an average of one entry in four days. I was actually trying to get the figures up to 100 entries by this first birthday but you know, 11 is a big number to catch. Still, I guess 89 is not a bad number. Of course I will try to improve on that as well. Oh I should state here that out of that 89, merely two were written in Malay.
I have said many times before that I value the comments that you have left in this blog, be it a simple few words that I imagine tried to tell that you actually read what I wrote, or even long ramblings to counter my opinion. You readers are the ones who keep me going forward every single day. Trust me when I say it was a wonderful, indescribable feeling to wake up from sleep and check the email first thing in the morning, and notice that someone has left you a new comment. I have come across a various type of peoples in this journey and learned a lot from them along the way, and I do wish to continue doing this effort. In doing that, your kind cooperation is again needed and I would like to thank you in advance for that.
I reckon it is best that I stop here for now, I shall get back to normal postings soon. Thanks again.
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