Alvin’s Weblog

On The Side Note:
1) The internet has been throttled down to snail’s pace since Wednesday morning due to the Taiwan earthquake. Consequently, trying to link to blogs on international waters are a pain in the back.

2) I am leaving for KL sometime next week. Who is there? Leave me a note.

It’s ironic how blogging can make the world seems so small. After more than a year since I started blogging, I eventually built up a series of network. First of all, I had numerous friends who blog and through them, I started getting to know more people who did the same. Inevitably, there are numerous good bloggers out there such as the like of Kenny Sia. I intended to put his coconut picture here but due to the internet slow down, I failed to do so. Of course, there are others like Sixth Seal (his site has been down for quite sometime, for reasons unknown to me), Nicole and Cheesie/Ringo. These sites are full of photos ranging from food, events, travels all the way to anything at all.

I have got to admit, the photos do make blog entries interesting to read. Somehow, when it comes to photos, I am never a camwhore and I don’t take my camera everywhere I go. So that explains the lack of photos on my blog. Nonetheless, it is the essence of the contents I am looking at when I read a blog. Some people might have tonnes of photos on their blogs but when you read the entries, they bring no meaning whatsoever.

That aside, I have friends who blog and the few whom I initially knew were Michelle, Rose, Tiffanie and Frankie.

This dude Frankie is like my college mate. Those days were sweet. We were basically very carefree and did whatever we liked. Somehow, he got into the art of blogging and he expanded his network pretty fast. I intended my blog as a personal place for me to jot down my thinkings and feelings so that was why I didn’t bother.

I don’t get what Frankie is trying to do up there. Seemed like he drew two coconuts. Ohhh, I get it, he loves both his coconuts. No hard feelings, Frankie.
From his blog, I got to know this girl:

She is saying she is too thin, so I am thinking of donating my extra fat off to her free of charge. lol. Just a note, Naomi, if you somehow do not like your picture to be posted here, please do not hesitate to leave me a note and I’ll gladly remove it.
Coincidentally, I also knew her sister, well not personally but I have seen her. What did I say about the world being such a small place? More specifically, Kuching is such a small place! Never would I have imagined bumping into a girl in the world of blogging, whose sister I have seen ages ago. Nothing bad here, in fact I was pleasantly surprised.

I then had some visitors who left a note on my blog. Unfortunately for me, Wordpress.com would not allow Javascript chatboxes, so my visitors had to leave comments. Truth be told, one of these visitors somehow found his way around to my blog and what do you know?

This dude, Ivan, is my long long long lost friend. We met at the International Tuition School (ITS). It’s an english tuition school and now, I am going to pay tribute to this very tuition because, had it not been for this tuition, Ivan and I wouldn’t have come this far in the world of English. We learned our very foundation of English in this very tuition, agreed, Ivan?

Then, I had this girl dropping by to wish me a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2007. How sweet of her to have dropped by. The girl I am referring to is AprilCherrie. Unfortunately, I cannot grab a picture of her, since her server would not allow hotlinking her pictures, I believe. Since I can’t grab a picture of her, I would be using this in place of her face:

Anywayz, her site is like number 18 in MalaysiaTopBlogs and mine would have to be like the first FROM THE BOTTOM!
Then, there was this girl, Chloe, who dropped by and gave me a good, short, advice. It’s a very refreshing one especially for someone like me, who is hanging in the middle of no where trying to make the right decision so as not to regret it in the future. Many thanks for the advice girl!

That is her above. That’s Chloe. I WAS JUST KIDDING!

Now, that’s really her, staring at some hot hunks at the beach. I was just kidding again. That’s actually her relaxing at the beach.

For some reason, Chloe names her site purpleism.com. I am wondering why? Could it be that she subscribes to the beliefs of purpleism? Is she a purpleist? In case you guys haven’t noticed, I was just joking around. What does purpleists believe in anyway? Chloe, no offence, I was just merely making a lame joke but way to go girl, nice blog you have there. Chloe, just so you know, you can actually integrate your domain name to Wordpress now so you don’t have to redirect the domain to your Wordpress account anymore. It costs USD 10 a year though, which isn’t really that expensive.
I also have another visitor who apparently loves the meanness of my blog. Is my blog mean? Sure there are some vulgarities here and there but I can’t help it when I am faced with idiots on a daily basis in my life. Who is this girl I am talking about? It’s none other than Kath.

That’s her and errr…. her world….
She agreed with me strongly on one of the post, so strong that she quoted me, well of course with the vulgarities out of the way.

I tell you, as of writing right now, my balls are growing. I am so proud someone actually quoted me. One thing though, all of a sudden, I turned into a boy. See those underlined words? “This boy is right”. Hmmmm…..

Last but not least, who could forget the invaluable spammers who gave me a grand total of 7,425 spams as of writing. Not too long ago, I was just talking about comment spams within the limits of 3 figures, and it’s now 4 figures and approaching 5! For that, I must thank spammers for their effort and visits but… TRY HARDER NEXT TIME! AKISMET HAS BLOCKED ALL YOUR SPAMS!
Lastly, those who have their pictures posted here, in case you do not wish for your photo to appear here for any reasons, please leave me a note and I’ll remove it, no questions asked. All photos are copyrighted by their respective owners. None of these images were stored on my server except for Frankie’s and of course the firework picture below. The firework picture is also not mine but others. To the owner of the picture below, please leave me a note if you do not wish for me to use your firework picture.

This post serves as a tribute to all the fine bloggers out there who make the world of blogging a better place and not those who blog like this. So happy blogging, people!

All that being said, I think this would pretty much sum up this year for me. I would like to wish my fellow readers a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007 and may you have a great and blessed year ahead!