Hello world!
Well, if you are a programmer or you have picked up programming before, this is usually "Lesson 1". Yeah, those super thick programming books actually start off by teaching you to say hello to the world. Hmm...how creative.
Here I am!
This 2nd line is my own. It is to announce to the cyber/digital-world, one infested with techno-geeks who has become lazier by the day to even go out and get to know people and prefer to share all their deepest darkest secrets with unknown fellow geekers, that I am part of the community. Initially, when the term 'blog' first appeared, I thought to myself, "Hey, why would anyone wants to showcase their diaries to the rest of the world?" I thought this is pretty similar to kind of excitement that exhibitionist get. Or naturalist. Or people that likes to go around without any sort of clothing because they believe that your skin IS your cover. But then again, the trend started picking up and before you know it, hey ho! They sprung up like mushrooms!
In Singapore, (un)fortunately, many people start to think that blogging is 'kewl' (the local slang for cool because the kids here somehow think that spelling cool this way is, well...cool!) Some even got so popular that they came up with some pretty creative way to make money (by tying up with advertisers...
And you know, like recently there was a pretty interesting made-in-singapore video circulating around which is not unlike the one that stars 'French' Hilton. So the blogs here went crazy trying to get more hits by writing about that story. Oh, until someone told them it is illegal to circulate indecent materials. Hmm, perhaps that video is not so indecent after all. I agree with some that the person who started distributing the video is the most indecent. Or maybe it's her/his hobby...
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
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