A Blog Survey

I stole this survey from this blog: “Don’t Try This at Home“. The survey was meant to be for a carnival but I thought it was a good idea anyhow. Besides, I need to entertain you guys since I’ve not been posting my TTs this week. You know, I need to come up with a new name for that. My TTs indeed. If you don’t get what I’m yapping about, say the word “post my TTs online” aloud. There, got what I mean? You don’t wanna see my TTs. They’re private properties. Ehem.

 

I’m not off to Hero’s this weekend cos we don’t have time for each other.Woah,sentence sounds bad. Uni has just started and this time workload is intense and insane. I’ve been rushing my readings and outlining all my assignments for this semester. A lot of things need to be straighten out regarding assignments and group work. I know this is too early in the semester but I like mapping things out bit by bit so that I don’t go haywire when deadline comes. I need to upgrade my GPA too if ever I want to do Honours.

 

I have a part-time job to do, I have a man to cater to and I have entries to write but studies being my priorities at the moment, the previous three just need to wait til I get my priority agenda sorted out.

 

Man, I’ve missed being this stressed. That’s how I feel alive. I think I’m addicted to being busy!

 

He’s not suffering though, in case you guys are pitying him. In fact, right now he and his whole crew is at the Casino celebrating his Boss’s first child, who came to the world on Wednesday. Hello baby! Hang on there, you’re in for the wildest ride in your starting life! Enjoy your pampering now, you little bundlepunkhead cos 13 years from now you’re gonna have angst and drama. Oh yeah, baby. Count on it.

 

I just love birth announcements, don’t you guys?

 

Ok, on with the survey. Oh hey, I love getting to know people and why they blog, so feel free to take this up. Leave a comment or a message telling me you did it and I’ll link back to you on this entry.

 

::How did you start blogging?::

I was 12 when the Internet boom arrived. Eventually my love of writing (and my narcissism) brought me to blogs. I was an Internet boom child. I was blogging before I even knew it was called blogging and before the word was probably invented (or maybe that’s just me). Back then it was known as Livejournaling. =P

 

::Did you intend to be a blog w/a big following? If so, how did you go about it?::

No, I intend to just feed my narcissism of reading my words in a fancy decorated wesbsite because I’m too untalented to have my words in print.

 

::What do you hope to achieve or accomplish with your blog? Have you been successful? If not, do you have a plan to achieve those goals?::

I’m not sure. Gosh…does this means my blog is a total, complete, useless internet trash? Just so that I don’t become a useless internet trash, perhaps I can say I hope to “entertain”. Now, with that word I can be a trash, but at least I am not useless. It’s like the Britney Spears of blog. Trash, but her antics is useful for the purpose of mere mortals entertainment. I think we need more young starlets in rehab to justify the joy we have in our boring lives (translation: to satisfy the jealousy we have in not being able to afford Manolos and plastic surgery). In that, I hope I’m successful. There was no definite plan to achieve this goal other than maybe churning out entries akin to the rate of a chronic diarrhea.

 

::Has the focus of your blog changed since you started blogging? How?::

Considering it began without a focus, and it now still hasn’t got any focus…it’s safe for me to say my focus haven’t changed a slightest bit.

 

::What do you know now that you wish you’d known when you started?::

How easy MSN Spaces is to use! How heavenly is the invention of Windows Live Writer! How cruelly my past creeps upon me when I read my adolescence-angst-filled first blog! How I was too stupid to use my first ever account to comment on my real life new friends who also blogs, just to have them find out dark, painful secrets about me! Hahaha! And these are the people I see almost everyday, goodness me! If I thought I could come to Australia and start a completely new personality, my LiveJournal has thwarted my attempt. There will be no link to that said blog here. But two words: Backstreet Boys. Sweet Valley High. Nuff said.

 

::Do you make money with your blog?::

Nope. It’s too personal a blog to have it commercialize. Translation: I couldn’t be bothered and am not smart enough to figure it out. Laziness is my doom.

 

::Does your immediate or extended family know about your blog? If so, do they read it? If not, why?::

Yeap, I have a cousin who’s a blogger as well. As for the rest of the family…I’m not too sure. I don’t think so though. And I pray it stay this way considering the kind of thing I blurts in blogs! My cousin is under oath of secrecy. If he breaks it, he will be forced to listen to Britney Spears all his life. That’s worse than being stuck in Alcatraz, as we all know.

 

::What two pieces of advice would you give to a new blogger?::

1. Learn basic HTML!

2. Where be thou feed button, ducks?

And in accordance with this blog survey, here are 10 resources to be a better blogger I’ve scoured from the blogosphere. I warn you: Read with a pinch of salt. These are for serious bloggers who wants to be more….serious blogger. Hmm. Definitely not for bloggers who are concerned on being emo and announcing their pains to the world.

 

1. The 10 Habits of Highly Annoying Bloggers
2. 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger
3. 27 Lessons Learned on the Way to 3000 Visits a Day and 2200 RSS Subscribers
4. How To Write A Popular Post
5. 101 Great Posting Ideas That Will Make Your Blog Sizzle
6. 5 Simple Ways to Open Your Blog Post With a Bang
7. Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips for Writing Well
8. 10 Effective Ways to Get More Blog Subscribers
9. Write a Better Blog
10. How to Write Something Worth Reading

 

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