Holy crap, a milestone~!
I’ve been writing down my thoughts online for a long time.
Back then they weren’t even called blogs. I had an account with a site called “OpenDiary” which deleted my account cos it wasn’t updated regularly. There goes my angsty teenage self.
Then there was Deadjournal, a parody of Livejournal. I kept that account for 4 years before finally deciding to own my own domain, minicloud.com
It’s been quite a journey I think, primarily it was to keep my friends updated on my life which I still believe many friends still do. Thank you all for ur love.
I’m not an awesome writer, I write like I talk and believe me I trash talk too much for my own good. None of those flowery language or prose. I’m grateful even for that small number of people who visit my blog regularly.
I had a friend who told described minicloud.com as “random”. I can’t remember the exact words he said but yeah…. “random”. It was like being slapped in the face.
At that point of time aside from being defensive about stuff like:
“this is a personal blog, my life is random, so is my blog”
“why should I limit myself to a certain theme?”
“yadda yadda yadda”
“[insert other defensive random comments]”
I was so discouraged by the fact that a blog has to be commercialized to be popular that or u are popular in the first place and then u become commercialized. I stopped updating for a long time, save for patronising “I am not dead” posts.
I have come to terms with the reality that if you have no commercial value in your blog, you would not have readers. No traffic= no money.
It conflicted totally with the ideology I have of a blog. I’ve always believed that blogs are supposed to be a record of your life and not for fame or popularity.
Times have changed and so have blogs. While I am stubborn and choose to maintain minicloud in all it’s randomness, I have decided that my other passion ( which is fashion) needs to flourish too. Hence the spawn of my fashion blog; monoxious.com, a collaboration with Dawn.
I told my ex-lecturer that I was conscientiously checking for new runway pics, formulating trend reports and picking out design details. Something which I didn’t even bother to do when I was in school. She laughed. I wonder what that meant.
I am much more ambitious with monoxious than minicloud. I saw a potential in fashion blogging and the power it commands. I have much to offer to the fashion blogosphere, I -know- I do.
Now, 5months after we posted our first blog post on monoxious, we are attending the Asia-Pacific Blog Awards hosted by Nuffnang. I have probably said this alot of time but for a blog as young as ours to be nominated was an extreme honor. I don’t think we stand much of a chance at winning but it was fun stalking our web counter stats.
So while I’m being all wax lyrical about blogs and blogging. I have a short attention span. I’m chatting to Dawn at this point of time and I’ve forgotten what was the real point of this blog entry. I’m such a buzzkill sometimes.
Point being. minicloud is going to remain all random. *cue applause*
and monoxious is going to be awesome. *cue more applause*
Thank you all for you attention, you may resume your normal daily activities. 
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