However, personally I can’t agree that she has to bear the responsibility over the influence of vulgar words on the young minds. Hey, blog is never the same as newspaper or other mass media, regardless of its popularity. Now we really have to differentiate between push and pull. It’s you, the reader, who decide what you want and what you avoid. Parents and teachers do have their roles to play too. In any case, don’t forget it’s the children THEMSELVES who decide to type http://www.minishorts.net and enter AFTER knowing the existence of this “sometimes raunchy” blog from the newspaper. And now if their parents are right to turn the blame to the author, we might as well consider the following cases:

1) Someone from Russia should sue all US presidential candidates who run their campaign in the public. Hey, capitalism is not good you know!! You all shouldn’t do that in public!!

2) Wikipedia should be demolished. It allows an article on Autof*ll*t*o (WARNING: adult content) to be published, and it’s public.

3) Titanic should not be aired in the cinema… Argghh! I am traumatized by the sinking scene and Jack who froze in the water!!

And oh ya, I am an adolescent. I am 19.

thank you for being a wonderful fan who keeps on visiting my site. your opinions are very intelligent and personal indeed.

I’m happy that you finally realized that I cannot handle criticism.

Minishorts, why do you direct the blame on the bookstores and come up with that example? So yeah they’re doing the same thing as you’re doing, allow their obsene materials to be published to the public, and YOU want them to be blamed. Then, why direct the blame to the bookstores when you’re doing the exact same thing, and you don’t want to take the blame?
You can give me 100 examples of internet porn or bad movies, etc, but the point is still the same. The source is always responsible. Like, do you think porn site owners are right when they publish porn? Even YOU think writers of obsene materials in the bookstores are not doing the right thing. When kids watch porn, are parents and the media the only people we should blame? How about the owner of the porn site? Anyone with perfect sense knows this

Is it so hard to just realize that you’re responsible too?

Again it all comes down to attitude.

And I realize, you just can’t handle criticism. One little comment from CS and your reaction was like… wow! Bashing is good huh? That’s not very professional. I think you know it anyway. Besides, come out yourself and present your own defense, why do you need to rely on your fans for your defense? I don’t really read what your fans have wrote about me, my argument is directed at you, not them.

By the way, I just want to point out that, there are people who value things more than popularity, so don’t assume that everyone is jealous of you. Yeah there may be people who go wow over your blog, but not everyone.

It’s not your posts, not your contents. But perhaps, your popularity. Jealousy is what drives them to send u all those comments, hatemails and whatnots.

Worse still, they can’t understand what blogs are. We (us, bloggers) are not keeping our words and posts clean for the sake of anybody. It’s a matter of blogging style.

I’m not gonna put on a different mask when i blog. My style is pretty much the same off-, and on-line.

Blogs are just like TV channels. You have MTV, Channel V (for entertainment), CNN and Al-Jazeera (for news), HBO and Star Movies (for movies)… If you don’t like one, just go to another (channel). If you don’t like this blog, read another.

With all due respect to parents who find this blog too raunchy for their children, consider educating them about internet, first. And blogs, too. Oops, you don’t know much about blogs yourself. Then perhaps you, too, need to be educated on what blogs are all about.

Cheers and enjoy your weekend, everyone.

why so many arguments on this? anyway, they should probably know even if TheStar didn’t publish your address, anyone who knows how to use the internet would be able to find your site anyway.
do people honestly think that web addresses can only be obtained if you type the whole thingamajig on the address bar? don’t underestimate kids these days.

*la la la*

CS: you’re very welcome.

S-kay: and blog about it!

If you can’t handle criticism, then closed your comment box. Of course you can’t because there are some people who’s worshipping your blog and kissing your ass, but always remember there are some who’s trying put some sense into your head.

How much does your popularity worth anyway? Not much, at least not enough to get ANYONE jealous, really.

Do they have sexually deprived people just surfing the web and newspapers for something to gripe about?

BTW, what did you use to record the PPS B’day song, and where can I get it? The clarity is amazing … I would really want to get one … thanks

S-kay: maybe you should go interview your parents and then post it? hehe my mum says blogging is cool but i must jaga my temper a bit. she says its ok to be angry and say fuck. because, ‘who doesn’t?’

viewtru: trust you to link blogging to eating.

kervin: just like there will always be ppl like me… and you. eh?

banana: thank you.

life_feel: no lah i don’t want to blame parents. as in I try not to blame parents. I think kids can still turn out ok.

sashi: yeah and the reason why the censorship board exists anyway.

FS: HUGS HUGS too!

Liz: you forgot a ‘who read blogs’ in that line. :mr green:

bittersweet: well… people will be people.

n305er: clowns eh? hahha try orang utans who eat bananas in public (woops)

bing: anyway i had a bad upbringing apparently. so i can’t blame her for trying to fix things.