Oh shame on you

My good friend and aiya-sailo Vincent boy-boy grew up and wrote a very profound piece of art today. Because I find that mostly I agree with his take on how times have changed, I can personally tell you that what I think of this silly trend to become 'famous' in this blooming sphere.

IF YOU HAVE GOALS TO ATTAIN FAME BY BLOGGING I SUGGEST YOU GO DO SOMETHING MORE WORTHWHILE.

Well, before you can say, 'Of course you don't give a damn about hits, and you don't give a damn about traffic, you're already famous,' I would like to stand corrected. To say that I do not completely give a damn about traffic would be a complete lie. Of course I care, its just that caring about how many people continue to read my blog a day and the kind of people who appreciate my post, and caring about my FAME and POPULARITY in this part of human reality are essentially, two very, very different things.

Now I can tell you how shocked I was when about a week ago, a mail came in my box with this really cute little note that went like this, 'Minishorts-cheh-cheh ah, you know ah, my dream is to become established as a prominent blogger. I know this is ambitious lah, but this is my goal. So hoh, I am writing to ask you to become my teacher like that, si-fu me in this blogging business, can or not? '

Whoa. DEEP. You mean when you blog, you ada goal punya ah? And your goal is to become what? Prominent? And you write to me some more, ask me to become si-fu… cannot cannot. I must find out what 'prominent' means first.

Because my England very powderful, I so crever mah go and ask and see lor, just what this person means by 'prominent.'

Answer from ambitious blogger: A prominent blog to me means a worth-while reading blog. A prominent blogger is one who writes really good entries which most people can relate to and has good networking skills perhaps.

KANASAI whey, got definition some more. Hebat betul. Like this minishorts.net mah very PROMINENT lor… wah kembang-sial.

OK. After laughing my guts out (I'm sorry, but this is pretty fucking hilarious to me… I'll explain in a moment why it is), I proceeded to reply my young padawan with some very opinionated points from my higher pedestal built in the Mighty Zeus's castle in the air, telling this fella to, in simpler terms, don't put ambitions into his blogging. Why?

Because to me you see, to me hah, this is an opinion of mine, so please faham, it is an OPINION, blogging hoh, is A HOBBY. A hobby is something you do in your free time, because you like it. For example, collecting stamps is a hobby, blogging is like collecting stamps. Liddat. And hoh, to me hoh, when you blog hoh, yeah lah you can have a goal to 'improve your quality of writing', but once you have goals to improve your 'kenamaan', your quality of writing will be severely affected and the result is stilted writings which will not gel very well.

Blogging for fame is very much like, collecting stamps with the intention of becoming a world-famous stamp collector. Not that there's anything wrong with this, but I'm sure when people collect stamps, they do not have weird targets like 'By the end of this year, I am going to have collected 1 million stamps and make it into the Malaysian Book of Records.'

I'm pretty sure people who collect stamps do so because they like the stamps, not because they see some already famous stamp collector being revered and celebrated, and they dream of people going up to them and say, 'Hey you know, congratulations you are a famous stamp collector, eh….'

All right, maybe comparing bloggers to stamp-collectors is a bit much. But where I'm standing, the point that blogging is a hobby and a habit, making 'prominence in the blogosphere' a goal to achieve when you start blogging is simply put, rather, pathetic in my not-so-kind vocabulary.

As for achieving prominence, my dear, if you do make it into the A-list bloggers' list, well congratulations, I say it's a bonus. But from my point of view, where blogging is a hobby (since most of you seem to proclaim it so), then I see no reason why a hobby has to have a target achievement for measurement's sake.

Unless of course, its true, you want to be famous. Then I'll say, go ahead, but don't ask me for advice. I do not qualify because I simply do not subscribe to this blogging for fame shit.

In that case, let me, the so-called 'prominent' blogger (actually I not very femes one, you think I'm femes only), give you a quick short cut: take a photo of yourself naked, or a video of yourself washing your private parts, post it, and ping it several times. Or else, if you want to you can you know, write to a femes blogger asking her for advice.

And if she comes back to you with her version of harsh hittings, telling you, 'OMFG YOU USE TWO HOURS TO BLOG A POST THAT COMES ERM, STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART? MY (MORE FAMOUS) FRIENDS AND I AVERAGE ABOUT 30 MINUTES ONLY YOU KNOW (AND WE ARE EVER MORE SO POPULAR),'
–don't lah take it so seriously. At least mail her back and say, 'I'm sorry to be such a bother. Thank you for your time.'

I'd say this, first of all mailing me to tell me your goal to become a famous blogger is quite pathetic… at first I did find your blog nice to read, but after knowing your intentions behind the blog (I BLOG TO BECOME PROMINENT), the blog got really dodgy and your blog has since become terribly irritating to baca. However, I have been affected by external reasons. I can tell you candidly, though, that Lainie pulled my attention to your blog and told me straight, unabridged, 'I am not bothered to read that site. The contents boggle me and give me a headache.'

Oh we're such picky nitwits and we like to choose our favourites you know and obviously, you don't make the cut. I have a feeling its because your writings are stilted by your goals to become a femes blogger and hence your writings stick out as pre-planned, dreamt out of thin air stuff. Oh and and and, your recent method of coupling your posts with word-counts, although admittedly nifty, just makes me think, 'WTF?'