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wheee! domain’s been renewed and man! everything’s good!

recently, on an msn conversation i had, someone told me my blog was getting boring. the person further mentioned that i used to write interesting stuffs, etc.

first off, i’d like to thank the person that well, she thought my blog was interesting in the first place. i never did think of my blog as interesting. like i mentioned in my wlny profile: about me:nothing much. i’m boring. hah. well, check out my blog. i’m a boring person and thus, by extension, so is my blog. but yeah. anyways thanks.

next, i’d like to mention that… i’ve always been writing what i’ve been writing. that’s to say, i write for myself. i know i have already explained it to the friend. but i may have said it in a harsh tone. so here i’m apologising. i’m sorry.

but yes. i don’t really like to ‘write for the masses’. that’s the job of journalists, etc. yeah i used to want to be a journalist. but i guess i don’t have the qualification or anything. anyway, i’m glad at least there’s someone who thought my blog was interesting.

new theme in the works. finally decided to do something with the theme. in the meanwhile, like i mentioned, this blog is closed except for some updates to lyrics and video clips, etc.

some ideas i’m throwing around is maybe back to the brown coloured, desert like scheme i used when i just broke up her.

will be using either Kubrick or K2 as the base. hopefully i really can start work on this theme…

updates: this was back when i thought IE was cool. obviously now i know better. Mozilla rocks!

just woke up. feeling so much better than last night. jem and i were talking about blogs yesterday. i told him i’m thinking of closing down my blog. it’s hard enough trying to put my thoughts into words. and it’s getting harder to avoid playing to the crowds. i suddenly have this feeling that my blog is no longer my blog. i constantly have to check myself. i mean yes, it’s only been a few days that there’ve been new people that i just got to know who’s reading this blog. but considering how much i often update, it’s really getting to me on a whole new level.

i don’t censor myself. but i am checking myself. i have to make sure that whatever i write about people are ‘facts’ lest i ’start’ a whole new round of scandals. speaking of scandals, i have to clear something up.

2 weeks ago, jem never mentioned a single word of a certain someone being hawt. in case the hawt chick is still pissed with her brudders, i don’t think any of them knew it 2 weeks ago. i’m not trying to make myself appear all knowledgable or anything… but usually, when it comes to getting interested in anyone, i’m usually one of the persons jem would share it with.

maybe because we went through a lot of similar shit together, or just because we know each other for a long time, or maybe… just maybe, we kind of share similar tastes. but anyway, 2 weeks ago, jem was calling hawt chick a bitch. actually he didn’t call her a bitch. he just said she’s from mcm and he said it with that tone.

hahaha. i remember seeing hawt chick in the office and listening to her sing… i turned to jem and said “wow fuck man. she’s hawt. and she had such great vocals…” and jem turning to me and saying “fuck lah bro. she’s from mcm. she’ll bite. and she’ll prolly look down on you or something like that…” (not the exact words. and fuck me if that was even what he was thinking. it all took place a while back so yeah. don’t quote me on this.)

anyway, cut long story short… i think he only got interested in her during the camp cause he saw she was different from other mass commers. fuck. i think i’m a little bit intrigued as well. but my bro has called dibs so yeah. i was too slow. hahahaha!

by the way… don’t trust me on this entry. remember i just woke up. and i still have caffeine in my system so take everything i said with a pinch of salt. but fuck lah. she’s hawt. and she’s fucking interesting can? and great vocals. jem if you ain’t going to make a fucking move soon…

i like people i can communicate with. once i find people i can communicate intelligently with, hah. i will be a fucking talkative bastard. but if i can’t find any common grounds to talk with someone, i’ll just shutup. no point wasting my breath on someone who won’t be able to have an intelligent conversation with me. so far, the only person i could find who i can actually have an intelligent conversation with is jem. that’s why nnm called him fgb.

the next person is nnm himself. but it’s all a recent thingy so no idea if he really is that smart. hahaha! i mean yeah i call him smartypanty but that was in jest. he got to prove himself smarter than that. hahaha! let’s see… other than these 2… the next person would be hawt chick. i mean, those few mins yesterday at the office was enough to see the other side of her. i foresee myself having more intelligent conversations with her.

the rest of the people i talk to… i don’t know if you can see it. but i’d either talk down to you guys, or just talk about mundane stuffs. i don’t know how else to talk to you guys. the funny one… well. we have a common ground in WoW but that’s it i guess. with the sexy one… we talk about music and i don’t know. general shit online i think. with the chio one, i have just been teasing her and calling her chio one in her face… hahaha! damn she blushes prettily. never got a chance to talk with the cute one. oh wells. it’s only fgb and nnm that i actually can talk more indepth stuffs. why only guys.

good thing i love women too much to turn gay. hahahaha!

so, back to my question. should i close this blog? i have several secret blogging space. hah. only person who’d be able to find them even without me telling would be fgb. and that is why he’s the fgb. oh. and fgb doesn’t stand for fucking gay boy. just thought to get it clear. like what nm said, fgb’s powerbook seemed to talk to him and i agree. fgb taught me last night how to talk to my computer and the net on a whole new level. hahaha! hawt chick, that’s how i got your msn. so yeah. do leave a comment if you want me to close or what not. it makes me feel appreciated people are reading and leaving comments.

please do not change your nicks around or whatever nonsense. i don’t like that. my blog is a place for people to generally post intelligent stuffs. not for people to play around with nicks and whatnots. choose a certain nick and just stick to it. easier for me to know who’s commenting as well. i don’t want to anyhow block IPs… oh and my anti-spam system doesn’t like it too…

There’s going to be a bloggin seminar tomorrow in NP. from what i gather from the promotional posters around in school, it’s to do with how to blog safely and it will be ‘graced’ by Xiaxue, Popaghandi, mrbrown and Daryl Sng.

it’s at LT68E, from 9am – 12.30pm and yeaps. i’ll be there to ‘cover’ the event. hahaha! woot.

hrmmm. talk about insightful. asked Mike whether the colour scheme i picked was nice. he said it was still a little bit too greyish. told him it has hints of blue… and that my new layout is supposed to be cloudy. he said, and i quote, “cloudy? more like turbulent. hehehe…”

hrmmm. that guy is insightful huh? i hadn’t meant to put it that way. in fact, as i mentioned, i wanted my new layout to be called tranquil skies. seems like i may need to change something. hahaha. turbulent. and yep. things have been rather turbulent lately.

here are some colours i’d like to use. do give me some opinions? thanks!

#99CCCC, #99B3CC, #9999CC, #B399CC

#76829E, #B0C2EB, #9E9E9E, #EBEBEB, #616161

i mentioned in a previous post about having tags in wordpress. also mentioned in that post that i wanted it to be based on keywords as well, instead of just categories. well… i’ve found a site which has already done that and a plugin which allows me to do just that.

haven’t exactly tried the plugin yet. still need to read up on wordpress’ documentation or at least plan my upcoming layout before implementing that plugin. from what i’ve seen of jarrod’s site, it requires quite a bit of an overhaul to the templates. and that’s precisely what i had intended to do anyway. so no use tinkering around with half-baked ideas. i need to have a complete overview of what i want and how to set it up.

i like the way he listed down his site structure. and that’s exactly/precisely what i need to do. cause i still haven’t yet have a solid idea on what i want and what i want to have. mx4’s theme is very interesting. i like the clean look. will probably use it as an idea. i’ll probably use the main i-c.org site as a sort of portal. learn how to integrate rss/atom feeds into the whole thing. reminds me a little bit of jem’s unamed community thingy.

@jem: are you still planning to resetting up that community thingy? get back the old bloggers from the old unamed. cause i actually planned my portal to be like a bit of boing boing or digg or slashdot, something like that. general idea anyway. but it would consist only of things i am reading.

currently, all blogs i am reading are stored in my bookmarks. either on my firefox itself, or in del.icio.us or accessed through thunderbird’s ‘news and blog’ subscription service thingy… why not just extract their feeds and directly view it on my site right? then i shall think of how to make it in such that those with latest posts are rolled up. sort of like blog roll, etc. hmmm. will need to read up on all this. argh! haha. giving myself projects to do. but oh wells… it is good to upgrade oneself.

been ‘researching’ on how best to revamp my blog. first up, i may want to switch back to using movabletype. not too sure why i’d want to change. actually i know. the one thing i really want most out of a blogging system is the ‘mobile’ aspect. jem’s mobileMT is the right app for the job. was planning to read up on his documentation and do up a mod for wordpress but at this point… nah. not now.

i plan to read up more on APIs. frankly, i have no idea what those are. then, after that, i want to read up on the APIs of Flikr and del.icio.us for some ideas on how to proceed next.

the next version of my layout should have some features similar to folksonomies, ie, tags. would be nice to have tags based on keywords, as well as just the categories. next up, some other features i’ve seen in other blogs and which i think would be nice to have as well. ‘recent comments posted’, ‘no. of times post has been read’, ‘asides or plugs’, etc.

should i create a ‘photoblog’ or should i just combine both together? themes. hmm. need a theme for the layout. i think i should read up on css and i should reading up from the basics. start again from scratch and make my layout standards compliant. xhtml strict. got to start doing something about the main i-c.org site. been using wordplay.i-c.org but i feel that the main i-c.org could be useful for something. i don’t know.

so… let’s see:

• read up on documentation of wordpress and mt

- weigh the pros and cons, see which is more powerful to work with without having to mod too much.

• read up on APIs

- Flikr, del.icio.us, etc

• read up on css, xhtml, xml, php, mysql

- xhtml strict
- php and mysql integration

• theme for layout

- must be standards compliant

• features to be considered

- recent comments posted
- no. of times read
- some form of id authentication in the comments so that no one can pretend to be me
- folksonomies: keyword and category based tags, must also be weighted ala technorati, del.icio.us
- asides, plugs

• photoblog
• main i-c.org site

edit: hahaha! do up a separate trackback and comment box. currently, trackbacks and comments exists in the same area, with nothing to differentiate between the two.

kept telling myself to go revamp my blog but somehow, creative juices haven’t been flowing. i haven’t designed a webpage in like one whole freaking year. the last site i designed was a simple site for my CATS project during my first sem in school. i haven’t written a song for quite some time as well. unlike jem and david, my creative wagon has been stuck in the mud and unable to get out.

anyway, to cut the long story short, i found a themes site for wordpress. enjoy mates!