Singtel Blog Competition, dated 6 April 2004
From the 200 plus votes I had this morning, someone voted me down to -65 votes. Thats a fcuking 50 bucks spent already.
During the same period of time, Janice's votes, from 248, went down to 65. (whats with the 65 anyway?). Mia's miserable 40+ votes were not let off either.
Whatever. I believe in fair play, and that my fans will support me till the end. I have been bullied, and surely you guys will help me win back the injustice done to me!!
May the best blog win. In any case, I have decided on my blog topic today, and despite my mood being a little more than foul, I will still write it, coz I AM DA BLOGGER!!!
=D
blogging now, brb
2004-04-13
Singtel Blog Competition, 4 April 2004
Someone whom I have always viewed as a politically correct person, has stood right up and told us the bare-naked truth without mincing her words.
Ladies and gentlemen, read Janice's latest entry, with the seemingly harmless title, My dream d8.
Perhaps she is not afraid, because she is speaking the truth.
I know for a fact that people are voting for themselves. Think about it. They might have readers/fans/desperados supporting them, but how many would wake up at the wee hours of the morning like crazy Neo ("For the spirit of true blogsmanship, it is as much ur game as mine!")?
From the jump, jump, jumping of the rankings in the wee hours of the morning, we know something is amiss.
I know, because I earned my die-hard readers over 1 year of hard-core blogging. When I was in another blogging contest that won by just votes (free votes!), I merely had 200 + votes. Thats how lazy people are. They at most, just read. Few bother about the contest, and fewer are about to take out their wallets.
Within a sheer period of 1 or 2 months, its difficult to get readers who are ardent enough to vote for you all the way. Unless, of course, you are drop dead gorgeous.
The reason why American Idol viewers are so much more willing to vote lies in the title itself. The singers, are portrayed as idols. Icons that people look up to, and people go gaga over.
The interactivity of this contest, has made it such that we are nearer to telemarketers and further from idols.
Let's face it. Since when did Clay Aiken go like "Oooh I'm so happy I've got fans!" and name them one by one like the contestants are doing? There is nothing wrong with being appreciative of support, but it just goes to show how minute the fan base is - I guess.
Is self-voting considered cheating? Perhaps not then, some contestants might argue with you... "They say people must think that I am a dreamd8... Yeah, my mother think so lor..."
True enough. To play the game, one must go all the way. If you don't cheat, others will do so anyway. There is no point is saying "yeah you win but without glory." No point! She/he is walking away with US$5,000 and would use it to slap your face!
Perhaps another thing would be the ficticious (i am lazy to check the spelling) entries on how one contestant is in love with another. One suspects that it is all sensationalism to get readers.
That, I believe, is really saddening.
Playing smart? Cheating? You decide.
I'm gonna watch a movie now, be back laters with your peeps at 12am, on irc channel xiaxue k? Laters.
Singtel Blog Competition, dated 4 April 2004
Bimbotic Entry Of The Day Wor! (kekeke)
Isn't my new profile picture pretty?
Heehee.. So pretty wor... Mi likes. esp e pink flwoers, so sweet worz
Stole it from Janice's banner kekeke... Photoshopped the white flowers onto my pix kekeke.... took me a while wor, its tough! sianz den muz make the flowers pink den make a bit bit transparent lorx LOL ROTF kekeke.
Even added a bit of stupi, i mean, toopid lens flare to make it look like got sunlight shining at me worx!! So creaive horz? mi hair loOk shiny rite~
Yesterday I went to this pets shop wor! love the doggies inside very fluffy and pretty, like mi new profile pixture! Then at e pets shop guess what I saw... a toad! the person very farnie he make me laugh. he say Erm miss please dun touch ze toad.
I ask him why he lidat he say CHAO CB SAY DON'T TOUCH MEANS DUN TOUCH, lidat one leh, so fierce, ask only wat.
Then I gave him a bj (its a brinjal la) and he say it is v nice to eat so he eat it... eat liao wor, den his mOOd a biT biT nicer he told mi that the toad is actUally poisonous... wah so scary ah... I scared leh...
I ask him, wait the toad bite mI how please bring it far awAy frOm mi.. ~~ (>.<)
My face a biT like the symbols there kekeke so farnie kekekeke heehee
like dis:
(>.<)
He say when I loOk like (>.<) I loOk very cuTe so he suddenly throw the toad at me.
I run away! I scared of poisonous toad!! AAAAAHHH!! HoW? He very rude leh people giving (>.<) face that time suddenly throw toads at ppl. DOn't he nOe that it is very inpOliTe to throw toAds?
I cry, and he threw a star-shell tortoise at mi.... den i say OOOOrrhhh you DIE the kind of tortoise is extinct one it muz be illegal to sell them WOR!!! sell still nvm, still take and thrOw at peOple! The poor tortoise got feeling one lehx! (>.<)
I realised that the tortoise actually hit the poisonous toad and the toad cry also.
I hug him and cry.
The tortoise bo chup us wor.
den after this I take the toad run away with me lor... still crying wor, i cry v easily one worx.. (>.<) Then I scared I kanna the poison because my lips turn purple already, and become very big like this:
I show you you don't laugh horz!
Very painful...
then I go see doctOr lor...
DOctOr tell me I got Herpes leh... Then I ask him, what is a herpes? He say... AHHH THAT TOAD YOU ARE HOLDING!!! Very funny i oso dunno toad called herpes one.
He dOn't care about my swollen lips lehx. Very funny dis doc... after this he say.. hey yOur lips look very full, want to give me a bj?
I ask him, why, I tot oNly cat priests ask for bj one, moreover I'm not a little boy ha ha ha ha, den I tOld him lorx, my last bj already given to someone else.
he loOk very disapointed, and anyhOw give me somE medicine and ask me to gO lor. Don't understand why the doctOr angry just because I don't have a brinjal to give him. dOh.
Today got this blog reader msg me lehx...I am so happy, but I dunno wat 2 dO, u tell mi k k? kekeke
01:55:40 Alvin24
Hi,xiaxue. U hav a pretty looks. Care to be friends? I am alvin,24. I wan to know u more. U can msg to ********* Hope to hear fr u soon. Thks.
01:57:28 Xiaxue � Alvin24
hi! I would LOVE to be friends!
11:27:21 Alvin24
I duno is a contest. After the contest,u still treat me as a frd,pls store my hp num ******** & msg me,k? I am alvin,hope u rem.
11:29:12 Xiaxue � Alvin24
eeyer You so bad one message so many girls i'm angry liao la...
11:35:48 Alvin24
Got many gals meh? So how is it? After the contest,hope u can msg me using yur hp. Cos i realli wan to know u in person.
11:38:09 Xiaxue � Alvin24
sorry lor you don't only want to know me... You are so greedy you want all the girls... I want to give you my number, but why must you do this?
11:39:36 Alvin24
I where got msg all gals? Who say? I did not lor.
11:41:18 Xiaxue � Alvin24
yes you did... You msg them! :( can see from their chat logs one...
11:44:25 Alvin24
Only a few. I juz wan to know more frds. But i did not know its a contest. Juz hope u dun mind. But i wan to make more frds. If u dun mind.
11:47:35 Xiaxue � Alvin24
but i'm very jealous one... Don't want you to msg other girls...
11:49:06 Alvin24
K lor. Wun msg them liao.
11:51:29 Xiaxue � Alvin24
really ah? So cute ah you... What are you working as?
11:52:06 Alvin24
Army regular.
11:59:59 Alvin24
Y dun reply me liao? Juz now u even say wan to giv me yur num,bluff me 1.
12:10:47 Xiaxue � Alvin24
but i have herpes, you mind?
12:11:30 Alvin24
Sorry,wat is herpes?
12:13:33 Xiaxue � Alvin24
its a kind of poisonous toad that i keep as a pet...
12:14:18 Alvin24
I dun mind.
Yaaay...!! He say he don't mind me having Herpes leh.... So nice right.. But I scared to msg him back.. cos my lips mah... so big and purple wor... I scare he mind...
I mean, i loOk lidat now...
A bit scary ah. I'm v sad you know, don't laugh already la...
This entry is a joke. Don't judge me on it. And BTW, grammar and spelling mistakes are delibrate. Read The Full Article
Singtel Blog Competition, dated 2 April 2004
Let's just say I got very touched by an email written by a reader, so I'm feeling particularly HAPPY!!
Yaaay happy blogger!!!
To everyone who has made snide comments about me, telling me I'm an attention-seeking whore who writes non-funny (why did you even decide its not funny if you never for a moment thought its funny??) blog entries:
Heres what I will say to you:
Click here to be pleasantly surprised.
Well well well... So crude. But apt anyway.
My point is this. I'm not your typical girl who will break down and cry. Some of these people who hide behind their internet nicks (HUMCHEE AH?) to flame me might be supporters of the other dreamdates, or simply new readers, so perhaps you guys don't know me well enough.
YOU CANNOT GET ME DOWN. No matter what you say, I possibly have heard it a million times before already. Fat? Been there. Ugly? Yeah so? Attention-seeking? I don't even see whats wrong. Whore? Wheres your creativity? Slut? Surely you can do better.
I'm still here, strong and unwavering.
I have my blog ongoing for a full year this April 17. Let's just have an early birthday entry for my blog shall we?
From checking blogger out, to writing my first blog entry. I learnt, step by step, shamelessly asking people, to customise my blog. I learnt HTML, so frustrated with it, that I nearly decided to just leave it as the default blue blog template.
I learnt how to edit my pictures. I checked out different websites for picture hosting, and slowly, I added comments links. A scrolling marquee. A tag board.
From basic default blue, to a bright pink background. Then a snowflake background with me holding my cybershot. Then it was red. The picture was a full shot of me. After which its pink, its current skin. Everything by myself.
I set up a friendster account for my blog readers. By today, it is full with 500 readers, with over a hundred testimonials.
All these hard work, all by myself. It is not easy. And for who do I do this for, besides the love of blogging?
My readers.
The 3rd day my blog was up, people are already spreading my links, people whom I don't know.
I put in a web counter on May 18, and by May 24, it hit 100. By July 06, it hit 10,000, and to date, its 294,702 and counting.
No nude photos. No bikinis or bras either. And surely its agreed, I'm not very pretty. So what could be attracting these people?
People simply do not come back for more and more bad things. Or maybe some do, I don't know.
I have gone through the good. I've got plenty of fan mails (500 + including some from readers from California, Germany and Australia), a radio interview, won a blog contest, and now I'm one of the finalists for another blogging contest.
Laced with the good is the bad - LOADS of people critisizing. Suddenly, I get people calling me a slut when I didn't do anything. At its utmost downturn, my blog was discussed in sleazy forums. The men there are not longer crazy individuals by themselves, but a big group against me. Just me alone.
I thought of ending my blog altogether numerous times.
Yes, I cried. But I am only human.
Thankfully, I wasn't alone. My readers were with me.
My love-life. Blog readers saw me grow. From Eddy.. To Adryan... Bernard, then Jeremy. And then to them all suddenly getting attached.
My family breaking up.
My career. From a poly student, to my silly part-time jobs in banqueting, Tiger Beer, and now, I'm a journalist.
My relationships with my friends, and daily rants about public transport, and my change in character as I grow up one more year. My readers saw it all as I blog my heart out openly to the public.
Here I am, exposing my most vulnerable secrets, yet there are people who take advantage of it. People who tell me I should examine my character, because even my best friend hates me - when XF and I quarrelled. People who tell me I should think about why my parents are getting divorced - it must be because I'm a bad daughter.
BUT I HAVE SURVIVED IT ALL. I cried, I was dejected, I was shaken. But I didn't sit there and mope. I picked myself up.
And looking back, it has only aided me to become a stronger person. Now, people can try putting me down, sure. They can try, but they would never succeed.
Because for every one of you out there who dislikes me, there are 3 people who would be really upset if I gave up blogging. B
ecause I have faith in myself. I know I'm not doing anything wrong.
Because of the time, efforts, and pain I have put into maintaining this blog (not this one but the blogspot one). My blog is my blood and sweat, and also my pride and joy.
I will never give it up.
An early happy birthday to Xiaxue' blog.
*Sing to the song of Stronger by Britney*
But I am stronger, than yesterday...
p/s: Actually I want to write about some funny thing one but I got a little carried away. Hahaha...
Singtel Blog Competition, dated 2 April 2004
HAPPY APRIL'S FOOL!!
Siao ah you all! I love blogging and I will never stop!! I thought I said this long ago. I'm not trying to garner votes la I already said don't vote. Ok its supposed to be funny, seems that only some found it slightly amusing.
Don't need to say such hurting things mah... I actually planned to say its an April's Fool joke yesterday at 1 am but guess what??! Dreamd8's site was DOWN!!! So cannot blog to clarify, can only do so today lor.
I know you all have been voting la, my dear blogders!!! I love you ALL (including sun, cr, reminisce etc) whether you love me or hate me, coz the worst thing that can happen to a writer is that no one reads his works, right??
Cheer up k k?
Meanwhile, I suspect someone else is playing a very serious April's Fool Day joke.
If you are an ardent Maddox fan, you would possibly be fcuking horrified.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BLACK BACKGROUND?? THE EVIL PIRATE FACE?!! Why is it so cutesy now!!! I'm so traumatized!! I hope its a joke. It must be.
MADDOX IF YOU SEE THIS.... PLEASE COME BACK.... I MISS YOU ALREADY.
Cheerios guys! Blog more tonight.
p/s: Horrors of horrors, I'm covering this year's NKF event and I got absolutely nothing good to say about it. Besides, there is Miss Holy Ho (yeow sun) performing. Typical I would say. Give the woman a charity event and she would come. Fantastic PR skills? Marketing strategy? You bet.
Please tell me what good angle I can use to cover it. Damn.
Singtel Blog Competition, dated 1 April 2004
Seriously, why am I even in this competition? The dreamd8 people dislike me. I know a lot of readers dislike me too. Everywhere, people are saying I'm a slut/whore/bitch. I DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL THESE. Its all my own fault.
Whats wrong with blogging in my style? Yes I'm frank and opininated. Whats wrong with airing my views? Why should I mince words to make people happy? Why must people pick on me, like saying I'm ugly, saying my English sucks, etc?
I have feelings too, and I'm sick and tired. I have 3,000 readers (per day), my friendster blog account is full (that makes it 500), I have more than 300 emails in my mailing list, yet so little are voting. I do my best to blog to make people laugh, yet, my votes are far far less than the top person. WHY? JUST COZ SHE'S SWEET AND NICE?
Is everyone really here to take, and not give back any?
Then I shall stop giving too.
All I ask for is a 20c support. 3000 readers and I can't believe I am behind some people who has possibly much less readers.
I will not blog anymore. I'm so sickened by this whole thing. I hate the insults; my ego is only that strong. I don't need to go through all these trauma. I will be stopping to blog entirely. Blogspot wouldn't be recovered as well.
Don't send me emails, I will not read them.
If you want to say anything, leave a comment instead. If you are a reader, I want to know.. how come you didn't support me?
Bye you all. Tomorrow, I will delete my whole blog. There is no need to vote anymore. I'm sorry if you already did.
There's nothing you can do to change my mind, so don't try.
Singtel Blog Competition, dated 1 April 2004
I was browsing through the MSN site for a new profile picture because in the office com I don't have my real photos anyway.
AND THEN I FOUND IT.
It is a gem.
Its damn funny. I love it.
Isn't the ostrich so funny looking? I cannot stand it. WA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA...
I'm an ostrich!!! ee ee!!
If you don't get whats so funny and you think I'm mad, I think you didn't get a close enough look of the ostrich. I mean seriously. Look at it.
WA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
Benjamin is a frog.
Hahahaha!
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