Blogging for Myself

It's been awhile since I've update my blog.

Reason?

I can't find any reason to be honest.

It seems to me 4 years down the road of blogging did change a lot of things for me. Let me share some of the reasons why I blog from the day I started to blog till now.

Long long time ago, in Ipoh, there was this fat kid who got rejected by another guy who was so depressed, he was about to jump off the roof of the tallest building in Ipoh. Of course, in Ipoh the only tall building we had was a 4 storey tall shopping complex, so that kinda defeat the purpose of a momentous fall. Lol.

He was blessed with a few close net pals who were there for him and consoled him in his emotional days. One of them shared to him, why don't you share your feelings in a blog? That way, you get to express yourself and you will eventually feel better about it.

And that was the first step I took into the blogging world.

Back then, all my blog entries were only text and of course, emo like hell. It was an emo blog, where I rant about how painful it was for me to find out how reality hurts and yada yada. You probably don't want to read it. It's not in this URL, don't worry. It was a livejournal blog. LOL.

Then, I met Zach, my boyfriend (kinda an understatement, we're as good as married now). Of course, back then my blog was still emo, where I shared my feelings especially my love for Zach (it was courtship period, hahaha). However, as time goes by, I started to find out certain information or rather, benefits of blogging.

Yes, I went down the commercial route and started taking in ads and PayPerPosts opportunities from US. Within months, I've earned about 1k USD approximately. Due to the nature of PPP, I had to be very active in blogging. Back then, I blog about anything.

Look! A squirrel that hops on 1 leg!!

Ooooh~~~ Shiny pebbles!!

Yea, those sort of stuff and copied pasted content from Internet too.

It was because every PPP post you do, you need to accompany it with a normal post in your blog. Indirectly, I was spamming my own blog just so I could earn. Of course, this is no longer possible no thanks to the amount of people who are willing to refresh the opportunity page every second just to accept ads. When the amount of supply is overwhelming, opportunities eventually became scarce.

And then came Nuffnang. Of course, Nuffnang was not new but as time goes by, I was offered much more than banner ads. Among them were occasional advertorials. Thus I started thinking of ways to boost my readership and find out why do people read my blog at the first place. Among the reasons I found out people read my blog are;

- I'm gay
- I'm an ok looking guy (not ugly. LOL)
- I'm somewhat known in the blogosphere

Based on these factors, I tried to start blogging more about topics related to these reasons. Thus you can find occasional gay related content (which are safe for work), my camwhorish pictures and my coverage of local blogosphere happenings.

However, due to the nature of my job, I'm so busy these days I tend to not have much time to properly blog for these topics anymore. I find it difficult to commit so much time for these topics. Thus, I think it's time for me to stop doing things that I don't enjoy anymore.

Sure the money is good, but my blog is supposed to be a place where I'm happy to write on, and not because it's a chore or troublesome thing I have to do.

So from now on, I'm gonna blog about anything that happens in my life, be it short posts or long posts. Pictures or no pictures, the blog will carry my tale of my gutsy gay life.

Cheers
Robb