Been riding quite a roller-coaster lately.

With changes happening in life and tough challenges at work. One keeping me high up straight in the air while the other keeping me inverted ready to fall. Challenges once overcame will make us all stronger and better person. I believe we will survive!

Life’s changing and there are much to prepare mentally. How we set the foundation is essential and very very important. Foundation if not done well, consequences can be devastating. We’ve seen the good and the worst. We know we just have to do it right and all will be well.

I scrolled through my recent posts and realised this blog of mine is getting lesser and lesser attention from myself and very sadly, its getting even less personal than before.

There are so many life changing things happening this year but I’m not able to share them out loud here. Its sad but somethings are better left private. Even had to change my Facebook security settings to ensure things that are not to be public remains hidden.

Wish my life was simpler. But I’m living it to the fullest I’m sure!

If you’re trying to dig anything from here about my present and future life, I’m sorry you won’t be getting much of it. This will become the public domain where I share things I come across occasionally that interests me or may interests you.

Please don’t stop visiting. There’s always the giveaway and once-in-a-blue-moon surprises in here. I promise.

In another news, have you seen Rediscover Singapore? Its so cool I’m so in love with it! Many exciting things rolling out there soon! I love my crew!

Recently I spent a little too much time on facebook games. Every night, at least an hour is devoted to clicking on my mouse on clearing crystals from Bejeweled Blitz. I tried to conquer the score board, but it just seems impossible. After much cursing and swearing playing, I’m still always being ranked right at the bottom among my other friends in facebook. I felt frustrated and this kept me playing and the harder I try to push myself by clicking faster and trying to get as many hits as possible, the worst I perform. Than I became bored and will eventually give up.

Bejeweled Blitz is quite a popular game amongst my list of friends in facebook. And because of the number of competitors you’ve got to beat in order to rank high up in the score board, the harder it is for you to reach there. After many nights of playing, you might also just give up and not want to continue anymore.

Just last night, I saw a friend’s scoring in another game call Chain Rxn in facebook. Out of curiosity, I went to check the game out. And after less than thirty minutes of play, I’m ranked 4th among my friends who are playing! That of course makes me happy.

Because there were lesser friends playing Chain Rxn, my chance of getting bumped up the score board is much easier. Just like in, for example, a golf tournament. An average female player gets to bring home the trophy because there were only four other players competing. So the chance of winning is much higher.

Than the thought of blogging came to mind. There have been much talks and thoughts going on on blogging and how much better the blog will perform if its content is focused and niche. The rarer and lesser people blogs about that topic, the better your blog will perform. And for all topics, no matter how rare or niche, there *will* be a community out there who are interested in it. You just need to keep the faith of sharing about that niche topic which you’re knowledgeable and passionate about, one day you will be noticed and you will succeed.

And because of the rarity of these content, people who knows about your existence will be more active in participating in the discussions on your blog, helping you spread the words to those they know, and the journey to being known in this community as a thought leader is also shorter. Of course, the initial struggle will be hard to pass, but good things always come to those who wait.

Are you waiting to be discovered? Or have you already succeeded in your small but niche community?

Photo from here. Hope he don’t mind me using it.

I’m beginning to feel that my blogging is getting kinda sad. It somehow seems like life has come to a standstill for me. Nothing I do seems like a blogable post. When one’s life get bored, their blog becomes boring too isn’t it?

There has been much discussions for long time within my small social circle online on whether or not to start blogging professionally in niche blogs or to start having a certain focus in one’s blogging style. And I did try to take a step out to separate my postings to couple other places where I hope to concentrate. But its just so tough for me.

Unlike many out there, I don’t read a lot daily. In fact, I don’t read much at all. And I prefer not to copy and paste things I read somewhere and post it as content (partial or in full) in my blogs. I’m not a collector of news. I want to be the creator, or as what Walter shared, a my very own storyteller.

A friend of mine shared that it is pretty easy to earn lots of money from just blogging collecting and repeating of news alone. Just start many many niche blogs and follow many many feeds, than post copy and paste content from your feeds to your blogs. There’s little thinking to do but you’ll get lots of traffic coming to your google adsense and blog ads filled site. I’m sure you know who are the few famous known people who’re doing this.

But wait a minute! That’s not my kind of storytelling. And these blogs get on my nerve at times. So now I just don’t go to them or totally ignore their feeds in Ping.

While returning to reading blogs which I’d not been reading for very very long, this thought just happened to hit on me. Hard. And having met and spoke to some of them in the past, it just scares me even more. Some have been talking about the responsibilities of bloggers and what not. But how do you, as a reader or even part of his/her community, know who this person really am?

Are you sure you really know who I am?
Photo from here.

Let’s imagine this scenario…