Fine, the Geoduck blog header

is this:



And till I figure out how to randomize the header image, all of you shall only see my friend's parrot and the formidable serious cat.

KNN that femes blogger say I mentally insane...

Addendum
I've managed to randomize my blog's header, thanks to this tutorial. You can try refreshing the page till you see it.

Store Plug: Where's Mama?

Angelique, 20 year young girl who writes a blog with more wit than a 24 year old me, had set up an online store, Where's Mama?, selling jewellery made out of jumping clay. I love the pui-pui blue bird (but not ALL kinds of blue birds, if you get my drift, you hokkien lang) in the picture above, wondering how it'll look on my ears as dangly earrings.

Give it a shot, and also, give the law student some extra pocket money!

Where's Mama? Facebook Gallery Page

Alamak

No doubt I've caused a fury over the past few days. And never have I thought that I'll need to have to say this on my blog: I'm entitled to have my own opinions. And as for the f-words, it's just vulgar old me writing in the style I'm comfortable with (if you find time, bother to read through other entries): no doubt unprofessional, but still, me, writing a leisure blog in my style.

Some quotation I heard a long time ago, but never found meaning in it until now:
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Voltaire supposedly said it

Thanks for reading, Kthxbai.

I received Frower!

"Uncle" JayWalk drew me a frower! He also drew 25 other flowers, which is an impressive feat for him to find time to do this in the midst of being a tua tua entrepreneur in Ch1na who chokes up impressive handphone bills.


Now that's a really nice gesture from somebody whom I haven't in real. Haven't met the rest that frequent the Cowboy Bar either (a tremendous distraction from work!) Now most of these "barflies", including JayWalk, maintains some sorta online anonymity, not revealing their real names and faces through their blogs. I only know them by their nicknames, but of course I'm always curious of how they look like lah.

When I queried them on how JayWalk looks like, most of them at the Cowboy Bar said that he looks like this guy:

Okay, fine. 80s hairstyle (perm siah), loads of facial hair, very manly. Wow.

JayWalk generously added me on Facebook last week, thus revealing his mug to me through photo albums. He doesn't look like the hairy, pervy man above lah, you liars.

He really looks more like this guy:


Okay excuse me while I go put out the fire I started. Don't kill me uncle..

P/S: The chinese-bearded man is really Taiwanese host Fei-Ge and the Chao Ah Gua-looking guy is actually the late MGR, a very popular Tamil Movie superstar of the 50s-60s from very long ago lah.

Some 'anonymous' blogs you should read

Alot of good (singaporean) writers blog using a pseudonym: so you don't know how they look like, don't really know what they work as. To name a few which I read on a regular basis, using my Google Reader. And I would think the blogs are good only because they are being real and non-pretentious behind their popular online facade. That's when they have nothing to hide.

1) Cowboy Caleb
2) Tinker Tailor
3) Little Miss Drinkalot
4) My Name Is Mandrake
5) Tinker, Tailor
6) Trivial Triflings of An Aimless AKK (Ang Ku Kueh)
7) Angelique - It's Raining Noodles!

So a relief teacher was sacked for mocking his students' atrocious standard of English on his blog. Then again, he's just another guy documenting the encounters of his job. Fella, you should have blogged with a pseudonym.

Being an anonymous blogger might be good

There were Singaporean bloggers who wrote stuff that were really enjoyable, and they were Cheeky and Bubblemunche (whose blog address have been taken by someone else, and both of them already had, in Internet-Speak, a Blogicide. Both pretty much cited similar reasons for their early departure from the online identity: their family members / colleagues discovering their blogs.

Cheeky blogged with pseudonym and never once revealed his face, his blog entries were unadulterated fun. His writings were parodies of issues and references to what a true Singaporean would be aware of (TT Durai, Sylvester VS Taufik, $600,000 peanuts)! Even President Nathan was not spared! Bubblemunche was known by his real name, though, with honest anecdotes of his trouble with women.

It's really sad for them, as The Internet is a perfect place for your uncensored rantings. With the shit going on in the 'real world' (I hate that term) and having to behave politically-correct and phony when you're with your colleagues and dealing with business clients, you'll need a place to scream, like children. This Internet is a big playground for us big children.

Now, if you maintain a good blog with good writings (or photographs, or videos), you'll be known to the world one day. And the world would also consist of people you hate, your family members, your pointy-haired boss as well. And these people would be reading your true thoughts: the very side of you which you didn't want them to see. Guessed that was the case for Cheeky and Bubblemunche, who had to protect their online alter-egos.

Here an article on How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else). Also, there's always Livejournal to lock up your thoughts and display them only to a select few. I have that option, but I don't really use it :P

So people, blog without inhibitions! Blog using a pseudonym if you need to! Because if your blog only have nice things to say and no controversial opinion, you'll end up like Dawn Yang and million other boring blogs out there (including this one, hahaha).

You can view Cheeky's old entries through the Atom Feed, but the RSS Reader messes up the paragraphing of his entries.

Cheeky, Bubblemunche, if you guys happened to be reading this, please, if you have taken new Internet identities and blogging again, please tell me where to find you guys by emailing me at kosherjellyfish@gmail.com. Yours truly, your pretty loyal fan.