Happy B-Day to My One-Year-and-a-Bit-Old Blog!

Published on April 16, 2008 in Tech Stuff. 15 Comments

Happy birthday to you,
happy birthday to you,
happy birthday dear… uh… Eastwood-Zhao-Happenings-in-a Nutshell,
happy birthday to you!

My blog is one year old! :lol:

Blogging for a whole year has been quite a journey. I’ll let the rest of this post do the rest of the talking:

The Past Year… In a Nutshell!

There are certainly highs and lows of my “blogging career” :P . When I first started blogging back in March of 2007, I was pumped with blogging-juice and produced some quality content. For a while, I was producing quality content and enjoying it all. I even got some short-lived fame ‘n glory when my blog was listed as a “Hot Community” in MyBlogLog, along with The Thinking Blog (they actually were doing quite well back then… no hard feelings, Ilker ;) ) and ProBlogger. Ahhh… those where the days! :D

However, things took a turn for the worse as I battled with the tempting forces of evil. My blog dipped big time in quality and creativity starting from April 2007. During that “dark period” :P , I wrote a whole ton of cheap, low-quality reviews. My readership practically dropped down to zero, and my blog was getting pretty darn close to becoming a “splog”. Though I made a couple hundred dollars, I have to say this: the experience was definitely not worth it!

My love for blogging really started kicking back in starting Jan. 2008. I simply told myself this: write about whatever you feel like writing about. If you don’t feel like writing, take it easy, be kind to yourself. Don’t write for the sake of “ahh I gotta keep the posts coming or else I’ll loose subscribers” (not like I have a lotta subscribers anyway :P ). So along with my change in attitude came some really good posts. I started writing what I am really passionate about: driving (or, what I call defensive eco-driving — ooo I really want a Prius nowadays), music ( — the effortless mastery of), among others.

Another major change I made was removing all advertisements. It was clogging the blog up — making it look like a chicken market. Besides, I wasn’t any money that’s worth my while anyway. Surprisingly, not too long ago, after I made my changes of removing all the junk from my blog, there were offers that came in requesting text-link placements of $50/month. What did I do? I stayed cool and flatly refused 8) .

107 Published Posts in Total Eh?

Out of the huge pile, I’ve picked out half-a-dozen or so of my favourite/most controversial/most commented posts. Check ‘em out:

Creative Writing

Life (Blah blah blah… :P )

Defensive Eco-Driving (Oh believe me, this section’s good :twisted: )

While you’re at it, check out my “Top Posts” also. Maybe you noticed that I’ve left all the nasty political stuff out. For a good reason! I’m not exactly into these things nowadays. I prefer more to have a nice walk on the seawall on a beautiful, breezy day, then to point out the wrongs of our world :) (there’s simply too much to list)

You Are Here Because…

You are here because… I’d like to thank every single one of you for the support — no matter how much, or how little — over the last year. But… hey! I have a PR 4 blog :D : Spiderman’s uncle Ben once said (if I can remember this correctly), “with great powers come great responsibility” :P . Where I’m I going with this? The link-lovin’, of course! Listed below are some of my favourite bloggers:

Do you have any blogging experiences that you’d like to share?

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