Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

How I learned to love the blog and stop worrying

some silly new exhibition at the Urban Redevelopment Authority(URA) building

Bloglines is destroying my life. If you thought reading blogs was an addictive time consuming past-time, how about a website that constantly informs you when your favourite blogs are updated (like every other minute) causing you to drop whatever it is that you’re doing to pause and read it.

People who would kill me if they ever found out about my blog
1) My gf
2) My boss
3) My shrink (he wants to get paid to listen to me bitch)

But, why (oh why) do I read blogs? I don’t think there’s just one reason, there’s many reasons and they all differ depending on the time of the day.

To satisfy the voyeur in me
I do so really enjoy reading about other’s people lives, down from the nitty-gritty details of their breakfast to how they got butt-fucked at work to their imaginary extra pre-marital problems. Yes, people are a strange strain of monkeys. Watching them stumble about day-to-day is extremely entertaining. Knowing that there are people out there that are even more messed up then me gives me a strange sense of comfort.

To download shite
I’m seriously into downloading strange music, videos and games online. Why just the other day this little ditty ( from this cesspool of sin)made me chain my ankle to the bed to prevent myself from running out to buy an iPod so as to listen to it on the go. There are plenty of blogs out there with a treasure trove of good shite to download.

To get smarter
It’s a fact that the internet either makes you stupid or incredibly smart. With so much information online, you need somebody else to filter out the good shite for you first, so you need only read the parts that matter. Viva la MrBrown. Viva la Peking Duck. Viva la Almost Daily Linkorama.

Learn about cool new shite
In the old days, I learnt about cool new gadgets from magazines and tv shows. How lame is that? By the time I learn about them, about half of Japan already owned and got bored of those gadets. Now I learn about cool new shit from blogs like Gizmodo or Engadget before they are even released. Why, I now draw up and revise my Xmas shopping list a good 6 months before the actual event.

To make imaginary friends
We could all do with a little reality check from time to time. I mean c’mon, do you really expect me to believe that you’re all millionaire greek gods? I’ve made a lot of friends from reading their blogs. I have not met up with any of them. I prefer to believe whatever they have revealed on their blogs. I choose the blue pill, that is to say I want to keep on believeing the illusions that you, my imaginary friend are weaving for my benefit.

Conclusion
I really need to stop worrying and just learn to love my/your blog.

P.S: You might want to checkout my blogroll if you lack blogs to read.

Heh I agree with ya there, especially with the downloads part. I dont care for the rest, I just like reading blogs, especially with pictures from their hometown. It’s always nice to see in what kind of environment some people live on the other side of the world :)

I have bloglines now too.. and i keep adding blogs to read.. and i cannot catch up sometimes! hehe
Oh I really do love your linkorama. :)

people would kill me if they read my weblog is: some of the people from my other chat lol.
Reading weblog is nice, having a weblog is a must, you’re the God of ur blog :P i have ever met lots of webloggers in my real life, an indonesian webloggers ;) I know lots of things from weblog’s world: first time it was just a simple html-code, till i finally know lil about PHP thingy and CSS. I don’t think my net life would be more interessant if I didn’t have weblog or at least read weblogs, then my net life would just be chatting, sending email, surfing, which are quite boring

right on, dude!
btw, the pic reminded me of some comedic character, hope that is not you…hee2 hee2

papi > I agree with you man, do post more pics of your neighbourhood and those cute asian friend of yours (wink)

fatfingers > thanks, do keep supporting the linkorama and recommend it to your friends. You can also help by sending me your own links to be included.

echa > i agree with you, sometimes I think that blogging has become my main activity online. We’ve progressed from email to instant messaging and now to blogging. The web is so much more intresting now that’s its personalized.

agentx > hehe that’s Bubblemunche! You should check him out here. He’s da bomb.
http://bubblemunche.blogspot.com/

actually whatever the medium or whatnot is, as long as you don’t have control over yourself, you are screwed. its just another form of drugs and if you get too dependent, cut it out. have the control to do it.

i think I will blog about this on my side later.. heh heh

I dunno, don’t like the bloglines….so I keep on bloghopping !
But yeah I am glad I only work half days, otherwise I’d be reading blogs from morning till night !!

mandrake > blog addiction ah? Do your dissertion on it and become a net celebrity lah.

aneki > Huh, but you can bloghop even more easily using Bloglines? I hates you for only working 1/2 days!!!

yes im so jealous too!

that URA exhibition has been there for ages! I love that model on singapore..I can almost spot my home too. Very nicely done.