Been blog surfing while on a runny nose. Too bad God didn't invent a faucet to stop all those salty tasting liquid that drips out of our noses. And nope, I hate tasting my own produce, but at times it does happen, no? Dropping blogs by old friends, John See, Tehka, Kevin Koay, Su Chen and even Mel, Annette(!), Heidi, Jen and Morbid, I ponder at what style of writing should I use?
Reading Kevin's and Tehka's somehow made me feel that my reflections on my faith is at times simple. After all, I'm a happy-go-lucky person and though I read a lot, I do feel that this isn't the season to read and contemplate more. Perhaps (and I hate to think about it) I was never meant to be a deep thinking theologian, but perhaps more of a guy that loves working with young people.
It's been 3 months since I joined the Project Petaling Street community, and being there, you do need to fish for attention. How else could you get Malaysian bloggers to read your blog if it only caters for Christians?
Imagine a casual reader wanting to find some good stuff to make his day and even perhaps make it a favorite and he clicks on the interesting title you put as a bait for readers (that's the 1st rule in getting PPS readers). Opening it, instead of the interesting content that follows the title, the reader might find it all about God. Interesting perhaps, but not all readers are intellectuals who ponder about faith, unless perhaps something really bad happenned to them. So, who do you fish for, the intellectuals or the casual readers? Heh, I rather fish for the later with my humor as my bait *grins widely*
I do believe though that everyone has a role to play, even in this blogging community. Not everyone's as deep as Annette or Pastor Sivin, but not everyone's as lame as me, heheh. (and yea, I rather keep some thoughts private, in a journal or something)
Till then, my panda eyes are getting worse and the flu ain't getting better.
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