I AM RM100 RICHER TODAY

A piece of cheque arrived in my (real) mailbox today. It was from Nuffnang and it was the payment for the advertisements that had been clicked by people visiting my blog.

After blogging for 5 years, RM100.50 is not lucrative but I blog not to generate money in the first place. Alhamdulillah (thank you, Allah) and this should still be good enough for my next holiday trip.

Thank you Nuffnang. Thank you visitors who had clicked the advertisements in my blog. Keep clicking, people! :)

HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY TO MY BLOG

It is again time to wish my blog another "Happy Birthday". 

It has been five long years. How time flies.

And how has my blog developed all this while? Here's the statistics that might provide some information.

What are the blog's popular posts? People come to visit when they are searching for sample essays, particularly the continuous writing. My blog contains other more interesting entries but people are searching for other important matter.

The highest number of blog hits come from Malaysia, and the number of readers who come from other country has already grown. If I am looking for popularity, it should be at international level. :) I just hope people from the USA and Russia who read my blog are not spies. :)

For the past 5 years, I have been posting 1647 entries - I could have written a novel by now. I just wish that people are more responsive after reading the posts. However, I understand putting down a comment in any entry is quite a tedious process so that should explain the number of comments received.

Happy birthday again to my blog, may we share our love and spread the happiness to the world for many more years to come.

"Either write something worth reading

or do something worth writing."

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

MY BLOG 3RD BIRTHDAY

I have been blogging for three years already.It started as an experiment but it just went on and on and on. There was nothing much in the blog except stories of myself as a teacher and the life around me. I must admit my blog could never be compared to others' which are more sophisticated, with impressive designs and add-ons. Mine is done using the ready-made template and I do not put any effort to explore more. Perhaps "I just want to focus on the content" could be a valid reason for not being competitive enough.

Hopefully after three years of blogging, I have made my students read some English, rather than not to read at all. My blog does not look educational but learning should take place by accident. I believe that by reading you would already learn a bit, if not much. So not to worry, there will never be any posting related to the Bersih demonstration or political parties or the upcoming general election. It is unethical for us adults to corrupt or influence the minds of the youngsters as they have other things they should be focusing on. (I always have the intention of removing people who keep posting irrelevant issues on the FB wall for everybody to see).

top posts

From the bloggers' statistics, I found that the most famous posting was actually  some sort of an announcement board of the school. The first one was asking the students to come to school with their parents to collect the money subsidized by the government (it is always about money!) and the second one was the lists of new classes for for the new school session. And people visit my blog to get sample essays published as well.

audience viewing the blog

I am quite happy to find out that people overseas are also reading my blog with the USA ranking the second and Russia the third. (I hope those people are not spies) My blog has gained popularity among Qatari or people staying there after I wrote about my trip to the middle east as Qatar is now on the 10th spot.

I guess it is high time for me to change the blog layout but I still need to think hard of the colour scheme as the coulourful fonts may not appear if I choose the wrong wallpaper or design. So happy 3rd birthday to my blog and I think I should start launching a campaign to persuade people to click on the advertisements every time they come visiting.