Beautiful Kuching Sunday Sunset, 23 September 2007I spent a good part of the weekend at home tidying up the new template for this blog. It's all almost done except for the links which I'll finish off next week. This must have been the third for fourth time that I'd changed the template but I can't and usually don't try to remember or keep track of this sort of things as I am way too busy with my life and stuffs. I feel good about the look of my blog now as I am starting to feel a little stale with my previous one. I think it loads faster too with all the unnecessary extras that I had gradually added to my previous template over time.
And it also dawned me that it has been more than 2 years since I
started blogging and a lot of water has passed under the bridge so to speak. I think I have changed and so has my blog but yet though much have changed, the fundamentals haven't - I still love what I do and it has become an 'easy' habit. I've not had any 'blogger's block' yet and the topics for my post just come me whenever I sit down in front of my notebook. I really do not have the luxury of spending too my time on my blog. I must admit that since early this year; I had not even been visiting other people's blogs - one of the reason I get much less comments to my posts these days. But the number of daily unique visitors have remained more or less the same hovering around the hundred mark. A big thank-you to you all for visiting. My blog still have plenty of nice (to me anyway) photos which I really love to take and share with others (and perhaps why I still get visitors!). And my picture taking has become natural and easy. I never have to 'force' any of the pictures I take and they seem to come naturally and I seem to be able to get good shots on a daily basis! I guess I must be pretty much in sync with the flow of life when it comes to this. Either that or I just have a good eye for beauty and an affinity with nature or just lucky or living in delusion that my photos are nice!
Kuching Kayaking: Fun on the waters while connecting with nature and the flow of life.I still love my kayaking and that too has changed in that since I started
Kuching Kayak Sdn Bhd in March 2006 as I am
now sharing the beauty of the waters in Kuching with others and this year our business have more than doubled. I am truly blessed in that I can
make my passion pay. With my kayaking business, my full time job as an architect and head of department in a main board public listed company and husband and father to 3 teenagers; I really have my hands full. So the above are the compelling reason(s) why I continue to blog so consistently for over 2 years now without getting stale, boring or burnt out - I hope!
Fascinating sky and fascinating that I'm still blogging after 2 years!
Anyway of late due to my friend
Justin, I am seriously thinking of monetizing my blog at the same time. I had experimented with it previously (rather clumsily I thought and with dismal results!) - mindful of course that nothing turns off regular readers then suddenly turning into a "money-face" blog. I find some adverts plain intrusive and darn annoying. It's a matter of finding a balance. After 2 years of blogging with no commercial intent (apart from obviously directly people to my kayaking trips website) or content no one can accuse me of selling my
arse soul for a bit of money. It's actually not a bit of money as the
top pro-bloggers rack in more than USD 10K and 20K each month! I find it fascinating that it is possible to make that much
money from blogging. How on earth do they do that? There's a lot to learn and a lot to find out and that to me is quite interesting, fun and hopefully financially rewarding. I think I'll get there - eventually; even a quarter of the way is more than fine! But for now it's back to the grind and here's wishing you a productive week ahead! Thanks for visiting this blog - you folks are tops; now get back to your
blady work before your boss catches you!
Understatement of the year! - Jeremy Schoemaker of www.shoemoney.com making money from google adsense
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Since I have already found my Shangri La on the waters of Kuching; Seksan feels that I am deserving of more lovely photographs from his Tibet trip and accordingly sent me more!
But this time I have taken the liberty to add 'drop shadow' to them and arranged the two photos below into a montage. Enjoy. And 'enjoy' your work week ahead. Nay!
