Entries from June 2008 ↓

I still vividly remember last Thursday when a bunch of crazy Master year students suddenly made up their mind to spend 60 ringgit on a meal. It took us thirty minutes to inform all my friends, another thirty minutes for brush up and another thirty minutes to drive down to Johor Bahru aka the Gateway to the famous Singapore.

Shogun Japanese Buffet! Our crave for fantastic Japanese food.

This gathering was our final gathering. All of them except me will be leaving UTM soon. They have successfully completed their Master by Course programme. On the one hand, I am still stuck with my research. I shall cut the story short and focus more on pictures.

Sashimi is thinly sliced, raw seafood. Sashimi, while similar to sushi, is distinct for its absence of vinegared rice. We usually have sashimi pieces dipped into a dish of soya sauce (with wasabi) before being eaten.

Did I mention that the fish were RAW? Eww… You may not like it raw but I enjoy them. Apart from raw food, you can still order cooked food. We tried squid (I even counted its legs), “kerang”, grilled salmon, and grilled fish.

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Unlike a lot of other blogs, who easily strike their 100th post mark in their first few months, As It Is sure is a blog which has taken time to build its contents and inviting readers to contribute their voices.

Since the attainment of my own domain, this site is already 2 months and 2 days old. I am not sure if you would feel comfortable to see some of the stats which I am going to disclose. You can do a comparison with the provided information to see where does your blog rank or how does my blog under-perform, somehow something is telling it is the latter.

1. PageRank has ranked from PR NIL to PR 0.
2. 1,016 Absolute Unique Visitors.
3. 2,863 Visits and 11,831 Page Views.
4. Referrals (friends) make half of the visits while the other half from direct traffic and search engines.
5. This blog is only worth $240 at the moment (evaluated by dnScoop).
6. The total number of pages that contain links to my site is 2651.

Note: Visitors, visits and page views from my previous blog were not included.

This blog is still pretty much a Malaysian taste with about three-quarters of my readers arriving from several famous cities in Malaysia. Other than that the United States and Australia are the first runner-up and second runner-up respectively.

Ipoh ranks the top when it comes to the demographic pattern of visits to my blog. I am sure you have heard that Ipoh is not only famous for it’s ‘Ngah Choy Kai’, but also for its beautiful maiden.

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Monday is not always easy, so does our lives.

We often have Monday Blues, so do I think in certain point of our lives we experience the bluish. Monday Blues are always associated with laziness or indolence. We all try to do what’s easy and avoid hard work, thanks to the weekend effect.

At the first day of work and as July is coming, it is timely now to remind our ownselves to once again work hard (if we have been lazy), to be self-disciplined (if we have been disorganized), and most of all enjoy after our hardwork.

Six months have passed and we still have another six months to go before we welcome 2009. If you have your New Year Resolution fixed (I assume you have, at least one), take your butt off your comfortable chair and find those resolutions which you have written. Read them out loud and stick them close to your heart. Revise them if things have gotten off the track.

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Magazine! This is another bold attempt to go against the normal blogging norm. A blog is a blog, always full with texts. This time, after trying with the Unstandard theme and Grid Focus theme by Derek Punsalan, I am trying with the Brightness theme - a magazine style theme.

The moment I found this theme I said to myself I must have this theme so I downloaded the theme from Daily Wordpress.

I am going to do a simple review on some of the features provided in the Brightness theme.

1. Featured Post:

You can feature your articles here, those hot articles which you would want your readers to read.

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