A digression...

Writing, to some, is tedious but there are the few who enjoy it. For me, it is something that I had done for a good chunk of my life and to say that I have developed the skills of a prolific writer would be akin to saying that I have achieved the life that I wanted. But fact remains, my life is not what I want it to be and neither shall I ever be the prolific writer which I hope to be.

Is blogging writing? What is a blog anyway? I have been doing this since last year, partly because of too much free time and partly because of what had happened to me. Are bloggers nice? There are those who are sincere and there are those, well, I leave it that. They are no better than the people they are criticising. Somehow, being an influential blogger gives them immunity and the size of their head had swollen. Ah... the price of being influential... Your ascent from reality and descent to reality can be just as fast, or even faster than the speed of light.

In the time that I have writing for this site (I still dislike the term blogger - makes me think about loggers and what they do to the forest) I have made friends across the world. For instance Jin Jirrie, truly passionate about what she writes (note, I still use the term writing as opposed to blogging). Then there are the self-centred bloggers who right what they think is right and no, I shall not give them the privilege of messing up this posting of mine.

In perspective, may be these self-centred bloggers should read this. And most importantly, understand the implications.

Judging things from the way they are now, it appears that Malaysia and Malaysians in particular, should be more rational now. I think the people in Malaysia have shown their maturity, after 50 years of independence. The country is now in interesting times but of course, there are those who could not wait for it to descend into chaos. Whether this would be the case can only be left to time. Only its people can decide where it will be heading to and it is hoped that they would be wise in who they choose to lead them through these tumultuous times.

This digression of mine is necessary. I have been reading too much negative spin by bloggers, who write about social-political issues. Sometime I think that these bloggers are short of being a menace to society because nothing nobody does is right by them, or meet their "high exacting standards". And if you look at what they were before, well, some of them were not asked to be part of the mainstream, which is why they rebelled and joined the alternative. Well, finally we have a self-proclaimed most influential blogger elected to the house of representatives (I wish him luck and hope that he will fulfil his social contract with the electorate and, by the way, stop running down people). Perhaps he should apply to the Guinness Book of World Records and get himself included. After all, blogging is about getting publicity isn't it?

Enough digression and ramblings. Malaysia, I pray for you.