Malaysian Blog Terrorists
Thank you Minishorts and Vincent, Malaysia’s unofficial blog terrorists for providing cheap advertising of my independantly-managed (indie) blog on their respective websites. I was flattered when my blog stats skyrocketed yesterday from a miserable usual number of 0 readers.
There are ongoing issues in the Malaysian celebrity-blogger community, mainly dealing with one’s passion of stiring up blogwars. Yes, it’s a dysfunctional community. Thank the Lord for the existence of indie bloggers like KurtLow.
Still, why do they do it?
Gaining a few extra hundred hits a day might be a probable idea. However Minishorts and Vincent are both prominant bloggers in Malaysia, similar to the likes of Kenny Sia, Suanie and Kimberly. They’re probably already receiving a thousand hits (and growing) daily.
The very gorgeous Minishorts might just be interested in knowing the number of die-hard fans standing behind her if she decides to aimlessly shoot words of hatred in a blogwar. She suggested a dislike for “delusional bystanders, who are too chicken shit to actually take a side” for the fake war that Vincent and her have started, in which yours truly was one of the named bloggers. I am sure she might have accidently left out a few of her readers who already knew their blogwar was intentional, as it was almost unlikely for Vincent to access her blog to pen his thoughts on How To Start A Blog War after their little “argument”.
Most likely it is the need of satisfaction for their attention seeking behavior. They hide behind statements like “blogging is fun”, which really is if it’s applied correctly. But their interest and attitude in starting up a blogwar (fake or not) is the same arrogant fundamentalism that fueled the hatred of the Crusades and the attacks on 9/11. We bloggers (especially celebrity-bloggers) have to juggle the fine line between free speech and malicious attempt to create unnecessary havoc.
The need for blogwars, like the World Wars and Jihad is uncalled for, fake or otherwise. The destruction of rapport among the friendly fellow Malaysians is just not worth fighting for. Save the bitch-fight dramas for TVB and The O.C. and sit back enjoy yet another interesting episode of KurtLow’s life.
Dude, are you into hamsters or something?
Comment by justine — November 16, 2005 @ 12:01 pm
This is like, so true.
Comment by Eliar Swiftfire — November 16, 2005 @ 12:14 pm
hahaha… join the club of mentioned bloggers. :)
Comment by simon — November 16, 2005 @ 1:38 pm
actually hoh… this post was a pretty good one. but i think hoh, you shouldn’t take things so seriously lor.
if you can’t take a joke, it means you’re too easily offended lah. make love, not war.
eh. besides, i never disliked fencesitters. any fencesitter who calls me ‘very gorgeous’ shouldn’t be disliked at all. but no. oh yeah there are ways to track my phone number.
Comment by minishorts — November 16, 2005 @ 2:47 pm
Minishorts: Hi! It’s great to see you leaving a comment, let alone dropping by. Ah… “blogging is fun”, isn’t it? I’m having fun. Are you? Why would a man resort to desperate measures searching for your number when he could easily just get it from you?
Simon: Great to hear from you, man! Thanks for dropping by.
Eliar Swiftfire: Thanks for dropping by. Cool pen-name, by the way.
Justine: It depends on how much he eats and shits. We can meet up for lunch on Friday and then walk round the city together to find a cute one. How about that?
Comment by Darryl — November 16, 2005 @ 3:56 pm
read me la, i’m a just an indie blogwhore. :P
mini and suanie are nuts, btw.
Comment by KY — November 16, 2005 @ 5:54 pm
KY: I’ve read alot about your blog man. You’ve almost achieved celebrity status. :) Haha! Thanks for dropping by. About Suanie, I have always thought she was cute. Don’t you agree?
Comment by Darryl — November 16, 2005 @ 6:46 pm
of course I’m cute. I’m so cute that Elvis lives again.
KY is a dangerous nutter. Pls spread the word.
(ps I’m not prominent. But I can be dominant. ahem)
Comment by suanie — November 16, 2005 @ 8:52 pm
Suanie: … and cute! :)
Comment by Darryl — November 16, 2005 @ 9:12 pm
im not prominent. but thanks. heh, it’s just a bitchfit, not some blogwar like some like to depict so. if i wanted drama, i’d kacau jeffooi or mack or paultan. hehehe
suanie is cute and she’s mine. take ky.
Comment by kimberlycun — November 16, 2005 @ 11:15 pm
Kimberly: I read your blog once a while, which already qualifies you to be popular. FYI, Suanie likes guys. It’s not a preference. Maybe someday we can talk this over dinner. :) Thanks for coming. Appreciate it.
Comment by Darryl — November 17, 2005 @ 12:20 am
Eh….
I’m abit lost…
if youre and indie blogger does that make me an indie blogger too? I dunno what exactly is an indie blogger ?
Darryl can explain to me arr??
Oh Whats this war was nonsense.. okay i know i am an ignorant cow when it comes to this blogging world… heheh.. bare with me!
How can there be a war on internet blogging??
I just write my crap down…. never had issues with anyone….
CEPT when this ONE psycho girl (my ex’s ex) found out bout my blog.. and found out that it was MY blog… and was like partially stalking me… ! THATS freaky!
:P Late di… think thats why im rambling…….
back to study……………
Comment by Ninja-L- — November 17, 2005 @ 5:50 am
Ninja-L-: It’s great to hear from you after so long. Would you qualify yourself as an indie blogger? I guess blogs like mine have not (and will not) achieve pop-status like Kenny Sia, Suanie and Minishorts, who are all great bloggers of today’s Malaysian standard. There was this fake war that was choreographed by Minishorts and Vincent a few days ago, which put many blog readers to a daze… which Minishorts and Vincent announced it was purely for the sake of fun. Good luck in your exam. We’ll talk more after your exam.
Comment by Darryl — November 17, 2005 @ 6:29 am
just words won’t get a number, there’re far too many good writers online, but yeah, you’re getting there. :)
Comment by minishorts — November 17, 2005 @ 1:14 pm
Minishorts: How about dinner at the House Of Sudanese Food in KLCC, followed by an exciting movie of The Exorcism Of Emily Rose? I’m sure we can work things out.
Comment by Darryl — November 17, 2005 @ 5:45 pm
wtf?!! you have to try getting me off my bf first ;)
Comment by minishorts — November 18, 2005 @ 10:49 am
Minishorts: Damn. You’ve just ruined it. :)
Comment by Darryl — November 18, 2005 @ 4:23 pm