Sometimes it is hard to say things about yourself, trust me, it is tough. You do not want to be seen as self-praising but not to the extent of self degrading.
I started blogging in late 2005 and what a journey it has been!
Blogger’s background
Strangely I started in the corporate world working on legal matters with banks and solicitor firms. But after couple of years of being bogged down with routines and to some extend, tired of processing civil suits against companies and individuals (I hate to be in their shoes and lately my good karma have been taking some good beatings too) and acting in counter suits, I decided that I needed change – a big change that is and God must have heard me.
At the blink of the eye (rather after one phone call), I became an IT consultant. Ya, weird things can happen to you. I handle technical documentation (need to use my blogging skills somewhere right?), project management and system support both in Malaysia and overseas.
On a personal note, I am married for the past err…4 – 6 years (and counting) and have a lovely wife and cute my son (ya, he is going to make noise on me using the word “cute” here).
Having a family was one of the best things that happened to me (it has its own challenges though) and this is probably why I feel that spending time blogging about the government, responsibility and other things that we Malaysia care about is a good way to start pushing for a brighter future for all of us. If we don’t make our opinions matters (even it means shouting at a big crowd but no one response back to you), we will be forever cursed to be the “silent majority”.
Blog’s journey
Like most of us, I started blogging in Blogspot before moving to WordPress (that is before Blogspot decided to revamp its blog tools and improved a lot) and after 687 posts (at time of this update and counting), I am more motivated to continue blogging. I am still learning though – in blogging, language and general knowledge.
Lately it has slanted towards Malaysia and the political situation – something that I would deemed as very necessary especially after having children of my own. What kind of future awaits him and his generation? Do we be ignorance and walk the other way?
These were the thoughts that were running in my mind before the last general election in 2008 and I am glad that we bloggers contributed in small way to make the necessary changes but we are not done yet. Malaysia is great and I am proud to call myself as a Malaysian but we have a long journey ahead of us if we want to make this beautiful country a paradise to live in and certainly one level higher than the rest of other countries. There are many things to be done – as a blogger, I hope to participate in this change in a small but active ways.
But I also blog on other issues – current event, family, childhood memories (trying to make it a weekly series), motoring and more (just click on the sidebar to see all categories). And by doing so, it makes this blog with mixed topics unlike those specialized ones. Depending on the readers, it can be a bad or good thing.
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Happy blogging!
Im kinda believe its good to mix blog with everythig come up inside our head.we dont need to be so specific because its good to do everything that is good. as long as we can cope with it.i dont know why, bloging actually difficult to me because i dont like to tell about myself to public actually.because we human tend to make mistake and simply difficlut to retreat what we are talking sometime..so in multi racial country,it good to hear about “there is no such racial” from you. (although sometime we have).this kinda good, to improve the goodness of nation, politics actually always cheating, nomatter government or the opposition party right?
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Hey Joe
I just happen to stumbled on your blog. It’s a very blog and kinda informative as well.
I do write some as well and im just wondering if we can link each other’s blog.
Mine is a personal blog..just some ramblings on whatever that i might find interesting.
Anyway, i have added yours already. Hope you can do the same for me as well.
Take care and happy blogging.
Prem
Thanks – blog link done
hi.. my name is siva shangari. i would like to find out about the school la salle. my dad studied there in the year of 1973. he would like to find out on his frenz. may be ur reunion project may help him.. more details please
tq
Hi Siva, please join our Facebook Group for La Salle at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21057445128
We have 590 members todate and I am pretty sure there will be some who studied on the same year with your Dad. Thanks
Hi, i am in Ghana currently and was looking for some info about Ghana and came across your old blog in 2005. This is a nice blog, keep up all your good works!
Regards from Accra,
Jeff
Hi B.Joe, I am trying to create a photographic database of temples in Malaysia and in the process of doing some research on temples i discovered your post on temple architecture. I took the privilege to use it in my website, with citations to your blog, but I suppose it would only be proper to write to you for your approval, besides, we would love to have you contribute photos of Malaysian temples of any size, from any part of Malaysia. Please drop me a note if you would like to be a contributor.
Keep up the good work.
Regards,
Puravin.
Hi Puravin
Thanks for visiting my blog. By all means, go ahead to use the images and the posts in this blog but please provide a link-back in your post.
I have visited your website and it is fantastic – finally a place to check on all the temples in Malaysia. I will add it into my RSS feed and also list of blogs at the side of the blog. If I may, I like to suggest that you also add a simple direction map (or cut-paste from google map) with any landmarks to make it easier for anyone if they want to visit the temples (see an example of the simple map here – http://kyspeaks.com/2012/04/11/ky-eats-al-amar-express-fahrenheit-88/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KySpeaks+%28KY+speaks%29)
And considering that we have too many temples in one small area (usual case in urban areas) and some of them have not been registered or cannot expand anymore, it will be good also if you could address these issues in your website. Yes, we have to preserve some of the older temples especially those more than 100 years but at the same time, if there are more than 1 temple in the same area, we need to consolidate them into a bigger temple (with better financial management as well). I raise this in my blog as well – see http://balajoe27.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/temple-fiasco-revisited/
Thanks again