JYSim for jobless-yokel Sim

Without everybody (except me) realising ‘JYSim for Jobless-Yokel Sim’ had reached its 50th blog (51st including this one). It’s an honour of this blog to be older than our beloved country (if you count age by number of posts). Here’s a brief interview with the blog (not the blogger).
So, how does 50 feels?
I’ve been dreaming about approaching 50 since 46. At first I thought I won’t be able to achieve 50 before my blogger leaves Malaysia, due to the stupid exams (which left him abandoning me). However, things change and he updates me fairly frequently lately. I guess some posts nowadays are not as good as before, due to my blogger’s busy schedule and lack of inspiration as well as distractions from his classmates!
Anything worth mentioning about the past, present and future?
I’d like to draw your attention to my blogger’s mental development from the moment he starts blogging to the present. If you’ve read anything in his previous (meaning accidentally-scrapped) blog, you’ll notice there were loads of junks inside. Well, he was just entertaining himself back then, no worries about the huge audience out there. And back then blogging was easy with numbers and bullets, unlike now he likes blogging with huge paragraphs and long-long sentences. Anyway, gradually (especially so after he came back from Italy), his blogging topics grew wider as well as more matured (this is not Jun Yi boasting himself, it’s ‘JYSim for Jobless-Yokel Sim’ speaking). Nevertheless, after he went back to school, you see his blogging style deteriorates, and his English as well. What I hope for the future is that his English will at least maintain at the present level (God knows how Taiwan English can influence him). I’m not so worried about the lack of inspiration because I’m sure there are loads to write about TCU.
What did he usually do when he blogs?
It depends. For example, he’s listening to Josh Groban, MSNing 3 friends and praying his iTunes won’t break down while typing this sentence. Usually he will open this page, disconnect, and blog for as long as he likes, That saves online time (since Streamyx 44 comes with 60 hours only) as well as reduces disturbances. Once he was watching ‘Malcom in The Middle’ while blogging, and if you’re wondering how that blog turned out, it was a great success. You have 3 guesses of which blog I mentioned just now.
Any encounter where he can’t blog at all?
Countless! And if you’re thinking ‘gawd, blogging is so easy, it’s like switching on the computer, typing some crap on, post it and promote it, you’re WRONG! You gotta select which topic to write about, filter some useless and unrelated crap out while maintaining your honesty, and make the blog worth a lesson or two.’ And sometimes when you can’t blog, you can’t blog at all. Besides that, there are some topics you just don’t achieve the ‘uumph’ when you write about it, even if somebody else manage to do it. Take my blogger for example, he can’t describe how good a piece of music he listens, he can’t write about movies, though he tries, and he can’t write about love, because he’s totally dumb at it. The one you read on last year’s grad mag is total *beep*. I’m ashamed it even got published. I advised him not to write something like this but he insists. haiz.
In your opinion, what’s the most difficult aspect about blogging?
You should ask that to my blogger and not me. Anyway, I think it’s doing everything in English. As you might have noticed, my blogger comes from a Chinese environment, and sometimes it is hard to acheive the same linguistic effect you wish to achieve in your mother tongue in English. And sometimes you just have to improvise, due to the language barrier. Undeniably sometimes the English comes naturally and it’s impossible to translate it to Chinese.
(Now Jun Yi’s speaking) Eerm…I feel that it’s not using emoticons, short forms and Manglish while blogging. Ok, my language is not perfect and I mingle around sometimes. However, for me, emoticons get to my nerves, and it waste bytes. Short forms…some are nice, some are just weird, and some Manglish, like lar is ok, and it’s a show of mildness in speaking, but siao, sot etc are downright rude.
How long will a blog take usually?
The longest I’ve experienced is 2 hours. The shortest would be the one with his experiences in Italy. That was just cut and paste.
Wanna highlight some good ol’ blogs, to the newbies especially?
Gladly.
http://junyi2002.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/2006/07/_what_people_sa.html
This is real good (in my opinion), but not timely enough, according to Jyh Liang.
http://junyi2002.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/2006/03/a_letter.html
I like his way of writing in that one. And that reminds me of the good old days when he was still an idlist.
http://junyi2002.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/2006/03/ways_to_cut_cos.html
Ok, you might think this is another obsession of his about MAS, but this is not totally about MAS. Again, we should really support MAS.
http://junyi2002.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/2006/02/il_pasto_dellit.html
Things Italian.
Any last words before your blogger shuts you up for another 50 posts?
Eerm…thanks for supporting us all the way, and my blogger would like you guys to know he loves it when you comment, of course, don’t leave anything crappy or non-relevant. We apologise if occassionally we might offend you, and hope you’ll take things cool. Tolerate the moody JYSim if his posts appear to be pessimistic at times, and…thanks, again.
Right, thanks for your time today. See you in another 50 posts’ time!

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