something new
I'm proud to announce that i won't be shutting down this blog after all, despite the recent spate of blog closures . Some may accuse the writer of being one to buck the trend, but after a period of quiet meditation, reflection, healthy diet and active lifestyle, i think there is still a place for this insignificant blogger in the ever-expanding blogosphere (current price of blogshares notwithstanding).
You see, the previous incarnation of il-bloop had several notable problems. Most notably was that the blog lacked direction. Loyal readers(!) of the blog will have found the contents of the blog incoherent, one minute its tech,then tomorrow politics, then suddenly its personal; with no clear common thread running through. Then, there was also the lack of a concrete purpose for its being(existence). When i first started il-bloop back in dec 03, i was in kelantan, and being the smart person that i am, i figured that a blog would be an easy and cost-effective way to keep my friends and family updated of my daily exploits. Also, blogs then were consider the bleeding edge of technology so it seemed to be a pretty well thought plan.After the three months spent in Pba (or as i prefer to call it now, the "Arabic Language Centre") i returned home and the blog ceased to serve its purpose any longer because:
a)i meet my family constantly
b)i don't have any friends
with the prime motivators for me blogging gone, the blog began its descent into the abyss of unupdated darkness. It took some time to reach the bottom though as over the course of two years i tried my best(ok maybe not) to maintain a quality (sic) blog. In the (first) end, i stepped back and realised that the blog was now no more than a glorified electronic scrapbook which served no purpose except as a barometer of my thoughts for some people. Therefore i decided to pull the plug on il-bloop and said goodbye.
Now anyone with a sound mind would have wondered why declare a blog closed but still keep it online with a picture of the author taking up 1/3 of the page (i'll fix it soon, inshaallah)? And as i admitted to a fellow blogger, the closure was something like a noon siesta thing, where one needs to rediscover ones resources before pressing on with day. And as i had assumed earlier, i would be back and what do you know, i was correct! I'm back! But as some time have passed, inevitably somethings have changed.
Firstly, i will now write mainly in English because i have resigned to the fact that i am more articulate when writing in the language. There will still be works(peh!) written in BM, depending on the need and ,well, basically when i feel like it but generally i speaking london, ok?
Secondly, there will be no more wholesale "copyandpaste"ing of articles. Only brief passages that will be coupled with brief summaries which might/migh not include my brief take on that particular issue.
Thirdly(?), since i am now doing Sam (yes you read that right, at Taylors "TCSJ" Subang Jaya), and i have a lot of homework that requires research and writing very long essays(which I'm not very good at), this blog will also function as an online journal for my research and also some sort of a perpetual online draft of the final work. So those who are with expertise in the things that i have to do research on, 'can help or not?' meaning feel free to assist me, correct me through the comment system. The final work will still only carry my name but i will be very grateful and remember to acknowledge the nice people in the acknowledgements.
Of particular interest is economics, australian law, and add maths.
I'm taking the legal studies component by the way.
Fourthly, there are now more people reading the blog.
Maybe not.
The muslimness of the blog will remain, but the activism will be toned down. This is particularly because writing a actively political blog requires too much reading and reading into,which i just do not have the liberty of doing at this current point of time. Later maybe, but not now.
Thus are but some of the changes that have dawned upon this blog. There are more, but i'm typing this on a handphone and my thumbs are tired and sore. So inshallah there will more great changes in store. Visit often! RSS me! Untill then,
assalamualaikum
You see, the previous incarnation of il-bloop had several notable problems. Most notably was that the blog lacked direction. Loyal readers(!) of the blog will have found the contents of the blog incoherent, one minute its tech,then tomorrow politics, then suddenly its personal; with no clear common thread running through. Then, there was also the lack of a concrete purpose for its being(existence). When i first started il-bloop back in dec 03, i was in kelantan, and being the smart person that i am, i figured that a blog would be an easy and cost-effective way to keep my friends and family updated of my daily exploits. Also, blogs then were consider the bleeding edge of technology so it seemed to be a pretty well thought plan.After the three months spent in Pba (or as i prefer to call it now, the "Arabic Language Centre") i returned home and the blog ceased to serve its purpose any longer because:
a)i meet my family constantly
b)i don't have any friends
with the prime motivators for me blogging gone, the blog began its descent into the abyss of unupdated darkness. It took some time to reach the bottom though as over the course of two years i tried my best(ok maybe not) to maintain a quality (sic) blog. In the (first) end, i stepped back and realised that the blog was now no more than a glorified electronic scrapbook which served no purpose except as a barometer of my thoughts for some people. Therefore i decided to pull the plug on il-bloop and said goodbye.
Now anyone with a sound mind would have wondered why declare a blog closed but still keep it online with a picture of the author taking up 1/3 of the page (i'll fix it soon, inshaallah)? And as i admitted to a fellow blogger, the closure was something like a noon siesta thing, where one needs to rediscover ones resources before pressing on with day. And as i had assumed earlier, i would be back and what do you know, i was correct! I'm back! But as some time have passed, inevitably somethings have changed.
Firstly, i will now write mainly in English because i have resigned to the fact that i am more articulate when writing in the language. There will still be works(peh!) written in BM, depending on the need and ,well, basically when i feel like it but generally i speaking london, ok?
Secondly, there will be no more wholesale "copyandpaste"ing of articles. Only brief passages that will be coupled with brief summaries which might/migh not include my brief take on that particular issue.
Thirdly(?), since i am now doing Sam (yes you read that right, at Taylors "TCSJ" Subang Jaya), and i have a lot of homework that requires research and writing very long essays(which I'm not very good at), this blog will also function as an online journal for my research and also some sort of a perpetual online draft of the final work. So those who are with expertise in the things that i have to do research on, 'can help or not?' meaning feel free to assist me, correct me through the comment system. The final work will still only carry my name but i will be very grateful and remember to acknowledge the nice people in the acknowledgements.
Of particular interest is economics, australian law, and add maths.
I'm taking the legal studies component by the way.
Fourthly, there are now more people reading the blog.
Maybe not.
The muslimness of the blog will remain, but the activism will be toned down. This is particularly because writing a actively political blog requires too much reading and reading into,which i just do not have the liberty of doing at this current point of time. Later maybe, but not now.
Thus are but some of the changes that have dawned upon this blog. There are more, but i'm typing this on a handphone and my thumbs are tired and sore. So inshallah there will more great changes in store. Visit often! RSS me! Untill then,
assalamualaikum
