Simon Says Turned 6, 3 Days Ago!

OMG. I forgot about my blog's birthday. It all started way back in 27th December 2007. Sorry blog, I've not been very actively posting new post this year. Hopefully I'll get my writing engine a boost next year. Oh, well better late than never. Happy Birthday!

So far, this blog has achieved more than 1.1 million of page views. Nothing to shout about if compared to other popular blogs that easily achieve this number in a month if not week. It took Simon Says 6 years, well it's quite an accomplishment for me.

On a personal note, I was able to achieved my 2013 new year resolution that I've set for myself, which is to slim down. My Triglyceride level came down from a dangerous level during my body checkup two years ago to normal level when I did my body check early this month. I was able to shed about 15KG worth of body fat. I started in February with a weight of 95.6KG and now maintaining at a weight of about 80KG.

I've not time to create a new header yet. Maybe I'll do one in the New Year 2014. You can read about my previous blog birthday posts here.

Happy New Year!!

Simon Says Turned 5 Yesterday!

I almost forgot it was my blog 5th anniversary yesterday. Too bad I've already promised to publish an advertorial yesterday so I can't do a Blog Birthday post. Sorry blog. As usual, during each blog birthday I'll change the header to reflect what's I've blogged about and been to events that related to this blog of mine. Also, together with the new header will be a new background colour.

The year 2012 is a year of change for me because I started working in a new company after I quit my previous job of 4 years. So far the new company has been good. Better benefit and better job satisfaction.

As for blogging activities, this year as always I've been invited to many many events, especially alcohol beverage related event. Started with this and ended with this. I also did something related to cars, which is not a common in Simon Says. Got the media pass to Super GT 2012 and then I was invited for a makan trip to Malacca while driving the all new Nissan Almera.

Of course the tons of movie screenings from Nuffnang and Churp Churp that saves me a lot of movie tickets money. Hell, I can even earn from the two. Coincidentally, Nuffnang also turned 5 this year.

This is my previous blog header.

The new blog header.

Honestly, I've been lacking in updating my blog this year and wrote a lot less personal post like food post or personal view. The most personal one I've got this year is probably this. Next year in 2013, I promised I'll update more often.

So far...

Simon Says has garnered 877,668 of page views in 5 years. Not much if compared to other bloggers but I'm still thankful that there's people out there that read what I write.

Simon Says FB Like Page is liked by 127. Click the link and like if you haven't done so :p

My Twitter account now has 775 followers.

Thank you for all your support this 5 years. Hopefully I can continue to blog for many 5 years to come.

It's Been A Fabulous 4 Years!

Never had I known that blogging will this much fun and got me good things in terms of monetary value and non-monetary value. I've started blogging in this space "Simon Says" actively on 27th Dec 2007. It has just past four years for this humble blog of mine.

This year started off good with me chosen to be one of the Maxis10 Reviewers Programme to review Nokia E7 back in March. The best part is I get to keep the phone and I've been using it ever since. During the year, I met a lot more bloggers bringing up my Facebook friends to 1186 and my Twitter followers to 627. I also started Facebook Page for this blog, since many bloggers already started one =P Now go like my page.

I've also been invited to loads of parties and events, especially beer events. Of course there are some food review in between. I of course shifted to work in Cyber Jaya early of this year and then shifted back to work in Damansara Heights in a new company end of this year. Wow, talk about change. During these 4 years of blogging, I went to Nuffnang Asia Pacific Blog Awards 2009 and 2011 (I haven't blog about it yet "-_-). Both were great success and it meant a lot to the bloggers. Thank you Nuffnang.

As of the norm, on every blog anniversary I'll change my blog header and background colour. I'm not good in designing so I don't restructure my whole layout. This is the previous blog header.

2011

2010

For 2008 and 2009 I only use text as the header so there's no previous header for both years.

And this is my current blog header.

It's been a fabulous 4 years. Thank you for your support. Happy Birthday! Simon Says.

Simon Says Is Now 3!

Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. Dong, dong, dong, dong ,dong,dong...as the clock strikes midnight on 27th December 2010, this blog is officially three year old. It's been quite a happening year for me this year.

As the tradition of this blog, every blog anniversary will go with a little bit of change in the background colour and a new header.

This is the previous header paired with a light purple background. I always used the pictures that I've put on this blog through out the years to make the header. So for the header above are the pictures of food review, event, party and other activities that I've blogged about in the year 2009.

This year will be the same, I will use the pictures that I took through out the year 2010 and make it into a header.

Wish you had a nice Boxing Day and a Happy New Year. I hope next year will have more great food review, event, party, movie screening and etc for me.

Simon Says Turns One

Wow, how times fly. It's already one year since I've started to blog in Simon Says. If you checked the archives you might think that I started since November 2007 but actually some were back dated post that I brought from my old blog simonseow.com. Ya, ya, I'm the funny one that doing it backwards, while others move from Blogspot to .com, I switched from .com to Blogspot. Long story there. The official date that I started to blog in Simon Says is 28th Dec 2007, and this is my first post.

I only started to blog actively after I changed my job. There's very little time for me to blog on my previous job. That's why the Blogosphere suddenly see this person call Simon Seow pop up almost everywhere.

The blog becomes more active after I joined Nuffnang Community. At first just want to see what how many people are reading my blog from their stat. Yes, I was a noob that don't know about tools like SiteMeter out there.

At first, there's only about 2 to 8 visitors to my blog but as I wrote more things, read more blogs, and leave more comments, more and more visitors come in. Some from Google search, some were link from other bloggers and some were throught the comments I left. I remembered there's one time my visitors shot up to 500 because I was the first to comment in one of Ringo's post. Of course, then we have Innit from Nuffnang and I started to post once in while to PetalingStreet.

In this one year of blogging, I've come to knows a lot of people (bloggers mostly lol), some has become friends. Suddenly my Facebook friends shot up to 447 friends up till now. If you want to get started and get motivated in starting your own blog. You should gate crash on KY's Christmas Eve party, that's what I did and I got motivated.

And to continue to have fun and meet more other bloggers, join events organized by the like of Nuffnang or AMBP. There's was like non-stop events, contests, gathering, movie, and party month-in-month-out especially by Nuffnang.

Some of the major events that I got to go to are Nuffnang Pajama Party, Hennessy Artistry Zouk, Malaysian Dream Girl Finale, Nokia IAC, Nuffnang Maxis Wild Live Blogging, Hennessy Artistry Indoor Arena, Clorets Amateur Pole Dancing Grand Finale, and Nokia Nuffnang Silent Halloween to name a few. Click here to see more.

As I have been nicknamed EPF (Event, Party and Food) by WMW, other than event and party, I blogged mostly about food that I've eaten. From Chinese to Malay to Japanese to Korean to German. I wanna save up next year and try to tackle some fine dining like The Sage in The Gardens. :p See all the food post here.

In one year of blogging, I also got to earn some side income, mostly ads campaign from Nuffnang. What I didn't expect is that I also get to do some advertorial. I don't earned much like most top bloggers but it's decent enough I would say that the total that I earned this year is suffient to buy a HP Mini 1000. That's just an example, I didn't buy it ok.

Then my blogging activites started to expand into more projects like the Trafford Project, MDG2, Time Out KL, and another one that still in the pipeline as I haven't have time to meet up with the person in charge to discuss in details. Which, will keep me busy until mid of next year besides the occasional events that might come up.

I've got more than 50k of visitors to Simon Says in this one year. Nothing to shout about comparing to Chedet.com but I am happy with the result. So to commemorate the 1st year anniversary of Simon Says, I've changed the blog header as what you can see now. I have to thank Kif again for doing my old blog header. The one below.

Hope that for you, who is reading this will continue to come read my not so creative writings for many years down the road. There's more exciting things ahead next year in 2009.