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Well, i just went for some citizen reporter briefing at library@orchard. If you don't know what i'm talking about, it's here. Basically, the library is looking for bloggers to write about it and apparently it will be reported in the newspaper. COOL! hahaTuesday, October 30, 2007 When i first knew about it, i was really quite interested - probably because i lead SUCH a pathetic boring life. I've always wished i could write for some lifestyle or gossip magazine like 8 days and this "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity gave me the chance to feel like a writer! I can write anything i want (relevant of course) and it might even be quoted by the media when the activity is published in the news! That's COOL! haha... Just because of this briefing, i had to forgo my swimming appointment with tony piggy and maxim. haha. Both of them were like so unsupportive of me (which i totally didn't care haha), blaming me for missing the appointment, then laughing at me for going for this activity which he sees as something hmmm... not as important as "bonding" with friends. Well, i really do hope he meant it in the nicest and most humorous way haha. Wait till he sees what i am going to write! haha. Anyway, since i didn't want to go alone to the briefing (that's be so super duper weird for self-conscious, not-so-outgoing people like me), i decided to pull along another friend. An accquaintance i should say - Kenneth. He's a good friend of a good friend i knew during the first three months of junior college life. We got to know each other through facebook and realised we shared similar interests and since he was like president of our college's publication's club, i thought it was the IDEAL activity for him as well. So yup, fortunately he was willing to go with me and i must say it was quite a nice experience. So thanks to Kenneth for the company! haha. You're not an accquaintance anymore i must say, it's really great to know a like-minded friend like you! haha Upgrade lo... haha. Back to the briefing. Well, the briefing was actually much more intimate that we thought it would be. I was expecting like some 50 bloggers (singapore a lot of bo liao bloggers wad haha) but there was only 8 bloggers there! But luckily, things were better than i expected. All of them were really nice and friendly. I must say meeting other bloggers is really a weird thing. Even i find it weird to call myself a blogger. To me, bloggers just stay at home and write about stuff and never appear in public to talk about what they write (with the exception of famous bloggers like xiaxue of course). And i do harbour some stereotypes for those who decided to attend the briefing. It's like they really have nothing better to do ah! and they must be some narcissistic people. haha... Turns out i'm the one who's more narcissistic than them! And what i thought was definitely wrong. They're people who truly like to write about stuff going on around them. I must say i feel im the only one who's blogging about random, simple, unimportant events of MY. OWN. LIFE. Everyone else (among the bloggers) is like blogging about events in Singapore or price hikes and stuff. Makes me feel so... hmmm... shallow haha. Well, we asked questions about the blogging activity we had to do cause we were (especially me and kenneth) concerned if our dirty little secrets we previously wrote on our blogs will be published to the entire Singapore. I must safely say since i've been pretty responsible of what i write in my blog, ther's nothing to be afraid of if the contents are published. (but of course i would really prefer if these intimate details of my life actually remain intimate). The session was honestly quite enjoyable. Jokes from the librarian and the other bloggers really helped to make me feel at ease haha. I must admit i'm not too good at such functions haha. Well, at the end, i did agree to be one of their bloggers for the activity. I really do hope i do a good job though, as you all know i'm not too much of a GOOD writer haha.. So wish me good luck on the writeup! (if i get confirmed for it - which i hope i do!) Oh, before i go, i must thank MANDY MOORE for giving me this opportunity! haha.. If she didn't exist, i won't have liked her, then i won;t have painted that pic on the wall of the library, and i won;t have put it up on my blog and my blog won't have gotten commented by someone from NLB who invited me to the briefing! haha! OMG, i love mandy moore MORE now haha! (sorry if i appear shallow haha) Jloe || 10:29 PM || 3 comments |
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