Week 2: Follower of the Week

Emily with her sister, Emilia. Photo taken from Moe Nasrul's personal collection.

Hey guys,

Wednesday is here again. It's time for brew of the hour, the pick of the day, the flavor of the week-- my girl, Emily.

~**Clap Clap**~

Who?
My girlfriend, Emily. She is a chinese-malay girl who i have known and loved since the very first time i laid my eyes on her. Not to sound corny, but it is true.

Emily is actually a very good friend of my cousin, Iz from OIAM 2. When Iz came to Penang and visited me, Iz brought Emily along. That was the first time we met. Even when she rejected me when i was 16 *she told me i was too young and she was unavailable*, it didn't stopped me from pursuing her. Fast forward to four years (I called her again when i was 20) later and the rest is history.

She is my muse and i see her in every songs that i write.

Why she is the follower of the week?

Apart from being the second registered follower in my blog, my girl plays a major influence in my life. Emily constantly helped me to grow to be a responsible person. She is the reason why i keep striving to be a better person.

She is very media savvy and a strategist thinker. If you guys noticed how dry and bland my blog were in the past, Emily is the person who breathe new life into my blog. She suggested that i should blog everyday, re-organized my photos by making photo collages, proof read my posts, proposed new features for my blog. She is currently getting the contents ready for my website (do i really need it?) and talking to different people about my logo.

She also helped me in terms of the style department. Being the rocker dude, i don't really put much thoughts into what i wear. But she reiterates over time that i have to look good, given the level of vanity the industry that i am working in.


Memories:
I've had a major crush on her when i was a 16-year-old high school kid and she was my cousin's best friend, who is four years older and studying in the local university. I've written a lot of songs for her and about her. During her 24th birthday, i threw her a party. During her 25th birthday, i made a book of poems i wrote for her called "Poems for Emily". Last year, I surprised her by taking an entire week off from work to be with her in Penang on her birthday.

When i was 21, she bought me my first electric guitar. "Waiting for You", a song that i wrote about her, was played on X-Fresh before.

I love you bee. Thank you for always being supportive and become my pillar of strength.

Week 1: Follower of the Week

I've finally decided who is the first follower of the week:

~**Drum roll please **~

It's Emilia a.k.a Emilia Mills!!!!



~** Clap Clap**~

Who?
Mills is my girlfriend's twin sister. Mills is a technical writer in an MNC, an avid blogger who loves literature, online games (she gives away free e-books and games every once in a while on her blog), and an animal lover. She has a pet cat named King Kong, a fat black neutered cat, and another cat named Butet. She evidently favors King Kong more since she has a tag labelled King Kong on her blog, a nice profile photo of her and King Kong on her profile, and she talks about King Kong as though King Kong is her kid, not pet. Recently, Mills has turned vegetarian after watching a bull torture-and-slaughter documentary on Majalah 3.

Why she is the follower of the week?
She is the first registered follower, surpassing my girlfriend. Sorry sayang, there is a pecking order for this and i have to be fair. But i'll treat you to your favourite butter pecan ice-cream this saturday, ok?

Mills also leaves a lot of comments on my posts and chat box to keep things warm in this cyberspace even when my posts were unwitty or dry. That is why she is an obvious choice!

Memories:
Mills is a blogger who is both witty and clever. I just plain love going to her blog and get myself ready to be enlightened, or to enjoy a well-written joke. For example, she gave her two cents worth on this TV programme and described it to a T. Best quote from that post? "I was raped.....intellectually". Seriously, there isn't a dull moment about her posts.

I know my future sister-in-law has a heart of gold. Last year, to celebrate her birthday, she organized a blog charity drive to collect food, toys, clothes, and money for the needy. Her two months long blog campaign managed to raise RM3,000 in money and boxes and boxes of toys and food. It was all donated to the St. Joseph's Orphanage Home in Penang. I was there to show my support for her charity drive where i was the game master for the games we set up for the children.

So Mills, CONGRATULATIONS *woot woot* and a big HUG to you for always supporting my endavours, for always accomodating me whenever this I'm in Penang. As a huge thank you, I'm giving you two tickets to watch "Watchmen".

*Gasp* That's the surprise. See? It pays to follow and support. I am always grateful.

Follower of the Week

Hey guys,

I'm starting something new that i haven't seen others attempt at.

You know there is a blog widget called "followers"? This widget helps us to automatically 'tag' our favourite blogs in your website. For example, if you find a particular blog interesting and if you click the "follow" button, the blog automatically appears on your blog's reading list.

This officially save you the time to go into your html and add in the url yourselves. Seriously, it is such a great widget. There are so many blogs that i follow, but i just don't have the luxury of time to manually add it in my html code.

So as a thank you to my top visitors who register yourself as followers, I'll do a weekly write up on you. This is not an advertising, promotional gimmick i'm trying to pull, but a genuine thank you note, and to introduce you as my friend, my family, my co-worker, my follower to the people who comes into my blog.

Now who should i start first? I wanted my first 'Follower of the Week' to be one of my siblings but none of them is following me officially. *hint hint guys, and Umi*

I haven't decided on whom yet. Once it is decided, i need to take my time to write a proper write up *coz it is genuine remember?*

The Follower of the Week post will kick off this Wednesday, 25th of March, and subsequently every wednesday of the week.

Till my next post, Moe Nasrul is off hunting for the first follower :)