I remember there was a whole hoo-hah last year fretting about the venue for the next bash, bogged with the expectation of a large turn up for the third bash. But then again, Aiz, you did a good job organising last year's. It makes sense to take a break for this year's. :) Those of you who missed last year's biggest blogosphere event, can refer to Mud Pond's One Stop Bash Pings.

Before PPS(B.PPS), the only blogs I knew how to stalk were Suckball.com(there was once when I saw Louis at a coffeeshop in SS15 and grabbed Barry and said, "OHMIGOD IT'S SUCKBALL LOUIS!!!!!!" and continued to starecock at him. I went to his tagborad and he told me he noticed but he thought I was staring at him like he killed my dog or something. Woops.) and from Suckball.com I discovered Xiaxue. I sat in front of my computer for nearly 7 hours reading through Xiaxue's posts. I was a fan throughout 2004 to the end of 2005. Was a fan.

B. PSS, I would stalk all my friends blogs(I still do okay!) and a few friends whom I made online (YO SLINKY!) and because of my Douglas-Lim-daily-googling habits, I came across absolutely-fuzzy.com and midnitelily.com(yes woman i've been reading you wayyyyy before I started pinging.:)).

I came into the portal as a wide eyed youngish blogger back in September 2004, intrigued by all these big shot bloggers. It was the era of Loopymeals,Ireneq, Sashi,  Buaya69,Mei, Quesarah,(who was also a senior from school!), Jasonmumbles, Narrowband, Liz Tai, Jenn Tai, Fishtail, AlwaysWow, MichaelOoi, Louyau, Reta, Dr.Liew.. at least those names became the ones I usually equated with as the widely read bloggers in PPS. I would read about their blog meets and think about how fun it would be if I could join them!

I remember seeing their links repeated throughout the blogs in the blogosphere and would sigh wistfully to myself about how nice it would be to be listed among those bloggers. :)

I would trawl the portal daily, generating a healthier amount of traffic. I was addicted to PPS!

I remember on the morning of 26th December 2004, I saw pings with the titles that went, "My room shook", "Is there a ghost?", "My apartment has been evacuated due to earthquakes.", "What's happening? The earth is moving!!" and many more similiar posts.

And at the time it was only 9am, more or less an hour away from the tsunami tragedy. The Penang bloggers blogged in detail about feeling tremors and after the tsunami, you should have seen the flooding of pings. It keeps you informed like that.

Throughout the years alot of us have made friends with each other, made pseudo celebrities out of each other, launched wars against each other, attacked each other from behind, pimped each other, defamed each other, fed each other's egos, listened to each other's problems and offered the kindest words of sympathy...

...ah. The wondeful world of Project Petaling Street.

The bloggers of this portal gathering together to form a colourful variety has been a new and lovely experience for me.

From journalists to graphic design students to accountants to pharmacists to ex editors to professional photographers to celebrity professional photographers to celebrities to car enthusiasts to voice over for their own cars to biotechnologists to medical students to housewives to real estate agents to (previously)secondary school students to engineers to lecturers to casanovas to anonymous journalists to journalists extraordinaire to hilarious artistic gay guys to thespians to expatriates to movie directors to future movie directors...the list is endless.

I thank you, PPS, for opening my life to these people.

PPS has also made household names out of the likes of Kennysia, Minishorts, ShaolinTiger, Peter Tan, Jeff Ooi, Mack, Suanie, Simontalks, Jason Mumbles, Kimberlycun, Sixthseal, Lainie, Jay, FireAngel, Smashpop, Hustler Diaries, LilianChan, Rojaks, Datin Diaries....just to name a few. I'd name KinkyBlueFairy too but she didn't need PPS to boost her traffic. She did it her own way and I really respect that alot. Suet Li, you're on your way to become the next KinkyBlueFairy, not because you have the same style, but because you did not need PPS to elevate your traffic and all it took was linkages by interested readers.

Some of the mentioned bloggers have dimmed away from the lime light because you cannot be at the top forever. But a famous blogger will always be remembered as a famous blogger regardless of their consequent entries. At least to me. :)

PPS was in its glorious moments before its big birthday bash back June 2005. The blogosphere was buzzing with activities daily, we even had a forum and even an IRC channel of our own. After it got the recognition it deserved, the portal was tainted with horrible lack-lustre posts. Copy+paste clones, horrid advertisers looking to make a quick buck, weird symbols among the pings(my computer cannot read chinese).. I was dissapointed by the quality.

Thank goodness with a fresh breath of newer bloggers infiltrating the blogosphere in 2006, the portal has reached a healthier equilibrium. I've even pin pointed many new bloggers to stalk! :) Forgive me if you've been pinging long before this but I only came to know about people like Smashpop, Cheng Sim, Calvin Tay, Yee Hou, Leng Mou, Kyels, S-Kay, Kampungkai, Jennifer and et cetera in 2006.

Actually I'm thinking of a proper category to fit Albert in, but I think I'll just give you your own special mention. I can't seem to place a blogger whom I've known as a 'my X-fresh articles approver' from way back in 2001 and someone who is friends with almost everybody. :) Here's to the 6th year of our online friendship, dude!

In all other entity, I'm also happy to see a number of my real life friends trying out this weird thing called "pinging". Here's a shoutout to Barry(whose blog has died, Barry! How could you! You were one of the few who got me into blogging!), Hsin(the one woman who got me into whole blogging phenomenon), Liss, Elaine, Brenda Weng Lum and Kyle. Even my brother Mervyn has tried pinging once or twice. Did I miss out anyone?

I'm sure the voices of the anonymous blogs such as the likes of Fashion Asia, Michael Ooi, Dr.Liew, Eyeris, Simontalks, Diarygirl, Hustler Diaries, Wingz, Buaya69 would like to say a big thank you for the veil of anonymity that PPS has provided yet feeding them with a healthy number of fans. Though some veils are quite see through.....*ahem ahem nudge nudge some other bloggers*. ;)

Lastly, here's a final happy birthday shout out to Project Petaling Street. Long live the portal where people rant, bitch and rave. :)

Thank you PPS!

Remember the days when handphones were still a novelty? I'd say circa 1999/2000. At that age, I was quite an active Interact and Leo Club events' go-er and obviously I have yet to have my license yet at that time. Handphones were obscure and contacting my mum to come pick me up from whichever hotels was quite a hassle.

Thank god Su-Chien had a handphone then.

I remember I'd ask if I can borrow her handphone to call my mum. Noticing that her keypad was locked, I'd whisper to her, "Psst.. what's the password?"

"Just press the ok button, the one with the line, and the star at the bottom," she'd reply in a normal voice. I was puzzled. Isn't she worried that others might hear it?

However, I can never remember her 'password' and would whisper to her everytime I wanted to use her phone. She's reply in the same loud voice, "just press ok button and the star button."

"Not scared people know your password ar, say so loud?" I asked, perplexed.

..............-_-. Now only I realised how stupid I sounded.

Another random memory would be in my old house in SS19 Subang Jaya with my mother. She was was waiting for the washing machine to be done with the clothes, and I was sitting on the potty, waiting for that last bit of shit to come out. Keep in mind that I was 2 years old.

I looked at my vagina and asked, "Mummy, why my petpet got tongue one?"

"It's to clean the dirt that collects at your pet pet la girl," my mother looked at it together with me and explained.

"Why cannot move like my tongue one?" I asked, pointing to the other organ in my mouth.

"It will move when it needs to clean the dirt away," she said.

...

What was my mother getting at?!! Maybe it was too embarrassing to tell me the proper function of a clitoris. I would not have understood anyway.

My petpet tongue has never moved in all my life. It must be very very dirty.

Oh by the way, I've got a secret to share. Actually hor, I like to record myself singing. I've been doing it since 2004, and can only force it onto my poor friends through MSN. But now you can download it from filelodge.com(Kai Lin, I discovered the service from your blog!)

I was looking into the mirror last night and suddenly this urge in me had me singing this.

And while waiting for my dinner,I did abit of this. :P A song my father would sing to me as a child.

Oklah, don't insult my singing ya! >=(

My boy is now 20 years old. Old man already. Just now I called him and he was complaining about a backache to me. Yeah, kids age faster these days.

I'm sorry for not being able to be there with you on your 20th birthday, dear! But I hope my early celebrations for you did some good;). Sigh, don't know when only we can be in the same place for once to properly celebrate occasions.

 

And back when we had the chance to see each other 5 days a week, we never quite appreciated the opportunities to make a big deal out of occasions. 

 

But we'll work around it! :)



Here's a birthday kiss for you!! Love you dear! I'll be home in 5 weeks, alright?

Okay, everybody, DON'T vomit.

Just thought that I should start using my blog to send birthday wishes to all who matter to me. And what better way to start it but by wishing my boyfriend first?

My apologies to all who had birthdays before this and were not acknowledged on my blog. But I made up for it with presents, birthday cards and phone calls what!

Next year, promise!