The End of another Beginning…

I’ve decided to close this blog….indefinitely.

Thank you all for tuning in. Good bye.

Where is Terence?

Recently, I getting this ill thought of me and my blog here.

I’m feeling kinda confused – as to whether I’m really having those “writer’s block” in my head, or I’m just plain lazy. If you’ve been following Big Talk Small Talk (oh I hope you’re not.. I mean you are), it doesn’t take a genius to calculate the frequency I’ve been blogging here.

Horrible…. Miserable….Terrible…. and the last might as well be so-not-able to become a blogger.

It wasn’t my past time then to keep a personal diary or journal of a sort. And I thought with such cool creation as blogging, I’d be able to find me some cool motivating factors to blog. Like being ‘in’ with the happening generation; and possibility of being famous on the blogspere.

I guess after 16 months of venturing into this activity of blogging, I started to get more de-motivating factors than motivating ones.

What?

I mean, having less than 3,000 for the past 16 months isn’t really encouraging for me. Knowing that the regular blogs I visit frequently hitting numbers like nobody’s business is also not encouraging. And knowing that some fellas get paid $$ for blogging is totally pissing-me-off.

Am I complaining? Ya sure I am.

I’m complaining to myself that is…. for being such a lazy bum, an irresponsible dude for not updating his blog so that my ardent readers can have some good stuff to read – at least once a week.

So, where the hell have Terence been?

Oh, I was so busy with fun-filled activities for the past weeks and months that I lost track of time – for my blogging that is.

• My 2nd Honeymoon at Bali
• A weekend at the Elephant Sanctuary
• Had an operation
• Running a marathon in Singapore

My apologies to all you followers of this blog (although I know there ain’t many). Still, you’re the current motivating factor I’ve left in blogging.

Please be patient.

Keep Fooling Customers – My Telco

Sometime December last year, I wrote a sequel to my consumerism series of “Keep Fooling Customers“. I was wondering since then when will the next classic case surface. Guess what… It’s desperate times again.

From the fried chicken expert to the personal health care lifestyle fellas, my latest experience is with the people whom without them – our mobile phones seem redundant and useless.

I’ve been with my telco (Celcom) since some decade ago. I’ve been post-paying their services (without fail) and frankly speaking a rare loyal customer of theirs that has been sticking with them since. For many years, I’ve been enduring occasional spam SMSes from them on promotions I don’t need, and information I deem useless. Such act of sales annoyance didn’t deter me from changing my telco. Even when I lost my mobile once and having to be charged RM5 for a new SIM card didn’t quite hit my ‘fed-up’ button and resulted me in changing my telco.

Me & My Long Lost Hobby

I was once told that when a man is married, his hobbies will change. And when a married man is a father, his hobbies will somehow disappears….hahaha… OK, for a second then I kinda believe it. Lets be honest (all father and husbands out there), isn’t it tough maintaining our hobbies when one’s life status has somewhat changed?

In social events, when I was occasionally asked on what I do during my past time or weekends – my usual reply would be spending quality time with the family. Such are fast becoming the default hobby of a parent – especially so when you kid(s) are below 5 years of age.

Terence used to have a (rather expensive) hobby when he was still earn and spend on himself – for himself. He ain’t a painter, or a cook, or a sculpter, or a musician, or a writer, so… the best alternative way to express his creativity was in photography.

Photography in the 90’s was not your average kind of hobby in terms of financial investment. It was the pre-digital era mind you – where you have to cost-in every shot you take cause a roll of film with 36 exposures would easily cost RM8 back then (when a bowl of my favourite Wan Tan Mee was only RM2.30). Ah, that was ‘buying raw material’ cost only – because there was the cost of developing the photo prints or slides/transparencies to bear in mind too.

Phew, those were the days – when owning a camera was a novelty to some extend. I never hold onto a camera until I was 16 years old. Cameras were not a household item as it is today. Taking pictures was neither a social habit nor a known hobby for a youngster back then.

Are you those self-appreciative fellas who would buy himself a birthday gift every year or once in a while? Well, I bought myself a rather expensive present for myself this year. A four-digit priced digital SLR camera – with a (rather legitimate) excuse of wanting to capture precious moments of loved ones, now and the future.

To commemorate the revival of my long lost hobby here, I’ve introduced a new blog category “Photography” to pen my thoughts and views.

As a consolation to myself for a start, my investment has paid off well as my new Pentax K10d managed to ‘kill those shutter bugs‘ that has been bothering my baby Brian since June….hehehe.