Blogging.

I hate personal blogs. But ironically, this IS a personal blog. I wont drone about the daily happenings of my life, instead, I rather write about whatever that comes to mind. Honestly, I wanted to start a topical blog but soon found out that the topics in which I wanted to blog about were already filled by dozens if not hundreds of much better qualified people. They have experience, talent, and many are professionally involved.

I'm talking about video game blogs. There are so many of these type of blogs its CRAZY! Not to mention, any press related gaming news can be easily accessed by the good journalist from Kotaku.com, in fact, blogging about gaming especially relaying news and such, is pointless for someone like me. Its also arrogant, I have neither the geographical advantage (living in Malaysia, an advantage would be living in America or Japan), nor the time and passion to write about, news. Ah journalism, how i hate it! Not to denigrate the profession, but i have always found journalism to be an 'unattractive' profession, and I will not digress further onto this.

After stroking out video gaming from my pad; the second idea was to blog about doing stuff, a How-To blog. However, a simple search with google typing: How-To will prompt thee to many websites all for the sole purpose of how to do things. I may still write about how-to do things here an there, but only if i find my discoveries that are 'illuminating', funny or just plain awesome.

The truth is; I just wanted to blog about the stuff that happens in my life which are, interesting, out of the ordinary, or the events in which I find myself happy to be in reality. Things that made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. The world is filled to the brim with relentless cynicism, so I rather not talk about the damned tribulation of my daily life. I assume, like me, people would like to read not only for an honest opinion but also a happy story/ event/ etc. Not to sound all corny, and hippy? But, I want to write in the respect that; there is a reader out there, and I believe that any passionate writer would want that reader to enjoy what he or she is reading. Enjoyment, I'm all for it. But it is not the main agenda of this blog. Putting a point a cross the board, or invoking a train of thought is a goal I would also like to achieve other than, humour and entertainment.

Topical blogging well simply put, I was blown out of the pool before actually swimming in it. In the end, i thought, F**k it I'm going to blog and that's final. So here it is. A personal blog, from Irfan. Your not so friendly neighbour, aspiring writer, and bum.

Here's a picture of me:

Don't i look asshole-ish.

One Final note; i also started this blog to improve my English. So please forgive my shortcomings. When it does occur, feel free to swear, call me an idiot, or just gently correct me in the Comments, constructive criticism is and always will be; appreciated.