It’s the fourth one come June 14th, 2007. I remember blogging about it last year and placing a button on my sidebar. My, how time flies. It’s less than one month to International Weblogger’s Day and as a dutiful blogging, I’m helping to spread the word by blogging about it and telling my friends, family and monkeys about it.

Rio, the founder, will be holding a meet and greet session in New York City on June 14th, 2007 with the theme “Solidarity”. Paul, I wanna come to NYC!!!!!

Bloggers are required to ponder on how we can come together to overcome problems that have plagued the world. Can bloggers do something by just blogging responsibly?

So Malaysian bloggers may be required to register themselves and be monitored sometime in the future. It may not be now but who knows, since some smart minister mooted the idea.

If you would like to be a part of the 4th Annual Weblogger’s Day, head over to http://inweday.org/ to register even if you already did it last year. You will have to register yearly.

After waiting for a few months since the ban feature was implemented on PayPerPost, the reasons for the bans were finally revealed yesterday. While I, along with all posties waited with baited breath, when it was finally revealed, it was an anti-climax.

It is kind of funny to receive bans for mundane things like too many links or disclosing that the post was sponsored. These could be resolved if the advertiser just dropped the blogger a note. And one advertiser even said that my blog was MFP which made me go, “WTF!” The blog in question was set up in March 2006 where I published a post a day from the very first day. I believe the company only went live in June, 2006 and I only joined them in October later that year. Tell me, how would it be possible for me to set up a blog three months ahead in anticipation of something like paid blogging?

Really, when it was said that advertisers can ban us for just about anything, we did not know how true this would be until all was revealed yesterday. Some even received bans without a reason. Ermm maybe the advertiser was too pissed off to even type a few words mlm

Ahh anyway, now that everything is out in the open and the ban has now changed to bench, life goes on. At least I have stopped accumulating bans since early February. Maybe that was then when bans were finally explained to advertisers.

It’s all STILL good in the end.

If I had thought that the Bling Bling program was the fastest payment I ever received, well, how WRONG could I be. No doubt, my account was credited with the payment that I was promised. However, I would have to accumulate another MYR50 through my blog traffic before I could cash out. UGH! How long will that take???

Early this morning, I wrote up a review post and got it published at 5.51am. I actually received the offer at 2.09am but I was so sleepy and went to bed instead. My friend called in the middle of the night and after a 30-minute chat, I was wide awake enough to put my thoughts into text.

Five minutes after submitting my post for review, I received the payment in my PayPal. That was the FASTEST payment received EVER! I wondered if my post was reviewed at all but my traffic tracker showed that it was. So, PPP Direct posts do get priority over regular ones, I guess.

My computer time is a little off. Five minutes or two minutes, I am not sure. The important thing is that payment is (almost) INSTANT!

I went to bed at 5am in this morning and woke up at 7.30am. This is the kind of sacrifice paid to blog bloggers have to go through no thanks to our time difference. Naturally, I look like sh|t but who cares?

I was so stressed out having to go to work and thinking of what posts to write at the same time. During lunch time, I called up my friend and told him that I have to write ELEVEN original blog posts today.

He told me to go to bed because I haven’t got enough rest every night! I was at work, how to go to bed??? Duh!

I asked him if he has any ideas that I could blog on. I told him that I would pay him MYR1 per post but he said that I bully him. By the way, he is one of the most popular bloggers in Malaysia and I am not sure if I could get him to guest blog at my blog even if I pay him MYR1000! Cheh!

He gave me a couple of ideas through the phone and I told him to SMS me the other ideas when he has them. Calling long distance is not cheap, you know!?! But it has been seven hours already and he still did not even SMS me ONE idea and I have already finished my eleven original posts without using any of his ideas that he suggested over the phone.

Tell me, what sort of post can one write on “mlm”? Cheh, friend also tak boleh harap wan