About Me

I am not a coherent person. I know.

I am definitely a geek – that’s depending on how you define a geek is. For someone who enjoys Japanese anime, manga, movies, F1 and technology, I think I’d qualify for being a geek very much myself.

I hope to run this site as an outlet of expression (duh~ it’s a blog right?) but also a place where I’d organize my trail of thoughts as well as showcasing some of my hobby (unfortunately) of coding and designing; think I suck more at the latter.

You should be able to find my interests in following among others, Japanese anime, manga, movies, F1 and technology. Of course, I’d try to spice it up bits and pieces of work (albeit a taboo in blogging)!

Hope you’ll enjoy your stay here!

My Story in blogging

I started running websites back in 1998 or so. Started maintaining a thing called a web journal around 2001; that was before it became know as blogging.

After which, ran one blog called at www.mossism.net (now defunct) for about 3 years before shutting down due to that I was starting my career. Bad time management (that’s becoming a workaholic), was my main excuse for closing it.

Anyway, after tumbling in the working world for about a year, I believe I have finally gotten the grip back!

My Story in Blogvertising (blog + advertising)

Sadly, but true, I was once very caught up with the advertising dollars that comes along with running a blog. Since I was writing, then weekly, on Naruto and Bleach, I’ve managed to build up a steady stream of search visitor. It was good enough to generate revenue.

The argument was, at least, “It pays for the hosting!” Sure it did. But in my attempt to squeeze the maximum out of the pixels, I think I pretty much trashed my own blog. It was a shameful past for me.

However, one great thing that may have happened was that I hacked the famous Kubrick theme into a 4 Columns- widget ready – theme! Check out the 4 Columns Kubrick!

About Mossism.com

“Content is King”. That is the message everywhere. I agree.

However, I believe “Content is Beautiful!” too.

I’ve attempted many times to create a theme that will make my site looks good. I failed as many time as I tried. I am bad at putting together a coherent and soothing theme – layout, colors, design etc. However, I always find myself in awe visiting sites after sites with minimal colors and pictures and styling etc. I always wonder why?

I realized, finally, that content probably help to save 70% of the impression – while the first 30% comes from the soothing design.

Believing that, I aimed for a very light weight design, and I’ll continue to focus on the content. Guess taking the first step was easy, making another is harder. Making the next after next and infinitely will be hardest still.