Michael Sync

Even though this post is written as an explanation of why I’m mixing a lot of things in one blog, it will give some interesting points that helps you to decide whether you should blog the dedicated topics only or mixed things.

Introduction

I was having a conversation with one of my friends about our blogs, blogging and etc last night. He gave me one comment that I’m going too far from one topic to another in my blog. I should probably post the dedicated topic about something. It is not good if I’m posting a lot of different topics in one blog because it made my readers to confuse about what they should expect from my blog. For example, some people may like about programming things. Some may like about Jokes. So, those people who like about programming might not wants to see the jokes all the time because they are not coming to my blog for having fun. They wanna get something useful for their technical expertise. The same way might happen for those who likes about Jokes instead of technical things.

But there are some reasons why I do like that.

1. My blog is based on what is happening in my real life.

Does it sound funny? but it’s true. My blog is going as same as how my life’s moving. I don’t mean that those are completely the same but almost. For example, if I’m working for ASP.NET 1.1 then the most of posts that I wrote at that time may be about ASP.NET 1.1 only. If I’m working with SmartClient or .NET 2.0 then the most of topics that you read here may probably be about SmartClient or .NET 2.0.

There might be some cases that I may post about some topics that I currently interest (eg: SliverLight, Orcas, LINQ and etc) even I’m not working with those technologies.

Plus, I may express my feeling in my blog (eg: like that) too. ( It make me feel better. u know?)

And it is also possible that you can know whether I’m very busy or not by checking the upcoming posts of my blog.
2. My blog is a place where I keep all of my favorite things.

This is the another facts why I don’t launch the dedicated blog. My blog is not a blog about blogging (eg: problogger or john chow or lorelle or etc). My blog is not a blog about technical website (eg: CodeProject). My blog is just a place where I keep all of my favorite things in one place. My favorite things could be Jokes, some pieces of codes, opensouce tools, thoughts, blogging tips. It could be anything. I’m not sure whether you are gonna like them all as like me but I would say that those things are pretty cool. (at least for me. )

3. Time is not enough to manage the multiple blogs.

Time is an issue. Everybody has their own life to serve. So, we have to work for serving our life. Sometimes, I felt very tired when I come back to my home after work. At that day, I don’t even wanna boot my computer and I don’t want to think about technical things. so, it’s sad to say that I’m not able to come up with new post everyday.

While running within very short time, it’s not easy for me to launch the dedicated blogs (eg: blog for Joke, blog for Ajax, blog for blogging and etc)? My time will be over while trying to log-in in many blogs.

Conclusion

Yeah. Those are the reasons why I’m blogging the different topics in one blog. But I believe that it will be more convenience for readers to read the dedicated blog instead of aside blog like mine. Because things that they expect and things that is coming up will be the same. So my conclusion is that the dedicated blog are good for reader but not for blogger. What do you say??

Just a random thought for today. I started reading John Chow’s blog since last two months. I think that his blog is nice one. (Of course! His blog is #3 in top 26 blogs about blogging.) One thing that I noticed in his blog is that he is always asking to buy a beer for him in each and every posts (even in “About Me” page) if we like his post.

I do understand the way he do but I feel kinda strange about it. What about putting this link in sidebar or something? As I said before, it’s just a thought..

This is a post that I wrote as a guest blogger in Myo Kyaw Htu’s blog.

Hello my name is Michael Sync. I’m currently running my personal blog on wordpress.com. I was invited by Myo Kyaw Htun to write one post about why I do blogging.

Sharing things

The reason why I blog is simple. I’m the one who believes in the concepts of sharing. And I believe that blogging is the best way of sharing things with everybody over the World. Before I had no idea about blogging, I used to email to my friends with the subject of “Sharing our knowledge” for sharing things if I think those are useful or cool. The most of emails that I sent at that time were the tip/trick, problems and solutions that I found in my real projects. I believe that all of my emails will help when they are in the same situation that I faced. So, you can say that I’m blogging for sharing things with everybody.

Keeping things as references

The another advantage for posting those tips/tricks in my own blog is that I can use them as a reference when I forget.. Initially, I used to keep as a note in text files or word files. but I lost everything when my harddisk crashed. I wanted a place where I put all of my valuable things that I loved without worrying anything. Blog came across for this need. I can put everything and it will serve me back immediately no matter where I’m. So, this is the second reason. I’m blogging for keeping things for my owns references.

Improving my writing skill

Another reason why I’m blogging is that it’s for improving my writing skill. Honestly, I’m not that interest in memorizing the vocabularies and a tons of rules of grammar. (maybe, there are a lot of mistakes in this article too. did you notice that? ) So, I know that I’m not gonna write anything if I don’t do blogging. (No writing means no improvement.) Now, I have a blog so that I could write something.

Expressing my feeling, thoughts and opinions.

Everybody has feeling. Sometimes, we feel so happy. but sometimes, sad. We need someone to talk and share the feeling and things. I would say that blogging is very good for that purpose too. You don’t need to kick the dog if you angry with your boss. You can go and blog about your feeling. There will be somebody who wanna share your feeling. At least, it will make you feel better. So, I’m blogging for expressing my feeling, thoughts and opinions.

Exploring the world and different cultures

I have a dream to go around the World. I wanna know with people from different countries and I wanna learn about their different cultures. Because, it make me see things from different points of view and it will make my life better. But going around the world is not that easy. The easy way to get to know with people from different locations is blogging. Now, I got a lot of friends from different countries because of my blog. So, I would say that I’m blogging for exploring the world and different cultures.

Source of extra income

Blogging is the source of extra income. but I haven’t done anything to earn money with my blog.However, I’m kinda interest about it..
Okay. That is all about. I would like to say thank you to Ko Phyo for inviting me to write this post here. And, thank you all for reading my post.

Hello All,

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Thanks a lot. Sorry for inconveniences.
~ Michael Sync

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This lady has changed her habit of how she lists her names on her mobile phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag which contained her mobile, Credit card, purse…etc…. was stolen. 20 minutes later when she called her Husband, from a pay phone telling him what had happened, hubby says ~

“I’ve Just received your text asking about our Pin number and I’ve replied a little while ago.”

When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the money was already withdrawn. The pickpocket had actually used the stolen hand phone to text “hubby” in the contact list and got hold of the pin number.Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from the bank account.

Moral of the lesson: Do not disclose the relationship between you and the people in your contact list. Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, sweetheart, Dad, Mom etc……. And very importantly, when sensitive info is being asked thru texts, CONFIRM by calling back. Also, when you’re being texted by friends or family to meet them somewhere, be sure to call back to confirm that the message came from them. If you don’t reach them, be very careful about going places to meet “family and friends” who text you.

PLEASE PASS THIS ON.

Note: Thanks to Julia for forwarding this msg.

It has been a while that I was not able to come up new post in my blog. I’m really sorry to my readers. Now, I’m here to say what I was doing during these two months. Sorry if you think it’s a lit bit longer.
On the 12th of May, I was flying to new place that I wanna settle down. I started looking for a job in my new place with the help of some jobsearch engines on 15th May. I spent the whole morning for submitting my resumes to 30 companies (appx:) thru mail. It worked well. I received my first phone interview at this evening within the same day. I felt really good at that time (even it’s just normal phone interview).

The next day, I got another interview from another company and said that they want me to come down to their company for personal interview. I was so excited about my first personal interview and I couldn’t sleep very well at that night. I went there for personal interview next morning (17th May). (You can gues how excited I was. ) The interview was great. The manager from this company is really friendly and nice guy. We talked about 1 hours and I went back to my home. That company phoned me that I was cleared for first interview and told me to come back for technical interview at the evening. I went there again ( even the bus took me around 1.5 hours for one ride. ) This interview was great too as the first one. But one bad thing is that they can’t give me the salary that I asked during first three months. If they like my performance then I’ll be permanent stuff and will get the money that I asked for. I was a lit bit hesitated at that moment and told them that I’m gonna think about it and will let them know on next day. ( I know that they are gonna hire me if I agree with the salary that they asked.) The next day, they phoned me that they are gonna hire me (with the salary as they said) and they want me to send all of the copies of my documents (passport, certifications and etc ) on 18th of May. I accepted their offer even I was not so happy with the salary which is a lit bit less than that I expected. However, I felt great at that time because I got the job in very short time. ( I didn’t know that the story doesn’t end at that point. )

On 21st of May, I sent all of my copies to that company for applying spass or epass for me. Then, I was going around here and there since I had nothing to do. I got 3 or 4 phone interviews and 2 calls for personal interviews from other companies. Anyway, I have to cancel all interviews and I told them that I have already committed to the offer from one company and I will let contact them back if I have some problems with my company. My company called me to pick up some of technical books related to Microsoft Dynamic Nav and Share Point Software that I’m not very familiar and they want me to do a small project for their client. I went there to pick up those books, software and the requirement for project on 22nd May. I asked them whether they have applied my spass/epass or not. They said that they haven’t applied yet. (So, I was a lit bit disappointed and I was thinking why I need to read those books and do their project before they apply my spass/epass. ) I called to my company again on 23rd, 24th of May but they still had not applied yet. I was more disappointed about that since it has been 3 days. I decided that I’m not going to work in this weird company if I got another job. So, I called to another company that I canceled earlier and asked them whether I could come down for interview. They said that it’s okay and they want me to come for personal interview on 25th May. The interview was great too. They said that they will inform me on Monday (28th May) since their boss was not available at this moment. I got one more interview from another company called Abecha and I went there at the evening. It was good. They told me to come for 2nd interview on next day. Unfortunately, one of my friend phoned that there is some vacancies available for developer position in her company. She had submitted my resume to HR and her manager want me to come for personal interview on coming Monday.

On Monday (28th of May), I went to my friend’s company for interview. I took one technical test and personal interview in this company. Then, they said that I have been hired. It was a surprise. but one bad thing is that they won’t apply spass/epass for me and it’s needed to find the agent for applying spass/epass. ( Anyway, I’m happy that I got the salary more than I expected. ) My friend helped me to find the right agent that I need.

My agent submitted the application to MOM (Ministry of Manpower) on 29th May (not sure. maybe. 30th of May ). They said that I have to wait around 2 weeks to get my epass approved. Since there is no shortcut to get it, I enjoyed going around and it was fun. My pass is approved on 11st of June. (but i got only spass even I have applied epass since I have only a diploma. I got one fact. Sometimes, the thing that you think it’s no use does matter. ). I went to MOM to collect my spass on 13th June. Unfortunately, my agent wrote the wrong university name in the application. :((( it was really bad. MOM said that they are not able to issue my spass and I need to ask my company to send a mail for reassessment. Then, it took me 10 more days. (Otherwise, I got 10 more days for having fun in my new place. ) Then, I paid the charges for my card in MOM on 25th June but I had to wait 4 more days to collect my spass. Finally, I collected my card on 30th of June (with a lot of happiness.. )

I’m working in new company started from 1st of July. It has been two months that I was taking the rest without doing any job. (u know, it was fun. ) I miss my blog and my readers too much. But I dont have the internet connection in my room. (I’m posting this post from my downstairs.) I’ll get the internet connection on coming month and I hope that there will be new post(s) on my blog everyday started from Auguest…. So, dont forget my blog.. Come back!!!