Project Alpha: Being blogger and... Famous

Blogging used to be a personal thing. Its therapeutic, and its a way for insignificant person like me to vent the excessive emotions which is inappropriate for public display. When i first started blogging 6 years ago, blogging was pretty simple, writing a post is a matter of being ad hoc and intuitive, freedom of speech was exercised to the maximum.

During those time, no one got jailed because of blogging

The editor of news portal Malaysia Today, Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin, claimed trial in the Sessions Court here to publishing a seditious article in its website on April 25

No one get free tickets and receiving special treatment from Tony Fernandez because he is a blogger

Kennysia with Tony Fernandez, CEO of airasia

And there is no shows on real life blogger

Project Alpha on top bloggers in Malaysia, hosted by Jojo Struys

At least that holds true untill three years ago when 2 university students decided to establish Asia Pacific's first blog advertising community-Nuffnang.com. Since then, the image of blogger had underwent 360 degrees of transformation. Blogger is seen as funny, full of life, sophisticated, to an extent model for the youngsters of this age who spent more time on internet than getting dirty kicking footballs on the field.

To be frank, I loathed the idea of the so called 'famous' blogger initially, yes their blogs get thousands of hits everyday, they received advertorial sponsorship from chips to beers, even strangers talks about them during mamak session. Finally, a no one John and Jane on the street can became SOMEone. Well, sounds great! but, is there any significance to me, who is on the ground, not fancy of crazy parties and group outings, but enjoy reading blogs with humor and substance?

Dont get me wrong, i am not anti-famous blogger or what. In fact, i read kennysia.com since the day i started to blog and i love his humor to the core. The message i'm trying to convey here is that it is a stereotype that blogger must blog about hangouts with other bloggers, must be advertorial friendly, must lead an interesting and colorful life in order to be a blogger. Seriously, it's ok to blog about insignificance things like your green poops and just be yourself in this space of yours.

I must admit that the idea of Project Alpha is good. It allows people to understand what these bloggers look like in their REAL life. In fact i love the first episode with fourfeetnine, she is natural, funny and very much in "real life". The way she freak out during the real time on air radio recordings and the disfunctional Yoga session are hillarious. However, the PDA (Public Display of Affection) of the couple is a bit erm... too much, but well, i guess thats the added spices of the show.

Photo grabbed from Fourfeetnine.com

The second episode with nicolekiss wasnt that interesting in my definition. It was too 'plastic', (sorry that i couldnt find any better word to describe this). The makeup was perfect, the smile was charming, the arabic style hotel room was fabulous. But i coulnt see the spirit and the fun part of this adventurous girl through the show. Too artificial and polished.

Photo grabbed from http://jojosoulinspired.blogspot.com/

The third episode on redmummy was alright, am not a malay blog follower since my malay vocab is very much limited, but kudos for being a sporty mom and it does amazed me that she can buy Louis Vuitton handbags with money earned from blogging.

Photo grabbed from http://redmummy.com/

And finally, this week is the long awaited episode from Kenny Sia! Cant wait to see the full release. Anyway, do check out here if you are interested.