A possible pedo/rapist/blah!@#$%
24 February 2008, 7:25 pm. 19 Comments. Filed under Internet, Web-related.
In my life so far I've met up with one person from the Internet. It was risky, but I had close male friends accompany me at first and they remained close by so I felt reasonably safe.
This coming week, it's seeing Amanda. Who knows, her photos could be fake and she could be a weird pedo/rapist/murderer/psycho-maniac. If she's any of those, I'll let you know. Actually, if she's any of those, I wouldn't live to let you know. Oh but she's seeing Nellie first tomorrow so I'll wait and see if Nellie poofs into thin air. 
On the condition that I'm still safe after this daunting "date" with Amanda, I might get the chance to meet more bloggers in the future. So please just let me know right now if you're a pedo/rapist/blah!@#$%.
To stay safe, I guess I'll try and find a taser or pepper spray before I see Amanda. But knowing her, I know that if I "accidentally" use it on her I'll get bitch slapped.
How the Internet kills time
20 November 2007, 3:13 pm. 24 Comments. Filed under Internet, Web-related.
This is a breakdown of how I currently waste my life on the web.
Profile sites
- Facebook: I log on at least once a day. The Facebook applications are such life-wasters, but I still love them.
- Bebo: to be honest, it's boring. But I log on whenever I get an email notification for a new comment, etc.
Forums
- Snark: we all love Snark. How can you not love Snark? It's one place where people actually understand what you're talking about. (Because everyone pretty much speaks the language of gibberish.)
- Happy Mapling: lots of idiots, lots of bums, lots of fun.
Bookmarking sites
- del.icio.us: now when I search for things, I tend to look in del.icio.us first, Google second. Because the sites bookmarked by more people tend to be better, I guess.
- Digg: not so much actually, but there can be interesting articles around.
Art communities
- deviantART: always new additions, always amazing hence I always visit. I'm not quite happy that it's usually just the popular and "well-respected" artists that clog the front-page. It's harder to find other new but great artists.
- Skyefairy: for an art community much closer to the web circle I'm in (or was in). It covers up for the downside I pointed out for deviantART.
For most of the above, my username is wildx22. Actually, that's my username for almost anything.
That doesn't seem like a long list, but I sure as hell spend hours on them each day; plus the MSN, reading other sites I subscribed to and of course, recently admiring Rikkye's new layout... I have no life because the Internet sucked it away from me.
So how does the Internet kill your time? (That's laying the blame on the Internet, not me. )
Revelation: mask, off!
6 October 2007, 11:40 am. 40 Comments. Filed under Internet, Personal, Work.
I look around... And I see that online aliases are no longer popular. Here and there, bloggers are displaying their real names and I'm sort of "stuck" with my alias from 2002, and it's getting into me.
So, here's the revelation of the day: Cheryl Sun. That's my name "officially released" on the site. I didn't like "Cheryl" because it started with the big fat "C" and it made me feel like a sphere. I couldn't be a snowman because I don't have white skin, and chocolate snowman's just plain retarded.
Some friends started calling me "RylRyl" back then, and since I was into the series Anne of Green Gables, I decided to take up Anne's daughter's name "Rilla". I sort of got turned off now because there's a site named GorillaRilla.Com. Just a note though, RylRyl is not cute, do not call me that.
I don't mean to say those calling me Rilla should now call me Cheryl. I just present you with more than one option now.
Well, as I'm blogging about my real life and I have my real photographs all over the place, it feels more comfortable without a mask over my identity. But I'm not going to replace "Rilla" with "Cheryl" everywhere on the site because searching "Cheryl" on Google won't display my site on the first page of results.
Bwahaha. I just got a job from one of the six places I applied at. It's a nice little store called Flying Saucers. The website is bad, I know, but it sells a lot of luxury and novelty items and the shop is simply lovely. Except I haven't actually gotten anything from there before. I have price considerations...
