Here is an entry to honor the top commenters in December 2010. As requested by a few readers, the reward for commenting has been upgraded. For December 2010, The two top commenters would get free ad spots on this blog. It would be displayed on the sidebar where the Nuffnang ad is located.

The 1^st place would get a 30-day ad spot and the 2^nd place would get a 15-day ad spot. Based on the market price of these spots, they are worth RM 10 and RM 5 respectively. Not much but that will do for now… The rest would still get the consolation prizes, that is, be mentioned in this entry. Here are the winners.

The first place goes to Cheqna with 23 comments and the second place goes to Apak Cikidong with 15 comments.

Sharing the second place is Bungaoren with 15 comments and the next goes to Cik Peah with 13 comments.

Mie with 13 comments and Adam with 11 comments.

Thomas with 11 comments and Fariq with 10 comments.

Mknace with 10 comments and Zik with 9 comments.

To Cheqna, Apak Cikidong and Bungaoren, please create a 125 x 125 graphic for your ad and give me the link to it via your comment in this entry. If not, a default ad graphic created by me would be used instead.

To the rest, thank you for your comments and hope to see all of you again soon.

People who arrived at this page were looking for:

These are the top bloggers that came, read and commented at our blog in May 2010. There were many others but for this time only those who had commented 5 or more times would be featured here!

lowongan kerja from JakJobs.com – 9 comments

Farah Y from FYMSO Blog – 8 comments

Hafiz Mohd from Mineblogwebsite… – 8 comments

lankapo from Bila Lankapo Menulis… – 7 comments

Boy from Tobot’s Territory – 6 comments

kenwooi from kenwooi.com – 6 comments

Cashmere from Online Travelog – 5 comments

Thank you to all of you! Thank you as well to others who had commented but not listed here. This month tracking has started and those who commented X times or more would appear in the next entry!

Happy commenting!

X = To be determined at the end of June 2010.

Bert & Ernie

While bugs are drawn to lights, I was drawn back to this blog when I saw that picture on Google. While the bug phenomenon can be explained scientifically, I do not think that I can explain what that picture has got to do with my blogging… Nevertheless, here I am and Bert & Ernie still remain as puppets I love to watch and Happy 40^th Anniversary to Sesame Street!

Addicted

Smokers find it hard to quit. Bloggers are no different. There are times when I felt like not wanting to put these alphabets into words on this space ever again but when other things faded away, the craving was just too much to bear and the words start to form again and one more story enters the blogosphere…

The Other Things

What dragged me out? At first it was just work. A new job, a new place, new people, new this and new that. It took time to settle down. Apart from that, I was just plain lazy as plain as a vanilla ice-cream can be… Plain but tasty… If you like vanilla like I do…

Then Came the Dragons

I do not work 24 hour a day and that is a fact. I do have some times after work but instead of cooking up another entry, I was busy hunting dragons and whacking some people online. The culprit was Legend – Legacy Of The Dragons. An online multi-player game. I killed and got killed and months passed by before I got bored of the same apparel that my online warrior was wearing… The thing is, that guy looked nothing like me at all… He had six pack abs and I have… Well, just think of any number other than 6… I finally left…

Facebook was Complaining

I left my Facebook for sometime and it started to whine… By the time I got back in, things have changed. New look, new layout, new this and that… Guess what? It started to look nice again like an old car with a new coat of paint and lots of refurbished stuffs in and out. I decided to stay and resume my connections to real people instead of some dragons and avatars wearing the same stuffs with different colors and accessories…

The Came the Mafias, Cows and Rollercoasters

What else can you do on Facebook besides telling the world how you are today, what new car  you bought, which neighbour’s cat you kidnapped and so on and so forth? The answer is, a lot more. I got sucked into the Mafia ring and I was making headlines there. At night I would be with my mafia brothers and sisters and during the day, to cover things up, I became a farmer at Farmville… After milking some cows and selling some fruits and crops, I started a theme park and life goes on… What’s next? I moved on…

Fallout 2

Thanks to Rapidshare, I found an old game that I used to play decades ago. It was, in my honest opinion, one of the greatest computer games ever created back then. Back then, I had a PC that could barely run the game and after a while, the PC put up a white flag and I just had to stop. Now, I could start all over again roaming the post nuclear world… One of the nice things about this game is the starting cut scene where it plays the song “A kiss to build a dream on” sang by Louis Armstrong… A lovely song…

Give me a kiss to build a dream on

And my imagination would thrive upon that kiss

Sweetheart, I ask no more than this

A kiss to build a dream on

The Earth is Round

And so is the cyberspace… I moved out of the blogosphere into some other places in the cyberspace and after a while, I am back to where I started… I have made one round and I guess I would be doing that over and over again… Only the dead remain at the same place…

The End

A few minutes after midnight…

Pizzo: C:\Pizzofmine’s Brain Core\My character documents> rationale.exe *enter* //…errr…Bad Command or file name.

Bear: C:\Pizzofmine’s Brain Core\My character documents> brain_status.exe *enter* //Warning! Brain = 5% functional! Reboot required…

Pizzo: parameter format not correct…

Bear: … Caution! mid life crisis level increasing…

Pizzo: C:\Berry Bear’s Brain Core\Berry Bear character documents\Program Files> midlifecrisis.exe *enter* Program already running…

Bear: C:\Berry Bear’s Brain Core\Berry Bear character documents\Program Files> midlifecrisis.exe *enter* … Data mismatch… Program Status: Aborted…

Pizzo: C:\Berry Bear’s Brain Core\Berry Bear character documents\Program Files> midlifecrisis.exe *enter* … Data mismatch… Program Status: Aborted…resuming denial.exe

Bear: C:\Berry Bear’s Brain Core\Berry Bear character documents\Program Files> midlifecrisis.exe *enter* …resuming denial.exe… Error encountered! Missing folder C:\Pizzofmine’s Brain Core\My character documents>. Restore folder to resume…

Pizzo: C:\Berry Bear’s Brain Core\Berry Bear character documents\Program Files> midlifecrisis.exe *enter* …resuming denial.exe… Error encountered! Missing folder C:\Pizzofmine’s Brain Core\My character documents>. Restore folder to resume…… “restore folder to resume” is not recognized as internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\Berry Bear’s Brain Core\Berry Bear character documents\Program Files> dir/w/p the device is not ready.

Bear: check the installation manual or contact the manufacturer for support at http://godhelpme.com.

Pizzo: “check the installation manual or contact the manufacturer for support at http://godhelpme.com” is not recognized as internal or external command, operable program or batch file…kindly send hate mail to Bill Gates.

Bear: … recipient Bill Gates not found… Check Hell’s regsitration log? Yes | No

Pizzo: Y…*enter*

Bear: 1 record found…

Pizzo: C:\Berry Bear’s Brain Core\Berry Bear character documents\Program Files> exit

Bear: *switch off*

Moral: Do not talk a cat after midnight especially when it is upside down…

People who arrived at this page were looking for:

Digging some of my old mails and I found this one. I thought it would be good to share this with all of you. Read on!

KLM

Looks very cosy and the lighting will put you to sleep in no time…

Singapore Airlines

Comes complete with in-flight entertainment and communication gadgets…

Air Canada

Very basic but looks comfortable enough…

And last but not least, our very own AirAsia…

Shh…. Don’t laugh too loud or you might wake her up!

People who arrived at this page were looking for:

The best word to describe my blogging effort these pasts few months! I had only one entry for the month of June 2009! Anyone with any idea that can provide me with some blogging boost?

Well, at least I am still a bit better than those lemmings. LOL! See you around!

People who arrived at this page were looking for:

Blogging is sweet when other bloggers acknowledge us. Blogging is sweet when we received some awards. Blogging is sweet when we have tags assigned to us. So, for those sweet bloggers who made this blog sweeter than ever, I am now answering tags and accepting the awards that you have given.

Cautions! Long post ahead!

A Special Post

Terima Kasih Untuk Kisah Beruang: This is a thank you post from KongsiBlog.com. A blog that goes around with a “Aku Bukan Seorang Artis Malaysia” (I am not a Malaysian artist) tagline. A very catchy tagline indeed.

Anyway., that’s his way of saying thank you for my visits and my help (I honestly could not remember how have I helped him). So, for that sweet effort, I am mentioning his post here as an honor that was well given and received. Thank you!

Award # 1

The Friendship Flower Award: This award is given by Windmill On The Hill. It comes with:

And lovely are the blossoms
That are tended with great care,
By those who work unselfishly
To make the place more fair.
And, like the garden blossoms,
Friendship’s flower grows more sweet
When watched and tended carefully
By those we know and meet.
And, if the seed of friendship
Is planted deep and true
And watched with understanding,
Friendship’s flower will bloom for you.

And I have to pass this to 7 blogging friends. So, I am going to give it to 10 latest commenter on my blog and they are:

1. ArZeq.com 2. Tekkaus 3. snv~ 4. The Temple Of Irreverance 5. Unlimited Bonoriau Weblog 6. Teens Make Money Online 7. Blog Zool Ligakampung 8. Taukey.com 9. BioTeck.NET 10. The Kaki Bangku

The rules for accepting this award are:

1. Copy the badge and put it on your blog.  2.  Link back who passed you this tag.  3. Spread this tag to at least 7 or more bloggers who you think you are friend with.

Thank you!

Award # 2

Cuties Award: This award is received from Stories in Life. I am going to pass this to the next 10 recent commnter on this blog but before that I have to give 10 facts about me. 1. They call me Papa Bear.  2. I love Mama Diah, my wife.  3. I love Pasha, my son.  4. I love my blog.  5. I love to doze off in a meeting.  6. I love to doze off while driving.  7. I love to eat  8. I hate doing tags.  9. I hate diet.  10. I am trying to exercise. See how easy it is to list 10 facts about me.

Now this award goes to:

1. Life is Simple! 2. Sawanila.com 3. lankapo.com 4. SufianPC 5. Aku dan Duniaku 6. my life 4 hire 7. Sweet Thinker 8. KNizam Artwerk 9.  Hot Shit Form Here 10. Geek’s Corner

The rules for accepting this award are:

1. Copy the badge and put it on your blog.  2. Link back who passed you this tag.  3. Each blogger starts with ten random facts/habits about themselves.  4. Bloggers that are tagged need to write ten facts about themselves.  5. You need to choose ten people to tag and list their names.  6. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’ve been tagged and also to read your blog.

Thank you!

Award # 3

Spread The Love Award: This award is given by ~Thoughts For Women~. Now this love is going over to (randomly selected):

1. The Arts of Fight 2. My Tramping View 3. I’m Richie 4. Adsense Alternative 5. azwanhadzree 6.  The Fitness Diva 7. Cashmere 8. Callister’s Little World 9. Ch@l!Zone 10. Hidup Biar Sedap

The rules are simple:

1. Copy the badge and put it on your blog.  2.  Link back who passed you this tag.  3. Spread this tag to at least 10 or more bloggers.

Thank you!

Note:

To others who frequent this blog but did not receive any of the award above, do not feel bad as it would be impossible for me to choose all of you and it would be impossible for me to select according to any criteria. Random selection is the best and those are the blogs that came up during the selection. That’s why I hate to give award…

Anyway, in other words, all of you are special as well!

People who arrived at this page were looking for:

It is good to be back after a few days away due to the celebration of Aidil Adha recently. I have been receiving a few queries on how to put the link to my RSS feed using the widget at the bottom right of this blog page and therefore, I might as well share it with all of you who wants to have that as well.

Before I go on, please take note that I am not a programmer and therefore, my explanation would not go beyond my limited technical knowledge. Furthermore, I found this piece of code while hopping around from one blog to another and I could not remember where I learned this but this method was mentioned in a few blogs out there. So, blog hopping is not really a waste of time after all…

This method is the simplest that I have found so far. The other method that I learned was more complex and required that you have access to your hosting server. So, for the benefit of those who are not self hosted, I have decided to teach you this simple coding and it is what I am using too.

CAUTIONS: I am not responsible for any damage to your blog so do this after you have backed up your code and at your own risk!

Below is the code that you need to copy to your HTML file.

<div style="display:scroll;position:fixed;bottom:5px;right:5px;">
<a href="http://your own URL here" title="your own title here">
<img style=border="0" src="the location of your image file here" alt="your own text here"></a></div>

You need to copy this code right after the <body> tag if you want to load it first or before the </body> tag if you want to load it last, in your HTML file. If you do not know how to do that, I suggest that you go and read a bit about your theme file / HTML file as without that basic, I do not recommend that you touch it.

After you have copied the code above, replace the part as indicated in the code above with your own URL as well as your own image location. The texts are optional but it would be nice of you to add them in.

You can experiment with the location of the image by changing the value starting from the "display and before the closing ".

You may need to press F5 if nothing happened after you have updated your HTML file and if still nothing happenen after that, you must have done something wrong. This should work on any self hosted wordpress blog as well as any Blogger blog. I have no knowledge about any other blog platform out there.

Another thing to note is, if you have copied the code above to your Notepad, just pay attention to the ” sign as Notepad tends to change it and it would not work if you just copy from it directly. Just retype all the ” and you will be okay.

That’s all for now and enjoy your new skill.

Notice that this time the title does not say Top 10 but only Top EC and that is because starting this month,  I would be displaying top 25 Entrecard droppers on this blog. However, only the top 10 would get their banner displayed while the rest would only get a text link to their blogs.

There you go! The top 10 droppers. Random Ramblings, Bioteck, Lainy’s Musing, Joan Joyce, Kuerdas, The Fitness Diva, Windmill on the hill, The Natural State Hawg maintained their presence at the top spot. Last month, two new blogs made it to the Top 10 and they are Online Social Networking and Steven Humor.

The rest of the blogs that made it to the 11^th to 25^th positions are:

Sports 2000, Life is Simple, Crotchety Old Man, Nazham.com, Ask Ms Recipe, My Review, My Notes, Toltec Insights with Dr. Susan Gregg, Money Saving Pro, Work at Home, Spicybugz World, Look Around, Reenashwina, Time Recursion and Angels on Your Shoulder.

Thanks to all who have been actively coming over to Kisahberuang.com and thanks to those who do not make it to this month top 25 list as well and hope that you would be in my December 2008 list.

Today I feel like sharing about my Twitter and what do I use it with. Twitter is one of those so called micro blogging tools  and the only other similar thing out there is Plurk. I have seen Plurk with its fancy time line display stuffs but somehow I am still sticking to Twitter, which I find simpler and more straight forward. Furthermore, with the number of followers that I have right now, it would make it harder for me to move away from it.

Here are the tools or programs that I am currently using to complement my Twitter:

TwitterFox – I just need to see what are my friends and and the people I follow talk about and it would be not practical for me to log in to my Twitter account and refresh it all the time to see the latest tweet. With TwitterFox, an add-on to Firefox, this is done automatically and I have the option to reply as well as put in my own tweet. This is a must have for those who are following the tweets.

TweetLater – This is a powerful program that allows you to schedule your tweets, auto follow those who follow you and many more things. So far I only use this to auto follow those who follow me and send welcome and thank you message to my new follower.

TwitterCounter – This is for the vain pots out there. It gives you a little counter that you can add to your blog as display the number of folowers that you have. I have it installed at the footer of this blog. It does not do anything much but it is a nice little thing to show on a blog.

FriendOrFollow.com – This site helps me manage my Twitter contacts. I use it to review those people who I followed but not following me back and it gives me the option to remove those people from my list. It is very useful for doing housekeeping on your Twitter. There you can find, 1-People who don’t follow me back. 2-People I don’t follow back. 3. Mutual Follow.

Magpie – Last but not least, why not make some money while you tweet. This is an affiliate program that let you tweet some paid advertisements using your Twitter account based on your own preferences. I have made Euro1.96 so far on this. It is free to join but the competition is high and it takes time to get something there.

Well, you do not have to do anything but just use your Twitter as you always do.

There you go! Do let me know if you have are using or know any other Twitter related stuffs that I should have. Happy tweeting my fellow twitters!  To those who wants to follow me, just click on the blue bird ya!