when a blog speaks…

lucia says: for the first time since blogging for 21 months, today i’m gonna shut up and let my blog speaks instead.
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hi there! my name is mental jog and i am a blog. what? you dunno whazzit a blog? then what you doing here?? better go fly a kite then!

i am a blog and my owner is a not so young short lady named lucia lai. she is non techie savvy and html challenged, that’s why you see i don’t look beautiful. even so, she likes to think she knows so much, which in actual fact she doesn’t knows much, so she has so many links tag on to me here and there, so much so that people think she really knows so much. show off lah she!

since she doesn’t knows much (she will kill me on hearing this. haven’t we establish she knows a lot already?), she choose blogger.com as my home since it is so easy to use blogger. at one time she did thought of migrating to the more classy wordpress since there are much more nicer furnishing at wordpress but she got frightened off (and damn lazy to learn!) on how to set up wordpress as my home. there! her true self of knowing nothing much now surface! poor me is now stuck with blogger as my home, though i must say blogger has improve a lot since i moved in.

i had been in existence for 21 months now and in that period, i had undergo only one major plastic surgery. right in the beginning this was how i look like:

and in 5 may 2004, i think my owner suddenly got tired of looking at the same old me each time she wants to blog, so she gave me a new appearance, using elementopiatemplate. i appeared all blue because that is her favourite colour (apart from black and white). unlike my old appearance with me being divided into 2, in my new appearance she divided me into 3. she had been complaining a lot on how my right side likes to grow fat (which appears in certain browsers only), but it was her fault entirely because she wants to show off from where visitors drop by to visit me by using truefesco referals. however i figure if only she is more techie savvy, even with truefresco, she could make it that i can’t grow fat on my right! as it is now, i have to suffer the humiliation of getting fat and thin at times!

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now, you would wonder why all of a sudden my owner so good one, to allow me to talk when all the while she had been the chatterbox. well, it is because i complained to her that nobody… ok maybe only teeny weeny few people knows my name. everybody knows her name instead! (oh! the green eye monster surfacing!). at a recent some some anniversary bash she attended, i found out that everybody she met up with exclaimed “so this is lucia.” then when lucia mentioned my name, people doesn’t seemed to hear of it! poor me! not fair! i exists so that my owner can have her chance to blab her mouth and yet i’m not known.

that’s why here i am to tell you, my name is mental jog. mental jog. and why this name was chosen, my owner was smart enough to have a permanent link up on my left to tell people the reason. see under ‘my info blog’? and the link ‘the heading on my blog‘? there you will learn why i was born with this name.

i’m not to happy with this name. why? firstly it seems that someone had twice refer to me as ‘mental blog’ instead of mental jog. mental blog! mental blog?? omigosh! i’m not ready to be put in hospital bahagia yet. i am a blog, yes, but i am not mental.
and once that same somone, i think, refer to me as ‘mental block‘. oh me ohmigosh!! i may be old but not that old yet to suffer from mental block.

then i realised that because my owner was stupid enough to use another name for my address, people like to refer to my address ‘jogalong’ as my name. yes i spy in other people’s blog, some of then who linked me, name me as jogalong instead of mental jog. please people, my name is mental jog ok.

my owner should use my name as the address, thus ‘mentaljog.blogspot’ instead of ‘jogalong.blogspot’. you know, like this controversial ‘love to hate’ or ‘hate to love’ friend of mine, sixthseal.com. as you can see, his address and name are the same.

or maybe she can use her name as my address. ahh… but then people will still not remember my name… unless she also use her name as my name! you know, like my friends, ‘rajan r‘ and ‘kennysia‘ – they share the same name as their owners, and their addresses also the same. smarty blogs owners! 3 in 1! better than friend sixthseal (2 in 1).in this instance, there will be no problem at all about people complaining nobody knows them!

come to think of it, my name is not that bad. i have friends with even worst names… names that is much more difficult to remember! i pity my friend with a name such as ‘a pathetic attempt at blogging‘. wahh! beside being a long name, it is er… a pathetic name don’t you think so? then there is this friend with a name that sounds so bombastic – ‘perpetual permuting… er.. per… per… something… something something perception‘. heck, i don’t even know what that mean. and a friend whose owner is a very wise old man over 60, has this name – ‘dibawah rang ikan kering‘. hmm… ikan kering? and why must be under that ikan kering? but this friend same same like me lah – his name different, his address different, his owner’s name different.

actually i shouldn’t complain about my name, which is mental jog btw, because the way i see it, usually people do remember owners name than blogs names. well, have you heard of another friend of mine, ‘stepping aside for reality‘? no? have you heard of viewtru? you have! see, stepping aside for reality is my friend’s name while viewtru is his owner’s name.

oops. this reminds me. i should step aside for reality – face the fact that people usually remember owners’ name than blogs’ names. why, just the mention of jeff ooi, everybody will know his blog’s name is screenshot, but mentioning screenshot, some people mighy go “huh? what screenshot on your computer are you going to show me?”

ok then, i am facing reality that i will never be as well known as my owner but my intention of speaking up actually is not to challenge or compete with my owner. my intention is just to let people know my name – MENTAL JOG, not mental blog or jogalong or mental case. ok, get it now? all together now…. spell it —- M-E-N-T-A-L J-O-G = MENTAL JOG.

sorry you have to put up with my long chit chat but bear in mind, i hardly have a chance to talk, and when given this rare opportunity to do so, natually i talk a lot!
you understand huh? and oh please understand that if you wanna talk back here of course only i, mental jog, will respond to you, so do address me instead of my owner ok.

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lucia says: to those whose blogs are mentioned here, please pardon mental jog for making fun of your blogs. she only wants to have fun. should allow her since this might be the only time she gets to speaks.
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