2 Cents On A Platter

Who Am I

About The Author

Cur­rently a stu­dent in Degree of Com­puter Sci­ence, I have delved in the inter­est of anime ever since 2002. One of the first series that I attest to have an inter­est in with was Slam Dunk. I was attracted by its artistry and grip­ping sto­ry­line. Since then, I’ve been watch­ing series after series on satel­lite TV, but it wasn’t until I gained access to the Inter­net when I dis­cov­ered that there was more series on offer with a wide diver­sity of genres.

How­ever, blog­ging didn’t really start until late 2006 with a per­sonal blog called “Keep Your Hands On The Wheel And Your Foot On The Gas”. It was just a place for me to sto­ry­tell life expe­ri­ences and such. Then, a cer­tain blog­ger gave me the idea to start a blog where one can share his inter­est to the world. Hence, the blog “Blog Of Utter Ran­dom­ness” was born. A sim­ple blogsite where I just share my opin­ions on the anime world as well as fig­ure news and collections.

Four months later, I shifted to my own domain here and started to build my own site. In late July 2008, “Otakuism, Every­day!” was launched. It was a suc­cess on my part and I started mak­ing con­tacts with many aniblog­gers out there. How­ever, the whole project went down­hill after just 2 ½ months.

For some, real life issues prove to be a hin­drance and I dis­cov­ered that it’s no dif­fer­ent for me. Yet, the desire to con­tinue blog­ging was still there, and in Jan­u­ary 2009, ver­sion 2 of “Otakuism, Every­day!” was relaunched. On this occa­sion, I changed my approach in writ­ing and pro­vid­ing con­tent to my vis­i­tors. I also started to par­tic­i­pate in many of my vis­i­tors’ blogs in order to cre­ate a con­nec­tion with them. But the whole idea was scraped yet again a month later.

I went on a 5 month hia­tus in order to rethink on my writ­ing con­cepts. While doing so, I made more friends who were aniblog­gers them­selves. Ver­sion 3 of “Otakuism, Every­day!” was relaunched yet again by early August. This time, I changed my approach to be more of an every­day writer. I was writ­ing reviews on air­ing series every­day as well as shar­ing divided opin­ions with my visitors.

Then, exhaus­tion set­tled in. I found out that I was blog­ging more and spend­ing less time out­doors. Fur­ther­more, by the time I’ve writ­ten 20-odd posts in the space of a month, I felt that there was noth­ing left to write. After 1½ months (yeah, you guessed it), I went on another hiatus.

Some may say that I’m not cut out for blog­ging or that I’ve no moti­va­tion to con­tinue what I started. But I believe it two things that Gar­gron and Pan­ther mentioned:

1. write what you like to write, and
2. write when you want to write.

That’s why I’m always impressed with the way Pan­ther por­trays his emo­tions on the arti­cles on his blog (qual­ity con­tent) as well as the fre­quency of Gargron’s arti­cles (takes his time and pro­duce com­mend­able content).

So, I embarked yet again on another mis­sion to blog but under a new name: 2 Cents On A Plat­ter. On this occa­sion, I would be serv­ing a more diverse area of inter­ests and more top­ics that all of you can dis­cuss on.

About The Site

“2 Cents On A Plat­ter” is a blogsite where the author writes on his inter­ests: anime, Pho­to­shop vec­tor­ing and pho­tog­ra­phy. The way the author por­trays his opin­ions allows aniblog­gers and anime fans to come together for friendly dis­cus­sions. Thus, the author him­self always enjoy a good, con­struc­tive dis­cus­sion or debate on var­i­ous matters.

Why the name “2 Cents On A Plat­ter”? The term “2 cents” is a gen­eral term to describe one’s opin­ion on a cer­tain mat­ter. To serve some­thing “on a plat­ter” is to deliver. Hence, the col­lec­tive idea of the blogsite is sim­pli­fied as “a deliv­er­ance of one’s opin­ion on a cer­tain topic”.

This blogsite would con­tain writ­ings on anime series, manga series and a show­case of the author’s work in both Pho­to­shop vec­tor­ing as well as pho­tog­ra­phy. On the odd occa­sion, the author may touch on ran­dom top­ics such as com­put­ing, food, cul­ture or lifestyle, or even about himself!