Post-dated Post 2: 29th Nov 2006

Monetising my blog?

Recently, I have been to several mothering blogs talking about monetized their blogs. In fact, some of them had started doing that and earning US$ already. To be honest, I am really tempted to do that for my blog too. I have been thinking of ways to earn some small bucks so that when I eventually exit the working society in a couple of years time to be a full time SAHM, I still have some income. Just to earn some pocket money for myself lah. However, I am contemplating whether to monetized my blog as

Reason#1: I am not a frequent blogger. I probably blog thrice a week the most. Part of the excuse is becos my job requires me to face the computer for the entire day so I don’t really switch on my pc at home unless… I have insomnia that night.

Reason#2: I only blog when I have something interesting happening in my life which I like to share about (I suppose most bloggers started for the same reason but I am still at this infant stage loh) otherwise I could be missing for a couple of weeks. Did you watch “I do I do” by Jack Neo, if you do right – they were talking about “feeeeling” for love, whereas I am talking about “feeeeling” for blogging. Sometimes, you just need to have that feeling to be able to sit down and pen down your thoughts and that’s me.

Reason#3: For health reasons. My blogging time is usually past midnight as that’s when my girl and hubby are asleep. I tried to spend as much time with them when I came back from work and only have my personal time after they have slept. The problem is the moment I am hooked to the pc, I could be at the pc for hours and ended sleeping less than 5 hours when I have to work the next day. This is bad as I will be a walking zombie for the rest of the day and needs to rely on coffee to perk me up.

Reason#4: I am not a fantastic writer. I preferred to use singlish as my writing style. That way, I feel more “natural” as I poured my feelings and thoughts on my blog. Well, I only get a B3 for English for my ‘O’ levels :p

But then again, Reason#1 and #2 could be resolved by monetized my blog. It would ‘force’ me to blog more often and gave me ideas on what to write. As for #4, well, practice makes perfect as I will be ‘forced’ to write more frequent. The only headache is #3, surely get scolded by hubby for always staying late….hmmm…am considering to get a new handphone cos the current one is not working well (used for 4yrs already leh), if I get a smart phone or pda phone, that would solve my problem right? :p

Papa (aka hubby), may I have one for my Christmas present, pls? hehe:p