FIVE YEARS With my Eye On Everything

This is me celebrating FIVE WHOLE YEARS of nonsense on this blog. Yam seng!

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(Update: 10:35am)

Ok ok, since it's a momentous occasion and all, let me just make my obligatory five-year celebratory post a little longer.

It's kinda weird that this blog has lasted this long, considering my analness about being 'anonymous' all this while, and the fact that it's not even about me per se. It may have started out as a book blog but it's evolved into something a lot more broader and more entertainment based than just books (I haven't even done a book review in like, AGES).

Anyway, here are some of my favorite posts on the blog, a list which was kinda hard to compile on account that there ARE FIVE years worth of material comprising 1329 posts in total.... Hope you had as much fun reading the blog as I had writing it! YAY!

(BTW, I'm not including any from 2009 though. Nothing very momentous lately... sigh...)

Here we go!

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MILESTONES

• Bandwagon Jumping (The first post EVER on EoE! It's not much, but hey, at least it got the ball rolling... and rolling... and rolling... and rolling.. and rolling...)


• Happy Green Day! (The first music post ever on EoE, and how appropriate it should be that it's American Idiot....)


• The Face behind the Blog: Eyeris Exposed! (the first time I posted a picture of myself on the blog. Well, sort of.)


• Are you a Hardcore Football Fan? (Setting up HANTU BOLA!)


• A (sort-of) Experiment in Certain Mentalities (This post it self is nothing much, but it IS about one significant moment in Malaysian Blogosphere history... it's the day Suanie got her face on the front page of the paper! Heh heh)


• Eleven questions I wanted to ask during the PPS bash (Another milestone in Malaysian Blogging History. I don't think there's ever been a bloggers meet quite like it ever since (And no, Nuffnang parties don't count. And check out the picture of the Femes Four! A skinny Suanie!)


• The Searches that Eyeris Reveals (At the time, this blog was second to some IT company. Now, if you Google 'eyeris', you get Eye on Everything on TOP! WOOT!)


• Kempen Belog Merdeka '05 : Lua-Puluh Minit Sebelum Hali Medeka (This was a crazy one. Vincent and I actually came up with a whole Merdeka Kempen to blog in Malay, and I went and changed EVERY SINGLE TEXT in the blog, including the sidebar, to Malay. Damn I had a lot of time to kill back then... Other two posts HERE and HERE)


• The COMPLETE Girls of the Malaysian Blogosphere Special Edition 2006 Calender! (Never mind putting her on the newspaper cover. Suanie's a fuckin' CALENDER GIRL!)


• My Moments of Musiclarity (Says a lot about how highly I think of myself when I actualy coined a word to describe my own music tastes. hahahaha)


• The Flaming Ghostly Mat Rempit (The first ever Movie Not-Review! On Ghost Rider, of all movies... WTF)


• eNuffnang Said (Eyeris sells out!)


• The Attack of the Plastic Robots on Cineleisure (Showing off my toys in public. Well, SOME of them anyway...)


• Jiwang Tuesday #1 (The One With Budi Weather) (The first ever Jiwang Tuesday! Now send me more Malay songs so I can post more of em!)

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ALL WHACKED OUT

• An Ode to Gandalf the Colorful (Oh dear oh dear. What was I taking at the time? See also An Ode to Darth Vader)


• Panduan LOTR (ENG-BM-AB) yang unik sekali (I loved doing these translations. I don't know why I stopped.... oh wait. Oh yeah, I got lazy. For more, just go HERE)


• The Wedding Album: Greatest Hits (I quite like this one because it was one of the first times I posted a gag that I'd been telling people a lot but never really got it down on paper until then.)


• How To Identify Snakes and Spiders: An Expert Opinion (Somehow, I'm STILL getting hits from Google for this one. Even though it's utter and complete nonsense...)


• Potential Harry Potter Spin-offs (This was way too much fun to write. heh heh)


• The Eyeris Coffee Song (I love this song so much I wrote a Morning Fix Remix AND a beer spinoff! LOL)


• Bleh. (the annual affair that has to be read to be believed)


• The Most Meaningless Conversation In the World (I miss all my pointless conversations with Fireangel. Oi come back from Sillypore already, bitch)


• How to Make a Submarine: An Expert Guide (another post I get a lot of hits for. And I didn't even have proper tequila then!)


• The Eyeris Limited Edition Bubur Kit Kat! (One of the strangest experiments ever...)


• Optimash Prime, Defender of the Potatoverse! (The first appearance of Optimash Prime, and the beginning of the Tater Capers!)


• Shitty Potatoes Lead the Optimus Prime Charge (I've made a few of these Fun with Toys and MS Paint strips, but this is one of my favorites. hehehe)


• Revoltech Smackdown Series #1: Macross one-on-one, with special guest referee, Optimus Prime! (another toy comic I had lots of fun doing... the second in the 'series' is HERE)

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SELF-RIGHTEOUSLY IRREVERANT RANTS

• When is a Blog not a Blog? (I actually used this post as a disclaimer for some time. Considering how far blogs have come since I wrote this post, I still think that my rant is pretty relevant. See also: A Blogging-Journalist's Rant on Blogging)


• Why I like being a writer (Hmm... reading this again makes me wonder why I don't feel the same way anymore. After all these years of writing, have I become a little too jaded these days?)


• Spoilers Spoiling the Spoils (Wanna know why I'm such a stickler about spoilers here? Read this post. Heh)


• I Solemnly Swear not to Swear... Too much. (Because come to think of it, me preaching about not swearing is like Fireangel preaching about not drinking... LOL)


• Writers: Before and After Blogs (eheh heh)


• How Books Are Banned (a whacked out post about a serious issue...)


• How To Review a Book Without Getting Complaints: An Expert Guide (written after some local author wrote the paper complaining and nitpicking about a review I wrote about his book. Heh.)


• You're a Celebrity? So Fucking What? (The title says it all, really. hehehe)


• Don't Call Me a Blogger Either. (Yeah. What FA said.)


• How to Tell The Difference Between a Journalist and a Blogger: An Expert Guide (Oooh this was about an issue that really pissed me off. Heh.)

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GLOATING POSTS

• One Foot Away from The King of Dreams (Meeting Neil Gaiman. Heh heh. See Also: The King of Dreams in all his shaggy-haired glory)


• The Many Faces of the Kings of Concert Ecstasy (Meeting the Kings of Convenience, AND watching them in concert!)


• A Rush of Blood to the Head At the Speed of Sound (Up close and personal with COLDPLAY!)


• Bay Transforms Awesome Autobots and Devilish Decepticons (Being the FIRST IN THE WORLD to watch Transformers, AND meeting MEGAN FOX!)


• Eyeris @ Comic-Con: First Day Daze (Visiting the San Diego Comic Convention, where I met Frank Miller, Grant Morrison, John Howe, Tori Amos, Dave Gibbons and the entire cast of Terminator Salvation and Watchmen!)