I Got Featured on R.AGE, The Star!

March 12, 2010 | 12:10 am Share

Well, I’m as surprised as you!

It was my friends that told me first that I was featured on The Star Newspaper R.AGE Featured Blogger’s section.

At first I thought it was a prank. Well it was my birthday 2 days ago, I guess people can play pranks.

Then throughout the day I got friends buzzing me on MSN and Twitter saying that, “Hey, I saw you on newspaper!”

It was until WillyCW (visit his blog here) sent a Twitpic of the newspaper clipping.

Oh my!

So how did it happen??

Some people asked if I paid for the “ad”. The answer is, no.

Kenwooi from the infamous Kenwooi.com asked if I wrote to R.AGE to asked to be featured.

The short answer is, yes.

The long answer, is that all you have to do is write to them at alltherage@thestar.com.my introducing yourself and your blog. They will take your blog into consideration, and if your blog fits the bill, someone will contact you for more details. You can find the blog post about R.AGE looking for bloggers to be featured over here.

As I quote,

“As The Star’s youth section, R.AGE has always been about representing young voices and giving Malaysian youths a platform to express themselves.

This featured blogger section was created to partially fulfill that commitment. While bloggers already have their own ”publishing tools” to air their views, we hope to bring them together to build a community.

This way, we add another filter to the information available on the net — a repository of sorts to find out what young people are into these days, what they are thinking and what they are all about.

So, it doesn’t matter if you’re a top blogger or a n00b (yes, there’s space for you too!), or if you blog about travels, technology, cars or your daily life — we want you to share it with us.”

Then two weeks ago, the someone who contacted me was the infamous Niki Cheong (Twitterers look here) who asked me for a picture. And the rest is history.

Lesson of the story? Get A Thick Skin

And make that first move.

I was probably one of those n00bs that thinks that being a n00b I am just started blogging a few months ago will probably not fit in there, but now I am glad that I made that first move.

Dengan muka tebalnya I sent in my introduction. It paid off. Now it’s your turn! :D

The other two bloggers that got featured on this issue are:

Eugene Lee from Food From Thoughts
Serge Norguard from DustyHawk

And thank you everyone for reading and supporting this blog! And if you happen to fumble upon this blog after reading the feature on the newspaper, do drop a word so that I can say HI to you!

Filed under: About Me

Tags: about, motivational

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kenwooi

March 11th, 2010 at 4:50 pm

okay i just sent mine haha.. =)

dhar

March 11th, 2010 at 5:09 pm

WOW!!! CONGRATS BRO! I always thought you were a fantastic blogger, I'm so happy you've got recognition for your daring topics of posts, and sensible thoughts which inspire youths!! Good on ya!