Here's an excerpt from his email. I don't need to publish more than what is needed to give you an idea.
You excitedly asked "Why do you read my blog?"
Ans : I was an avid surfer and happened to pass by.....Interesting? Yeah, for male chaperons who may request for 'escort service' or any1 lookin' 4 1 9 stands. My dear, look at what u wrote.......most bout urself.....why does that matter....2 any1....pardon me if I am rude.....mind if I do?...
He continued to harass me within the email, ending with this:
Sorry if I was impolite, but you are one the best blogger, only if you denature
your posting to happenings in KL and when I make my trip there soon, I'll make you tear my return ticket....
I replied his email promptly with this, which I have not received any response to.
I honestly have no idea about what you're trying to say.
Probably if you are man enough, you would post this email in my comment box for public scrutiny.
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Another incident, which I don't consider as harassment but just a pain in the butt happened about a day later. I got a comment (here, scroll down) saying that myself, as a sociopolitical blogger, has replaced the substance of my blog with ego. Comment ended with a patronizing "Stay the course, June".
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I spent the following week reeling in disgust and recuperating from blogging impotence.
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I understand that most bloggers on Rocky's blogroll are sociopolitical bloggers. Thus some people may not grasp the idea of personal blogs, if all they have been exposed to are blogs of news and commentary. Both Pheng and Anonymous have one thing in common: they seem to be unable to fathom the idea of a "personal blog".
Pheng's email seems to insinuate that since I blog about myself, I am actually inviting perverts to come violate me as he did. Anonymous jumps to the conclusion that my blog is sociopolitical, just because of the tagline on "budding policymaker", and it doesn't matter what I blog about.
(My tagline was set a year ago when I was studying public policy, hence I thought with any luck I would become a policymaker in the future. Now I am changing fields to Communications but I malas to change the tagline.)
Examples of personal blogs that I read and enjoy: Suanie, Fireangel, KinkyBlueFairy, Zewt, KennySia, Boss Stewie, etc. Their links can be found at my sidebar.
If you just spare them a read, and all of them are wildly popular blogs in their own right, you would find that my blog is a whole lot more similar to theirs than say, Jeff's or Rocky's.
We blog about food, travelling, life. Sometimes when we get riled up by current issues we get emotional and rant about it. Sometimes not. And that's as sociopolitical as we can get. Period.
So don't come and harass me or preach to me because I am not conforming to the tune that you are familiar with.
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Anyhow I feel much better that I've let this out, possibly ridding myself of the geli-ness when blogging in the future. Possibly.
There is one favour that I'd like to ask of you guys who may want to show solidarity through blogging about this: please don't. Just to tell you in advance =)
The reason why I am putting this up on the blog is because if I don't do this, I would not be able to blog at all. I have been staring at my dashboard for one whole week and I couldn't write anything. I need to let this out. BUT, I don't want this to be plastered over the blogosphere as I prefer to move on. So, thanks but no thanks =)
And thanks Politikus and SK for giving me the encouragement during my down times. And of coz best bud XC and best boyfriend KF too.
