Ok it's time for me to speak up..

First up, thank you to everyone who has posted something along the way in this blog's existence. If not for your continued support and help, my posts would be a total waste of time, but thanks to you guys, I think the MiB blog has done pretty reasonably so far.

I must say also that I value your opinions, whether it's positive or negative. Your opinion is yours, and no one has the right to take that away from you. But if you're willing to give your opinion, you should also be ready to take others', and in this instance mine. So I'm not gonna mince my words, but I hope you guys take it as constructive feedback.

First of all, I created this blog back in March 2008 for a few reasons. I felt that with web 2.0 being such a worldwide phenomenon, it was time for MiB to also be updated and viewed on the WWW. Lest you forget, this blog is not for MiB agents alone, but I have received lots of feedback from others who happen to stumble upon our site, and more often than not, I receive kudos instead of being labelled a "boring nutcase" or "being in denial".

The blog was set up so that we could share things about what was happening in our lives, what we did from week to week, photos, videos, stories, but all concerning the MiB circle of friends, WaGs and family. It so happened that I started the blog, so naturally most of the posts came from my direction, and if some of you think that I could be doing a better job, I apologize and am the first to admit I am not the most "happening" blogger in the world. I also manage my school life, my family life, a girlfriend and then this blog also. I have always tried to make it fun by having the "lookalikes", the "player profile", gatherings and stuff. The only reason why I include food and movie reviews is because a) these are MiB activities, and b) we talk about it, whether on or off the blog, and c) the way we look at things is different from how 22.5 or 33 million other people look at it.

I never meant for the MiB blog to be MY blog. I know some posts got more stick than some others, so please let me clarify. Popeye's chicken was always something we guys wanted to try. Once again, when I say "we", I mean me, riz, prak, vana, sat etc. Maybe roobz, zal and harish did not share the same level of excitement about american fried chicken, but that is totally fair and valid. On the day I actually went to try this place, prak and riz were supposed to go along with me, but they had other commitments and so since I was already at City Hall, I went there myself, had a dinner, and posted on the blog how I found the food. Wrong? I don't think so. Boring? Perhaps. Could I post it? I definitely think so.

With the James Bond movie review, I watched it with my family and wanted to alert the usual movie lovers, again the likes of prak, riz, sat, vana, puvan about how I felt about the show, before they went out and watched it. Would they watch it if I said it sucks, maybe, maybe not. Would MiB talk about it if we didn't have a blog, yes definitely so, either over mee goreng, BK or board games.

"You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.” - Abraham Lincoln.

Similarly, you can please all people some of the time, you can please some people all the time, but I cannot please everyone all the time with what I write or say. Most MiB agents have nothing but praise for the blog, while some of us don't agree with some of my views, but fair enough. But what I don't like is personal criticism aimed in my direction. Yes true I am the editor of the blog so I set myself up to be shot, but don't label me something I am not, because you don't sit on any high throne yourself.

I would like to think the blog has done reasonably well so far. We've had some good laughs, some pretty heated discussions, but most of all, nothing MiB would do outside this blog. If you have good ideas for MiB and this blog, sure send it my way and share it with everyone. But I apologize if they don't get implemented either because I am not a full-time MiB agent or because not everyone agrees with it (look at quote above again).

Each and everyone of us is entitled to do what we deem to be fun. Perhaps 25 year olds like us should be clubbing and drinking ourselves silly every Friday night, but we don't and I don't see that as bad, boring or being in denial. Maybe in 2 or 3 years time we might move on to that, but that's not to say we haven't done that before, case in point MiB chalets and overseas trips, those who were there will know what I am talking about.

So finally, what I am trying to say is keep your opinions coming but remember to post them with some thought for the person you aim to tell your ideas to. If you have great ideas, keep them coming in, and like Zal mentioned, go out there and make your own movies guys. Not to say we haven't done that, with our Rotaract Cup win and Sat's parallel parking phenomenon. But I guess we all have our own lives to live and own difficulties to carry too, so I don't want to ask for too much at this stage.

I hope you guys like having a place where you can log on to everytime you visit the Internet because that was the aim from the very start. People like Anan, Dinesh, Chan, Anthony and anyone else who goes overseas will never be "apart" totally with this blog around, whether it's boring mind games we were playing or popeye's chicken.

There's still a long way to go. Much improvements to be done on my part and yours. But with that, I would like to welcome your new editor to the website, mr MRJ himself, as votes for Dinesh were obviously rigged. If there is no violent objection by 2359 on Wednesday 19th November 2008, MRJ will be given the password to start blogging.

That's all folks!=)