Wow, and it comes at the right time :-D!

Life has its funny moments certainly. Today, I was wondering about what is going on with my blogging. I thought it was indeed getting a bit popular! And Baba sent me this by email. I am quoting the original source

Having blogged in one form or fashion for the last 6 years or so (not  including personal journals that I’ve written in, on paper even, with crayon  even, since I was six years old), allow me to personally provide you with a  rundown on the lifecycle that I’ve observed from personal bloggers.

#1. Start reading blogs.
You start out as a lurker and by  either having met a blogger or run across an intriguing and challenging post  from someone else’s blog, you start mulling about in your head for either a  forum for response, challenge, or agreement. You could start by commenting on  other folks blogs first, but you start having a gradually increased desire for a  space of your own. Like when you’re living in your parent’s basement and the  rest of your friends are making weekly trips to Home Depot and using words like  “mulching”. You begin to wonder if you want to belong.

#2. You  start a blog.
Maybe at first it’s on blogspot or livejournal. You  start writing about cheese sandwiches. You use your full name and the full names  of your friends that are involved in your occasionally mischievous exploits.  These things satisfy you. Hubris starts taking a more significant part of your  site as you develop your tiny homestead online. The notion of fleshing out your  online personality becomes important.

#3. You become a stats whore.
Daily stats/referrals and  meme participation for webrings, quizlists, personality profiles, and the  occasional sepia toned webcam photo to make you look all “emo” and “sultry” and  “sensitive” or at least a little bit thinner. And definitely like a Kpop music  video still image. You voraciously groom your links list as you build a posse.  The wishlist makes it’s initial appearance and creepy strangers start sending  you gifts when your birthday comes around. You consider this slightly weird, but  hey, then again, you did get that Star Wars Box set that you always wanted.  You start memes just for the additional traffic. Perhaps you even start a  webgame of sorts.

#4. You become really personal on your site as  the online and real-life worlds start confusing you.
As you  recognize the possibility of being an opinion leader in your personal circle,  people flame you. You occasionally flame back. You cry about comments that  certain people make to provoke you. You bitch about these things as well. Then  you take into consideration that comments were made by pimply 14 year olds who  post jpegs of their warcraft characters online and realize that these lOZeRs  aren’t worth your time. This gives you an sense of superiority. Haha! you say to  yourself. I have a posse and a blog and you don’t. So fuck off, you lame twat.  Hazzah!

#5. You faux “retire” from blogging.
Having temporarily  exhausted the emotional reservoir from which your personal blog has sprung  forth, you post about retiring. Or a vacation. Or a hiatus. Or a sabbatical. You  say this will be permanent. Or last a month.

#6. You cave back  into blogging in less than 72 hours.
You candy pants blogging crack  addict.

#7. You decide to “get serious” about blogging.
You seek  out “The A-List” of bloggers and start reading more of them, and news about  them, and news about blogging in general. You come to the conclusion that if you  ever hope to join their rank, then you need to at least register your own  domain. After all,  http://candypantsnewbiebloggeraboutcheesesandwhiches.blogspot.com will not get  you linked by Kottke.

#8.  You have a pseudo flirty im/blogging/flickr flirting relationship with another  blogger whom you have never met.
This will likely end badly. Very  badly.

#9. You decide that you must meet other  bloggers.
SXSW seems like a good  way to go about it. Or attendance at Fray  Day. Or finding any excuse possible to move to San Francisco. At least a  trip, after all. With a visit to SF, meeting other “celebrity” bloggers is just  as tasty a tourist destination as going to Fisherman’s Wharf. Or more so.  Definitely more so. Your blogroll grows threefold.

#10. You take  a step back and metablog about blogging and what blogging has done about your  blogging.
You become pedantically navelgazingly annoying. For some  reason, your blogger readership eats this shit up. This does not convince you,  however, that you want to do something silly like smoke weed with Marc Canter.  Because even you know that’s a bad idea.

#11. See step 5. Shampoo, rinse, repeat.

#12. You decide that as a result of step 10 and having repeated step  5 more than 3 times in the course of your lifecycle as a blogger, that you need  to sanitize or reinvent your blog. You purge or hide archive entries  and take more note to remove full names of your  friends/crushes/accidentaldrunkenfondels from your site and links list. Your  blog goes back to cheese sandwiches. But this time your site  validates.

#13. You either lose your job because of blogging, are  afraid of losing your job for blogging, or join a company that builds blogging  tools. Either way, your blog either dies a horrible painful death, or  becomes significantly less personal to the degree of trite and uninteresting  compartmentalization or subject matter discretion.

#14. You  decide to start an anonymous livejournal blog. Here is where you still  talk about your crushes, the he said/she said crap, and that you really really  really really really really really like Maroon 5. And it’s on



[source: MinJungKim.com - Braindump v 5.0 >> Lifecycle of Bloggers]

Hilarious!! I can't stop laughing!! Awesome MinJungKim =))