Everyone inevitably goes through a season in their life where they have to take a step back and reassess certain assumptions about life… for me, it was the feasibility of being an adsense-funded blogger. Back in Feb this tiny site hit a record 83GB of downloading traffic, then came the Google bolt.

This is for those of you who have yet to see what an adsense check (or dishonoured one) looks like. The photo is worth S$193, a piffling sum for some bloggers, but you might as well get the benefit of the experience in case you have to see it one day: TOS have and will remain one of the bigger mysteries in blogging life (still, thanks Goog for the continued use of picasa and search, I’ll remain your loyal fan).

A blog conversion experience

For now I’m dedicating this music and tech blog and the website back to God, as in directing traffic to worldvision and other frontline communities that need the traffic and donors, ie. any other values other than converting traffic to cash - will that mean less spam? I don’t know. I hope so! But then again there isn’t any bot-saving software I know of.

World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. www.helpsurvivors.org.

There’s a song I wrote recently, titled ‘One Life’ - can’t wait to find some space to produce it, but it goes like this:

turn the lights this way / i hear a little voice from over here you say / something in your eyes tells me that I can / something in your words says you understand / something in the way you lend your hand// more than just the way / it’s a friend that makes this journey stay / what it is / the meaning of it all /// one life to live / something’s gotta give / you can see a world through broken jigsaw pieces / falling into place / one life to live / someone’s gotta give / children of destiny, faces in the dark / searching for the day / searching for the day /// the learning never ends / though I’ve turned the bend the wonder never can / you lift me from my knees help to make me stand / stepping by my side walking with my hand / when you believe what I could be // through the sands of time / it’s your candle that’s been lighting mine / brighter than / when we shine alone /// one life to live / something’s gotta give / you can see a world through broken jigsaw pieces / falling into place / one life to live / someone’s gotta give / children of destiny, faces in the dark / searching for the day / searching for the day / one day / one life to live

Guess YPN, Nuffnang, Advertlets, Clicksor, everyone, you’ll have to wait your turn.