I was complaining to a few people earlier this morning that my blog readership dropped. And so cfgt prompted me to blog about how he doesn’t read my blog anymore. Just so as I was thinking myself to do a blog-related entry today.

Just as my quantity of readers dropped from 300+ per day to a mere 190+ a day (within 3 weeks!!!), the quality of readership must have increased. Reason? I caught a few strange IPs reading my blog - i.e. IPs not belonging to the usual range of readers I have. So I decided to check it up. Here’s an example:

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Ah… but you see… in the process of becoming nerdy and writing totally and completely nonsensical nonsense, I may have lost some dear valuable readers.

As some of you may remember, at the end of February 2006, I ran out of bandwidth for this site. Cfgt asked me a good question: “If you have only 190+ visitors a day, how did you run out of bandwidth?” Good question. However I wasn’t in the mood to look at statistics. My emotions have been severely affected today by someone’s IDIOTIC decision.

Am I ecstatic that there is consistently readers from Harvard? Sure. But first, I gotta determine if I know the person reading my blog. Do I know anyone from Harvard University? Amongst my peers, yes - Nicholas. Is Nicholas the person who’s been reading my blog? From his entries, I can tell it’s not him (though he DOES link Greg Mankiw in his blog, and he DOES do economics.) But I’m not sure if it’s him. I’ve seen a few entries from Harvard Uni… consistently visiting my blog. If it’s Nick who visited my blog, he’d visit it from Ken’s blog.

Speaking of Ken, I seem to be getting repeated and consistent hits from RCSI as well. This, I can be pretty certain it’s Ken, or Jennifer and friends. No one else I know who is doing medicine is from RCSI. Doctors and med students rarely have any interest in this blog, unless I start going Steve Dubner and consistently post about organ donorship. Hmm.. speaking of doctors, I still owe Ken an article on cancer. Will get to that soon.

And now that I am done ranting, it’s time to pimp someone’s blog, and today, I am going to introduce you Elanor Tan.

It is titled Arrested Development and self described as “Elanor’s coffee-stained economics commentaries”. Elanor is a Cambridge graduate (those who know me would know the significance of Cambridge, lol) in economics. She’s a relatively new blogger to the Malaysian blogosphere, but in my opinion, she is far better than any Malaysian political and economic bloggers. In fact, generations ahead. Her opinions, when she posts them are solidly backed ones, unlike the empty talk that you get in most other blogs (mine included).

And her posts… oh her posts… if I could and would marry someone just for their intellectual intelligence, I’d marry her for her opinions and intellect alone (you have to be something to enter Cambridge). But of course, I only love one girl (Pretty Swallow), so… um… right.

She is someone of strong opinions. And that’s what I like about her posts. Never have I seen someone who posts their references out when they blog (She does that in Mario, Luigi and the Global Economy). It’s almost like reading an academic paper. Her posts give an idea of what she is - someone who isn’t really affected by political ideals, but someone who would rather dig through a mountain of data and find a point in it. Though she is educated in a very western economic manner (you know, the self-centered man concept, Homo economicus, etc), she still can see and agree with China’s economic policy (as seen in The Smallest Sparrow, where she suggests Malaysia has something to learn from China)

Here are some of her posts which I recommend, both to local politicians and local bloggers (This is how you should write something - of quality):

• Stupid Traffic Jam - Stop Building Roads!
• Perak’s Future Part I
• Perak’s Future Part II
• Perak’s Future Part III
• Mario, Luigi, and the Global Economy, Part I
• Mario, Luigi and the Global Economy, Part II
• Mario, Luigi and the Global Economy, Part III
• Dodo Nation (Part I)
  
• Equality in Poverty (Part II)
• Silly Cookies

Her posts may be good, but I do have a grouse (I ALWAYS do). She posts in a dismally pessimistic manner. Yes, I agree with what she said (well, 99% of the times), but I feel she can do very much better. You know… post in a lighter mood. Okay… so maybe Malaysia is really no-hope (heheh.. that’s why, Australia, here I come)…lol.

On the plus side… she reads Terry Pratchett!!!!! (5 exclamations marks… a sign of yet another deranged mind), though I think she is the kind who prefer Vimes and Lord Vetinari to Death or Rincewind or Ponder Stibbons.

Enough pimpage. At least I’m feeling happier now, playing with the Gapminder (one of her recommendation)

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