I don't think many people have noticed, but I haven't been posting much lately.
Our front page pretty much illustrates this clearly: with the exception of "Perks of Not Caring" and the previous "Note to Readers" - the latter being nothing more than a very brief update post - every other article was written by another person on the team.
In my opinion, that's not really a bad thing.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
A Bottle of Shampoo
It was a stuffy, humid summer night, and after a whole day of binge-watching Homeland, I decided to take a nice, cold shower to clean up before bedtime.
I carried on with my usual routine, and when it was time to shampoo my hair, I looked to the usual spot where the bottle would always reside, and found nothing but empty air.
Sunday, August 18, 2013
The Casual Hermit
Words by Gregory Goh
A hermit is someone who, by choice, lives a solitary life, withdrawing from any social activity whatsoever. Casual means informal, lacking serious interest or devotion. As such, a casual hermit would be someone who prefers to be alone, but occasionally enjoys company. This is my modus operandi whenever I play online multiplayer games, especially MMOs (short for Massively-Multiplayer Online Games).
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
We've Moved. Again?
Welcome to suburban-kid.com.
Yes, you read that right: the Suburban KID team is proud to announce our arrival into a new home - www.suburban-kid.com. Yay! Since October 2011, our dot.tk domain has served us well, but we ultimately needed to 'move house'. So, you might ask, why the sudden change? Here is some insight as to why we did it.
Two years ago, we acquired the dot.tk domain name because it was, essentially, free. However, being FOC had its negative connotations. One of them being the fact that dot.tk still owns "www.suburbankid.tk", meaning that it can be swapped from us at any time. Obviously, we don't want that to happen, and I believe our lovely readers share our sentiments, so we decided to acquire a different domain name. Thankfully, the team has been able to chalk up our very own "www.suburban-kid.com", and in a short period of time*, I might say.
Another problem with the dot.tk domain was that it fared badly in search, particularly Google's. It was not search engine optimized (SEO). To put it simply, Google ignored us, and almost all dot.tk sites. Make a quick search for us ("Suburban KID") on Google, and you'll know what I mean; frankly, it was quite hard for us to get our content discovered by readers.
A look at our suburbankid.tk domain will show you that we still have not gotten automatic redirection to work, yet another con of using a free domain. We hope to resolve that issue in time, but for now we hope to ask all readers manually enter this URL to access the site.
This slightly abrupt change of homes, however, presented an opportunity for Suburban KID to grow up. In the past few months, the team has already grown in numbers, adding two writers and contributors - myself and Gregory. While we have had, regretfully, too little time to welcome to Greg properly, he now has his proper place on our "The Team" page, which you can check out (trust us, it's worth it...)
With big exams coming up for all of us, we unfortunately don't have much time to contribute to Suburban KID as we'd like. Rest assured, however, that we always have things in the pipeline, now more than ever, and we're excited about what's to come, which we hope will be equally exciting to all of you once we get to work on them properly. Watch this space.
*Editor's note: we actually acquired our domain name and activated the connection between Blogger's servers and our registrar within less than a day! The redirection from suburbankid.tk to our new location was, as you can see, a whole 'nother story, which resulted in the downtime.
Yes, you read that right: the Suburban KID team is proud to announce our arrival into a new home - www.suburban-kid.com. Yay!
Two years ago, we acquired the dot.tk domain name because it was, essentially, free. However, being FOC had its negative connotations. One of them being the fact that dot.tk still owns "www.suburbankid.tk", meaning that it can be swapped from us at any time. Obviously, we don't want that to happen, and I believe our lovely readers share our sentiments, so we decided to acquire a different domain name. Thankfully, the team has been able to chalk up our very own "www.suburban-kid.com", and in a short period of time*, I might say.
Another problem with the dot.tk domain was that it fared badly in search, particularly Google's. It was not search engine optimized (SEO). To put it simply, Google ignored us, and almost all dot.tk sites. Make a quick search for us ("Suburban KID") on Google, and you'll know what I mean; frankly, it was quite hard for us to get our content discovered by readers.
A look at our suburbankid.tk domain will show you that we still have not gotten automatic redirection to work, yet another con of using a free domain. We hope to resolve that issue in time, but for now we hope to ask all readers manually enter this URL to access the site.
This slightly abrupt change of homes, however, presented an opportunity for Suburban KID to grow up. In the past few months, the team has already grown in numbers, adding two writers and contributors - myself and Gregory. While we have had, regretfully, too little time to welcome to Greg properly, he now has his proper place on our "The Team" page, which you can check out (trust us, it's worth it...)
With big exams coming up for all of us, we unfortunately don't have much time to contribute to Suburban KID as we'd like. Rest assured, however, that we always have things in the pipeline, now more than ever, and we're excited about what's to come, which we hope will be equally exciting to all of you once we get to work on them properly. Watch this space.
*Editor's note: we actually acquired our domain name and activated the connection between Blogger's servers and our registrar within less than a day! The redirection from suburbankid.tk to our new location was, as you can see, a whole 'nother story, which resulted in the downtime.
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Note to Readers #4
It's been quite a bit since I've done these announcement posts, eh? I like to keep them short and sweet, so here we go.
Bad news: We can't reveal it just yet.
Ugly news: To implement this piece of "exciting news", we will unfortunately need to temporarily go offline, at least at sporadic times between tomorrow, until completion, which we expect to be 2100 hrs (GMT +8) Tuesday, August 13. This also has the side effect of you not being able to read this message, but for those
Tl;dr: Suburban KID *may* go OFFLINE between 0600 hrs August 11, to 2100 hrs August 13. All times listed in GMT+8.
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