How My Tech Quest was born?
Hi, my name is Steve Yu, the founder of My Tech Quest dot com. I kick started my blogging life back in February 2007 (when I was still studying in a local University in Malaysia) on a free Blogger platform.
My very first blog was about Make Money Online (MMO). But why I chose MMO over so many topics? Because I got so inspired with this topic as there were in fact a lot of such blogs around at that time. I thought I could make some money here and there at the end of the day.
Somehow, it didn’t take long for me to realize that my how-to-make-money-online blog venture was totally a FAILURE! If I could really make money online, I could have purchase a self-hosted blog then, right? After a few months later, I’ve decided to close down my so-called “Make Money Online Blog” for good. Now, every time when I recalled on how I arrived to the decision to blog about MMO, plus on a FREE (yes, FREE!) blogger platform, I cannot stop laughing at myself. Yes, I was so Innocent, yet so naive. Lol!!! 🙂
Then in November the very same year, my desire to blog again popped up in my mind. I was on a semester break, yeah a v-e-r-y b-o-r-i-n-g semester break. I told myself, making another blog won’t do any harm to me and this time, I promised myself not to blog about MMO again! So my second blog was born at the end of November 2007 (URL : steveyu85.blogspot.com ), this time it was a personal blog. I wrote only about my personal life plus no more making money online stuff.
After a while, besides personal stuff, I began to talk about gadgets, software and technology related stuff on my blog. Yes, I am passionate about technology stuffs and I studied IT for my degree (See it’s important to blog about stuffs that you’re passionate about) and that was when My Tech Quest was born. Don’t ask how I got this (rather funny) name, it was a long story. Yeah, you don’t want to hear either, right?
Finally, on this date – March 24 2008, this blog was successfully migrated to self-hosted WordPress blog. I’m glad that with the decision I’ve made.
And the rest, as people say, is history.
Achievements
Malaysia International Tourism Technology Blog Award from MITBCA 2012. Photo courtesy of Malaysia Truly Asia.
We managed to get into Top 10 Finalist for Fave Tech Head @ DiGi WWWOW Awards 2012
- Winner for the Malaysia International Tourism Technology Blog in MITBCA 2012. Award was presented by the Minister of Tourism, Dato’ Sri Dr Ng Yen Yen.
- Shortlisted as one of the Top 10 bloggers for Fave Tech Head category in DiGi WWWOW Awards 2012.
- One of the reviewers for Maxis10 Reviewers Programme. We’ve reviewed the HTC Desire S. Read all our reviews here.
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