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How popular is this blog? Shouldn’t be “very”, because I never receive more than five comments for a post, and the like/dislike button doesn’t seem to help with getting feedback from my visitors. I am not really concerned, though, it’s just that I have this interesting thing to share today. 

I didn’t find out about this myself. My cousin shared me a link one day: LINK. I clicked. It’s just a Vietnamese article about various “interesting” café places for young people. I scrolled down and I saw this: 


O... kay… so it was a picture of mine! Moreover, it’s from an Origami post in this blog! As you may guess, neither that Origami post nor myself has anything to do with the café which my picture demonstrates. And to say, if it’s not because of my cousin, I might never get to see the article. So this is what I decide to think and do:

- Hey guess what! I am on newspaper, and this blog of mine is popular!!! :''D  
 
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  1. AdamJanuary 18, 2012 at 9:16 PM

    Hey! I read your blog. Just thought you should know. :)

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  2. WyattJanuary 22, 2012 at 12:41 PM

    NICE. Strange... but Nice!. Melissa gets a lot of extra viewers from posting her blog link on other blog posts with related topics. Just a tip if you want to increase your viewing population...

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