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The same date, 5 years ago, I wrote my first journal entry on this small website. It was starting as an effort to keep my personal website regularly updated and to create an occasional escape hatch during my bachelor’s final project months.
With that humble start, this journal was growing into something that I wasn’t even realized before. I use this journal mostly to dump my thought, opinion or everything else, a junkyard for the mind.
To my amazement, this place give me more than just a brain dump, it introduced me with some interesting people, it put me as one of the longest Indonesian blogger, who write in English, it gave me numerous jobs and freelancing opportunities and also it serve me as the archive of my life during the previous 5 years.
So I guess, I deserve yet another break. With my current unfortunate situation is kinda hard to write or even to think about something interesting. Yes, I know I said that I will be all right, but it just too hard to bear that I don’t think I will be able to maintain clear mind long enough to write something worth reading. I will not write about my frustration, depression and desperate situation anymore as the more I wrote about them, the more I become depressed, but I also couldn’t write about… well, anything else. So I decide this is the right time to call it quit for some unknown timeframe.
It was an amazing experience and for me, the value of the experience is priceless. I thank you all of my regular reader and sorry for not be able to continue writing. All of the archives are left intact so there will be no missing link in case someone found my entry was interesting enough and linked them.
So farewell. It’s been a pleasure. Until we meet again. Avianto’s out.
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21 Comments
halahm vi vi kok sampe segitunya. gak asik nih. fight gitulho. elu masih sendirian, masih bebas ngapa²in. jangan egois, cuman hanya nurutin keinginan doang, ya malah gak bakalan berkembang man.
g ngga suka nih.. g ngga suka dan benci.. kenapa sih setiap ada masalah.. seseorang.. i repeat.. SESEORANG.. tend to blame on something which is nothing to do w/ it… WHY..?…. one of my friend just signed out from the milis, because he wants to have more time doing his dissertation… i hate him too… .. dont you realize, this could be the thing that can cheer you up.. or make you feel like home…. WHY?
kayaknya dulu pernah istirahat juga ya…
kalo gitu, selamat berlibur (lagi)! :)
yeah, it’s hard to write something cheery when you’re down. just like ben said, enjoy your break… come back fresh and recharged :)
see you around (soon), Boy..Let universe take care of you.;-)
jangan lama-lama hiatusnya man!, met libur, sekalian nyari jodoh juga ya…;)
puas2in refreshing ya pak… ;)
hmm..cuti ya?
puas2in aja deh… jgn lupa jogging, minimal tiap weekend.
spt albumnya lenny kravitz. anyway, smoga mendapat inspirasi baru di masa istirahat. bye now!
Kalau tujuannya RETIRE WRITING bentar untuk MENGASAH GERGAJI saya setuju mas.
Lakukan terus, biar lebih tajem nantinya :) sukses deh.
Maen ke Pulogadung, Boy. Sekedar mengingat tiga tahun ke-belakang. Saat Divisi Grafis masih purba sekaleee…
Sekalian bawa roti selai kacang pake cokelat tabur yah, gw kangen roti bikinan nyokap elo neh… hehehe…
JP
nice website… salam kenal …
oiya .. sampaikan salam saya buat mas dondy jordan kalo ketemu. salam dari adek sepupunya
bukannya blogging itu terus2an seumur hidup. but, that’s ok. every success and catch you later…
sampai ketemu di jakarta boy, jangan frustasi gitu ah… tetap nulis dong, kalo gak bisa nulis2 hunting2 foto aja, yang penting blog-nya aktif terus… :)
hehehe.. met kenal mas avi.. baru aja masuk ke blogzmu mas, langsung dapet postingan pamit.. hihi.. udah, dari dunia maya kita pindah ke dunia nyata. its okay. kita lihat seberapa tahan anda bisa gak pegang blogz… `mode manggutmanggut
Gruesse aus Ulm..
katanya udah balik lagi ke indonesia bos ???
boy, call me kalo lo udah di jakarta.. ..0811883689.. ..g ajak jalan2 dehhh.. ;p
Hey, Avianto. It’s been a while since I commented on your blog. Have a good break. I hope you’ll continue blogging again one day.
mungkin mau bantu kami :)
Priyadi @ September 4, 2005 3:15 PM
wuih, ‘upline’ gua dalam soal blogging mau retire sementara. good luck, jangan lama2 retirenya :)