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I really don’t know how to start this post. I don’t even know what the title is going to be. I am just glad that I am now posting this after one year of nonsense posts. One year. Whew.

I never really thought I would be this far in blogging. Most of the time, my blog ends abruptly, that it feels wrong to celebrate it even if I politically reached a year or so. Two examples:

1. I was blogging at my old blog that time, and when I was about to reach my first year, my blog broke down and my entries were completely wiped out. Some server issues happened back then, and I am so young to think that backing up stuffs is a necessity. My blog rose from the ashes a day after the supposed anniversary, but then I can’t really greet myself a happy one since I have to recover my deleted entries using Google’s cache (and do some mass time stamping).
2. I did a reboot of that same blog two years ago, bringing more of my true self on the table (which led to an uncontrollable me). I was happy and all, but I ran out of post ideas, and I thought of starting with a fresh slate by buying my own domain and continue the writing style that I am already doing with that resurrected blog. Months before reaching my anniversary, I bid goodbye from my old blog, and started Apendiks.

So am I going to do the proverbial appendectomy now to remove Apendiks from the face of the Internet?

Honestly, I was this close (imagine the microscopic gap between my thumb and my index finger) of closing this blog. As I have said many times before, when you grow old, even for just a year, your view on things changes. Now I literally cringe when I read my old posts. I think that’s a good thing, because I can really say that this childish head of mine grows another year effectively. But this “maturity” asks me if I should continue doing this blog. So I visited my first entry. After reading it, I realized that I didn’t even mentioned there the purpose of this blog and just went ahead telling my story about the traffic enforcers. I did welcomed you though, but the rushed storytelling overthrew the sincere welcoming.

I thought of opening the fire escape and just start a new one, thinking that I would carefully plan that one out and be as intelligent as possible. But then again, that thought came to me when I started off this blog. I kept telling myself to post some sensible/interesting posts instead of just pressing the publish button right away, but I would still do that. Maybe because I feel pressured of producing some posts every now and then. Now I thought, squeezing my brain for new ideas won’t help me produce a quality entry.

That’s all for now. Another year to take. I hope you would still be there reading my brain farts next year.

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