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Sabbatical Over

Oni wat blog oku tih obuoh togan tian tian tih?

Wow, I can't believe that I have left this blog for almost half a year. I wonder if anyone ever wondered where I've been. I haven't been anywhere really, just been in Miri, and then just recently I went back to Bau for the Gawai celebrations. Meet up with a couple of friends but most important of all spent some quality time with my family back home. Truthfully, a lot of things did happen, but I just didn't have that desire to write about them. I did try to write, but every time I face my blog page's post section..I just didn't know what I wanted to write about.

Talk about a writer's block. Really, this one was worse, I didn't even felt like I wanted to read...or even look at words. It must be a sort of disorder that happens when you try to squeeze your brain in the search for ideas. Afterwards, when I leave the blog page, I suddenly felt like I had so many things to talk and write about. Things about life, history, music (and the arts), science, economics and yes, even politics. I used to make fun of the Borneo Post and these days when I read it, I still feel like I wanna make fun of them, coz they seem to be writing more worthless articles as election looms over the horizon. I wondered why I never did it. 

Was it like fighting a lost cause? But I never had a cause to fight for in the first place. I just wanted to take sarcasm of things that happen around me to the highest level. If there was any kind of cause for me to fight for, it would probably be that...and then I realized it was. I just needed a kick in the arse to kickstart writing again. And so here I am boys and girls..back in my element. You know, even ol' Pep Guardiola neeeds a break from football. So I guess writers need a break from writing? Probably....

So to make everyone's life easy, I'm gonna make a commitment to write an article, even if it's just a simple one...every Thursday but if I ever take a  break from it, it's gonna be pre-informed when the break starts and stops so that no one gets dissapointed and so that no one thinks I've lost my mind. That means, each time a Naruto or Bleach scanlation comes out in Mangareader...hahaha I'm gonna post an article as well. So it could be about anything but that's probably the best part about it right? So come join my road trip once again of texticular (sounds obscene doesn't it) cacophony. 

See ya this Thursday folks!


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