I don’t quite remember correctly, but I remember writing about growing pains once. It is quite hard to tell now since I’ve been writing quite a number of posts. Last I checked it is around 90 posts overall. It was quite an achievement, quantity wise.

Although I have to admit that lately I feel as if I hadn’t written any good posts. It felt that my posts weren’t quite useful to those of you who kindly spare your time to read my writings. It is actually not that hard to come up with things to write on my blog.

But usually, the more useful the topic that I want to write, the more time I have to spend researching about that topic to make it worthwhile to you, and lately I am not persistent and motivated enough to do some serious writing and researching. Lately all I write is just casual writing which is easily written. Read the rest of this entry »

I still remember, although perhaps just vaguely, that when I was just a kid, my father was a member of the Indonesian Amateur Radio Organization. He used to spend a lot of time chatting in front of his radio equipment whenever he was home.

It was kind of fun hearing him chat with his friends. It was perhaps similar to what we used nowadays, the difference being in the medium used to chat. Nowadays we chat using computers as the medium, and we usually chat by typing what we want to say / express.

Using radio is somewhat different and perhaps a bit more intimate because we actually heard our friends voices coming from the speaker, and it also makes it harder to lie about our gender, where in today’s means of chatting that is by typing, it is easy to actually lie about your gender. Read the rest of this entry »