It was four days holiday: Mawlid al-Nabi (the birthday of Muhammad, PBUH) on Thursday and Easter on Friday, then regular weekend. Long weekend means Jakarta was free from jam traffic, streets were empty. As a consequence, people went for holiday to many cities around, crowds in parks, and destination on Bandung, my city.
Mawlid was celebrated in limited fest, usually by some discussions about the life of Muhammad and its context to nowadays. Easter had specific rite as I saw on television, arranged in churches or some religion-related place. Other than religious fests which are close to commercial attributes, these holy days are for belief awakening.
Still, long weekend forced me to keep away from reguler works and handle some domestic jobs. Nice to have more time with kids to extra patience accompanying them to go around.
Monday comes and I stand up for working day again. I told that I hate Garfield (because of its saying, "hate monday"), and a comment posted that it is blasphemy. Nice!
Happy working days, everyone!
Old story repeats: I forced myself to fix blog's tags, to arrange layouts, to enhance design, and finally... all was broken! Not only my blog was failed to look better, but also I wasted my time not to post anything. Web design kills, really.
This challenges, while some bloggers I know are web designer by profession. How if I hire their talented capabilities to make my sites up, so I can concentrate to my writings? This idea has bloomed for some times ago, but not yet to be realized. Many reasons behind, e.g. expenses, curiosity with stylesheets, and do-it-yourself mind. Not all bad, as not all good.
Now the decision has been made. I contacted Thomas Arie Setiawan, a well-known reputation for their mass-product design and blogger by heart. He also keep his enthusiasm on using Movable Type, on the same track with me.
A part of experimental for me to be more productive on writing, that is let the professional do their jobs.
About 05 a.m.
One of my closest friends on Flickr asked if I have an independent photoblog. I answered: is this simply a website containing my Flickr's photos? Yup!
That's good, I thought. I have enough photo stock on Flickr and it is better to explore them on other website as my individual photoblog. Repackaging, in short. Or, even farther, I also have more photos on my laptop which had not exposed anywhere.
Whichever better, it will be nice and worthy to try.
Press "Start" to continue: that was my workplace at the last day before we moved to new building.
