Testing the Water - Makassar Short Break

I am taking 1.5 day break after 3 days business trip assisting an organization's capacity building for its local partners. So here I am in a super loud local bar listening to various music eg makassarese, manadonese, ambonese, and even  dangdut sang by a middle-aged man in black shirt :)

Of thinking about my coming sabbatical break, this scene may happen a lot in the future. Yeah.. I can dfinitely consider wandering around socializing with random people in random bar accross the world. Okay enough for now, let's enjoy a song about 'my widow' (cant be more bizzare than this hahaha..) with a good company. Oh well.. He's busy with his gadget :))

Why Oh Why...

The idea to take a serious break from my chaotic regular life had been haunting me since 4 years ago if i can remember correctly.  Yeah it's quite a long process and super slow, I know.  Of being me, it is difficult to have the idea of break sink in my head properly because work is me and i am work.

So after serious preparation, here I go counting my last month at the office heading into a full year of sabbatical leave hehehehe..

Am I ready?  Not sure that I am.  But decision had been made so I have to move forward :)

And why I start this blog?  

Writing has been a cure for my anxiety, it calms me down.  I find writing helps me make a good stop at any time I am about to do stupid act out of anger etc.  So it is natural for me to keep on writing whatever I want to write at any given time in my life.  I have another blog that has been in hibernation for 2 years thus blogging is not a strange concept and practice for me.  

This also helps me spend time when the actual sabbatical time comes.  Plus I am a little bit forgetful type of person.  This written thingy will help me remember things happen in life.

A FULL YEAR OF SABBATICAL LEAVE is a strange idea for me let alone for Indonesia *sigh*  But someone has to start something to save his/her life, rite? 

For now let's leave it this way and enjoy the ride :))