Thank You for Reading My Blog

Today I feel the need to join with friends from all over the world who would like to thank our blog readers.

Readers for me are those who are encouraging me to keep writing. As a diary, this blog is actually to keep tracking my mind while doing citizen reporting. So, actually I do not really write this for public. Those who shares the same interest can come by and drop his/her comments...all are welcome, but I'll keep writing even if nobody is visiting. Yet, I've got to admit that having readers is boosting my energy to write. And readers who gave their comments are enriching my thoughts. Readers' comments were also encouraging me to write more into me. As a citizen reporter I am not really keen to write about my self or my family, but as a blogger I sometimes did. Then, incoming comments made me want to write more personal articles. Readers are those who make me wondering, "Should I keep reporting or should I start writing my own personal stories?"

I'm thankful to those who read my articles, either in OhmyNews International (OMNI) or in wikimu.com, who specially come to visit my blog and share comments. Positive comments (including positive criticism) are valuable things that would provoke my mind to think and explore more. It can also help my mind to keep focusing in one topic. My wandering mind is my talent but also my weakness. It is a real talent as I can jump into any topic with ease, that is also helping me in my social life. Yet, it is also my weakness as I am easily distracted from one topic into another one. Details are also something that I usually missed. In this interactive activity I found that readers are enriching, they also gave me in-depth views, they also gave appreciation of my work. That is something that I won't usually find when writing for printed newspaper.

When my article was published in a printed newspaper, usually those who know me will mentioned it, usually in a praising tone. That's all. But, here in my blog I can have direct interactive communication with my readers. I can have criticism, I can have compliment, it depends on the readers' appraisal. Those readers who already know me would probably find another new side of me here, and their comments can also help me seeing the other side of them that I probably did not know before. But, the most fascinating thing is to gain new friends who share the same interest as me...

One of my cyber friend did not want to continue her blog, saying that blogging is wasting her time. Actually as a reader I missed her blog. In her blog she shares her journalism knowledge, and also a little bit of herself. Yet, I'm not a regular reader or visitor to a certain blog. Perhaps wikimu.com is my bigger nest that I regularly visit (sometimes not daily). I'd like to visit other blogs as well but time is my limitation, that is why I like citizen journalism websites like wikimu and OMNI. They are the crossroad of bloggers, places to meet and to hear something in others' pint of views. There are a lot of citizen journalism websites, but until today I can only manage to write for these two websites. I've got to admit that writing for blog and citizen journalism websites is not really encouraging me to write for the printed newspaper. Why? It is simply because of you...readers! These interactive communication with readers is something that lured me more into blogging.

I've got to thank you for sharing your precious time to come by blogwalking here and share your thoughts. I'm also thankful for all the knowledge that you share with me, and would mostly thankful for knowledge that you've shared through your own blog. Your appreciation words are something that help fires my courage to write, to steal time from my real life into this cyber world. Yet, as I admired an Indonesian poet named Chairil Anwar, I knew that my blogs are also my way to live a thousand year...thanks to you!

Please keep reading, keep commenting...
You are welcome to come anytime you've got time...
You can come when you're happy...
You can come when you're feeling blue...
Thank you for trusting me as your cyber friend...