Me, Myself and Blogging

Please allow me to talk about myself on this occasion. I already decided to quit from my existing job as a journalist with Tempo, Indonesia’s most respected general affairs magazine, and turn independent writer and full-time blogger.

Beyond my expectations, news of my departure hit the country’s blogosphere and got a lot of positive responses from other bloggers, with some even naming me “Indonesia’s first full-time blogger”.

Many of them asked me why I decided to be a full-time blogger. My colleague, a Jakarta-based Malaysian blogger, Unspun, invited me to write a guest posting on my “controversial decision”. Go reading

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