In that Year 2000
October 16, 2007
"I said let’s all meet up in the year 2000.
Won’t it be strange when we’re all fully grown."
Pulp - Disco 2000
Last night I was looking for my lyrics book. Yes, I own a lyrics book. Whenever I found a good idea for a lyric, I will write it down there. I kept doing this for a couple of years. But since I got work, I leave out the book somewhere in the attic. When I did a search through the attic (God knows how hard it is, it’s like finding a needle in a haystack), rather finding that book, I found something more interesting. A box full of my stuff back in year 2000! Wow, how seven years can be so very different? So here’s some of the stuff that I found in that box:
My Slipknot and 311 cassettes. Well this is a legacy in my last year of high school. That time I’m so in love with Slipknot’s first breakthrough album. I’m so much in love with them that I have to buy a second copy of that cassette, since the quality of the first one was degenerating. This is so way way before my CD eras. 311? I still love them. I remember traded this 311 first album with Nyoman, a friend of mine in High School.
Mikrodata. I’m a hardcore fan of this magazine. Where else in Jakarta would you find a tech magazine that focus on software and programming that time? Only in Mikrodata! The thing that makes me laugh last night was when I saw the editorial piece in that edition. It was written by Nunung! My colleague that sits behind me at the office! Wait until she knows that I was admiring her work back then in Mikrodata. I mean, back then I used to think “Wow, a girl who could do programming and handle a magazine, that’s uber cool!”
CHIP 2000 .Back in the days, CHIP was the techie bible (well, it still is). This is one of my favorite edition. Who would notice back then that I eventually would work in my favorite magazine? It’s a dream come true. Thank you God, you’re so great for me.
Merchant Prince. Ouch, this game brings back so many memories. I could stand playing this game for a daylong. In this game, you’ll become a merchant who travels around the globe finding valuable goods to sell. Ah, those good ol’ 5 ¼ floppy disk era….
Though I don’t actually succeeding on finding that lyric book, it is still an excitement having this nostalgic moment last night.
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Okay, life must go on, right? So with the spirit of Sumpah Pemuda and the recent festive of Pesta Blogger 2007. I officially announce that:
It's just around the corner, not very far away.
The reason? Well you can say that I'm getting bored with Wordpress and I want to try something new. But trust me, I won't move it anywhere else in the future, I will use patvandiest.com as my main blog, always. I promise you that!
So please... please update your bookmark, I will forever graceful if you do that. But if you are reading my blog through my Feedburner account, worry not, I will automatically update the link. That goes to my other social networking related link.
I won't delete this blog, though. I will keep it as past archives of my writings.
So, sorry for this inconvinience. I hope you don't mind. See you at my other room.
Sincerely Yours,
Patrick Gerard van Diest
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