this blog has been up for over seven years. it had actively chronicled my thoughts over my last couple of years in the university and my first few months as a corporate slave. i've begun to neglect it, partly due to the emergence of other social networking media which incorporated micro-blogging, but mostly because my life had become an empty shell and i really wasn't left with anything substantial enough to blog about.

it was heartbreaking reading through my past entries. i was a very different person then. of course, most of the entries were either rants or emotions expressed in vague codes and i could no longer remember specifics. but i miss the passion i felt then - that passion which moved me to blog. i don't feel that kind of passion anymore.

so i've decided that today, on my 26th birthday, i am shutting down this blog. i won't delete it; i just kept all entries private. this blog symbolizes a huge chunk of better days already past, and i've got to move on. so i won't be updating this blog anymore. this is my last entry, and the only one that the public can see.

i wish to thank everyone who had been a part of this blog and my life. i will put up another blog and write about the present and the future, however mundane it might be. i know i should keep on writing. i just want a fresh "book" on which to write the story of my adulthood. my only hope is for wisdom to come with age.

non est ad astra mollis e terris via (there is no easy way from the earth to the stars).

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