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		<title>Just little shards of forgotten dreams.. and a tribute to Anime Indo International (ANINDO)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Chan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was younger&#8230; much younger.. I used to to draw Japanese manga/anime style. Japanese comic took Indonesia by the storm starting from around late 80s. There are thousands of aspiring comic artists, illustrators and animators in Indonesia. They (we) are all young, foolish, eager and full of dreams. Above: A sketch for a Dragon Ball Fanfiction We draw and draw&#8230; I remember that I used to produce 2 full artworks (penciled, inked, coloured) every day for years. I used to have 20+ penpals to exchange letters and drawings everyday from all corners of Indonesia. At home, I still have drawers and drawers of comic books, artbooks, and stacks of letters and sketchbooks, with ideas scribbled all over the pages. Above: A character from one of my Comic ideas In 1992, the Internet (or the web) started to boom. These young dreamers (myself included) started to use the web to look for inspirations &#8211; information, manga/anime arts, and communities (forum and chatrooms). Some were even bold enough to learn how to create websites and publish their artworks. In 1998, I moved to Australia. I met more friends in Australia who had the same hobby. Thank God for the Internet, I also met similar dreamers from far-reaching corners of the world. Most of them were Indonesian students studying overseas. Some were from other countries. We found Anindo.net in 1999 (at least that&#8217;s the earliest file I have for that community). Anindo, shorts for &#8220;Anime Indo (International)&#8221; was a community of aspiring Indonesian anime (style) artist (mostly students) from all over the world. We utilised CommunityZero as our online home. Then in 1999, when CommunityZero started to charge their members, we, starving students that we were, had to move. The founder and administrators collected/volunteered some fund, created a website and forum to rehouse us.  We had hundreds of active members, forum posts, member images, impromanga, galleries and contests. Above: Anindo.net, Web Archives 2004 snapshot Above: Anindo.net, Web Archives 2004 snapshot Then we all grew up. Life happened and we had to be responsible. While a small number of us has enough passion to continue drawing and follow the &#8216;artist path&#8217;, most stopped. We stopped drawing, stopped dreaming, stopped making comics, stopped making animations and movies. I noticed that the majority of us ended up with a career in IT and Design related. Others ended up being a lawyer, doctors and even housewives . Web archives have snapshot of Anindo.net until about 2005. I think that&#8217;s about right&#8230; when everyone got busy with life&#8230; movde on and the website got dissolved. I still hold the domain name. Oh.. during their most active years, Anindo also published an Art Anthology &#8211; consisting of member&#8217;s best works. Above: Anindo.net (Punch) Anthology landing page Nowadays, with the advent of social media, we met old friends. I notice that the one question that most of my old friends would ask me when our path crossed again is&#8230; &#8220;Do you still draw (Japanese) comic?&#8221; Gee.. I must have...]]></description>
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		<title>Much ado about blogging..</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Chan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I think I mentioned in my very first post on this website.. that I will not be able to keep blogging. Previous to this, I attempted blogging several times and failed miserably. My last post before this is July. There is a couple of hidden post but not much. Since then I have been very busy with&#8230; work, family, friends, and other social commitments. I went to Japan last month. Took thousands of photos. I was planning to post my experience but never got around to it. We got lost, got culture shock, lots of fun, made new friends amongst other things&#8230;I might&#8230; someday&#8230; My boyfriend bought me a wii, I am kinda hooked up with RPG games AGAIN! I was madly in love if Genso Suikoden, Final Fantasy VII onwards and numerous other RPGs (on PS1 and PS2) before. Two of my friends whom I really fond of (we were very close when we were still students) got married. Unfortunately I can only attend only one of the wedding because I was in Japan when the other got married. Congratulations to you both. I wish you both and your husbands a really happy and blessed marriage life. Dozens of my friends and acquintances got engaged, married, pregnant or popped out some babies. My facebook is saturated with these status updates, messages, events, photos and movies. Must be around that time of the year&#8230; My best wishes to all of them. A dear friend of mine just lost her mother and sister within a couple of months. My prayers and love with her. I am sure everything will pick up for her in the coming months, years&#8230; and hopefully forever really!! I didn&#8217;t get much time to work on my websites&#8230; so twanswers is currently broken. I am losing page rank and visitors on a number of sites. Even patriciachan.com is suddenly not compatible with a number of browser. The good thing is, google is still paying me some money . I hardly had one continuous relaxing weekend in Canberra. I have been travelling (internationally and interstate) a lot.. for holiday.. for wedding.. for birthdays and other celebrations.. for work.. and playing guides in Sydney to a lovely family we met in Japan. I also learnt that life is short and precious, so&#8230; Live your life to the fullest, get out and experience new things or you&#8217;ll never know what you&#8217;ve been missing. Be content and grateful for what you have but do not settle for second best. Do not dwell in the past, leave the toxic friends behind, and move on. They do not deserve your friendship. Express your love and do not take the people you love for granted. To love is the best gift you can have and give. Love the bunny]]></description>
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