Procrastination

Procrastination seems to be the word for the year for me in 2012. At the start of the holiday season I knew that I have some down time from work and I decided to start blogging again after two years. But alas for one reason or another I found myself procrastinating on doing my first blog post. It’s been like that for the whole year. I merely waited around for the developments to happen without taking any lead which I used to do in the past.

I’ve decided to revive my old blog, Into the Digital Light, again. It’s a blog that I started out in 2008 as a way to document the various activities of the Internet Café Association of Imus, Inc which I had the opportunity to organize and later lead. Later it became my own personal blog that detailed my various activities, advocacies and my journey in the world of technology most especially those related to the internet café industry and education.

I had decided to delete my blog in August of 2010 when things started not going well with the advocacy group that I helped organized, iCafe Pilipinas and its sister organization Pilipinas iCafe Multipurpose Cooperative. At the time, parts of the blog were being copied and owned by another person. My only regret is that I was not able to make a copy of the contents that covered two long years of hard work and all but only one work remains.

With 2012 ending in about a days’ time and realizing that endings are merely beginnings of something different this blog post I believe would be a brand new start for me with the New Year that is coming. Procrastination will be the word of the past and for new the year; Initiative and Commitment will take its place.

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