Back to These Glasses, With Clearer Lenses
I started this blog in 2013. Back then, From These Glasses was just a sinkhole - a place for me to pour out everything I consumed, saw, and experienced - through the screen of cinemas, the jam-packed crowds of events, on a gaming all-nighters, or something that whispered and yelled inside my own head. I wrote movie reviews, game impressions, rants, personal notes, and several loot recaps from local conventions. Some posts were in Bahasa Indonesia, others in English, depending on how confident or exhausted I felt. It didn't really matter - I just wanted to write. Then life gave me lemons and buried me under layers of real-life events. I became a full-time employee. I became a husband and a father of two. I became more fluent in English - and more unsure of myself at the same time. I kept writing, but not always here. I wrote in notebooks, scattered across files, forgotten drafts sitting with their leg crossed in cloud storage. I tried to create something out of nothingness - ...
