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Welcome to Bandar Yapping!

A very late start to my 2024 end year goals

Hello to the void that is the Vastness of the Internet. Welcome to Bandar Yapping.

As the title suggests, I’ve been negligent towards my own ambitions for the year. To be fair, I do need medication for this annoying of a sickness that we call Depression but I digress. Rather than beating myself down for my lacklustre productivity, I’d rather remind myself (as per councillor’s advice) that it would be better to acknowledge my own working pace. 

Hence, here I am. I will be honest; blogging was not in my 2024 end goals list. The idea of writing whatever passed through my consciousness came abruptly into my head. Rather than keeping it all bottled inside my head (or talking about it with my sister), I might as well just send these thought bubbles into a different space entirely. This space is what I called as Bandar Yapping; a virtual space on tumblr that I hope to share with close friends, family members(maybe?), and to whoever finds my writings worthy of their time.

My initial 2024 goals were:

Make a Zine

More artwork making/training for job prospects

Try getting into art related work

Since the last time I actually even deeply ruminated on what I should be doing in 2024, I’ve done nothing that could even come close to the goals I’ve mentioned. I promised I will not be hard on myself, so I have decided not to comment on anything or even explain myself on my progress. What I’m going to do instead is reassess my goals and move on forward. 

My new 2024 goals are:

Update my resume (lol)

Figure out what angle I would like to take on for my personal zine project

Writing 

The first two goals are self explanatory except for the third. The writing mentioned is basically this silly little blog but thats not all to it. I have a bad habit of making things difficult for myself and despite this space is named Yapping City, the topics I would like to write may need further reading. There are two books I would like to focus on. The first being Edward Said’s Orientalism and John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. I will not divulge any further for some deep rooted voice in me says that I’ll jinx whatever creative project I’m interested in into non completion if I continue on spilling my plan.

This shall be it for now. As I personally figure out how long should I force myself into finishing my self given homework, I bid goodbye.

Best of wishes from Bandar Yapping,

Mayor Q.