My apologies for the long silence between my postings of late. That said, this blog really isn’t a daily blog like some.

After the euphoria of the election, I had to ‘catch my breath’ (like many of us) and gather my thoughts after observing such unprecedented changes to our political landscape. Just keeping up with all the latest news post election was already a time consuming effort, let alone blogging about it. Which is one reason I haven’t provided my perspective what’s been happening. I am quite happy reading what other bloggers and experts have to say.

That said, much of my initial intent for this blog had to be revised due to what we have witness over the last 2 months. It is now evident that the majority of Malaysians want a new Malaysia and have crossed over to a new polity.

Now that we have ‘crossed the Jordan’ as a nation, the focus of my writing will have to be changed. At this point, I am thinking of a few focus areas and I will share my thoughts in due course.

Of course there was the other matter of managing perception.

It came to my attention not long ago that my blog is giving me a negative impression with my (now former) employers. This happened despite the fact that i hardly post every day like some bloggers and have performed my work without compromise.

Even though I don’t blog at work apart from a few occasions when it was a matter of urgency to get the news of kidnapping out (and that was written over lunch break), my fears were confirmed when during the evaluation of my job appraisal the matter of blogging was mentioned.

At first I thought they were concerned about the presence of statements which may be deemed defamatory or seditious made in this blog (of which were meticulously removed or reworded) and that may cause them to be liable vicariously. I thought that matter was already resolved long ago where I have assured them that no where in this blog do I blog about my workplace, mention where I work, nor what I do nor my actual identity. Such concerns although real, are unfounded.

Although my blogging are my private hobby done on my free time (usually at home), it seems that they had unfortunately formed a negative bias (against my work ethic) and once such an impression once formed is really close-to-impossible to change.

I don’t blame them at all for this bias, as I appreciate that some people think that blogging is time consuming and may detract a person from actual work. All I can say is for the net savvy (like me), once a blog is set-up, blogging is just like writing an email and it just takes a few 10-15 minutes to write my thoughts. Which is why it is unedited and plenty of times, there are glaring spelling or grammatical errors. (But who bothers right, I am not writing an English paper!)

That said, there are plenty of other productivity quenchers and blogging is not the only one. Some people stare at stock market tickers, or chat with friends (while pretending to be busy with their doors closed) or go missing for long periods (lunch, tea or ‘phantom meetings’) without anyone knowing their whereabouts. I wonder if they suffered the same negative bias as I did?

Anyway, this caused me to stop blogging for a while, and after a lay off it becomes a bit harder to start again - with the inertia and all. If you are a blogger you know what I mean. Yeah, it is this quiet - mostly because of my disquiet.

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