expiration date 

after many permutations, Expiration Date currently serves as a container of my random thoughts, sometimes as a daily account of my activities, a photo repository, artwork and craft showcase, and a place to share my stories with friends and family who live far away.

it is an online journal of Avocadolite family that consist of the wife thalia (who updates these pages), the husband ari, the baby aina, the dog koda and three stuffed pandas named puni, miru and goni.

i was born and grew up in Indonesia — Bandung to be exact. when i was 16, i moved to Jakarta, the capital city, and stayed there for a year. then, i went to the States to go to high school and college. it was in Pennsylvania. after that, i moved to New York to work. after about 4 years, i moved to Melbourne, Australia for another job. then, i got married to my then-boyfriend-of-7-years, ari. now, i reside in Singapore with the rest of Avocadolite family, where ari and i work as interactive/graphic designer at our home-based company, Pericraft.

i'm a comic addict. my brother and i have been consuming comics since we were little. the difference between me and him is that he took the comic path professionally and became a comic artist, while i remain a comic reader. i draw things once in a while, though, for fun and for hire. and i still collect comics.

i've also been into crochet and making small plush toys. my mom taught me how to crochet when i was 10-ish. all i did was a small red blanket for my barbie doll. i didn't like how it turned out and stopped crocheting until about 3 years ago. i'm getting pretty good at it now.

i'm also venturing into more domestic activities such as cooking and sewing. so, this journal is quite cluttered with those types of posts. you can also find posts about my dog, Koda. lately, though, the postings have been dominated by Aina, since i'm overly fascinated with my new baby...

other places where you can find me: deviantart, flickr, ravelry, youtube, last.fm, del.icio.us, facebook, friendster, 43things and 43places.

last updated: 30 November 2007

Expiration Date started at the beginning of 1999 as a tool for me to learn SSI. it was a journaling site. after a year, it evolved to a blog (thanks to Blogger). but blogging got boring, so i started using greymatter for about a year to go back to journaling. recently, i changed the content management system to movable type and i'm in love with it.

this journal started a few days after my college graduation day. so it has recorded many aspects of myself, including my fresh-graduate anxiety period, my ambitious working life, the internet bubble period where everyone got a taste of the lavish lifestyle of rockstars, and my depression after the 9/11. this journal also tells the story of my nomaden lifestyle where i lived in three different countries all at the same time for about a year and a half. it is now recording my settled and married life in Singapore.

the photo album within this journal is powered by a tool developed by myself. at the time when i needed a photo album, there is no canned script with interface to my liking. so i decided to create one myself with my limited knowledge of PHP. it once evolved to an attempt to create an open-source photo album along with its own CMS. but then i lost interest and stopped working on it. the CMS is still pretty buggy and only functions in this server. so, i never get to release the script to the public... and i think it'll stay that way.

if, for some reason, you would like to view the content of this site from somewhere else, i have a few options for you.

1. you can syndicate the site using the FeedBurner.
2. if you're a LiveJournal user, you can add expiration_date as your friend so that entry excerpts of this site will show up on your friends page.
3. if you use Bloglines, you can subscribe this site's feed.
4. if you use Kinja, you can add Expiration Date into your digest.

Expiration Date is a part of Avocadolite, a hub of all fun projects from me and ari. it is hosted at Dreamhost.