What other ways could be better to remember what I did on 2009 other than checking my blog archive? Can’t think of any right now, so I’m reading my own blog posts of 2009 while giggling because I was a silly guy.
I started 2009 by moving into an office/workspace in Renon, Denpasar. The first website we designed there was our very own website, divdsgn.com. This was when me and the boys rebranded ourselves as the divdsgn team.

We went on taking new projects thanks to our dear clients’ word of mouth advertising, it’s good to know people were starting to recognize us as web developers. Also, we started working with an Australian based real estate website developer on some really interesting websites.
Work on Trippert has also been wondrous this year, I’ve learned so many things during working on some projects with the guys over there at BD lab.
Whoa that was heavy, on to the love life then.
Me and the girlfriend have been together for over a year now, and 2009 was an awesome year for us. Due to the nature of our relationship – the LDR – we traveled quite a lot this year. Every couple of months I visit her to Jakarta, and every alternate couple of months she visits me here in Bali. Granted, one time we got bored with the 2 towns and decided to just meet in the middle. That was the time we went to Yogyakarta during the Easter holiday.
Next we’re planning to go to more places, including Gili and of course the near-future-destination: Singapore. Yay!
But that’s still a few months ahead. Now I’m just going to be excited because she’s coming over for the new year and we’re escaping to an island.
While we’re on the personal life part, I’ll share a bit about the part when I moved out from a goddamned garage to a real house.

At the same time I also applied for (so called) broadband internet on Global Extreme, so I finally settled at home again. I’m a home worker now, I rarely go out anymore unless it’s to see clients. In fact I’m writing this post now on the couch-potato pose :D
In the beginning of this year I was using the trusty SonyEricsson w900i and I thought I was never going to get rid of it. But then halfway through the year I was tempted to use a Windows Mobile device: HTC Diamond. That phone rocked, specially with the Garmin GPS navigation installed in there. It helped me and the girlfriend when we were lost driving around in Bandung.
But then a couple of months later the need to stay online rose. I started to need push email and gtalk badly, so finally I got a BlackBerry. Oh, right, thanks to the berry I now have a 365 project: a photo a day – http://anima365.tumblr.com/
Hmm.. what else did I do this year.. oh right, I spent one night at the airport!

The very idea of spending the night on the airport was stupid, specially because it’s in Soekarno Hatta, but I met some interesting friends and I learned a lot about traveling. I guess I really really have to travel soon, I’m missing out a lot!
And last night I had a little get together with the high school guys, BBQ night.

Which ended up with some of us boys went to Kuta beach to have a couple of beers and just chat.. and broke some fences, srsly.
Yeah I guess that’s about it, my 2009 so far. I’m guessing there will be more highlights happening on the year end itself because Nana is coming to town, but that deserves another blog post :)
Merry Christmas and have a rocking New Year party, guys!