The world of the Internet has been capturing more and more people lately, even including the parents - people who usually tell us to get off the computer and start studying. As sure as I am that we all have read about the irresponsible parents who neglect their babies to death while they are busy with their online games, I am going to introduce you all to this awesome woman, mother of two children, who manages to balance her real life and our Bleach role-playing-centered forum awesomely. Even though she is not the forum's most active member, she's certainly a valuable and well-known member! So I present to you all, my interview with Amaranti of Bandung, Indonesia!
Me:
Ama: Hi Gaby... I'm all fine, thank you :) Hope you are fine, too.
Me: That I am =D Now onto the main point... What first brought you to the online world?
Ama: Well, I've been in the internet world since I was in the university. You know, internet was just happening at the time and then me and my college friends, being too excited, communicated a lot with it even only to say hello XD Yeah, we were silly at the time. At first I was only on e-mail sites, using Hotmail and my university's local e-mail site. I wasn't interested in chatting or so, though, when my friends were hype about it. Then, when I finally installed my own internet connection at home, I began to do chatting stuff. Well, mostly with my hubby, though, since we were temporarily parted due to him doing his postgrade in Brisbane. When I finally stole for Brisbane, accompanying him, then I found BleachAnime (Author's Note: That is our forum) and also Facebook, which made me drown more in online world.
Me: How did you find BleachAnime.org Forums?
Ama: It all started with my son being so addicted with it. My bro happened to buy the first three CDs of Bleach chapters and we brought it to Brisbane. I watched it out of curiosity and my son was also there while I was watching them. Then as I fell for the anime more, he did the same thing and after we watched them all, he started to wonder how the story goes next. We didn't know where to buy the next episodes in Brisbane - since anime is not so hip there - so my hubby searched them on the internet and arrived on BA (Author's notes: Our affectionate nickname of the forum). I stalked his account and found that he was registered to BA - just to be able to download the episodes, actually XD - then I decided to visit the site and registered, too. I spent more time there to look at the forum, not only to download episodes. I found it very interesting and started to post a bit. Then I started to have a few friends there and so I went on :) Until now I'm addicted to it.
Me: How do you balance between your family, taking care of the kids and stuff, and the forum?
Ama: Hmm, balancind them is kinda hard work, actually. I have to sacrifice my sleeping time, since it's not possible to take care of the kids and also posting at the same time. Well, some people might be able to do it, but I found myself hard to do it. Much easier to go online at night, after my kids are asleep. Of course, too much of staying up is not good for my health, so I take weekend as BA days 0 also at the fact that my hubby comes home every weekend and I choose to be with him then - so i can have normal sleep time :) Then I'm back on BAon weekdays, fully refreshened :)
Me: Have you ever considered leaving the online world due to your family?
Ama: Well, as you might already know, living in this world is quite hard now. Things are so expensive, need more money so I can take care properly of my kids. I was thinking about getting a job when my girl is old enough to be left. And if I ever get a job, I probably won't have time to go online again, since it'll be very exhausting. But then it depends on the job I might get... If it's a part time job, then I can still go on ;)
Me: What did you get from being in the online world?
Ama: I get the whole me. I dunno why, but I feel more myself in online world. Not that I can't be myself in RL but I can go all crazy in the online world. And that I don't feel worried about people will think of me as crazy or freaky... And considering that I feel a bit unconfident about my apperance, on BA, where appearances are not really considered, I feel more appreciated. I feel like everyone value me because of my personality, not my apperance. Also, I got lots of wonderful friends there... irreplaceable ones :)
Me: Alright, thanks Ama for your time and willingness to share! =D
I hope this will inspire us all to divide our time between our real life and the computer wisely! Have an adventurous day!
~Chro Hi Ama, how are you?
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