Filed under: AVB memorial
Well, it wasn’t supposed to end this way. But well it is. It all started out from a single spontaneous spark of inspiration to spawn this absurd creation in the wee hours of one Saturday morning many moons ago at Changi airport. No one could have predicted its evolution (or degeneration) over the course of the next few months; the various changes in direction it underwent( from being simply about ‘nothing’ to being ‘everything about nothing’), the recruitment of new contributors (even if their contributions had been scarce and infrequent to be politically correct) and the eventual rise in readership ( though of course maintaining it had been a constant struggle).
We never expected for this to happen, but the site had been in terminal decline for past few months. While its demise may have been prolonged in one desperate manner or another, it was unfortunately inevitable. So as painfully cliched and irritatingly overused as the phrase ‘all good things come to an end’ might be, it does ring true. The AVB has run its course and sadly has nothing left to offer. It was not our wish to go out with a whimper like this; but one can’t always hope to go out ‘with a bang’. Especially when it’s beyond one’s means.
The AVB might still be brought back to existence in an alternative form or incarnation. But that remains still a construct of imagination, and only time will tell if will manifest itself as something more significant. In any case, it will bear little resemblance to what the AVB used to be. That much is certain…err i think.
We like to thank our readers who used to be loyal and who probably will not ever read this final entry. Their readership, especially at the pinnacle of our…ahem popularity remains valued. We also like to thank our contributors (other than the original trio) who apart from the odd post or so had contributed next to nothing as their pretty faces prominently adorn our banner. Their contributions, however minimal, remain appreciated. So i guess it’s an anticlimactic goodbye then… So yeah goodbye.
On a lighter note, the Banker just procured a d40x Nikon dSLR camera. So happy times folks!
- The Editor
