My Last Blog Post
written by John Chow
This will be my last blog post for the foreseeable future. From now on, all future posts on John Chow dot Com will be done by Michael Kwan and Mitchell Harper. They have done a great job at helping me fill this blog with content and I’m sure they will continue doing a great job. I hope you treat them as well as you treated me.
Going On A Permanent Vacation
Starting tomorrow, I will be on permanent vacation. I have sold my company, TTZ Media Inc., to a Toronto based Internet Venture Company. The sale closed yesterday. I cannot disclose the sale price but it is enough that the interest on the money alone would put me in the top 1% income bracket.
Sarah and I plan to spend the next year traveling the world. This is the final realization of a dream. Truth of the matter is, I never expected this day would come so soon. I remember the first time I received a multi-million dollar offer for TTZ. It was during the Dot Com boom days and I said no. Six months later, the Internet crashed. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat them. I do not intend to repeat the same mistake by saying no this time around.
Good Bye For Now
I had a great time updating this blog and sharing my knowledge with you. I will log in from time to time to see how things are going and give an update on where I am in the world and what I’m eating for dinner.
Good by for now. Thank you for reading my miscellaneous ramblings.
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Finally! You’ve been talking about this for days, but I haven’t been able to say anything! Glad to see everything worked out… Congrats!!!
Now you can come visit me in Hong Kong
…and me in Boston. Maybe you could do a tour, visiting all your fans during your travels!
Good luck to you and thanks for everything!
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If he visited all his readers he would never stop travelling! (not to say I wouldn’t want you to visit me
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John got us very well
good luck
Hasn’t John outsourced all the serious writing of this site to two Malaysian women since early November? I mean, we all know he’s not smart enough to come up with all these good ideas.
All John writes are the restaurant reviews.
That is all he seems to know about anyway is eating at fancy restaurants. It’s about time we are rid of him. I noticed that the Malaysian women have better and more believable content on the blog since Novemeber anyway.
So long Chump!
All of us “in the know” already realize this to be true, Nick
April fools! I fell for the Google thing for about a minute because I forgot that it was April 1st.
Haha, I did the same thing on my blog. Although the response on my blog wasn’t as popular as it was here
Wow John… I’m not really sure what to say…
Will you still be running The Tech Zone, or is that part of TTZ media also?
*scratches the most kickass CES party off my list for next year*
The TechZone is part of TTZ Media.
John, this is a good april fools prank. But if it’s not, I’d love to blog as well
Heheh.. it so is!
It is an april fool’s joke. HAHA, good one man.
If it was true, we must agree that john would do a big “hole” in the world. We can’t “live” without john’s posts
Good luck John
I’m sure the new owners will continue the party tradition
As long as they keep on posting pictures of Asian food, I’m happy.
Yea, who else can’t miss the good food? I will!
No one could match John’s food photography skills :p
Send all the readers my way.
Reader hog, Ed!
Dear John Chow readers,
Since JC is not going to blog anymore you might as well bring your evil butts over to my place. Just click my name
Regards,
Dark Side Blog
No way! They should obviously all come to my blog
I can’t believe you guys are taking advantage of the situation. So, I heard Derrich.com is pretty cool.
wow, nice! everybody SHOULD travel the world. thanks for the blog! i’ve learned a great deal from here. if you’ve ever traveled to prague, i will show you around…
Its every bloggers dream to do that, get rich of their blog then travel the world
I think it’s not just every blogger’s dream, I think it’s everyone’s dream to get rich.
.. something smells fishy .. april fools fishy..
I’m sure there will be a Food Review about April Fools Fish sometime soon.
WTF mate?
That’s what I thought! This is surely a joke, but if I’m not mistaken, he’s lost 200 people from his rss feed because of this!
John’s RSS feed fluctuates a lot, especially on weekends.
Nice April fools joke
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I love april fools jokes. I can’t believe you guys are so lame to believe this. =P
Nice one John, almost got me.
Eh…I started writing a huge-ass farewell post to John. And I asked him about it on AIM, and he “went to sleep”.
John is so frikken evil. 
I realized it was a joke when I he claimed it had been sold :p
Happy April Fools’ Day
April Fool’s, right?
I HATE APRIL FOOL’S DAY JOKES!!!!
But I still love your blog, and I’m sure you’ll be back tomorrow.
By the by, you should’ve waiting to post this on April 1st!!!!!
I was going to hold it in, but it seems as if everyone has already ruined the April Fool’s fun :(.
S
A case of timing. It is just after midnight. Should’ve waited a few hours.
I believed it for a sec…then was like wait a minute…..April fools. Then I read the comments to confirm lol.
Well done.
Man I really hope this is an April fools joke. You really had me for a second…
You had me for about 5 seconds!
But then I remembered I sent you the check to buy TTZ Media. It’s here. I think it was for $6.95 after a cashback coupon!
oh, yes… Happy April 1st.
WOW….April fool….but is it true?
If not…that’s fine…
If yes, Let me know you new blog….I must follow you….learn the great stuff you have…
Is Michael and Mitchell still going to be doing the blog reviews? I was just going to do a review so I could get a link back!
You can go ahead, it will still be up.
Don’t worry Gregg, it’s just a joke.
April Mop. he he, nice joke.
This is one of the semi-believeable April Fools i’ve seen so far
HAHA, I did a similar thing over at my blog
Nice one.
Now people have truly ’spoiled’ the fun..
I wonder what’s Google up to this year, though.
Google Paper is their joke this year…
Google Paper? I haven’t seen it yet though. Have to do a search for it.
good luck and happy trails to you and sarah!!!!