On a very ordinary day a few ordinary days ago,
a very ordinary me opened my very ordinary email account
just to do a very ordinary routine check.

To my surprise,
I received a NOT-THAT-ORDINARY mail.

It just says,
in a very ordinary way,

hey babe,

havent seen u update ur blog for ages. everything alright? email me.

xoxo,
angie

And just like that,
she made my very ordinary day,
extraordinary.

Thank you Angeline Tan Lay Ting.
I felt the warmth all the way from across the big blue ocean,
all the way from where you are in Australia :)

You see,
I genuinely enjoy writing.
I actually do take pride in what I blog about.
In my humble opinion, there are too many blogs in cyberspace
filled with boring crap written with lousy, uninteresting English,
not to mention going into irritatingly meaningless details,
it really doesn't need another one.

I guess the bitchy me just hadn't fully realised
that blogging isn't just about the language,
or the content.

I used to wonder how people could be so vain,
to stuff their blogs so full of pictures that are not even pretty or handsome
to begin with,
or to blog about everything and anything that happens to them
even though they noe,
(I mean, how can they NOT KNOW )
that reading their written English is an unbearable torment.

Blogs actually serve a deeper purpose,
a much more meaningful one,
one that gives even the boring-est person alive,
the right to that piece of cyberspace,
yes, even the right to produce "cyber-pollution",
"cyber-contamination"

simply because it gives the people who care about you
a chance to peek into your life,
a way of knowing how you are doing,
and a way of holding on to that friendship
in their own time,
in their own special ways.

And she says:
I got a little paranoid and worried for a while,
thinking adverse stuff happened to u and I didnt know
coz ur blog is really the only way i know that u are alive.
so yup i decided to email u,
just in case, you know.
i found it weird that u totally didnt blog for so long.
im nt a big fan of wordy blogs
(yes, im a visual person, the better looking the better i like it)
but i actually enjoy reading urs
(nt that u dont have nice photos)
coz i thought it is witty and funny and it cracks me up after a tough day sometimes.

ey, am i doing a good job at persuading u to blog again?

You did an excellent job at it in fact.