2001-11-30 ~ 9:09 a.m. ~ Online Friends!
Today, I try to talk about my friends. I don't have a lot of friends in Singapore. I don't know why, I used to have a lot in my younger days, but somehow we just drifted apart. No quarrels, no unhappiness. But maybe they say life is fair. If you don't have a lot of local friends, then you get a lot of other friends from all over. I have friends from USA, Canada, Japan, Jamaica, Australia, Hongkong, now even Israel, the list will go on and on probably in the future. So am I lucky? I think I am considered quite lucky. I learn a lot about other cultures through them and I am always amazed when they tell me something I don't know. Even though they live hundred of miles away from me, I feel close to them in a certain way. Sometimes even when you're physically with a friend, there might be things that you can't say, or you don't know how to say. But when you're online with a friend, somehow, everything just pours out. Maybe because you don't really know the person, you don't need to see him/her. You just want to be yourself, and if they are really your friends, they will like you just the way you are. I think that's the beauty of all these online friendship. I hate it when people judge me for who I am, where I am working at, what I do during my free time, what I wear, what I eat. There is this guy, I don't remember his name. He wrote to me and started saying things like I'm wasting my time sewing for sick children, they don't need these, but they need money and food. What does he knows? These children are not homeless or poor. They have families, money and food. They are just unfortunate to have terminal illnesses and what they want is just care and concern from other people. I trashed his letter into the bin. I just get very agitated when people doesn't understand something and start giving their opinions and worst of all, think that they are an expert and knows a lot and tells you what you should do. I love my online friends very much. They keep my saint.
I used to type out all my friends' names here, but I've deleted it as I want to protect their privacy.
Updated 6/9/2002
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