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November 13, 2003

Snail vs Email

Why snail mail and not email??
Why manual instead of online??
Why??

Hmm why dun we give it a thought.
A kampung house and an HDB flat.
Both are places we live in.
Both provides shelter above our heads.
Both are places that we retreat to after a long day of work.
A place of solace to some of us.
A domain, a recluse.
But the diff??

Nostalgia.
Rustic nostalgia.

Call me old-fashioned.
Call me square.
Call me backwards...i dun care.
Call me traditional even.

But nothing,
And i mean nothing,
Beats the feeling of opening tat old rustic mailbox of mine and to find a letter.
Yes!
A letter!
Not some bills and spam!
That all too familiar worn out, rectangular piece of paper that haf my name written on it.
My name!!
Written lovingly and carefully by the kind and gracious sender.
Posted specially to urs truly.
Sigh.

Now tell me.
Do you get that same kind of feeling when u check ur emails?
I dun honestly.
The feeling of having a letter or card handwritten specially to u is so much more different than facing a monitor reading typed words.
Yes the content maybe the same but..its just too impersonal.
Like a shell without a soul.
Hahahah.
Im weird rite??

Thats it den.
Cheers all.

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hohoho.. true so true..i love writting letters...!!!

Posted by: jiji at Nov 17, 2003 10:14:13 AM

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