A Reminder

A couple of weeks ago, an old friend reappeared on my contact list.

I am not going to pretend that I am not the least excited about this, because I am, for it seemed like years (and I think it has really been years) since we last chatted.

Even in this age of technology and interconnectedness, she is very much like a rare random encounter.

She has been studying in Melbourne since forever and only drops by Singapore with her family once in a long while. She is another one of those friends whom I have never met and it is quite possible that I never will; the kind of friends whom I already have quite a few.

And after years of silence, when I thought I would never get to chat with her again, she reappeared, on ICQ, the tool which we started out on, the only tool I have known her to be on, the tool which many forsaken for the spanking new MSN.

We did a little catching up throughout the next couple of days which she was online, after which she disappeared again. According to current trends, it will probably be months, if not years, till I will get to talk to her again. These are people whom you cannot forget, but yet cannot really contact. There is always this chance, and every meeting is by chance, which you cannot discount, that they will once again reappear in your life and that you will reappear in theirs. It is always this idea of "perhaps", that you will one day get to interact in cyberspace, a non-dimensional space that holds mutual memories.

It is because of this "perhaps" that they occupy a place in your future.

Hard as I tried but her first nicknames on MIRC eluded me and there is no chance that any remnants of her details would have remained on my computer, given that it has at least crashed 10 times in the past years.

So I checked up my Yahoo! addressbook, and there it was.

Nickname: AngelRain
Last Edited: 03 November 1998