The Past is Just a Mere Glance Away
Hye guys…
Before I continue on wif my detailed adventure in my entry There & Back Again, I think I just wanna take a detour (especially since I really have to sit down & concentrate on dat piece) and just highlight a few things worth mentioning.
Just now I was searching some good free pop email accounts. Of course the best is gmail but I think the administrator here at my workplace has just too much time on his/her hands. Yes it’s blocked! So no IMAP or POP access to gmail here. Now before you ask if I dont already have a pop email account, I’ll say yes I do have one. Its not for me but for my staff since they dont have the official ones so I would like for them to have at least pop email access so messages to them would be almost instantenous.
So a-hunting I went for the best pop email on the net and saw AIM Mail being rated second best. As I registered an account to try it out, the screen name of my choosing was rejected & indicated it was already taken up (tuanwujian). Holy tolido! That’s simply outragous. Who in tarnation would copycat my unique screen name! Scratching my head, I just punched in tuanwujian with an old password I used to have during my students days and voila! I was logged in!
Hahaha silly me, I forgot AIM took over netscape.net (which incidently I registered for an email account way back in 1997). Suprisingly AIM still kept the tuanwujian screen name for me! Feeling all fuzzy and warm inside, my mind began to wander back (as usual) to the golden days of old. Yup, it was really a find this AIM Mail thingy.
Whilst I was wallowing in a trip down memory lane up in my skull, I saw a friendster.com message on my Yahoo! mail telling me that somebody left a comment on my page. So I fired up the browser and launched myself into cyberspace to see who chalked up a comment on my page. Hahaha lo and behold, another acquaintance from the past poke me again right here in the present.
It was another friend I got to know through Y!Messenger (geez my life is all about the internet isnt it) during my UIA working days. It seems she is still studying in UIA probably in her final year. I really have lost touch with pretty much everyone I knew those days thanks to my company’s IT administrators. Sheesh these people really have got to find themselves a pathetic excuse called hobby instead of bothering other people’s life.
Anyway the point is that the past isn’t actually that far. Sometimes it creeps up to you at times you least expected. A pleasant suprise indeed. It humbles one when thinking that life is like a spinning wheel. Depending on the size of your wheel, you find dat something from the past comes sometimes beckons you often or otherwise. What’s more if such memories brought forth is indeed sweet, you’ll find it difficult not to put on hold everything on your desk and just stare at the wall smiling evermore, whilst your mind floats to some corner of your heart where the past is still very much the present.
This is what happened to me tonite. A simple google search and a humble email are what started me smiling alone and sent me back to a time once so cheerish by yours truly. What wonders are the thing called internet. Indeed, it may not be healthy to linger in the past. Nevertheless such indulgences are what make life so much interesting. What so if the past is just a mere glance away!
