you've got mail

today when i open up m y facebook homepage, i was surprised to find a small little '5' written in superscript next to the 'inbox' button. I was happy. After reading the message, i happily reply to the correspondent, and then i calm down and ask myself, hey, arent this feeling nostalgic?

I used to have 3 pen-pal at the same time. I'm still keep some of their letters, but most of it had been scribbled and thrown away by my second cousin ( who is currently taking up my old room and happily take out all the letters, stamp and photos inside my drawer. oh no...dont remind me about my precious stamp...)

Here's the thing, during that time, i actually received real letter. No e, just mail. Although one of the guy handwriting is ugly enough to beat me, but i still enjoy reading it. I can feel their handwriting, feel the uneven surface of the letter as a result of writing, coffee and water marks that left down by them, and most of all, the fragrance from the letter and ink (obviously another 2 pen-pals are female, i may be young, but i still know i preference).

The letter is so alive that quite often i will start imagining how he or she looks like when they were writing it. during that time, house's letterbox is the first place i rush to whenever i got home from school. If i did receive a letter, i will rush to my room, turn on my air-con, and start reading it on my bed. After reading it, i will start blaming the letter for so short (although sometime it was like 3 pages long in A4 size)

then i will start thinking what to reply while i was eating lunch. After shower i will then start writing down and send the letter out on the next day. Then i will start the routine again of checking the letter box. The moment of receiving letter is really great, and the waiting period make it greater. As much as i know that it would at least take 6 days for a reply letter to send back to me, but i still anticipate it to arrive on the 2nd days and not feeling disappointed if it did not happen

For some reason, all these delay actually make lots of thing more beautiful than it is. i am far more excited to receive mail than email. I am missing someone in oversea more than another one that i know i can catch them in MSN anytime. i have more dreams on Tibet and Mongolia than Paris that can be found in any webpage or even movies.

sending and receiving email is so easy that it lost the beauty of delay. What's worse than that is that you know email only have 5 second delay, and the only explanation that no reply was given is because the recipient is not replying. the waiting of reply would be painful instead. and the prompt reply is not exciting because it is suppose to be that way.

nevertheless, thanks to the laziness, prompt reply still surprise and make some people happy, because you are one of the rare species that actually bother reply upon finish reading...

although i dont believe in horoscope, and i am beg to defer about how Pisces are romantic people, i am a person that don't mind writing love letter to the special one. Some girl might fall for it, but for my case, i'm just enjoying the anticipation of receiving a smiley letter in return.