[#18] I had started online chatting since my secondary school days and I dont mean Instant messaging like Msn or Yahoo. Chatroom--chatting with strangers. Found a nice Msn chatroom TEC on Dec 2002. That room was originally opened for Taiwanese as a place to chat in english. I also forgot how i got in there, met many nice hosts, which one of them was a singaporean..Pearly jie. Though she hasnt been active on chatting for quite sometime, we do keep in contact via msger or sms.
Yup...my topic today is my net pals lah. Hahaha...many people told me that they dont chat with strangers. Ya. Internet world are full of weirdos, strange idiots and of coz...tons of lies. Hahaha! However, I am kinda lucky to find people who are normal lah. My grp of net pals now come from all over the world, mainly from taiwan though. Most of them are older than me, some are single, some are married, some just became parents, some had kids as old as me, some are students like me, some are younger than me...Majority are females though...lolz!
Actually, it was kinda surprising on the topics we chatted. It can be from daily stuffs all the way to politics. I definitely learnt alot from them and of course, correct some of their questions and ideas of my homeland. hahaha! Again, many people dont know much about singapore but then i know some stuffs about taiwan and some other places...so didnt lao kui lah! hahaha!
Well...I did met some idiots there lah..faking nicks, scold vulgar or uttered rubbish etc. Some of them lied but i really think they were super dumb. Eg..in A nick..this person said so & ao.Then this idiot changed to B nick and said so & so..Try to bluff us ah? Pls..be more smarter if u wanna act as somebody else. Aiyoh.
Actually the basic rule of chatting is not to trust what people say lah. But again, from the conversation, u can see if the other party is lying or not. So actually just play smart lor, dont tell people too much about yourself except if u know them for quite sometime. Dont tell secrets too..coz they may spread.
One bad thing about me was too used to Singlish liao. So when i chatted i try to use proper eng lah, but then it was quite hard at times..hahaha! There was one tw gal who kept asking me about english language. Stress leh...coz she indirectly tested me on translation skills and my grammar! Aiyo..ppl u know my english is really so so lah...hahaha! Now i realise i should buck up more liao!
Actually it was quite nice to have friends from all over the world lah, when u wanna go overseas, they can help u too...or even tell u some lobangs. It was also a joy to share their happiness too lah, like one of my net pal just became a dad a few mths back. He actually sent us his baby gal's pic to us...and told us abt his experience lah. I heard when his baby gal was one mth old, he sent the man yue cakes to some other net pals in tw lor. Wah seh...
Conclusion: Well, actually just wanna remind myself that though i dun have many friends, it is really great to have a small grp who can give me support,ideas,opinions or even scold me( though nobody did so..haha). Perhaps we hardly meet now, but then a sms, a festive card greetings or even simply a "Hello" when we meet on the streets...is good enough.
