reading pride and prejudice, i'm so glad i live in the 21st century. i really can't abide talking overly long sentences and being hypocritishly polite. gosh, they even insult or snub people off politely. i say, if you're gonna be rude, you might as well be your rudest. there's no joy in chinese new year this year, no excitement at the smell of incoming red packets, not much except for the droll of doing it because it's tradition. it's quite sad, really. talking to timmy last night i realised how different we are. even though timmy's half singaporean/half malaysian and so am i, we're on two different planes altogether. timmy says "g'day mate" and i say "hello." timmy says "cheers" and i say "thank you" timmy says "barbie" and i say "barbeque". he says "mate" and you'd have to pay me to say that. he's as aussie as they come. (him and zubu) and i'm just somewhere in the uncomfortable middle of having no real identity, singaporean or otherwise. maurice is weird too, he's hongkie/singaporean but for some reason, he sounds american. =\ something went wrong somewhere. lol! at least glo and i and pris (sort of) are more into the whole cny thing. i wonder how long it'll take of living here for me to become like.. so.. unfussed with cny at all.

so..let's talk about internet romances. do they ever work out? the idealist in me quite takes to the idea of finding the perfect person over the unliving, unfeeling internet. =\ dead and cold technology it can be, but when it's used.. oh, the emotion it can convey. it's quite sad, really, how some people are awfully quiet in real life but talk so much on msn. and how you get to know a person and build the very basis or foundation of your relationship (friendship or otherwise) with a person over the internet. what's with that? - food for thought for today. and even then, the internet can be deceiving. sometimes i reckon humans are just too smart for their own good at all =\ and yes, i fully like the idea of an old-fashioned romance - getting to know the person with the human touch. no internet romances for me!