Internet Relay Chat

Used to go there everyday... for a real reason i can't really think of now... chat? gossip? scold vulgarities? waste time? How much of virtual is IRC and how much of reality is it?

Meeting someone new and getting to know him online is so easy. You just let your fingers do the talking. Even if you can't talk, knowing what you need to say usually does the work. It isn't difficult to fully express what you want to say, and both of you say more than you can in real life. But how real of the conversation is real?

"Knew him for quite sometime... nearly 6 months... would see him online about 5 times a week... would talk a lot of stuff with him... gradually i found myself liking him... our "talks" will intensified to more serious stuff... and he enjoys it too... one day he asked me to be his gf..."

Virtual partner?

Just feeling so comfortable with each other is so simple without having need to face each other. No need to second guess their expressions... no need for meals and going-outs... just plain conversation...

Lets move this to a more recent stage... "we've got each other's number... and we would sms each other everyday... he would send me cute messages which he knows i like... and sometimes i would tease him for not being macho enough... sometimes we would just call each other and talk... but the funny thing is that we always can't talk long because one of our phones will not have enough battery for a long conversation... well... but we are pretty comfortable with each other... and we always like to hear from each other everyday... but... we haven't met before..."

The simplicity of things... haiz... the more you know... the more you got to bear with...

"We met up for the first time last week... it wasn't like anything that i had anticipated... we didn't even talk much... it was all different... quite awkward i felt... but we will continue to sms each other the following week... then there were the exams that were coming... and we met up again before that... it was like the previous time... we hardly said anything... then... he did not contact me at all after that... not even an sms... i felt so down... i was so depressed... well... perhaps i had fallen in love with him..."

Nevertheless... IRC had provided a lot of entertainment and fun for me... all the crazy topic setting and the kicking and the banning and the scripts and the ops and the voices and the floodings and the downloadings...

Think of maybe 10 years back... hahahahahaha... what the hell is IRC manz... and what is sms? erm... you need to look for me? call my house phone la...
and if i am not home... then too bad loh... or if i am shitting in the toilet... i won't ever know you called...