Endoh’s Dungeon

After reading my latest business blog entry Linda went exclaiming, “WOW, you understand me so well. Heh!”

There is a very good reason why both of us have always been amazed with this friendship between us. We have known each other for 5 long years, but we have NEVER met each other until today. How can that be possible? Well, this post will have no secrets.

Linda and I knew each other from Friendster, and now both of us have tendered our resignation from this social platform. I think she looks really hot, so I dropped her a message. NOOoooooo… I’m only kidding about how we started communicating, because she is one person who hardly flash her pictures online. (Same for me…) So it wasn’t about those slutty sexy pictures that you see a lot of young girls are putting up nowadays. It’s very certain we are not attracted to chat because of our looks. Eventually, it was her travel pictures of fantastic sceneries that gave me that wanting to converse with her.

After a couple of messages in the mailbox, everything went cold. It went cold not because we are not sexually attracted with slutty sexy pictures of each other. We had none to offer each other in fact, so thinking back now the friendship actually took off on a decent note. However, I was attached and Linda secured a new job 5 years ago. Both our commitments took precious time away from social life and that’s how it went cold the first time.

What? There’s a second cold period? Yea… read on and you will know.

I don’t know what got into me, but I decided to drop into Friendster one night to check on everyone. It has been quite some time since I last did so anyway. I dropped into Linda’s account and saw new travel pictures… especially the beautiful sunset. I just took a similar photograph of the sunrise out at South China Sea and so I wanted to share it with her privately. Hence, the fateful day of adding each other in MSN.

Besides travelling the world, we also talked about our animals too. Oh Linda’s a cat lover, so that’s another similarity. It went on for a while getting to know each other but somehow it went cold for a second time. We weren’t sick of talking to each other but rather our life and work commitments took up a major part of our time. I believed that sometimes, we are simply too lazy to chat.

This time, it went cold for almost a full year. I would have thought the friendship was dead… but somehow after that cold one year, we resumed talking like the first time. Isn’t it weird to be taking a roller coaster ride in friendship? Haha… I don’t know how she feels but I’m sure both of us are awed by it.

After this second cold period, we talked even more. You’d know there’s this thing about smokers quitting and smoking even more the second time round. The friendship between Linda and I is like a smoker’s life, literally. Both of us smoke… too! That wasn’t it. Both of us… BOTH SMOKE AND RUN! Hahaha… go figure that! So this time, we talked even more about our lives and friends around us.

Linda is also a marathon runner, and she never fails to make me laugh. Can you actually picture me chatting with her on MSN, and she had to leave midway to go for her run? Guess what? She ran until she forgotten she had to come home and continue the conversations with me? That’s like several hours later! ROFLMAO!

I’m a marathon runner too, but I have never ran until I’ve forgotten to return home. Talk about weird people, I am having a taste of it.

Linda’s a workaholic, and she can never stay still. Even through every single night that we chatted, I know she’s busy with updating her sales report even til the wee hours. (Linda, are you grateful I kept you company now? LOL!) Now that she has changed to another advertising job, life’s getting less hectic for her at night… which is a good thing. Going home means essentially to rest. Isn’t it? And to think I am even the person to help her vet and alter her cover letter. Ahem… it’s hard to imagine someone would send her personal information on the cover letter to be vetted. Maybe it’s the trust, maybe it’s coincidence but I don’t think anyone will do the same with another person whom we have never met before.

Even when Linda told her girlfriends that she has a male friend in MSN whom she has chatted for 5 years without meeting, none of them believed. It’s understandable… because thinking about it now, this friendship seemed so incredible.

Sometimes I scold her and stuffs, but not because I hate her. It’s more like wanting to see her do the right things and have the best in life instead of dwelling in past mistakes we have done.

All in all, it’s been 5 long years. Our friendship basically made up of small talks… from the time before I married, through my marriage, after my divorce and everything else. For her, the year she stepped into her sales job, until she slogged through it and get bullied literally and now comfortably in her new job which she can still find time over lunch to hit the gym.

I can’t think of a single word that I can describe this friendship… can you?

We have always talked about meeting up but somehow, we didn’t. Perhaps a part of me worries that once meeting up, the friendship would change. I am guilty of course, because I often tell her I don’t mind going to where she’s putting up to have dinner and coffee but the truth is everytime she says we should, I never really called her up. Alright, my fault!

Since this is the case now, let me dedicate this post to my unique friend whom has “walked” through life with me for the past 5 years.