Yvonne Foong

Yay! I’m back online again. The Taiwan earthquake did not affect my website, which is hosted in Cyberjaya. At home, however, internet connection was disrupted. For two days, I could not connect at all. But check out my webstat. I guess the bulk of my readers are international, both local and foreign. That’s good news, isn’t it?

The brief halt did not affect me much. Even though I could not check my e-mails and communicate with friends over MSN, I’m not dead yet. Instead, I found time to indulge in books, yes paperback books, not e-books! I also whipped out letter pads and wrote to some friends. Alas, I was also clearing up clusters at home, dusting and wiping here and there, while cursing the cats for stealing my bacon left to defross on the stove. Buggers.

Life took on a different route in the past one year due to the urgent need to raise enough funds for surgery. I got carried away to new heights and intensed activity. But now, I’m down to earth and smelling the roses again - sitting back with a book and hot tea while others were crying out loud for the slow internet connection.

Newspapers were prompt to interview local bloggers, getting their frustrated comments, publishing reports after reports of unhappy fervent bloggers who got held back from their daily repetoire of blogging.

Thing is, I felt weird. They seemed to have represented the thoughts of all bloggers. Strange. Why didn’t they interview me? The journalists properly detected by sixth sense that I wasn’t frustrated and wouldn’t be able to give them colorful comments.

To put it the Malaysian way - won’t die wan mah.

I was affected too, at first, but after reading about the casualties caused and the trouble needed to fix cables under the sea, my deprivation of the internet was considered a minor issue. At least the internet will eventually come back but the terror of on-site victims were irreversible.

In the past few days I managed to finish Sharon Maas’ The Speech Of Angels, and half way through Leah Stewart’s The Myth Of You And Me. I can’t read an entire book at one continuous sitting, though. It’s tiring.

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