Monday, October 30, 2006

Penpals

Just received an email from a new penpal. This makes my total penpals to be 6, of which only two are active. I have included the link of the site you should go to if you want to find a penpal. You can also list your site down for other people to look for you.

I love writing to penpals. There is a lot you can learn from them, including their culture, their values, their language, their tradition. Of the two active penpals, one's from Sri Lanka and the other New York City. I get my updates on the Tamil Tigers conflict with the Sri Lankan government from this source. Pretty cool.

Of course, some penpals can go overboard. I have this penpal that kept wanting to convert me to Chrisitianity. But I must say, this group of people remain the minority. And usually, some ignoring will solve the problem.

In this globalised world, it is even more important to learn of other cultures when you have the chance to. And writing to penpals certainly does help. In my emails to penpals, I also take the oppurtunity to "advertise" Singapore to them. One of them actually came to Singapore eventually and wanted to see me but I was in camp.

Emails have rapidly displaced traditional mails as the primary media for penpals communications. However, traditional mails still have the personal touch and feel which cannot be totally eliminated in a world still inhabited with humans.

Alright, time to return mails to my penpals...

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