I.R.C? I.C.Q? Does these two terms ring any bells in you? Well, congratulations! If you know what they represent, high chance you belong to my era or so as to say, dynasty. And if you do not understand these terms, don't be despondent, because you belong to Generation-Y that dabbles around with more familiar terms such as MSN, IMVU, MapleStory, W.O.W....etc.
Well, when I was in my secondary school days, I heard so much from my friends about IRC (also known as Internet Relay Chat) that I decided to give it a try and have a feel of it. It wasn't before long that I was into the matrix world of IRC and busy chatting along with online strangers. Totally unregulated, everyone could speak anything they liked. Vulgarities, casual conversations and even cybersex dominated these chatrooms.
I started out on a journey of exploration of this new virtual community. I ended up making alot of new friends just from hours of punching away at the keyboard with my eyes glued to the screen for hours. From making bundles of online friends, I got to know one of them better and that sparked everything off.....
We started chatting daily for a hour, getting to know each other. Name, age, school, address, family background, hobbies.... we shared it all. That was only the first week we knew each other online. By the second week, we were sharing about our past i.e. how many boyfriends / girlfriends we had before, the kind of boys / girls we liked, and even what we hope to see in our future boyfriend / girlfriend. From one hour daily, we progressed to three hours daily and this online friendship went on for 3 months.
I enjoyed this online friendship. I felt I could really share my heart out with this friend and she understands how I feel. I also enjoy hearing her share her thoughts and could sympathize with the things she goes through. somehow this thought came to my mind, "Gosh! We seem to be made for each other! 天生一对龙凤配！"
Silly as this may sound, one day I decided to pop her the question on the IRC... "Do you want to be my stead?". After 10 seconds, which felt like eternity, she answered....... (To be continued.......)
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