Happy New Year!
This afternoon, the our family received Christmas card from my mother and my father in law in Australia. What a surprise….not only because Christmas is two weeks ago, but also because Mom has sent us an e-card and ICQ greetings (yep..that’s my tech-savvy Mom!). She usually send us e-cards for our important dates, but apparently old habit die hard, she still feels the need to send a hardcopy Christmas card. Heheheh.
Something different this year, because the card also includes a computer print out which apparently is……….a letter from both of them. Wow! This is new. Mom normally email me (oh yes..she emails me a lot — mostly forwarding info, notes or emails from her mailing lists).
I am curious of what the letter would say because for me it is a bit odd to receive hard copy letters — let alone a letter printed out from computer and in a very formal format.
The letter turn out to be Mom and Step-Dad’s ‘mini caleidoscope’ for 2007. They mentioned what they have been doing in 2007, the arrival of my niece Khalisa and my hubby’s monthly medical visit to SG.
Hey — that looks familiar. Oh yes…I did some similar thing in my alter ego blog. So, why don’t they just do a blog just like the one I told them around three months ago??? I remember clearly that at that time StepDad said: blogs are for young people only. Hah! His letter could well be one of his blog posts. I know he has lots of things that he could write, especially from his travel (with Mom) everywhere and all the photos they took.
I read in my friend JaF’s blog about the oldest blogger in the world. She is Olive , 107 years old and she blog. Well, someone helped her clearly. But still the stories are original. And there is also Peter Oakley, who is 80 plus years old and is still active in YouTube – , people know him as geriatric1927. So, see…there is no such thing as blog is only for young people.
So — if these ‘very senior citizens’ have their own blog — we, who are younger than they are should also have blogs. No? How I wish I can get paid just by browsing and social networking and blogging (hmmm…maybe I should open a separate practice in the office dedicated to this…..hmmm…wonder whether the Boss will agree? Naaaah)
If only I could get StepDad to read this blog and then trace the above links to see these ‘very senior bloggers’ do things that StepDad thinks reserved for young people only.
My Mom chat (with me or my daughter), she sends email, e-cards, participate in mailing lists — so I think next step is they should have a profile in Facebook and have their own blogs and upload their travel photos in Flickr and their videos in YouTube.
I wish I could convince StepDad and Mom to move their old format travel journal into blogs. So I can read it from Jakarta!
Hidup Nge-Blog!
PS: thanks Senor JaF for your insightful posts — wished I’ve read your blog four months agowhen I tried to convince StepDad to blog.
It’s not too late.. I surely would love to read their blogs..
BTW, say hi to your mom for me.. “Halloo tante.. masih inget nggak sama saya? hehehehe.. Itu tuh yang gendut2, suka pake mobil sedan ijo jelek.. kekekekeke”