I'm ranting about this because one 'well known blogger' ignores my message on the person's ymsgr.
While technology has made it easier for us to keep in touch with our friends and loved ones, it can also make us become an ill-mannered person. Just think of the number of times we choose not to answer an email, sms, messenger, etc.
I think it is OK to ignore unwanted messages (the kind which I don't have to explain in further details), but to ignore a genuine message is like turning our face away when someone asked us something. Do we turn our face away when our friends or family talked to us? Do we turn our face away when a stranger we meet on the street/public transport/anywhere talk to us? They may try to make a polite conversation, they may want to know about something, but we turn our face away like they are some kind of a pariah.
While this haughtiness behavior can be observed on some people, most of us are polite individuals. We speak when spoken to, except of course when we're hidden behind a computer or a handphone. I have friends who are guilty of this, which irks me somewhat but sometimes I'm guilty of it too. I do try to give an appropriate response when I'm conscious about it. Trying to handle it 'later' may cause us to forget about the message totally.
I also experienced this with complete strangers. Well... not exactly strangers if they have blogs and write things about themselves for everyone to read. Reading their pieces could be interesting and enlightening and we thought he/she is such a nice person. At least, until we try to contact them, either through email or ymsgr. The blogger whom we respect can really disappoint us.
The things we want feedbacks on could be out of their blog topic that we think it's inappropriate to write in their comment box. So email or ymsgr we go and all we get is a loud silence. While some 'famous' bloggers may get many emails or messages, but still to totally ignore one genuine message is unbelievable to me. Even Jeff Ooi replies to my email.
Sunflower gives the connotation of cheerfulness, bright, jolly, merry... you get the idea! However, if any content in this blog didn't fit the cheerfulness implied by its name, look at it this way... I'm putting down all the wretchedness, gloom, melancholy feeling in here so I can continue living up to the expectation of making the association to the sunflower.
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