You know times when you call up some people and they're just happy to hear your voice? Best feeling in the world. 

I think about the effect Facebook has on friendship. Maybe the fact that we have a person in our friends list, that we read the things they wrote everyday, skim through the photos they post, laughed at the videos they share and clicking on those occasional likes makes us feel that we are well in touch with them, that it is okay, that it fills in for the lack of a more physical contact with them.

It's either that our interpersonal skills are degrading because of Facebook, or it is our human nature that has yet to accept the change in how we communicate. It's quite relative actually, this technologies in communications. In one way it helps us communicate across distances like we've never been able to before. Getting to talk in real time with your loved ones across a dozen seas, getting to see, and not just hear their smile.

We are all sentimental romantics aren't we?

Still, there are still those occasions when you just cringe when people use technology to communicate such as wishing your birthday on you Facebook wall, tagging your name onto a photo of their wedding invitation, wishing Hari Raya via status updates. Sometimes it feels like we deserve a bit more than that.

Well, maybe that's it really. Effort. It's not really the thought that counts isn't it? It's how you hard you strived to deliver that thought onto that other person that's worth its value in gold. A friend told me once that two persons being in a friendship is much like two gardeners planting flowers. You want that flower blooming you can't just sit inside, sipping tea by the window and look at it. Neither can your friend.

Dreams mean work. Work means fun if you're doing it with the people you love.