Seanffe and her friend Joyce

Seanffe_ my young cyber friend

A knock at my door at the Window Live Messenger requesting me to add a contact has begun a regular chatting between me and my young cyber friend, Seanffe one month ago.

At the beginning, we had to clear our doubts; on one side I was curious as how she came to contact me whereas on the other side she was puzzled with how her email address was in my mailing list without her knowledge.
Actually, it all started with an email forwarded to me by a student at Taman Sejahtera Secondary School of Bukit Mertajam accompanying with a list of email addresses. With this list of email addresses which I assumed to be from my students, I sent them the link to my blog for them to read my posts. I was unaware of Seanffe, who was also in the list, was not a student of Taman Sejahtera Secondary School.
After numerous sessions of chatting, we came to understand each other better as we keep on updating each other.

Seanffe is a sixteen year old girl from a neighbouring school in Bukit Mertajam. She is in Form Four Science class. Chatting with her in English poses no problems to both of us as her command of English is very much better than I expected. In fact her standard of English could be far better than some of the college students I know of. Recently, she had participated in her school’s English Elocution Contest.
She is an open, frank, sincere and joyous girl. I enjoyed chatting with her as she was very responsive and interactive. Sometimes, she would create jokes and come out with funny ideas, some of which I might not agree with. Occasionally, she would complain about her problems in school to let off the steam; I was her safety valve in the pressure cooker. Once in a while, she would pose some questions for me to ponder. At times she would pull my legs too! She always changed her display pictures in the Messenger like what a magician would do to entertain small kids. On my part, I could bring myself down to her level in our chatting; this made me feel younger at heart though I am golden in age.

As I am still new in this Window Live Messenger chatting, Seanffe has become my sifu[master, 师父]. She exposed me to a lot of short forms and emotional symbols which I had to check with her one by one before we continued. She also taught me how to use a file sharing folder; how to export music and video clips.

Seanffe is not only good at study; she is also active in extra-mural activities. Currently, she is a school prefect and the President of UNESCO Club in her school. As a nature lover, she had joined a trip to Mulu of Sarawak to study about forest, animals and caves. This was a project sponsored by UNESCO[United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization] with the theme of Volunteering, Caring and Loving.

It is indeed a weird and wonderful experience to chat with some one in the cyber space. I am glad and thankful to Seanffe for chatting with me. She keeps me informed of many things that I do not know of.

What Seanffe has to say about Zest:

" Starting from the time I received the email from Zest about his blog, I went to visit it and found that his grammar and vocabulary really impressed me. As I always love to chat with somebody who is proficient in English, I sent a friend request to Zest . I was happy too when I read in his blog about his trip to Taman Negara and think: Yes, finally I can find someone who loves nature and likes to travel. I was really happy at that time, because it is really hard to find someone else who is interested in …erm like eco-travel.

The first time when I know that Zest is a retired teacher, it really shocked me. For goodness sake, I can never imagine that I can make friend with a teacher, ha-ha! Well still remember that last time he said that I am quite…noisy... ha… (I might admit it). While Zest claimed that he is a quiet type, what I gathered from my friend about him is… he always likes to talk about himself and laugh to himself too…don’t know is that true? Lol

I thought that Zest would talk like an ‘uncle’ but he didn’t. That’s true. He doesn’t sounds like an ‘uncle’ at all. He knows a lot about IT, still saying that I’m his sifu… that’s totally a bluff… so don’t believe him!! Ha-ha
On the other hand, every time chatting with him…. honestly I got a really slow response from him, maybe he’s really busy, or maybe he is... I’m so sorry to say that, maybe he types slow?? Who knows... ha-ha

Zest is not a dull type as the other uncles do ha! He sometimes comes out with some weird adjectives; I really need to take some times to figure it out. But luckily, I am ‘smart’ enough to get what he means exactly. And he is bad…taught me to lie to another teacher...Mr. Lye…. >.<>