Monday, January 29, 2007

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Yesterday when I woke up, I checked my email. I saw 3 identical spam emails from somebody with an anonymous name "asdfgh" or something like that, and was just about to deleeeeeeeeeeeeete it when... I decided, why not read it. I wanted to see what spammer would send me so many of the same emails.

I opened it. It was in Vietnamese. For a moment, I thought, no, it couldn't be. I scanned the Vietnamese, not really comprehending it, and I thought that perhaps it was from one of my Vietnamese foreign exchange friends in the U.S. who used my email for spam... or something. Then I read the email carefully. I know to read a little Vietnamese. I read it again. Now, the third time looking through it, it made sense.

This email was from someone I met in Viet Nam! The person said something about me being in the U.S. They've sent me a previous email that I hadn't responded to, asked me to respond to this one, and had lots of warm wishes for me. I held my breath, because I was really hopeful. I only remember giving away my email address to one person.

Before I left VN I was in Saigon. I met a fellow that night, and he took me around the city. I enjoyed his company, and found him to be intriguing. Very different from guys I've met before. He asked me once, did I use the internet for emails and chatting, I said "sometimes," and he told me that he didn't know how to use that sort of stuff. The next morning, though, his mum asked for my net information for her son, and I left an email address.

OK. I confess, I thought of this guy ever since I've been back in the states. I left so suddenly, I was too shy to say much when he dropped me off at my hotel, then I barely got to say a word to him when I saw him in the morning because our parents were around, you know. I thought he was supposed to be at work, so I was pleasantly surprised he was there to see me off.

So when I got this email I was in so much shock. He didn't leave a name, and I replied asking for the name of the sender and where have we met, just to make sure I didn't mistaken this sender.



Today I got a reply, and boy did I feel sheepish. It turned out that I actually gave my email address to one other person: my cousin. He'd sent me those emails.

All I could do was laugh at myself. =D

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