There is a saying that goes along the lines of '..you can try to forget your past, but it'll always come back to haunt you'. This morning I got a call on Skype which just blew my socks off, it was a call from Robert, whom I haven't seen nor heard from in close to 29 years! The icing was to hear Flavia's voice on-line as well, although I've e-mailed her in the (recent) past it we had never talked on Skype before this day.

Just to add a bit of strangeness, they were in fact calling me from the 'past'. Let me explain, Flavia is in New York, Robert in the Netherlands and me in New Zealand, so Wednesday 6:20AM my time is Tuesday 8:20PM for Robert and Tuesday 2:20PM for Flavia, and since Robert initiated the call...................my past was indeed calling me! :-) ;-)



Ah, the Internet is a wonderful place indeed! I had never before imagined that we'd ever be conversing across the world, in different time zone in different countries at the same time!

On Sunday, out of the ether I got an e-mail from an old classmate of mine, Robert. He managed to track me down thanks to our AOSR (American Overseas School of Rome) coordinator, Flavia. Utterly unreal, man! Who would have ever imagined that after all this time we'd hear from each other? Hmm......makes me wonder who else will emerge from that vast ether of the Internet next!