Yai’s Kor

For those who don’t know me very well, let me start off by saying that I am a real sucker for nostalgia. It’s probably the main reason why I show interest in the things that I’m interested in. One such example: I love watching new animated movies and TV shows because those are rooted very solidly in my past. But I have just recently found a brand new way for me to relive yesteryear: cleaning out my many email inboxes.

Off the top of my head, I have four email addresses my current one, my school one, along with my other defunct ones: my first one [albro8190@yahoo.com] and my other one [stealingthewind9348@gmail.com]. I know, most of these are very gaudy and/or tacky, but keep in mind that I was only 14 when I made my first two. Well, I recently signed up for another yahoo account because I felt that I had outgrown my first one. So I decided to go on a email deleting spree. And I found emails dating back to 2005. Holy crap. I was like 5′1″ back in 2005. And most of them I was right to delete for multiple reasons: spam, spam, spam, outdated email greeting, spam, spam, princeton review update, spam spam… you get the picture.

But want to know what my oldest email kept was? It was HTML sent to me. For my Xanga. It was archaic, the code in this email. But the one thing that made me smile was who it was from. It was a girl from Georgia I had a slight crush on way back when, during a trip to Korea. It was the Korean Spirit! trip I went on before I was even in high school. It’s how I know James Ha the body beatboxer (but don’t quiz him on that, he probably does not remember me at all). And the name alone, along with the message she sent with the code was a nice gift from the past for an otherwise bland and cruddy Sunday. So, to Carol Lee, thank you for that wonderful code almost five years ago. And thanks for making me smile now.

A suggestion from me to you: go look at your inbox or your archived messages in your mailbox. It’s bound to surprise you, and maybe even make your day a bit better.