There is a good thing about meeting an online friend who is also a fellow blogger. We would already have a general idea of how each other is like from reading each other’s blog. Still, I was pleasantly surprised when I met Adriene for the first time. She was on an overnight trip here and we arranged to meet in church for Mass this morning. Since she is active in Raleigh International Kuala Lumpur, I had an impression of an outdoorsy rough and tumble girl which was only partially correct. I also had in mind a boisterous character but Adriene is soft-spoken and very courteous. She was featured in The Star yesterday.
We met Lilian after Mass. That was sort of a mini bloggers’ meet, the three of us, inside the Cathedral. I thought how wonderful it was that although we enjoy similar interest in keeping weblogs, the topics that we write about is absolutely dissimilar. Lilian blogs about her family and motherhood. Adriene promotes the Raleigh International. I write about the mundane. That is how different we are yet similar in many ways.
I am glad that Adriene had looked me up. Apart from the pleasure of meeting her in real life for the first time, we discovered that Michael, her travelling buddy for this trip, is related to Peter and me. Michael’s grandfather and our grandmother were siblings. Who would have thought that my second degree friend via Adriene would turn out to be my second cousin? Peter and I met a relative we never knew we had. This is an incredible day.
