I just read about the death of a local blogger on the Singapore blogger bulletin, Tomorrow. La Idler, as she called herself on her blog, died of a rare blood disorder on Nov 30. The wake was held yesterday and the funeral is today, said her friends who posted their remembrances yesterday on Tomorrow. I saw it only today because I don’t check that site every day.
Idle Days, as La Idler called her blog, was one of the first Singapore blogs I came across — and linked to for some time. Singapore bloggers are mostly young, hip to media and technology and passionate about many things, and La Idler was no different. She was one of the leaders, in fact, an editor of Tomorrow along with top local bloggers like mr brown and Xiaxue.
My interests mostly take me to other blogs which I can relate to more closely or which are more exotic to me — a middle-aged Indian living in Singapore, with a son in college in America.
However, it was moving to read La Idler’s last post. "I may have dengue", said the headline, and the post began: "Dammit! I am suspected to have dengue. Not fun at all." That was on Oct 27. She couldn’t — or didn’t find the time to — write after that at all.
We can only learn what the writer reveals on a blog, so I have no idea how La Idler or Sondra — for that was her real name — lived her days since that last post on Idle Days. But the blog remains on the Net, a reminder of the life she lived, the interests she pursued, the ideas that consumed her. That is the beauty of blogs. Each is a window on a life and a world. Idle Days with its Google Ads, Answers.com search box, beautiful template and digital photos is a chronicle of a young life in Singapore — cut off too soon.
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