ICE.COLD.COFFEE

Last night after I fininshed charging my phone, I sent him a message...

Me: Hi :) Juz reached home and finished charging my hp. haha... :)

I know, I know. It was a totally pointless message. I just felt curious about what he would reply mah...

Today morning 0720hours

Edwin: Gdmorning mi dear..U on ur way to sch?.. Im on mi way driving to work..Last nite u msg mi..I went to bed liao..Ask u..Did u giv urself ur christian name?Or ur parent giv it to u?Cos i tink charlynn is a beautiful name..

Me: (*hair stand* completely don't know how to reply.)

Firstly, who are you to call me dear?!?! I don't even know you! If it was someone I know personally, then that would be sweet. But... I don't know how to go on...

Secondly, he drives? Sounds impressive, but he's only 24. And that gives me the image that he's that type of busy businessman. Totally different world of people. How to even be friends?

Thirdly, saying my name is beautiful is sweet. But like the 1st point, we're not that close ok...

Oh well... What could I expect him to say to me? Whatever he said, I would probably criticise anyway. But it was a good attempt. Just that I just didn't really like the impression he gave me.

Just no connection la. Haha...

And I'm actually quite particular about other people's sms language. Not as in the words you use, but how you spell your shortforms and stuff. These are the stuff I like to pick on...

1. Think. Not tink. (although u save 1 letter. I'm VERY paricular about this!)
2. Me. Not mi.
3. ... (3 dots) instead of .. (2) (although I liked to use 2 previously. haha...)
4. Too much Singlish or chinese spelling in one sms (lar, ah, hor, liao, le, de, ba...) (1 or 2 would be fine though)
5. Spelling errors! Sometimes it's ok, but if it's quite serious (esp if it's because you pressed the wrong button) , I get frustrated trying to guess what you were spelling.

That's all for now. It's just the stuff I dislike. Everyone has different preferences though. That's why I don't call my friend back after she sends me a sms with the above "errors" to scold her.

There's one person's sms style that I really like. It's Jean, from the TJ entrepreneur club. We are currently working together for the Valentine's day delivery thing so we message each other quite often.

She's a very nice girl. She talks very nicely, even though she may have opposing opinions. And she's not that type of "loud" girl in class. I've only seen her 2 or 3 times though.

As for her sms style, she likes to use ... a lot, doesn't leave spaces after punctuation and uses all small caps. And of course, she doesn't have any of the spelling "errors" that I don't like.

Maybe it's just that I find her a nice person and the tone in her message always seem nice, that's why I like her sms style.

Usually, I don't really like people not to leave a space after fulll stops or commas and I used to like capital first letters.

My sms style changed a little too since then.

The safest way would be to go the completely correct way (in my opinion). Large cap first letters. No spelling short cuts. Correct spacing. And only use one . (full stop). Your tone also matters, but unfortunatly that cannot be taught.