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Blogging Elegy - written by Edvarcl Heng, a touching reflection from him, who has known Sondra as she is, and not The Idler, fembot or biks, like the rest of the local blogosphere who are now wrangling over what I would consider as something that had good intentions, but poorly executed.

Browsing her blog for the third time in as many hours, I felt oddly comforted. I wondered if she was still alive somewhere. Perhaps on the other side of a computer. Madly banging away on a keyboard to her unseen audience. The words I see on the screen were her words. Her thoughts. Her life. If Faust believed that his past deeds would keep his name alive, so too would hers. Her blog has become an elegy to herself. Every recorded laughter, every thought, every leaf...

I read my first personal blog last Wednesday; and my friend never really said goodbye.

It is a nice gesture by the editors at Tomorrow.SG to want to keep her blog alive as a tribute to Sondra and her writings. I'd stop at that. No to publishing any books and no to collection of funds.

Considering how dirt cheap hosting is now, they should just take the initiative and try to migrate her site/database and host it together with Tomorrow.SG or someone can just donate the space. I would donate some hosting space if need be.

As for the publishing of the book - well, whether they get approval from her family or not - isn't really the issue. A blog should stay where it belongs, online. Whether her family wants to read it, should be their own decision and not be shoved a book that contains it.

The best thing editors at Tomorrow.SG should do, is to give the fund-raising activity a rest. Just get the hosting settled and let that be her final contribution to our local blogosphere. Her family and friends, will want their time and space to grief, and not to witness or bothered by the mess that is happening online. They won't want it, and neither, I think, will Sondra.

Do take time to read Edvarcl's Blogging Elegy.