Farewell, Idler

When news of someone's passing is conveyed, you find yourself searching for memories of that person, and look for any accompanying anecdotes that might somehow help encapsulate that person's life. You try to frame a life.

Some of us here didn't know La Idler that well outside of her blog and her contributions to Tomorrow.sg.

For whatever La Idler's life was outside of her blog, outside of the editorial team here, she offered only guarded hints of what that life was.

We knew La Idler and we knew of Sondra. We knew Sondra to be feisty, sometimes even uncompromising. We also knew her to be compassionate.

If that little window she showed us was anything to go by, she must have been a wonderful person, and she must have had a wonderful life.

And look, here we go again, "framing" a life in a snippet But that's what you do when you have 27,973 things you did in the past year, and you couldn't possibly remember all of them, right?

Or, you could click on the Archives. Or click on the Categories. Or click on the Tags.

It'll take time, but you'll put all 27,973 things together into one big, big story. Put it in any order, and come up with a different story, a different angle and a different hue. You will see different sides of Idler, Fembot or Sondra — names she went by on different occasions and in different contexts.

But whatever identity you went by online or off, thank you for blogging and archiving your stories. Thank you for contributing to Tomorrow.sg. Thank you for sharing of yourself. Thank you for being a friend.

Thank you Sondra, and farewell.