（刻意）被遗忘的SMS

Let's see. I sent an SMS to 3 girls at around 11:15 AM today, asking them the whereabouts of our Block Test 1 answer scripts.

Time Check: 8:23 PM

And none of them replied.

Only Marcus did. And I appreciate his immediate response, though he did not really help much as he was equally uncertain.

可能她们正忙着温书，没时间查阅她们手机所受到的信息。

Wow. Then they must be some profressional, full-time mugger. An ordinary white-collared worker only works from 9 to 5 in an air-conditioned office. Their working hours is from 10AM to 8PM and still counting....

In any case, how long would it take to check your inbox? What's the purpose of owning a mobile phone if you refuse to get yourself in touch with the outside world?

拥有手机是为了方便我来联络别人，而不是方便别人来联络我

If that's the case, I would say that you are a selfish person. If the whole world thinks the same way as you do, do you think you will still be able to contact people, since people would adopt your same mode of thinking and refuse to let themselves be contacted by you?

What goes around comes around.

可能她们刚换了手机号码，因此我所发送的简讯无法传到她们的收件箱里。

Based on past experience, whenever someone changed his/her contact number, it wil accompany a major revamp of his/her MSN nickname, which will clearly state his/her new contact number.

Or an influx of SMS from that person using his/her new number.

Or you would receive a surprising (surprising because people usually won't e-mail each other unless they form a group for their on-going school-based project) e-mail from that person, reminding you about the change.

反讽吊诡的是，随着科技的日新月异，人与人之间的关系更趋向于冷漠，心灵上真诚的沟通也越来越缺乏。这种人性的演化，与当今科技的发展，根本就是南辕北辙。

科技缩短了远程距离，却又同时拉长了近距离的接触。

Or can I therefore conclude that girls are more unwilling to help out when it comes to academics, since the girls are the ones who did not reply to my SMS? The ironic thing is, two of my female friends confirmed my hypothesis.

还是我的人缘真的那么差？

Updated: The first reply came at 9:36 PM