Blast from the past

I got an email today, writing "in reference to your website, regarding 'Nada, Zippo, Zilch' looking [sic] maternity wear" and recommending that I take a look at the writer's local maternity wear website. I was going to do just that, when I realised that I couldn't recall writing recently about the dearth of maternity wear in Singapore. Admittedly, I still rant briefly about it from time to time, but a phrase like "Nada, zippo, zilch"? Hasn't crossed this blog's past at all, not even taking into account the old 2001-2002 posts that I'm slowly migrating over here.

And then it dawns on me to search among the really old stuff I used to write, and lo! there it was. The "Nada, Zippo, Zilch" webpage in question was written more than four years ago. Again, admittedly not much has changed since that time: maternity wear in Singapore is still, on average, pretty bleak stuff and the local government is still trying to figure out how to convince folks to have more babies. But I guess the writer missed the part where the date I wrote the piece is published right under its title. And sent me her email anyway. Which is a strange thing to do, in my book, but maybe when you're starting up an e-commerce site, you do what you gotta do.

Which still doesn't mean she gets a gratuitous link off this blog post, because I'm a little doubtful about people who don't check when webpages were last updated before shooting off their emails. Just because something's on the internet doesn't make it still true, still believed, still representational.

Even if I still hate local maternity wear and that's a big reason for not going down the pregnancy path.