Logging in from “Jolicloud” on my netbook. Had to try the “super-optimized Linux” operating system designed for netbooks. Was hoping to extend battery life but it’s almost the same on cloud and windows. Still, it’s a whole new experience. Downloading of apps is a cinch and you get introduced to so many interesting sites all at once. I found “Writer“, a no-frills internet typewriter (bright green font on a black background) to be quite conducive for writing. This is what I started there:
Once upon a time in Manunu, there lived a girl called Tudo. She was half the size of a normal child and so they gave her the nickname, “fairy’s child”. No one quite knew where she had come from, only that a young couple, Mr. and Mrs. Roddy Mach, had found her at their doorstep one morning snuggly wrapped, with nothing more than a piece of paper with the word “TUDO” on it. Since no one had come to claim her, they had just continued to take care of her.
In those days when food was scarce, it was not unimaginable that someone would give up their child, with the hope that they would have a better life. And those who had enough did not mind taking care of another child. Nor did the community at large take great offense to such matters, for they believed a child is a child, no matter whose child he/she is. And so Tudo did not feel different or less despite of her mysterious origins and small stature.
And no, I didn’t expect to start writing a story. The “Writer” be with you. Lol.
**23/2/2010 – I made up the names but when I googled them, Manunu is an actual place in Samoa. And apparently, Tudo means Everything (in Brazilian Portugese), Tudo bem? literally means Everything well?, and Tudo Azul means Everything is blue – “an old Brazilian expression meaning ‘all is well‘”. Backward research. Hehe. No such thing as originality anymore, the things we pull from our heads! Got to get use to that.