spring cleaning of my msn contact list

as i logged on to my msn from a different terminal today (using Windows Live Messenger) i saw that the contacts whom i have deleted in the past are still there under 'Non-Instant Messaging Contacts'. Began to delete them, this time permanently, one by one... At which i also started to look through my MSN contact list and decided to do a spring cleaning of my contacts.

Even when face to face interaction has been largely taken over by MSN, there comes a point when we speak to one another less and less often until one day, we look at this name on our contact list and wonder 'who's this fellow?'

So went the spring cleaning... All those people whom I deleted are those whom i have not spoken to in a long while... For some, I don't really know them, maybe they were a project group mate from two semesters ago, or an ex colleague from my temporary job, or even old classmates whom we've lost contact with. Oh well. Ppl come and go in our lives and it's a challenge to make an effort to maintain each and every one of these friendships...