The Ramblepit Eulogy

By Jonathan Chan

So what’s the Ramblepit really all about?

Is it about advertising Jack’s Sex Pasta and Cars? Is it about the squat toilet?

Or is it just an unfortunate accident that the ninja stumbled upon in his travels of the world, full of unforeseen misdeeds…

Initially, the ninja came up with an idea.  He was initially intrigued by it, and then he became more and more excited with it; some might even say, aroused.  He gathered many together, with scarcely any of the horde refusing to write for his utopian website; a place where people could pour out their emotions, something which could not be done on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Pornblog or whatever else, without having a policeman charge you for defamation, and having your name put in the newspaper.

Ninja writes bad things about Mr. Andrews on Facebook

So here these peons were, under the visor of the ninja, with them all under his control.  The ninja censored the articles, published some of the best himself, and also ran his new found toy with surprising efficiency.

But, what was the point?

Soon, we saw the desperation of many attempting to keep up with this revolutionary craze that was positively gripping those who led, seemingly, boring, and uneventful lives.  People typed articles day and night, ranging from I WANT TO KILL LOL to Random Ads.  Indeed, there seemed to be many more people jumping on the bandwagon, keen to write these 10 page long ramblings which they thought people would actually read.  Of course, people did read them.  Initially.

Just like people were almost having a competition to see who could write the most articles.  Initially.

But all good things must come to an end, and that saying is perfectly illustrated with the Ramblepit.

In short, let me rephrase. 

The ninja came up with an idea.  He thought it would last.

It didn’t.

So, as a memorial of the Ramblepit:

The Ramblepit is dead, but when I caught the ninja on his very frequent travels one day, he insisted that his “pet” is not dead, but simply sleeping.  Maybe it is too soon for me to portray the Ramblepit as dead, but at the moment, the word “inaction” springs to most peoples mind when they think of the one-time “flash-in-the-pan”.

Really, the idea was good.  But all it needed was one lot of mid-year exams for it to be killed, with the hustle and bustle of preparation eradicating the spare time to write articles for this utopian webpage. People just don’t have the time to write articles.  In the beginning of its time, the Ramblepit was a craze, with people writing articles to gain glory.

But in its time of desperation, the Ramble pit needs to re-gain glory for people to feel the motivation to write for it.

Now, we must ask ourselves the questions:

Will Lazarus be raised from the dead by a miracle?

Will the sleeping beauty by awakened by the charming prince?

Will the Ramblepit rise again to craze-dom?

And if the Ramblepit is revived, will it stay on to become as legendary as the Ninja once thought it to be?

Jonathan Chan