This is a long post. Skip it if you want!

A few days ago, my internet connection got cut off. I totally couldn't connect to the internet and I was like "WTF happened to my internet?!" The first thing i did was to use my phone to get online, cos I was tweeting halfway. And then I realised that i couldn't get on the internet through my phone's 3G too. Totally pissed the hell of out me. I called Singtel, but I couldn't get through. The next thing came to my mind: If Singtel's internet's going to be down, I'm going to watch my drama now.

A Halt.

You see, that's how important the internet and the computer is to me. Like as if I really can't live without them.

But anyway all the internet connection came back after about half an hour i guess; and the moment I got on Twitter, "Singtel" was trending in Singapore. Not only me, the internet plays an important role in many people's lives too.

I was reading @yankaykay's blog post recently and I thought it was a really good read so you guys should go read it. After reading it, I got reminded of the expository I wrote in Prelim. For those who are reading this blog post right now and have read my essay before, I just wanna say, that essay was bullshit seriously, bullshit! Oh by the way the question was something like "How would life be like if computers did not exist".

For the sake of those who have never read my essay before, and for those who have already forgotten what i wrote, I'm just going to state the main points in my essay. I mentioned that my life would be chaotic, without being able to save all my work on the computer, and maybe losing all my documents (cos they're all in papers), or maybe unable to find them since papers fly all around, and having to search for books in the library/bookstore to get work done (which is a slow process) and there wouldn't be dramas, movies, etc for us. Okay I guess you'd know how crappy i am to be able to write a 2.5page essay based on all these points. And my essay totally gave people the impression "I can't freaking live without a computer!"

Well, I really can't live without a computer. Not only a computer. I can't live without the internet, without my smartphone.

While everyone was at countdown parties yesterday, I was at home.. (#foreveralone) I was listening to 987FM Top100 songs countdown. Immediately after I heard the top song, which was obviously Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO (Everyday I'm shufflin!) a friend on Twitter told me to watch Gayo Daejun online cos it was MBLAQ performing. While trying to load it on my comp, I realised that Ariel Lin was going to perform in TaiZhong's Countdown Party so I loaded that online stream too. I was basically switching between both channels. In the midst of watching these, I was talking to friends on Facebook, commenting on posts, checking my Twitter timeline on my phone, replying to people...

That was how busy I was. Or rather, distracted. I think I've never paid 100% attention to one thing that i'm doing on hand. I could be watching Gayo Daejun but at the same time I'm replying people's messages on Facebook/Twitter/SMS/Whatsapp.

Forever green.

Technology allowed us to stay connected with the world, technology is a driving force of Globalisation, it allows the spread of knowledge, the spread of culture, the spread of information, the spread of news, in just a second's time. But you know what, everything is coming in so fast, so fast that we have to absorb so much information, talk about so many topics, handle so many tasks in 24hours. Receiving faster also means we have to produce faster. And that is why I'm feeling so tired everyday.

I feel like I don't have enough time, I really don't. Before I knew it, I would have spent the whole 24hours that i have a day. And I realised, I don't spend these 24 hours on myself. I spent it on staying connected with the world, with everybody. But the problem is, I can't stop myself from doing all these. Because when you dont stay connected with the world, you would have this happen to you the next moment- Your friend says "..." ; "xxx" ; "*****" and you'd be like "???????" all the way. You know you can't lose connection with the world because things, information, news, etc just keeps coming in. And once you lose connection, you'd realised you'd have more to catch up with.

Next. I find myself saying "okay i'll watch/listen/read/see/etc if i have the time" ALL THE TIME. A Kpop fan would tell me "xxx by xxx is a good song!" and i'll say "okay i'll listen to it if have the time." And then since everyone likes different stuff, i'd probably here that line a couple of times a day. Then someone else would say "this movie is good!" and i'll say "okay i'll watch it when i have the time" There are so many things queuing up for me to complete them, and I have no idea why people tell me they get bored. (even during the holidays.)

Actually there's one last point that I want to touch on, but I'm really too tired to continue. It's like 214AM now. So I shall leave it for some other day.

Anyway, despite all these technology that we have, I realised that we actually dont have much opportunities to express our gratitude, our feelings to the people around us. Which is the reason why I would always write a letter at the end of each journey to the people who are about to leave my life.


This letter was written, but I wasn't able to give to the person that I wanted to give it to...I guess the person would never receive it; some things just don't have an ending. 在这里想要和在我身边陪伴我的朋友说，对不起，我无法把我许多许多的事情说出来，我不知道该从哪里开始，也不知道该怎么把故事说完。其实憋在心里的感受真的不好受，可是我真的不知道该怎么说。

Labels: life, Random

This is a long post. Skip it if you want!

A few days ago, my internet connection got cut off. I totally couldn't connect to the internet and I was like "WTF happened to my internet?!" The first thing i did was to use my phone to get online, cos I was tweeting halfway. And then I realised that i couldn't get on the internet through my phone's 3G too. Totally pissed the hell of out me. I called Singtel, but I couldn't get through. The next thing came to my mind: If Singtel's internet's going to be down, I'm going to watch my drama now.

A Halt.

You see, that's how important the internet and the computer is to me. Like as if I really can't live without them.

But anyway all the internet connection came back after about half an hour i guess; and the moment I got on Twitter, "Singtel" was trending in Singapore. Not only me, the internet plays an important role in many people's lives too.

I was reading @yankaykay's blog post recently and I thought it was a really good read so you guys should go read it. After reading it, I got reminded of the expository I wrote in Prelim. For those who are reading this blog post right now and have read my essay before, I just wanna say, that essay was bullshit seriously, bullshit! Oh by the way the question was something like "How would life be like if computers did not exist".

For the sake of those who have never read my essay before, and for those who have already forgotten what i wrote, I'm just going to state the main points in my essay. I mentioned that my life would be chaotic, without being able to save all my work on the computer, and maybe losing all my documents (cos they're all in papers), or maybe unable to find them since papers fly all around, and having to search for books in the library/bookstore to get work done (which is a slow process) and there wouldn't be dramas, movies, etc for us. Okay I guess you'd know how crappy i am to be able to write a 2.5page essay based on all these points. And my essay totally gave people the impression "I can't freaking live without a computer!"

Well, I really can't live without a computer. Not only a computer. I can't live without the internet, without my smartphone.

While everyone was at countdown parties yesterday, I was at home.. (#foreveralone) I was listening to 987FM Top100 songs countdown. Immediately after I heard the top song, which was obviously Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO (Everyday I'm shufflin!) a friend on Twitter told me to watch Gayo Daejun online cos it was MBLAQ performing. While trying to load it on my comp, I realised that Ariel Lin was going to perform in TaiZhong's Countdown Party so I loaded that online stream too. I was basically switching between both channels. In the midst of watching these, I was talking to friends on Facebook, commenting on posts, checking my Twitter timeline on my phone, replying to people...

That was how busy I was. Or rather, distracted. I think I've never paid 100% attention to one thing that i'm doing on hand. I could be watching Gayo Daejun but at the same time I'm replying people's messages on Facebook/Twitter/SMS/Whatsapp.

Forever green.

Technology allowed us to stay connected with the world, technology is a driving force of Globalisation, it allows the spread of knowledge, the spread of culture, the spread of information, the spread of news, in just a second's time. But you know what, everything is coming in so fast, so fast that we have to absorb so much information, talk about so many topics, handle so many tasks in 24hours. Receiving faster also means we have to produce faster. And that is why I'm feeling so tired everyday.

I feel like I don't have enough time, I really don't. Before I knew it, I would have spent the whole 24hours that i have a day. And I realised, I don't spend these 24 hours on myself. I spent it on staying connected with the world, with everybody. But the problem is, I can't stop myself from doing all these. Because when you dont stay connected with the world, you would have this happen to you the next moment- Your friend says "..." ; "xxx" ; "*****" and you'd be like "???????" all the way. You know you can't lose connection with the world because things, information, news, etc just keeps coming in. And once you lose connection, you'd realised you'd have more to catch up with.

Next. I find myself saying "okay i'll watch/listen/read/see/etc if i have the time" ALL THE TIME. A Kpop fan would tell me "xxx by xxx is a good song!" and i'll say "okay i'll listen to it if have the time." And then since everyone likes different stuff, i'd probably here that line a couple of times a day. Then someone else would say "this movie is good!" and i'll say "okay i'll watch it when i have the time" There are so many things queuing up for me to complete them, and I have no idea why people tell me they get bored. (even during the holidays.)

Actually there's one last point that I want to touch on, but I'm really too tired to continue. It's like 214AM now. So I shall leave it for some other day.

Anyway, despite all these technology that we have, I realised that we actually dont have much opportunities to express our gratitude, our feelings to the people around us. Which is the reason why I would always write a letter at the end of each journey to the people who are about to leave my life.


This letter was written, but I wasn't able to give to the person that I wanted to give it to...I guess the person would never receive it; some things just don't have an ending. 在这里想要和在我身边陪伴我的朋友说，对不起，我无法把我许多许多的事情说出来，我不知道该从哪里开始，也不知道该怎么把故事说完。其实憋在心里的感受真的不好受，可是我真的不知道该怎么说。

Labels: life, Random