TGIT = Thank God It's Thursday ... . (coz Friday is Public Holiday)
TGTIH - Thank God Tomorrow Is Holiday.
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We only have 4 working days this week for Friday is Vesak Day and yes, Saturday and Sunday .... WOoHooO!
- Do I have anything to finish before I go off for this weekends?
No.
Which is, obviously, why I'm blogging here. Haha! And that without anything to talk about. What do I talk here?
Oh ... Yes of course, I have something to talk about. I left my mobile at home this morning. This doesn't happen very often and therefore I feel very empty without my hand phone. According to my boyfriend, I look at my mobile once every 15 seconds (Facebook and Gtalk mostly, and sometimes directions, map, etc.) If he's right, I must have forgotten it within 15-second long interval. LOL. That's quite true because I immediately remembered it once came out from the lift (I usually check my phone once I'm on street, that's where I remembered I had left it at home). But, I didn't want to be late to office(well not that I'm a role model type of employee just because my boss is in-town for this Thursday) I decided not to take it back. After all, there's only one person who's going to call me and that is my boyfriend. Once I reached home I SMS-ed him from internet to his mobile and told him that I won't be reachable from my mobile.
I told my boss that I had left my phone at home and he asked me this question:
" So, how're you feeling without your phone?"
I paused for an answer; but I said "Very uncomfortable" which is a completely honest answer.
"Isn't that strange that we had lived our lives without mobile phone for quite some year peacefully and now we can't live without it? I even feel bad to put my mobile in the locker while I was playing Touch Rugby where I'm not supposed to bring it anyway"
He is right.
I just started carrying a mobile phone when I was 18 and that mobile phone was just a phone ... not everything yet. Until recently, the phone I was carrying was way so simple and I used it only as a mobile phone. But now, a mobile phone means
everything to me – a calendar, an organizer, an entertainment tool, a social network, a communication device in
MANY different ways (phone, chat, facebook, emails, etc) or sometimes my mobile phone means the weather forecast and the navigator. Isn't that wonderful?
On the other hand, we are becoming less independent than our ancestors who had never seen a mobile phone in their lives. So what? they still had lived their lives happily – as happily as we are living now, no less. They wrote letters to each other – the real letters on PAPER, not electronically sent letters, they made more effort than we do now. When they wanted to drop by a friend's place, they did go to their house or meet up somewhere to sit down, talked about each other and did some catch-up (not ketchup :P), they didn't just drop by at the facebook wall to say "Hello, what's up.... let's catch up". They did catch up in person. Or they really made effort to dial the numbers and spoke to each other and people also received calls from their friends happily, very heartily. Not like these days youngsters who would reply by SMS "Why did you call?", not even with the courtesy of returning the call. I want to say people's hearts were warmer by then.
Having said that, do you know how much a letter (a real hand-written letter from a close one) can make you feel so good, and so much better than an email? Be it from parents or friends, you hardly receive a hand-written letter these days – with their own hand writing on it because you have your parents in your Instant Messenger , or even on Facebook. I still keep the
occasional letters from my mother and last time she wrote to me was like 2 years ago. Today, she's on my Gtalk and chat with me every other night. She's on Facebook to keep up with my recent events, my photos and even occasionally made comments on them.
Well, I think this blog post is a bit messed up ... because I started with thanking god for tomorrow being a holiday, followed by having my mobile phone left at home, and ended with people no longer catching up in person nor writing emails. But this is the thought for today.
Should I write a letter to Mom now and send by post so that she'd be delighted when she receives it?
Umm... I think it's time-consuming.
Oh Look! There she comes online.
(Chat) " Hi , Mom"
Comments (1)
LOL ... thanks to the technology, we all become lazy.