In the end, I took a breather, drove to Marina Promenade (Under the bridge where lovers love to take their stroll and Mediacorp's favourite filming location) Finally made my way to Suntec!
People, People, People... don't these peoples have to work on a working Thursday? They all teachers ah? So there I go, making my way looking for a thumb drive and a SD card for Cindy... As I squeezed through the crowd looking for the best bargains, something cropped up in my mind... Is our life so dependant on IT??? Even Aunties and Uncles were easily spotted at the fair. MP3 players dominated the scene... doesn't MP3 promote piracy?? Don't tell me there are so many who can be bothered to burn all their songs from their original CD album into MP3 ok? Yellow, blue, red, small, big, slim... you can find all kind of shapes and sizes of MP3 players! I don't doubt IT brings entertainment to our lives... but to see the amount of people spending a fortune on IT stuffs really make me think... Singaporean Damn Rich Siah! To be honest with you, after paying my bills, my loans and etc every month, I don't think I can even afford 100 pieces of CD-R!!(costs abt 19.90, quite worth buying!Quick, Comex ends Sep 4!)
With oil prices driving prices of most of our necessities up, I'm afraid we will have to bear more costs to meet our luxurious lifestyles! Staring at this monitor for long hours will also add more pounds to my tummy which will definitely incur more health costs for me in the future! So do we really need IT? 15 years ago, I could read more, devote more time to my hobbies(collecting stamps, drawing, etc...) Now, it's just internet, handphone, emails... People behind IT has changed our lifestyles, they have managed to turn us into slaves of IT! The lure of IT is so hard for us to resist! We could be holding a 5 mega pixels digital camera now, but when a 7meg arrived tomorrow, we immediately want to forsake the old for the new. The things that we possess now has no sentimental value at all when we change what we own at such a rapid pace. IT has changed the way we talk to our family, we have no patience to listen, we have no time for people who care for us, people are getting cold. We delete anything with a simple click... things have become so worthless. We can keep a birthday card for as long as we live, but a e-card will expire in 30days...When repairing a handphone is so much more expensive that we can actually buy a new replacement, we create wastage and these wastage may just shortened the Earth's lifespan. Man is creating things that are destroying himself, if not their future generation...But we're happy to live in this IT age, cos' we have decided to be slaves to IT...
YNWA @ 2:57 AM
