94 posts tagged “qotd”
What's your favorite thing about the holidays? Least favorite?
The most favourite thing? Being able to spend more time with my family. Least favourite? Not being able to spend time with my friends. But they said there's no place like home. So I wouldn't regret it. It is better to spend your time now or you won't be able to do it again in future.
Do you remember the things you did when you first started using the Web and how it has changed your life?
The first time I was introduced to the internet was through my uncle, as he set up his own computer services office. I was still a little kid back then. We had our first browser called 'Netscape', and there was an animated comet in its which I found was cool. We started of with the homepage called 'Jaring' (which means 'net' in Malay), which served as our default search provider. However, it was not long until I began to know about Yahoo. And I grew up with Yahoo since then (though my email account was Hotmail).
When I was a kid I really liked to talk to people who were outside of my own circle. Even though I was not that friendly back then, I found it much easier to communicate with people without looking at their face. Then I was introduced to mIRC. The great thing about mIRC was that I was able to connect with people as far as the US.
I also liked to create a realm where I could share my interest with people. It all started with a bunch of words written in the Word and put into a floppy, and developed into a homepage with logos, images and symbols that I designed. All were uploaded in Geocities, a famous webhosting site back then. The funny thing was I never realized that the logo that I created was a symbol of Communism, which was considered as sensitive and threatening back then. But I omitted the hammer and had bright colours on the logo -so people wouldn't probably recognized it.
It took me about 30 minutes each month to update the site, due to the 56kbs connection and the limited bandwith.
And slowly I became aware of the advantages of the internet and webpages that I began to experiment with a lot of things. I anticipated the development of the internet and predicted that someday we might be able to stream videos and music and interact with each other using this technology. With the advent of Web 2.0, everything became a reality. Even though such technology existed way beforehand, it wasn't as easy in terms of scripting as today.
Now I can update my site in just 5 minutes each day, though I'm still facing a problem with limited bandwith.
At one point life is made easy with internet.
The holidays are in full effect, so tell us: What's your favorite holiday song? Bonus points if you share it with us!
Since winter is almost in full effect, this song would probably suit best. 8 days before exam and 23 days before going back home..
dore hodo no itaminaraba mou ichido kimi ni aeru
One more time kisetsuyo utsurowanaide
One more time fuzakeatta jikan yo
How much pain before I can see you again
One more time, please don't change the season
One more time to the time when we fool around
wagamama na seikaku ga naosara itoshikusaseta
One more chance kioku ni ashi wo torarete
One more chance tsugi no basho wo erabenai
Making me indulge more in my selfish way
One more chance tripped by memories
One more chance we cannot choose our next place
mukai no HOOMU rojiura no mado
konna toko ni iru hazu mo nai noni
negai wa moshimo kanau nara imasugu kimi no moto e
dekinai koto wa mou nani mo nai
subete kakete dakishimete miseru yo
Opposite of the house, the other side of the alley's window
Even though I know you won't be here
If my wish is to be granted, please bring me to you right now
Betting and embracing everything
To show you there's nothing else I can do
hoshi ga ochisouna yoru dakara jibun wo itsuwarenai
One more time kisetsu yo utsurowanaide
One more time fuzakeatta jikan yo
Because the stars in the night sky seems like falling, I cant lie to myself
One more time, please dont' change the season
One more time to the time when we fool around
kousaten demo yume no naka demo
konna toko ni iru hazu mo nai noni
kiseki ga moshimo okoru nara ima sugu kimi ni misetai
atarashii asa kore kara no boku
ienakatta "suki" to iu kotoba mo
Even at the intersection and dream
Even though I know you won't be here
If miracle was to happen, I want to show it to you right now
A new morning, myself
and the "I love you" which I couldn't say
fui ni kieta kodou
The sudden disappearance of heart beat
akegata no machi sakuragi chou de
konna toko ni kuru hazu mo nai noni
negai ga moshimo kanau nara imasugu kimi no moto e
dekinai koto wa mou nani mo nai
subete kakete dakishimete miseru yo
At dawn's town, At Sakuragi street
Even though I know you won't come here
If my wish is to be granted, please bring me to you right now
Betting and embracing everything
To show you there's nothing else I can do
tabisaki no mise shinbun no sumi
konna toko ni aru hazu mo nai noni
kiseki ga moshimo okoru nara ima sugu kimi ni misetai
atarashii asa kore kara no boku
ienakatta "suki" to iu kotoba mo
At the destination's shop, At the corner of the newspaper
Even though I know you won't be there
If miracle was to happen, I want to show it to you right now
A new morning, myself
And the "I love you" which I couldn't say
kyuukou machi no fumikiri atari
konna toko ni iru hazu mo nai noni
inochi ga kurikaesu naraba nandomo kimi no moto e
hoshii mono nado mou nani mo nai
kimi no hoka ni taisetsu na mono nado
At the railway crossing of the fast pace town
Even though I know you won't be here
If life can be repeated, I'll go to you many times over
There's nothing else that I want
Nothing else is more important than you
When was the last time you received a hand-written letter in the mail? Who sent it?
A cheque from a hotel. Took it as my 'ang pow' (pocket money) for Eid.
What's the best new TV series this fall?
I've watched the first two episodes and I found them very interesting.
Which do you prefer? City life or country living?
Though sometimes there isn't much of entertainment going on, I prefer living in the countryside. Listening to chirping birds, the insects, looking for fireflies. Walking about town. It's just great.I wonder if I am able to visit one of the farms here. Starting to feel like a kid again.
If you were going to write a book, what would you write about?
Loads of stuff. But I would like to write a story about an individual going through his life. Kind of like relating to my own world, my own experiences. Then I might be able to write a story that is truthful and simple. I want to write about things that are affecting everyone and how they deal with it. And I may sometimes change the setting according to my preference.
I've been thinking of compiling the stories which I've written back in school. I'd probably won't sell it, but keep it as a memoir. It is more of a diary of people around me, so I'd better keep it to myself before I change my mind. The story of a legend.
What's the last thing you won? How did you win it?
I had a go with Metal Gear Solid 4 which was bought by my friend. It was an exciting experience as it utilises the real time military engagement system including espionage, close quarter combat (CQC) and making allies. The storyline was also related to the current political agenda in the world: war economy. The game tried to explore the idea of future human soldiers, being injected by nanomachines, so that they can be controlled by Artificial Intelligence (something like universal soldier). They can be bought as Private Military Contractors (PMC), and their weapons are ID tagged so that they would not have total control of them (The AI can stop the weapons from functioning). Then, these PMCs were bought to create havoc across the world. Sometimes I wonder if such war economy is being practiced today (sending soldiers to Iraq/Afghanistan to try out new weapons bought by the governments, when they know that the country is weak enough for them).
I won this game before I went off to Wales, which was great. But it was rather hectic, since I wasn't sure how to work on the CQC against the enemy. It took me a total of 24 hours to finish the whole game (after accumulating), when actually it could be finished in less than 5 hours (excluding the cutscenes, which was about 2 hours). But it was worth it. The storyline, the special effects, the music, matching those of Hollywood movies. It felt like watching a Hollywood movie, with the player as the main character. I hope that they would release a film based on this game one day. Kudos to Hideo Kojima, its creator.
What do your Vox tags say about you? (Add tags to the end of your Vox blog address, and have a look.)
Submitted by Jack Yan.I'm not sure about the food & wine part but I can see that there's a lot about spiderman. Some combination don't seem to fit as well.
Would you prefer fame or respect? Why?
Back in the old days, respect comes before fame. People work hard to gain respect. Thus, it was almost impossible for the young people to get the respect and fame as they had to learn a lot at first. And they need to get to know people really well, and so thus other people.
But nowadays, it is easy for everyone to become famous. With the advent of myspace, facebook, and vox, people can get themselves known to the world with a click of a mouse. Just type some gossips, controversial articles, or do some viral videos, and you get your name etched everywhere.
But to earn respect from that is a different thing. Some people criticise you because they think you can move further, or you are doing a great job. Others are just pulling you down. But whatever happens, it is quite hard to gain respect nowadays, as far as I'm concerned. People are moving about so quickly that they don't even have the time to get to know one another very well. We seemed to be living in an age where a person can easily be described by a sentence.
I would say respect is important to some degree. It makes you more human than being famous. Respect a celebrity for what he/she does to the society, respect a leader for his contribution to the nation. I think that's more important than being presentable to people, but doesn't worth a dime to us.
