CONNECTED, my ass !!

Just finished my Calculus Midterm. Don't know whether to cry or to laugh. But one thing for sure, I made a silly silly mistake that deserve a knock on my head. Mr Sim is so gonna take the opportunity to knock on my head real hard. Recently, I've spent so much time on the business that I've neglected myself. All the frustrations that pent up for all this while. I realized that online business has ONE major advantage, that is I get to choose what to sell. I'm not restricted to only clothes, shoes and bags. If today, I decided to sell plush toys, I can just do that in a click of a button. So basically what I sell, depends on my mood that day. And it happens that today, I don't feel like selling rather I'm gonna update my blog.

One more problem that I can foresee to arise in near future is that the government implementation that requires online shops to register their businesses. This is a MAJOR problem. Lets put it this way, I opened the business for fun and to earn some pocket money and if at a point I feel bored, I can simply shut it down (obviously after shipping all the parcels. I'm not that responsible you know!) If I were required to register my business, does that means that I need to provide a full account of my in and outs? I see most online sellers or rather they called it as 'dropshipper' (person who helps to collect orders from the customers but do not hold stocks) are mostly students who wants to earns extra income. LIKE ME!! How do you expect students to pay the registration fees etc? With this implementation also, in future, there will be less online sellers. This would bring negative impacts to the country? Have you ever wonder, with less restrictions, people are more willing to risk their time to venture out in business? This would encourage young generations to become an entrepreneur which would in the future help to boast the economy of the country? It's a sad thing that we (me and the ministers of the country) do not think alike.

Last few weeks, I did my presentation on ALS. Yesterday, I finished my Business presentation. I'm so blessed to have such great group members that are really committed. They understand my expectations on certain things. Well, not to put pressure, but I really need to score this sem. If it is an individual work, like the hell would I care about others. So the last week for presentation, I made a point to pen up their presentation topic. This one is from Group 17 on "Should mobile phone be given to children". The speaker was asking the audience (us) at what age they obtained their first mobile phone. Surprisingly, mostly said high school. I always remember being the almost last in my group of friends to obtain a mobile phone. At that time, several of my friends had already changed theirs several times! Never in my mind thought that I'm fortunate enough to obtain one at the age of 11. Thou it was passed down from daddy, my first handphone was with color and GPRS which is quite luxurious at that time.

With our tutorial lecture, Ms Dorthy

Awesome-est group members

Future doctors, pharmacists, nutritionists

 

It's obvious that mobile phones help us to stay 'connected'. Yeah! Connected to boyfriends. Phone connect me with my exs'. Since we're from different classes, we don't meet that often. And no. There is no staying in after school just to date. Perhaps it's because we're from Malay school, where we're still in a conservative mind or rather, we just don't think about it. We're both far to busy to stay back in school, or at least I am. After school, rushing home for lunch, getting refreshed before attending daily tuition classes. That is how competitive Chinese parents are. Mobile phone is our only source of communication. The highest monthly phone bill recorded was 100 over since we're from different operators (mine's Maxis, his was Celcom). I remember Dad summoned me to ask about the bill and I ended up paying for 2 months' bill. Later then, he changed number so it's more convenient and cheaper. The relationship then ended when we went separate ways. Nothing to regret because we're far too different in lives. While I worked hard to get what I want, he was served with sliver platter. While I was so busy collecting perfect score on my report card, he was busy playing games. Not that I looked down on him but hmmm... Maybe 12 was too young but it's an experience, I would say. A nice one.

In high school, I once again dated (does puppy love consider a date? We've never went for a date thou. Boring relationship hor?) For this one, communication was easier since we're from the same class. But after a period of time, it all went downhill when my studies was affected. Dad confiscated my phone. Each day, after school, I would sneaked into my parents room just to send a simple sms to him. I don't remember how but then we somehow went into an agreement for him to tell me a bedtime story each night. Sweet hor? True to his words, he did send one each night. Back in the days, we don't have Whatapps, Line or WeChat. We simply have two options, SMS with limited number of words and MMS, for sending picture. His stories usually took 3-4 SMS, full-paged. Being so young when relationship is the least of concern, it ended after a little less than a year due to misunderstanding which was noticed later after he was in another relationship. By then, I don't bother to clear that misunderstanding since the person can be considered as my best friend. Let bygones be bygones!!

In short, mobile phones did have their disadvantages. Aside from radiation and such (speaker's points), my studies affected the most because mobile phones helped me to stay CONNECTED!

I still have my Chemistry test 2 next Thursday. Shall recharge myself and continue my revision tonight or maybe tomorrow. I hate Ms Alice for giving True/False statement which in my opinion is too irrelevant for Chemistry.

 

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Bye! *muaks