My Hobby

During primary school, teacher always ask us to write about our hobby.

"My hobby is eating. I eat breakfast in the morning, I eat lunch in the afternoon, I eat dinner at night. I love eating very much. I want to grow tall."

I never grew tall.

I still love to eat but my current hobby is changing laptop. I've lost count of the number of laptop I have owned. I should apply for Guinness World Records for the the record of "Person with Most Frequent Laptop Change". Even a guinea pig can claim a record with random thing so can I.

Anyway, since now I'm clueless looking at my assignment I want to post a success story to motivate myself.

I bought a laptop at RM650, used it for half a year, then sold it today for RM700. Life's great :)

Hey have you upgraded to Laksa already?

I think everyone knows Android so I don't need to explain long long.

But do you know Android has its versions named after desserts?

Ants Being Cheated by Google...

1.5 Cupcake
1.6 Donut
2.0 Eclair
2.2 Froyo aka Frozen Yogurt
2.3 Gingerbread
3.x Honeycomb
4.0 Ice cream Sandwich
4.1 Jellybean

I don't even know what is eclair I have to google it while typing eclair just now. Good strategy from Google making more people use Google to search. Anyway I think Google should localize the name in each country.

So in Malaysia it would be:
Cendol Gula Melaka (or maybe Coconut Shake)
Dodol Gula Melaka (yeah Gula Melaka is nice)
Entahlah...(although Egg tart being suggested, but I think "entahlah" or "I don't know" is a legitimate dessert, because when people ask what you want to have for dessert? Many answer "I don't know entahlah")
Fried Banana (Pisang goreng)
Grilled Chicken Foldover (Yeah it's McDonald's, not even a desert, but I like it)
Hot Hot Tong Shui
Ice Kacang
Jagung

then continues with

Karipap
Laksa!

Ok I'm lazy to think further so that's it. It's hard to make the list.

Watch out!

So do you think technology help improve our living? In most of the cases, it's definitely positive. But in some rare cases, technology is really bad...

So let me introduce a technology which is disastrous: the GPS.

GPS=Global Positioning System.

Its novel intention is to guide drivers to navigate. Or for anyone who need direction to find their destination. But sometimes, we can never reach our destination by solely relying on the technology.

Let's see some of my findings

Case Study 1
Location: Arboretum, a place in USA
Time: the past Wednesday
Who: 21 Garfield High School (a school that enrolls only Garfield's fans) girls
A bus driver
A bus
A GPS device
A bridge
A warning sign

How: A bus is driven by a bus driver. The bus driver using the GPS device to navigate. There are 21 Garfield High School Girls on the bus back from a softball game.
And the journey was just like a normal bus ride...which (assumed) some girls reading Garfield comic books and watching the animation with iPod Touch.
Then a CRASH! and it's not a normal crash but the bus was plowed into overpass bridge!
The reason: The driver never use his common sense to look at the warning sign & what's infront of him...but he instead trust the GPS and just drove through the obviously low overpass bridge. What a great driver....My reasoning suggests the driver thought he's driving a VW Beetle.
The moral of the story: never drive with GPS.

Case study 2:
This is a short study investigating the unfavorable circumstance brought by GPS.
"Villagers in Carmarthenshire say they fear restoration work is being damaged by drivers using satellite navigation."Quoted from BBC.
BecauseAfter restored, the building will be damaged again...The culprits: drivers who drive giant vehicle using GPS. They never see how narrow the street...but as long as there's a way, it's a way.

So this is technology.