Jason Wong, HKG, YVR, HNL

Since kindergarten, we always heard the phrase, who’s hitting on whom.  This kind of petty drama has not been evolved much even someone is reaching 30.  Co-workers may come to your desk and share intimate message about who is with whom or who is having solo feeling to whom.  Human nature loves to gossip and I won’t pretend I am a Saint or something.  Message like this always provides some light entertainment over a dull course of life.  As long as the gossip arrow does not shoot at oneself, everybody laughs at someone’s pain.  Men are mean, I wonder whether dogs and cats have the same trouble that human beings do.

How many people have been depressed or lost self-confidence over some upsetting events?  I certainly do!  The old me, I would stay at home and play video games to forget everything.  The new me, I provide what modern day people called, affirmation, to myself.  During those depressing/emotional time, you have to look at yourself through the mirror and tell yourself (I usually don’t say it out loud) that “you can manage it”, once per day.  Gradually, your confidence will be picked by your affirming behavior.  I have learned a phrase from a former co-worker, “it takes a lot more to hurt my feeling.”  I did not really understand how to achieve that until now.  In business world, you can’t look defeated - life goes on with or without you feeling down and saggy, then why hurt yourself more by feeling negative?  Be smart, be positive and be confident, be affirmative!

People who write blogs, they do it once per day like diary.  I am different.  I write whenever I want.  Usually I do multiple posts in a session.  That’s just me - my brain offers wide spectrum of thoughts when my fingers touch the keyboard - it’s my own version of auto-pilot, my brain and fingers are talking, not me!

I remember, I was one of those pioneers who played ICQ back in the mid-90’s.  My ICQ account has only 6 or 7 digits (can’t remember, too long ago, the login probably won’t work anymore).  Oh wait, I actually had a Geocities website featuring a lot of blinking html tags and frame-within-frame with scrollbars everywhere for the sake of “cool effects”.  I think I really got a lot of time before I hit 20.  After university graduation, I have minimized my online footprint and started working my way up.  A few years later, I got my Classmate.com account - again, I forgot my login, so if there is anybody who wants to contact me, good luck, I don’t know which email account I registered that for.  I got my facebook account 2 years ago and sorry to say, my page probably gathers the most cyber-nano-dust.  I hardly touch it after getting one for my friends’ sake.  I tried Twitter.  Oh boy, how exhausting to tell people, I am cooking, I am reading, I am working, I am buying grocery, I saw a red bird, I played with my cats, I…I…I…  This web 2.0 or social media thing is really taking a new level of annoyance, especially your friend got an account from a new media site and he shot an invite to you and I have to act polite to honor that invite by creating my own account/profile.  If there is a cyber junk yard for these “texting” and “accounts”, I think the size won’t be smaller than the orbit of the outer space.  But one thing I can quantify this cyber junk yard phenomenon, we really did burn a lot of coal to power our computer/PDA to write those self-absorbed pages.  People are talking about conserving energy, why don’t they start looking at how many people can’t live without computer nowadays and computer is still plugged into an electrical outlet.  Scientists have not invented a PC powered by salt water and produce oxygen as by-product, if we do, world crisis is over.  (I made a promise to my friend that I will “renovate” my facebook page before Xmas coming - a promise is a promise, I will do that for his sake.)

Writing blog is like working out - if you stop for a week, you may end up not doing it at all.  I can’t believe it’s mid-November now and my very last post was about Transformers 2 - a movie that I could watch in my outbound flight from Seoul.  For those readers who patiently want for new materials, I am going to pump out more from my brain factory tonight.