EZ

it just struck me how weird it is that practically everyone i know has a mobile phone. and it’s almost become a necessity instead of a choice/luxury (like “i’d love to have a phone with me wherever i go, how convenient!”) remember when we were kids in primary school and kids who had handphones were like… RICH. and then in secondary school, when we passed out classlists for whatever reason and we had to fill in our handphone numbers in one column, it was still common and not strange for people to leave it blank, or write N/A (which i recall being quite a cool, adultish thing to write at that time.) i can’t exactly remember when i started thinking “oh how weird” whenever i was told that someone didn’t have a cell phone. somehow i remember always imagining the person walking along the street and taking a bus, and staring out the window. it would’ve given the person more imagination time because everyone else who had a phone (OR A PAGER omg) would be looking at it while walking, while crossing the road, while on the bus, while in church. it is now possible to go from school to home to wherever and not notice ANYTHING because you were too busy looking at your messages, your ears were plugged so all you heard the whole time was christina aguilera and you didnt have to communicate with ANYONE while taking the public transport because the EZlink card just makes everything so EZ. no ticket tearers (where have they gone!) or asking the bus driver how much it’ll cost to go somewhere. and as if things couldn’t get worse, the few precious moments when someone looks up from text messaging, your eye gets caught on just for laughs gags on the screen in front of you.

okay so i started out talking about cell phones. and right now, i doubt i can find one person that i know who doesn’t own a mobile phone. everyone is trackable, everyone is contactable, everyone has been turned into a paranoid person darting for his/her phone everytime the screen flashes. and as much as i wish to desert my phone and my contactableness, there’d always be something important that i could miss like the US embassy calling me to clarify something about my visa application, or the university calling me about something or my family calling me about an emergency. how did people survive these things without phones in the past? which reminds me of romeo and juliet… the whole donkey/horse delivering letters too slowly so they missed the message and died thing. so the fact is, they didn’t survive. and that is why pagers and handphones were invented. and now people are “dying” of radiation and killing themselves and other people because they were using their phones while driving.

this is all quite funny and humans are inherently self-destructive creatures, don’t you think?