New-Kid-On-The-Blog

Olla. This is the first time of me blogging. Wanted to have my own blog for a very long time, and somehow something has pushed me to create one this soon, as it was part of the MQA (Malaysian Qualifications Agency), previously known as LAN (Lembaga Akreditasi Negara) requirements that should be fulfilled by us, the students of UiTM I supposed. Since this is my first attempt, I would say that this is quite interesting (yea yea I know, it sounds so lame), but honestly that would be the answer if you are seeking it from me. Just that it crosses my mind that, we are living in the high tech era where people meet and get to know each other online, we tend to be more socialize here in the cyber world rather than in reality. How sad is that? Well come to think of the negative sides of it, there would be lesser and lesser in terms of the number of people who previously, for example; go for blind-dates, meet & greet & shake-hands, love at first sight, sit & drink together, meet at a party, guys wooing the girls, no more hanging outs at specific places or areas, exchange business cards, the horrible pick-up lines and what not. Things that we usually know and heard about especially for those who were born in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The old-skool stuffs, mentioned as such, are considered as out of fashion, out-dated. Instead, exchanging e-mail addresses in order to communicate, creating blogs, Myspace, Friendster, or even online dating, online shopping and online banking are the in-thing. What about the Pros & Cons? U figure them out.

Lets look at these rapid changes in ten to fifteen years time. I can't even think what would be invented and what would be abolished at the same time. As for me, I started to know the internet, and started to "actively-communicate" with friends or whom I called as "strangers", somewhere in 1997. Here how it goes if I were to convey it in a choronological form. First, The IRC. Then came ICQ, Napster, then came MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Friendster, Myspace and now Facebook. (These need not to be explained as I am very sure that we are all familiar with). As I was saying, in ten to fifteen years time, we must be questioning ourselves, wondering, pondering, what are the next in-thing, what are the next in-thing? Clearly this shows that I am "culturally shocked in the cyber world", struggling to adapt myself with all these new-skool stuff, which were totally different from what I've known several years ago. Thus, making this 90s-lover guy, as the nerdy, New Kid on The Blog.

P/S = Listen to the lyrics, The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star; as it says a lot.