The other day when I was having my meal in some restaurant/food court, I see that many people kept using their phones and have zero interactions with their friends or family members. As I am sensitive person, I feel a bit sad about this. I dont know why, but I think that many people have come to a point of hiding themselves behind the phone.
Whenever there is an awkward situation where no one starts to initiate a conversation, everyone will just act busy and get their phones out and keep scrolling Facebook, instagram like as if there is something very important to deal with. This is what I experienced myself and yeah I admit that I sometimes will do the above. But I am trying my best to fight the temptation of using the phone.
I personally feel that many people had come to a point that they feel that "talking" to their phone is way better than talking to people in real life. They won't get hurt that easily. They can have ample time to think of what to reply after receiving message.
These benefits of online/typing communication seem to be more than verbal communication.
But anyway I still think that verbal communication is a lot more fun.
It's different telling a joke in text and in real life. When you see your friends smile because of a funny joke in real life, it is a far greater feeling than seeing an emoticon that imitates a person's smiling face in messages.
Would you prefer these ";) / XD/ :D" or a genuine laugh or smile from a real person?
Many people have treated their phone, ipads like the most important thing in their life and something they can't live without. And I believe some of you guys might heard before some of your friends saying that they can't live without their phone even if it is just for a day. (We need to train ourselves not to be dependent on anything, but to feel sufficient with just ourselves.)
I am not saying that using phone during an outing is a bad thing. But hopefully we don't use it so much to the extent that the other person just don't feel appreciated when they are spending their time hanging out with us.
Oops, I think I am ranting in this post. Forgive me, hope I made a little sense though. Haha
One last thing:
I am just thinking,
Wouldn't it be great if we can talk to each other face to face instead of typing messages and just looking at the screen and assume the other person emotions by looking at the emoticons?
Wouldn't it be great that everyone enjoys each other's company without using the phone?
I believe that if there is no existence of phone during an outing, it will definitely be a more memorable experience where everyone gets to talk to each other!
I don't know, just a random thought.
Again, I may be right and may be wrong.
Or maybe there is nothing we can do about it? Because "talking" to the phone seems to be a new norm nowadays. :/
Tuesday 25 November 2014
Wednesday 5 November 2014
I appreciate good people. =D
The purpose of me writing this post is because I would like to share some good things that I have encountered recently. These situations probably does not mean anything, but I feel the need to share it out. (To let more people know that this world that we live in is full of nice people.)
I don't know about you or others.I just keep seeing good things happen around me, because I choose to see things in whole new perspective or at least I try to appreciate even the small little things in life. (I feel like I have said this for a thousand times(in previous blog posts))
#1
Nowadays I don't really get sufficient sleeping hours every night, because of the busy chores that I have got. That's what I get for being a procrastinator. I have been slacking for quite some time since the beginning of my semester. Time to get busy!
But the main point is I get really blur when I dont have enough time to sleep.
And that's basically the root cause of an embarrassing thing that happened today.
I was so blur that after I have packed my food in my container, I didn't close it tightly and guess what happen when I lift my container up by the handle. A TOTAL DISASTER!!
(The awkwardness when everyone look at you.) =X
The person selling the food was not mad at me at all. Judging from his facial expression, I think he just feel that the food is being wasted. But the thing I am surprised is that he allowed me to take the same dish again for FREE. How can someone that good exist?!!
(The dish ain't cheap : a huge drumstick, vege and some big sambal prawns.)
I feel so bad wasting the food and cause the foodseller to lose some profit)
Haihz there is nothing I can do to reverse what had happened. But I am not going to do the same mistake again, if not I will......
#2
The other day I saw a girl walking down the stairs carrying a lot of stuffs with only two hands. But at that time I thought she had like 5 hands, because she really carried many things just by herself.
I offered her my help and help her to carry her things all the way back to her house. And she said thank you and even give me a chocolate bar in return. She also introduced me to her friends and asked me to find her whenever I need help next time. And she did really helped me after a few days later.=D
#3
A lot of my friends complain about a cafe/restaurant being over-priced. I do agree sometimes they may charge a little expensive when it comes to portion wise. It is actually self-service, so you can take as much as you want according to your own preference. But many times the price is really not consistent.
Anyway, I still support them. And there is this one time, they charged me so cheap!!!! It's only rm5 for 3mees combined together. Even if it is only for once, I learn to appreciate it. =D
#4
I have tried to ask people for directions to go to some places, because I have poor sense of direction. And so far, I have asked approximately 30 people to direct me, and there is not one single person that is not helpful.
#5
It was raining so heavily that day. I stood there waiting for the rain to stop, because I don't want to waste my money on a taxi and my house is only a few miles away. But it just wouldn't stop after like half an hour.
At that time, I was so desperate for help that I just asked a stranger beside me. Do you live here ? Haha and she looked at me weirdly (she might be wondering why is this guy asking a random question like this.)
And so I added, ohh because you see my house is just around here and I was thinking if you want to share a taxi back together if you are living nearby.
And she said no, she is waiting for her friends to pick her up to go other places to have dinner.
But after I decided to take the taxi back home, the taxi driver refuse to give me a ride. @@
How can I get back home now?
Luckily, that girl offered me a ride. She said she can just ask her friend to drop me home.
And I even made the "cushion" of the car wet by the time I went in the car. And they just kept saying okay. They seem like really nice people.
I just kept saying thank you and they said nah, it's not a big deal.:')
Some may say that the world has a a lot of cruel/violent/evil individuals. But I don't think so.
They may have been hurted before in the past when they try to be nice.
So appreciate others when they are being nice to us!! Don't take it for granted.
Smile to others, say THANK YOU or maybe just give a small gift as a sign of appreciation. That's the least we can do to show others that we appreciate their help. =)
Life is good. =D
I don't know about you or others.I just keep seeing good things happen around me, because I choose to see things in whole new perspective or at least I try to appreciate even the small little things in life. (I feel like I have said this for a thousand times(in previous blog posts))
#1
Nowadays I don't really get sufficient sleeping hours every night, because of the busy chores that I have got. That's what I get for being a procrastinator. I have been slacking for quite some time since the beginning of my semester. Time to get busy!
But the main point is I get really blur when I dont have enough time to sleep.
And that's basically the root cause of an embarrassing thing that happened today.
I was so blur that after I have packed my food in my container, I didn't close it tightly and guess what happen when I lift my container up by the handle. A TOTAL DISASTER!!
(The awkwardness when everyone look at you.) =X
The person selling the food was not mad at me at all. Judging from his facial expression, I think he just feel that the food is being wasted. But the thing I am surprised is that he allowed me to take the same dish again for FREE. How can someone that good exist?!!
(The dish ain't cheap : a huge drumstick, vege and some big sambal prawns.)
I feel so bad wasting the food and cause the foodseller to lose some profit)
Haihz there is nothing I can do to reverse what had happened. But I am not going to do the same mistake again, if not I will......
#2
The other day I saw a girl walking down the stairs carrying a lot of stuffs with only two hands. But at that time I thought she had like 5 hands, because she really carried many things just by herself.
I offered her my help and help her to carry her things all the way back to her house. And she said thank you and even give me a chocolate bar in return. She also introduced me to her friends and asked me to find her whenever I need help next time. And she did really helped me after a few days later.=D
#3
A lot of my friends complain about a cafe/restaurant being over-priced. I do agree sometimes they may charge a little expensive when it comes to portion wise. It is actually self-service, so you can take as much as you want according to your own preference. But many times the price is really not consistent.
Anyway, I still support them. And there is this one time, they charged me so cheap!!!! It's only rm5 for 3mees combined together. Even if it is only for once, I learn to appreciate it. =D
#4
I have tried to ask people for directions to go to some places, because I have poor sense of direction. And so far, I have asked approximately 30 people to direct me, and there is not one single person that is not helpful.
#5
It was raining so heavily that day. I stood there waiting for the rain to stop, because I don't want to waste my money on a taxi and my house is only a few miles away. But it just wouldn't stop after like half an hour.
At that time, I was so desperate for help that I just asked a stranger beside me. Do you live here ? Haha and she looked at me weirdly (she might be wondering why is this guy asking a random question like this.)
And so I added, ohh because you see my house is just around here and I was thinking if you want to share a taxi back together if you are living nearby.
And she said no, she is waiting for her friends to pick her up to go other places to have dinner.
But after I decided to take the taxi back home, the taxi driver refuse to give me a ride. @@
How can I get back home now?
Luckily, that girl offered me a ride. She said she can just ask her friend to drop me home.
And I even made the "cushion" of the car wet by the time I went in the car. And they just kept saying okay. They seem like really nice people.
I just kept saying thank you and they said nah, it's not a big deal.:')
Some may say that the world has a a lot of cruel/violent/evil individuals. But I don't think so.
They may have been hurted before in the past when they try to be nice.
So appreciate others when they are being nice to us!! Don't take it for granted.
Smile to others, say THANK YOU or maybe just give a small gift as a sign of appreciation. That's the least we can do to show others that we appreciate their help. =)
Life is good. =D
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