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OMG! What a coincidence… My blog is 3 yrs old today…
First and foremost a Very Happy Birthday SparklingCherry :D
It was a random visit here today and wanted to know when was this blog initiated.. Only to find out it was 3 yrs back in 2008 this day :)
Well what else.. Got really busy lately.. Eid was/is still here and also busy entertaining visitors… As much as I try to get away with all these, I couldn’t.. Wait! :D It’s not that I’m being anti-social or something, but I’m just too busy with some other things…
Well term started and am overwhelmed… Yes, really overwhelmed with the course and tonnes of assignments to be done.. This term am taking 3 modules.. No. might sound small, the work load is humungous..
Friday was somewhat an open house in my place and therefore, there were several people invited to my house on that day! Well initially I wanted to invite all my friends coming Friday, but unfortunately cancelled it due to the cramped schedule I had. And therefore only invited 2 of my best friends on Last Friday… It was indeed an awesome day! My relatives, mum friends and all were there.. Was super duper busy… Cleaning, preparation and all… Pheww.. as always, mum’s cooking was awesome.. Alhamdulillah all went well and smoothly.. Everyone was happy and all… Even my best friend plus her sis and mum stayed over in my place.. We had a great time spending together… But it was the after effect… I was extremely exhausted after that… Alot of things left undone.. Which I barely have time to do it now… Lost on where I should start with. Just printed notes for my today’s lectures… Reading reminders’ email to revise and read through our lecture notes before entering the next lectures and tutorials; which I had not started yet. Just beyond words to explain how exhausted I’m feeling right now at this very moment….
Okie I shall stop whining about that… :D Already done that to my besties… What else.. Nothing much.. It’s going to be a long day today.. Was just adding my classmates on facebook, and was going through their profile.. All of us are sharing the same pinch… Hope each and everyone of us will pull through well with all the stress we are going through… :o)
Time to get back to work… More to come… I need to inherit my habit back on blogging…. :) So see ya =)
So many question arises after my lecture and apparently I wanted to tweet about it… But thought why not express it as a blog post instead…
I was wondering if I was actually sitting in an IT class or a Psychology class. But realise that I was actually learning how IT is affecting one Psychologically. First question, is IT a master or a tool? Are we dominating it or it’s dominating us… Actually it is still debatable and it’s according to what kind of aspect it’s coming from? Do we know that we are actually going through a phase of first life and second life?
Coming back to my first qn. Are we too dependable to IT? I’m currently travelling in the bus and almost all the people who are standing around me are having a smart phone/tablet. Can you name someone who doesn’t own a smart phone? Or at least a mobile phone? How would you actually react to a situation when you asked someone for their number and they tell you that they do not own one? Quoting from my lecturer; one also actually feels like a “cold turkey” without having their mobile phones around. For eg. Like a smoker who suddenly stop smoking. True indeed. These days people are in a “Always On” mode. So how does it affect One’s life. I would definitely argue that there are pros and cons because of IT.
First let’s go with the pros. Everything to do with our daily life requires IT. Be it work, school, entertainment, relationships et.al.. It became another key point in our life, like water, food and air. Having to be working and studying, I communicate with my colleagues through email. We have several systems around us to refer to and work with. There were point of time we can’t finish a particular job without accessing that particular system we need to use. As for my studies, My lecturer send us notes through email. We have a learning system to refer to our references/online libraries and do Submissions of assignments online. IT is very much advanced that, even when you are sending an email to someone, it is as same as sending a SMS to them as now smart phones have push services. Everything is fast-paced in Technology. Things are done fast using technology. We can work/study on the go. like this I can go on and so forth..
Now to the cons, when was the last time we actually wrote something using a pen and paper? At least a paper long??? During our school/college days? After that what happens? Everything is done via computer. Well at least for me, I feel that I can actually type faster than I write. Can you believe that I can’t even write something now? I found myself struggling to take down notes and end up typing notes?? Isn’t it amusing that, a day without your mobile, is like a day being retarded? Just imagining myself? How would one feel or what happens if you forgets you mobile phone? Have you ever wonder how does it actually affects ur mind. Have you ever been mentally affected? Do you find yourself being moody or frustrated without your device?
During my school days, whenever I travel out with my family or friends, I would always bring along a story book so that I can read while travelling. Or else I would be chit chatting with the people who are with me. More direct communication were involved. Nowadays children are using iPhone to play games. Children owning a smartphone at a very young age. In several occasions, I’ve noticed parents whom are always involved with their career wherever they go, and let their children be with their own gadgets. I got mh first mobile phone I was a teenager? My main purpose to have a mobile phone was to be contactable. But now, from contacting to smsing to emailing to e-shopping to every other daily life things are being done with a small device.
There are several examples which can be listed on how it affects/helps in One’s life.
Wrapping up : Even though I feel it’s unfinished post; as I had several things to share but unable to do it due to time constraint. My conclusion is; the more technology is getting advanced, the more people are getting busy. The more people getting busy, the more people are lagging in their personal life. Having being lagging in personal life, there are plenty of fallbacks in One’s life. Basically personal life becomes a computer life. How I wish I could say that, we can have limitations when it comes technology but how can we, when now everything is about technology? That’s how life have become…. As much as we want to say that we dominate IT, we have to eventually accept that IT actually dominates us.
PS : I hope I could share more in the near future about first life and second life and how are actually people psychologically driven to it.
Lol I know by now people will hate my blog post title.. Cos am never “back”!! Well this time I can happily say back as my blog is back….!!!
Felt a little handicapped without it as I used to visit this site whenever I want and try to post something and having it to be missing for sometime, I missed it…. Nevertheless I had my diary on my iPhone thou :P
Being first time using my iPhone to actually blog a post, don’t mind my errors…
Hope all are doing well and am also pretty ok… Finally the start of a new phase in life is here.. Yes!! I’m
Going to start studying and Am looking forward… This is my first week for the term and am feeling a little nervous as well as excited.. Already got my textbooks and schedule for the current term along with my exam time table… Exams?? Can you believe this? I’m already provided with exam time table even without starting the lessons… During my orientation I got to meet my future classmates and we were all from different walk of lifes… Well we were able to communicate and mingle well with each other and got to form a study group within ourselves… It’s definitely going to be a good experience for all of us to work and study well together…
Looking forward my tenure of my higher studies…
Mr Sun seems to be loving us alot… It had been really warm these days… Advising all to have plenty of water to keep yourself dehydrated and avoid falling ill…
“You can’t change what’s already happened.”
Till then signing off,
Naz :)
Heya! People.. Hope all are fine out there.. Just wanna share with you guys my favourite collections from youtube. The spiritual and inspiring songs by Maher Zain with Lyrics .. :)
Allahi Allah Kiya Karo
Baraka Allahu Lakuma
For the rest of my life
Awaken
Always be there
Open your eye
Inshallah
Thank you Allah
Hold my hand
Alhamdullilah
Ya nabi salam alaika
The stars lean down to kiss you
And I lie awake and miss you
Pour me a heavy dose of atmosphere
‘Cause I’ll doze off safe and soundly
But I’ll miss your arms around me
I’d send a postcard to you, dear
‘Cause I wish you were here
I’ll watch the night turn light-blue
But it’s not the same without you
Because it takes two to whisper quietly
The silence isn’t so bad
‘Til I look at my hands and feel sad
‘Cause the spaces between my fingers
Are right where yours fit perfectly
I’ll find repose in new ways
Though I haven’t slept in two days
‘Cause cold nostalgia
Chills me to the bone
But drenched in vanilla twilight
I’ll sit on the front porch all night
Waist-deep in thought because
When I think of you I don’t feel so alone
I don’t feel so alone, I don’t feel so alone
As many times as I blink
I’ll think of you tonight
I’ll think of you tonight
When violet eyes get brighter
And heavy wings grow lighter
I’ll taste the sky and feel alive again
And I’ll forget the world that I knew
But I swear I won’t forget you
Oh, if my voice could reach
Back through the past
I’d whisper in your ear
Oh darling, I wish you were here
