Honey Pass Me My Pad
There seem to be a flurry of reports reported in the weekend MSMedia (yes contrary to many who are netizen and swears they don't touch MSMedia news, there are some foreign reports that are published even if they are available online) on the effects, mostly anti social narcissit behaviour that inflicts those who are literally glued to their electronic gizmos and wanting to be 24/7 connected with the world and themselves and occasional friends.
Our attraction and addiction to apps, cyberworld and the hardware that feeds our addiction is akin to nicotine addiction. The manufacturers of these electronic cigarettes, the philip morris, benson & hedges and dunhills are Apple, Samsung and Nokia churning out a range of electronic gizmos, like inventive cigarette packaging, they attract us to wanna buy it.
And the next chain of this electronic addiction are like those kopitiams and outlets selling the cigarettes, that are the telcos, offering attractive packages and packaging their deals that allows you to feed on your cyber addiction 24 by 7 as cost of being connected in real nanosecond time is reduced with one even offering free talk till you go dumb free on their own network!!!
Then the real chemicals of the cigarettes that entrap you and make you a permanent cyber junkie and addict are the solution providers in their apps, where you are no more a square but a cyber star, sharing your triumphs and successes, however minute, like being able to wake up on time or able to buy your branded stuff or feeling haven consuming your soya bean at a hawker stall are apps like foursquare, FB the ultimate cyber free billboard to advertise your life, woes and what not to the 1 zillion over netizens in cyberspace!!!
The latest is having a computer in your bedroom is a sure relationship breaker. Wonder if that applies to single people who only feel connected and in a 'relationship' in the confines of the privacy of their bedroom with their friends fan club on FB.
Were we not told that our ! bedroom is a place where we are supposed to cement our relationships. Which some may argue it's so missionary ole fashion and boring! Are not homes these days designed to give excitement at every corner? From bedroom, to kitchen to bathroom, the every home magazine look that sort of ubiquitous in functionality inviting you to use or do more than just its primary purpose.
It's like going on vacation and one tends to loosen the inhibitions and indulge in fantasies that one wouldn't think of doing at their own home or bedroom, right?
So when radio was invented and then the hi fi and idiot tube began invading the bedroom, sociologists and pyschologists offer different views of these contraptions aiding sleep or deepening relationships than causing strain, stress and breakups!
We don't need to think of such table top or lap or pad devices to distract us. We all have our own share of having difficulties coping with our partner going a buzz and vibrating in the quiet and solitude of our bedroom when we are about to enjoy our blissful sleep! The mobile phone that is.
What we thought as real cool ring, alert or message tones that reveal your whole character, according to the psychologists that is, are really nuisance and an annoyance - like in a movie theatre, even meetings and when you need your beauty sleep right? They also show the kind of inconsiderate person we are too right?
And there is so much truth these gizmos are relationship breakers when your partner answers it having to leave the bedroom!!! Now that is a sure signal of rising mistrust, inquisitiveness and seeing green in a relationship, no?
It used to be not bringing home your work that will break up your relationship was taking back your colleague! Now the mobile phone and the iPad replacing the office relationship into your home and bedroom!!! And Murhpy's law seem to always kick in like perhaps at the moment when couples are in the mood and right in the middle of it, the bb vibrates! And if the partner is in seve! n heaven frenzy the male partner may think the vibration (from the blackberry) as the real thing the partner is experiencing and congratulate himself for such prowess to bring out that earth shattering experience upon the other partner hah!
"My other half thinks and treats his blackberry is a sex toy because it's on vibrate mode during those times. And he's more interested and excited for his bb to vibrate!!! " a frustrated friend sighs with dismay swearing that these gizmos are sure relationship killers!
It used to be our clothes, shoes, bags, shades, even make up and hair do defines us and tell a lot about us. Now these electronic gizmos are more than fashion statements. They are like an open book of who we are it seems. Experts seem to tell you they can know the 'real' you by the handphone you own and even the skin it wears and more certainty looking at your wall paper and how you arrange your icons or even dress up your contacts and arrange them in your contact book!!!
The other give aways to your secret life are the type of apps you have, the pictures you keep and now, the sound of your ringtone and even when on silence mode!!!
Gosh the world used to be all contained in an oyster. These days they are all zapped into something palm sized and the larger version the 'pad' size, no not the size connected to an OB one intimate wear, but rather the one size defined by a fruit company, Apple.
While Apple is putting the world in their pad, Rival Samsung up the ante buy putting the galaxy into their galaxy! With man being able to fit the world, galaxy and what not into a very small contraption, the universe is rather a small space right?
So is the computer and iPad competing with the idiot box, hi fi and even the occasional kid or to some their dog and cat or canary pet in the bedroom!
I know of friends who even have a mini bar in their bedroom designing their bedroom like a hotel! Now why in the world do we want a bedroom that looks like a hotel bedroom which makes! staying in hotel somewhat boring, huh?
Everything seems to want to compete with our body for some quiet time and snooze!
Some feel it's better to have these gizmos as mood killers and they are not as stressful compared to one in the likes of the lover wanting attention and nagging you for intimacy or wanting it every night, eh? At least you can switch off your gizmo if you get tired of it. But you can't switch off a partner on heat can you?
Perhaps there is money to be made in running a business on the art of sleeping. Asking us to go back to basics where the sound of crickets or croaking at night after a rainfall or barking in the distance or even the rustling sound of leaves when the wind blows are music that sets us to sleep! And perhaps counting sheep to sleep may be the elixir to a good night sleep over trying to count how many in your fan group are asleep, indicated with the 'idle' icon and won't be able to chat with you and you then decide to switch off and sleep too!
Or set up a FBA, Facebook anonymous or PA Pad anonymous, or BA Blackberry anonymous or IGA Internet game anonymous to help addicts wean off their addiction to the hardware and apps and be in tuned to their real self simply. Our real self has been coated by a thick layer of cyberstuff, like we eat sugar coated cornflakes we can't taste the real stuff but the sugar.
Just as we have fat farms to deal with obesity, we need cyber-addiction farms to deal with cyber addicts. In South Korea, already there are camps for game addicts. The withdrawal symptoms of those addicted to cyber nicotine is the same as cigaratte nicotine!!! Take away their gizmos and the irritation and withdrawal symptoms sets in!
One great way to punish a kid these day is to take away all the electronic gizmo and give them a lego set or barbie doll, they will go crazy!!! Believe me. Canning is so ancient!!! Just send them to a room full of books, boardgames is enough to discipline the kids!!! Oh and also only provide bottled w! ater and plain soda biscuits. The kids may sue you for treating them like prisoners!!!
So for us adults, asking your honey to pass you your pad, ipad that is and the other pad has the same effect. It doesn't matter as either of this pad is a sure stopper for any intimacy right? You ain't going to feel intimate or be able to get into the mood with either pad coming in your way, hah!
Our attraction and addiction to apps, cyberworld and the hardware that feeds our addiction is akin to nicotine addiction. The manufacturers of these electronic cigarettes, the philip morris, benson & hedges and dunhills are Apple, Samsung and Nokia churning out a range of electronic gizmos, like inventive cigarette packaging, they attract us to wanna buy it.
And the next chain of this electronic addiction are like those kopitiams and outlets selling the cigarettes, that are the telcos, offering attractive packages and packaging their deals that allows you to feed on your cyber addiction 24 by 7 as cost of being connected in real nanosecond time is reduced with one even offering free talk till you go dumb free on their own network!!!
Then the real chemicals of the cigarettes that entrap you and make you a permanent cyber junkie and addict are the solution providers in their apps, where you are no more a square but a cyber star, sharing your triumphs and successes, however minute, like being able to wake up on time or able to buy your branded stuff or feeling haven consuming your soya bean at a hawker stall are apps like foursquare, FB the ultimate cyber free billboard to advertise your life, woes and what not to the 1 zillion over netizens in cyberspace!!!
The latest is having a computer in your bedroom is a sure relationship breaker. Wonder if that applies to single people who only feel connected and in a 'relationship' in the confines of the privacy of their bedroom with their friends fan club on FB.
Were we not told that our ! bedroom is a place where we are supposed to cement our relationships. Which some may argue it's so missionary ole fashion and boring! Are not homes these days designed to give excitement at every corner? From bedroom, to kitchen to bathroom, the every home magazine look that sort of ubiquitous in functionality inviting you to use or do more than just its primary purpose.
It's like going on vacation and one tends to loosen the inhibitions and indulge in fantasies that one wouldn't think of doing at their own home or bedroom, right?
So when radio was invented and then the hi fi and idiot tube began invading the bedroom, sociologists and pyschologists offer different views of these contraptions aiding sleep or deepening relationships than causing strain, stress and breakups!
We don't need to think of such table top or lap or pad devices to distract us. We all have our own share of having difficulties coping with our partner going a buzz and vibrating in the quiet and solitude of our bedroom when we are about to enjoy our blissful sleep! The mobile phone that is.
What we thought as real cool ring, alert or message tones that reveal your whole character, according to the psychologists that is, are really nuisance and an annoyance - like in a movie theatre, even meetings and when you need your beauty sleep right? They also show the kind of inconsiderate person we are too right?
And there is so much truth these gizmos are relationship breakers when your partner answers it having to leave the bedroom!!! Now that is a sure signal of rising mistrust, inquisitiveness and seeing green in a relationship, no?
It used to be not bringing home your work that will break up your relationship was taking back your colleague! Now the mobile phone and the iPad replacing the office relationship into your home and bedroom!!! And Murhpy's law seem to always kick in like perhaps at the moment when couples are in the mood and right in the middle of it, the bb vibrates! And if the partner is in seve! n heaven frenzy the male partner may think the vibration (from the blackberry) as the real thing the partner is experiencing and congratulate himself for such prowess to bring out that earth shattering experience upon the other partner hah!
"My other half thinks and treats his blackberry is a sex toy because it's on vibrate mode during those times. And he's more interested and excited for his bb to vibrate!!! " a frustrated friend sighs with dismay swearing that these gizmos are sure relationship killers!
It used to be our clothes, shoes, bags, shades, even make up and hair do defines us and tell a lot about us. Now these electronic gizmos are more than fashion statements. They are like an open book of who we are it seems. Experts seem to tell you they can know the 'real' you by the handphone you own and even the skin it wears and more certainty looking at your wall paper and how you arrange your icons or even dress up your contacts and arrange them in your contact book!!!
The other give aways to your secret life are the type of apps you have, the pictures you keep and now, the sound of your ringtone and even when on silence mode!!!
Gosh the world used to be all contained in an oyster. These days they are all zapped into something palm sized and the larger version the 'pad' size, no not the size connected to an OB one intimate wear, but rather the one size defined by a fruit company, Apple.
While Apple is putting the world in their pad, Rival Samsung up the ante buy putting the galaxy into their galaxy! With man being able to fit the world, galaxy and what not into a very small contraption, the universe is rather a small space right?
So is the computer and iPad competing with the idiot box, hi fi and even the occasional kid or to some their dog and cat or canary pet in the bedroom!
I know of friends who even have a mini bar in their bedroom designing their bedroom like a hotel! Now why in the world do we want a bedroom that looks like a hotel bedroom which makes! staying in hotel somewhat boring, huh?
Everything seems to want to compete with our body for some quiet time and snooze!
Some feel it's better to have these gizmos as mood killers and they are not as stressful compared to one in the likes of the lover wanting attention and nagging you for intimacy or wanting it every night, eh? At least you can switch off your gizmo if you get tired of it. But you can't switch off a partner on heat can you?
Perhaps there is money to be made in running a business on the art of sleeping. Asking us to go back to basics where the sound of crickets or croaking at night after a rainfall or barking in the distance or even the rustling sound of leaves when the wind blows are music that sets us to sleep! And perhaps counting sheep to sleep may be the elixir to a good night sleep over trying to count how many in your fan group are asleep, indicated with the 'idle' icon and won't be able to chat with you and you then decide to switch off and sleep too!
Or set up a FBA, Facebook anonymous or PA Pad anonymous, or BA Blackberry anonymous or IGA Internet game anonymous to help addicts wean off their addiction to the hardware and apps and be in tuned to their real self simply. Our real self has been coated by a thick layer of cyberstuff, like we eat sugar coated cornflakes we can't taste the real stuff but the sugar.
Just as we have fat farms to deal with obesity, we need cyber-addiction farms to deal with cyber addicts. In South Korea, already there are camps for game addicts. The withdrawal symptoms of those addicted to cyber nicotine is the same as cigaratte nicotine!!! Take away their gizmos and the irritation and withdrawal symptoms sets in!
One great way to punish a kid these day is to take away all the electronic gizmo and give them a lego set or barbie doll, they will go crazy!!! Believe me. Canning is so ancient!!! Just send them to a room full of books, boardgames is enough to discipline the kids!!! Oh and also only provide bottled w! ater and plain soda biscuits. The kids may sue you for treating them like prisoners!!!
So for us adults, asking your honey to pass you your pad, ipad that is and the other pad has the same effect. It doesn't matter as either of this pad is a sure stopper for any intimacy right? You ain't going to feel intimate or be able to get into the mood with either pad coming in your way, hah!
YAHMEH!!!
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