where is everyone???

So where is everyone else???

Seems that there is not much interesting going on.

Maybe i shall talk about fashion and latest trend. Interesting right, mr boring talking about fashion.


Ever read about the retro fever that is hitting everyone in the world. Had a casual conversation with miss peg regarding the retro fever and she came to a conclusion that the designer is being plain lazy or brain dead to design new stuff and still get paid "peanuts" (not the peanuts we used to know :) )

Of course that is a optimistic view of how the situation.





BUT do you know there is actually a very pessimitic view regarding the trend.

The retro is back because the present now is actually not as pleasant as what we think it will be in the past.

Have you ever watch short clips on how the people in the 1930s and 1940s view the world in the 2000s? I bet you all haven seen it, cause it is on discovery channel and only mr nothing-better-to-do will watch this kind of stuff.

The short film i think is "metropolis" ( not that anime with the same name). It is about the people of the past predicting the future. Vision of tall skyscrapper, flying cars with minimum traffic jams and robots replacing humans in doing unglamourous choirs have became part of the world. Clean city, high tech apartments and a perfect world. A real Utopia

So what we have now. Expensive cars that is upgraded to auto gear recently, petty crimes still happen occassionaly and rubbish is still everywhere in the street. The most interesting gadgets that we have is of course AIBO (electronic dog) by sony which i always recommand to Alex when he tell me he wants to rear this dog and that dog.

The world is not as good as it seems to be. When we look back in the history in the starting of this century, when is the period of time where everyone seems to be happy? First half already out cause it is filled with 2 bloody world wars. Next 2 decades also out cause of post war problems and everyone is making babies to replace population (hee hee, most happiest time in fact for some people.) Then come 70s and 80s, we started to stabalise and began to party our life away. It is the time of hippies and yuppies and everything seems to be so promising.

Therefore in order to let the people of the present now to escape from the grim reality, they look back to that era and brought back all the antique stuff. Glasses with huge and thick frames, old looking belts and accessories were a hit now. Just go to any teenagers hang out shopping center and you can see it for yourself.

SO OUTDATED, but they still like it. Strange

Next time you go out and see those retro stuff, you know it is not as simple as you think it is.



Talking about the future.

As a sci and tech student, we were sometimes given "motivational" talk by the lecturers to inspire us to work hard ( JC also got right? But who cares, we are adults already we are responsible for things we do) . So after all that talk, some cockster will just ask "sir, so next time where will we work"

The reply this time round was " think global"

How to interpret this kind of reply?

I think you all should know, not as promising as last time. Who would ask this kind of qns back in the 80s and early 90s.

Even the lecturers also feel the pinch. He said his pay is half of what he is earning 10, 20 years back. But he is still rich anyway, living near delon and everyday got nice car to drive to school.

Sad, even as student, we can feel the real world coming closer and closer to us.

Miss the days back in the pri and sec sch.


Before i go, can anyone teach me how to put pic? I want to put something more light-hearted leh. The pics from shanghai i uploaded already but duno how to put here. Can i put chinese characters here? Is everyone com equipped to handle it?

Maybe this entry abit of boringness, hope i dun find a GF who is as boring as me :)

Chay