Friday, September 21, 2007

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Pcomm observation

my msn space just broke down where i post everything, from lame poetry of mine to london fashion week goodies to Vik's speech this Monday.I open the window and it's cold outside, makes me chill a lilttle bit.



counting digital devices people uses today
:: rm445 on ICM class, everyone was using a mac except me(IBM) and Yaminie(Dell?), oh, and actually Dan was using sth different as well, which he said people would sometimes make fun of, but i can't really remember. In fact, everyone looks like expert because i could hear that sound people made when they were typing really fast. As a slow typer(especially when i'm typing in english), that sounds kind of cool. Guess everyone interact with their laptop pretty well then.


:: we were all looking at the big screen, just like we are now probably, and that's awkward because what i'm writing now is silly and i don't want it to be read on class/in public.
back to the screen, which Dan would show everyone's processing homework to us on, Dan would 1st copy and paste the code to a new window in order to make a little change to it and make it runs better, he always did copy and paste very fast, like in half a second, so that part went well. but when he tried to type sth new, he misspelt the code a lot, even some simple ones like "void" . i think it has something to do with the fact that he's looking at the big screen instead of the screen of his own laptop while typing.


:: i figured it was a good idea to take a note while i was waiting for and on a school bus. when Route A stopped, there were 11 students in line and 6 of them were either on the phone(text message), or listening to ipod(or mp3), and 4 of the 6 were doing both.


:: there was a guy next to me who were on the phone as well. instead of holding his phone, he simply using headphones and left the phone in his pocket. It didn't look too weird though because you can see wire and the little rectangle speaker, then people knew that guy was on the phone. i know this other guy who began to use bluetooth years ago before i have any idea what it is, and it was like he talked to the air or himself all the time. so double check before you think somebody is crazy, he/she might be just on the phone.


:: i also noticed that some people walked around when they were on the phone(me included), and we all know why, you can't handle a mobile phone when you are still.


:: so i was on the bus now, finally. nearly everybody sat alone got music and they just stared at somewhere, and i was the only one looked around...a korean guy in front of me was playing gameboy/psp(?), i wasn't sure, he was so in that game that he sort of ignored the girl who kept talking to him.


:: i looked outside the window, there were ATM, doorman using intercoms, that photo machine(don't know exactly what it's called)


:: something i saw the other day when i walked around was nice and i'd like to mention it here, not sure if it has sth to do with digital though. it was the auto stairs that helped an old lady on wheelchair get off the bus. we don't have that in Beijing and i think we definitely needs it.


:: i met my cousin for dinner and she carried her Pearl and cellphone in her hand all the time, couldn't even put them in her bag. she gets hundreds of email everyday working as a headhunter, so she couldn't live without her pearl. she had a BB before that.


:: passed a church alike architecture on my way home, the girl before me took out her camera and took a picture of it, it was the flash of the camera made the night even creepier, she had this certain gothic look, so that dark church must be really attractive to her, but i just wanted to walk really fast.

i take my camera with me everywhere, so i think i'm going to do observation on that more
p.s. Noriaki's blog reminds me that i played wii last weekend too.