Thursday, January 12, 2006 || The internet is BAD for kids.
- Woo, I'm such a good girl, I stayed home today. :)
... I actually expected my parents to be pleased at me for not leaving our humble house, but as it turns out, they're out in KL doing CNY shopping. OMG, that is so unfair!!! Cause when I flashed them my oh-so-kawaii puppy dog eyes to plead for money to do some chinese new year's shopping, they said something like:
"You got so many clothes already, nobody will notice if you wear what you have now ... Besides, almost everything you wear is black, so for CNY, you'll have to wear brighter colours, but if you buy colourful clothes, you probably won't wear them after CNY, so don't waste money lar ....... =)"
*sniff sniff*
Anyway, a few minutes ago, Cally rung me up and insisted that I join the gang for mamak later ... Which I don't think I will, but who knows ........ hee-hee. So I'm writing this now, because my Il Mare DVD I just bought yesterday isn't working, and I'm damn bored. I heard that it's a sad romance flick, and I even got the tissues ready since I'm such a sucker for sad romantic korean flicks, but the DVD betrayed me.
And oh, speaking of which, I think that Baby #2, my loyal companion at *most* times, is sick. My beautiful brown baby, that of which is my outdated Ngage QD, can't seem to make any more calls ... Which is odd, since I seem to have no problem receiving calls. :( But since I'm broke, I've decided to ignore it, and take it as a major credit saving opportunity. :p
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The Internet is a fascinating tool, which I blissfully discovered when I was a teeny weeny 13 year old. When my dad got me dial-up, one cannot describe how happy I was. Ah, finally, I could stop playing The Sims and move on to something new ...
So thus, my addiction to the Internet began. First, it was MIRC, when I would spend hours messaging strangers 'ASL?'. Then it was the MSN chat rooms.
And soon, my puny mind discovered Neopets, and believe me, I spent hours everyday building my empire, and buying animated bacon for my virtual pet, which was some cat-like thing named FriskyAngel. Heck, I even dragged Christine into the fun, and all of us would build virtual shops to make some extra cash in the Neopets land.
Of course, I grew out of that. *wipes sweat* And I moved on to getting hooked on the now-defunct Legends, which is the Malaysian Dark Ages. But actually, that game garnered me more good than bad, because as far-fetched as it sounds, I grew closer to a couple of SCHOOL MATES whom I never used to talk to in real life ... But soon, we had that game in common, and we'd endlessly chat about it during recess. :p And we're still friends now.
So never mind that, soon I was hooked on anime. And I religiously downloaded and watched Naruto, One Piece, and many more ...
And after that, it was gunbound, Maple Sea (and now Maple Global), Fairyland and et cetera. Though none of them caught my attention for long. :p
Then came the beautiful world of the blogosphere. I set up many many blogs in many different blog engines, like xanga, LiveJournal and God knows where else. Of course, this remains my favourite blog to date. ^^
Okay, enough rambling... My point is, I was, and still am hooked on the net. Just the other day, when this dude asked my friends and I what was the most important thing in life that we couldn't live without, MOST of my friends answered their handphones. One girl proclaimed that it was her boyfriend, which is really sweet, though she failed to realize that her boyfriend is not a 'thing'. :p
... But I, on the other hand, chose my computer. -_-;;
But seriously, I honestly do think that this old computer hasn't done me much harm, in fact, I think that it has done me quite a lot of good. Like how you'd be able to keep in touch with old classmates without wasting credit (LOL) and how you'll be able to get to know people whom you may not even be remotely interested in, in real life, to discover that they're actually pretty interesting as well. Besides, whenever I did badly in an exam (which is prolly ALL the time, since form 4 haha!), my internet addiction has never been the real cause of it.
But I digress.
I have a cousin sister, who is merely at the tender age of 13. Since she bagged 7As in her UPSR, her dad, who is The Craziest of all uncles, decided to get her the Internet. Little did he know, back then, that what was a loving fatherly gesture would result in what he feared the most: That her daughter would be like me.
But apparently, I soon found out that her case was slightly more different from mine. If I may say so, I think even worse than mine. Inexplicably, somehow, she managed to add Bradder to her MSN. Which is somewhat freaky, cuz Bradder is a pal of mine, and she does not seem to know it ... Hmm.
Anyhoo, I had already noticed that she has been online till VERY late at night. Like, when I log off my MSN at 3.30 A.M, she'd still be online. So according to Josh, she always chats with him with lala emoticon style, and the last time they chatted, she proclaimed that she broke up twice last month.
My response: Shit! My thirteen year old cousin is naughtier than me ... NooOoOo.
Nvm about that. =P I thought about it a bit, and I heard from my mother that the young kiddo, who has a pretty strict mum, yelled at her mother the other day when her mother caught her online at 3 A.M, while talking on her handphone to some guy. :p
DAMN GANAS WEI. And her level on Maple story is higher than me, though that is out of topic.
I have no idea if its pure nosiness or a sudden outburst of sisterly instinct ... But I am actually kinda worried about that girl. I mean, there are a lot of weirdos out there, yea? Meeting people online is one thing ... But what if she really falls for some la la chai who is merely in it for the game? Or discovers porn? (Though, that is normal ... I think that every internet user has stumbled upon porn, intentionally or otherwise ...)
I never believed in online dating ...
But, well, what can I do? Ask her not to chat with lala chais she meets in friendster? -_- My uncle was talking about it to me the other day, and he is pretty annoyed + worried, which is understandable, I guess. So much that he actually asked me, the so-called queen of Online Addiction, to talk to her about it during the CNY gathering ...... (Hah! And now's the time to apologize for all the accusations of ME dating online dudes!)
... Which means I'll have to massively improve my mandirin or hokkien. O.o I can only speak fluent english and cantonese ... Which is sad, since I studied in a chinese primary school. -_-
'Listen to me, child, going online can be good, but can be extremely dangerous as well ..........'
Somehow, that's gonna sound SO weird, coming from me.
