A fleeting mind..

I was told recently that my blog should represent myself.. a simple conclusion one can draw by glancing at it would be quite a lazy man he is, blogs are supposed to be frequent and interesting. With that aside I do believe my blogs represent me; bad spellings and all (at least I don't use bad grammar).

I enjoy writing my blog though its not frequent or regular - in fact depends more on my mood and whims - I do think it represent the essence of me. Its confusing, disjointed and perhaps even filled with jibber jabber but I generally love voicing my opinion without having some one interrupt me.

Recently my better half found my blog (she recently got a facebook account (and yes there are people out there who didn't use facebook)), we're not married yet but getting there, though she claims to love it chastised me over the spelling of 'angel' which I incidentally spelled as angle. The only surprising thing for me is that that is the only word in the whole blog I misspelled. Quite an accomplishment for me to write all that and make just one spelling mistake, just to give you an example a six year old probably has better spellings than me. Then again we do live in an age of technology. Technology is a modern day marvel which eases our life by making it more burdensome. I remember sitting in school in a "computer studies" class, the teacher walked in and said these fantastic machines would make our lives so easy, they are capable of storing so much data, we will never need to keep paper record, etc. etc. So some 15 odd years from that class I find myself glued to a computer screen 24/7, printing enormous amounts of documents on a daily basis (thank God for technology else I'd be forced to write all this by hand) and wonder why they ever said computers will reduce paper work. It hasn't, its piled it on and made my life all the worse.

In the good old days, before technology (BT if you're one for acronyms), people had wonderful scripts, the wrote beautifully and were proud of the work they produced. After technology, work is rushed, there's always a deadline to meet and no matter how many times I may print a document there's always an error or two I can go back and correct. This just didn't happen during my dad's days, his time was simpler - the pinnacle of technology was the typewriter, he sat at a table and typed away with carbon paper inserted between sheets if he needed more than one copy. He invested himself into what he wrote, he made sure what he typed made sense, had proper grammar and spelling for there was no way for him to erase a letter with the stroke of a key. If he ever did make a mistake, which was rare, he'd lift up the ribbon, find the mistake, use an ink eraser and re-type, often he had to throw the whole document away because the eraser would cause the paper to tear.

Now after technology I have none of those worries, except that my Windows is acting up or my hard disk crashed, or my heat sink stopped working which causes my laptop to crash.. I should really get a back up of my hard disk I don't want to loose all the data I've slaved over for hours due to a virus or my hard disk malfunctioning. WOW thank the Lord for them computers else what would we do with all our time??

Oh yeah I almost forgot about a great feature called spell check; like the name implies it corrects your spelling *phew* why bother learning now I have a computer!