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After getting unplugged and going “cold turkey” on Shutdown Day, I power up my laptop with child-like glee and logged myself into the World Wide Web hoping to find out how much I’ve missed and catch up on lost time.

After surfing the net and the browsing my feed reader for a while, I concluded that I haven’t really miss out as much as I’ve expected in the last couple of days. A couple of interesting events that happened on 3rd May caught my attention though, besides being Shutdown Day, it was also Free Comic Book Day and World Press Freedom Day.

Free Comic Book Day is a single day when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely free* to anyone who comes into their stores.

A pity I didn’t know this piece of information until today, otherwise I would have walk into any comic shop and helped myself to some free copies! On the other hand, I wondered just how many local comic shops actually observed and celebrated Free Comic Book day, kudos to those which did in the present unfavorable economic outlook.

As for World Press Freedom Day, what can I say except that Singapore was ranked 141 out of 169 countries measured throughout the world in the Worldwide Press Freedom index 2007 report which was compiled and published by Reporters Without Borders.

Singapore may have ranked highly in terms of economic performances, world class infrastructures and the like among first world countries, but when it comes to press freedom, we were down there among the third world countries. Just imagine, in the 2007 report, we just edge slightly ahead of Afghanistan! I rest my case.

What an interesting day 3rd May had turned out to be while I was going “cold turkey” from my tech gadgets.

Not that anyone would actually bother to know what I did (or did not do) on Shutdown Day, but I’ve survived this self enforcedly “no computer, no Internet and no gaming” day and came out unscathed to bring you the story. How well (or badly) did you survive Shutdown day?