7 May, 2008
So I’ve been tagged by Derek in a meme called six words memoir. Gosh, it seemed so long ago since I was tagged in a meme, or any “community project” for that matter, that clearly put my presence (or the lack thereof) on the web in perspective. Hence, I’ve to thank Derek for tagging me and have spent a considerable amount of time thinking about this meme.
I’m not the creative type who can spout quotable quotes like some poets or famous speakers can in a jiffy. I was tempted to be clichéd and go with famous advertising slogans like Just Do It or Impossible Is Nothing, or something to that effect, for my six words memoir.
To use those would have been a great injustice and disrespect towards Derek. I searched deep inside my heart and finally came up with a six word sentence that closely mirrored my life – past, present and future.
Seize the moment, make everyday count!This sentence stamp from the insecurities and guilt that I felt, of being trapped in a situation that disable me to give my best in everything I do. For instance, I feel guilty for the fact that I can’t give my full attention to my kids as I’ve to work on a full-time job and also blog part-time as a hobby. I am damn afraid that I would miss their growing up years, and to be a guiding beacon in their lives.
Hence, I remind myself everyday that life is short, make everyday count. Don’t keep living in the past or get too paranoid about the future, enjoy the present and make every moment count!
Now it is your turn, here are the rules:
- Write your own six word memoir.
- Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you want.
- Link to the person who tagged you in your post.
- Tag at least five more blogs.
- Leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play.
I realized many bloggers had put off doing meme, nevertheless, the five friends that I am going to tag are:
Mark at MeAndMyDrum
Simon at YeePage dot com
Pearl at Fresh Perspective
Tay at Super Blogging Tips
Lori at Blogging Cents
5 May, 2008
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?
