Sunday, May 21, 2006
When I see you smile - Bad English
Things have changed so much. In the past, we'd write letters, notes, make bookmarks, creative, colourful, cute stuffs. These days, people just go online and chat or send text messages.
The other day, i was chatting wif a mate - yes, online (i move with the times, ok?) - and i was going like "Oh, no!!!!!!!". You see, i asked her how she and her boyfren finally admitted their feelings for each other. How he looked into her eyes, maybe held her hand, gave her a flower, a gift to symbolise his love... To my disappointment, it was none of those. Not even close. He was in his house and she was in her house (like miles apart) and they confess their feelings as they sat in front of their own computers, looking onto a screen filled with words!!!!!
Sigh... maybe i'm a hopeless romantic but the atmosphere and ambience must be right!
But to them, online chat is really special. That's one of the ways how their relationship started. So i guess in some ways, it was only right (for them) that they found out each other's feelings via the same manner.
Lately, i've noticed how this generation is so much into online chats, SMS-es and e-mails and no longer write anymore!
For example, see the note on the right. In the past, when we wrote notes and letters, we'd draw the smiley out like the one shown in the pic. Of course we had the all the variations - sad, angry, tongue sticking out, the works.
When e-mails and instant messaging started, people couldn't draw the smileys like how we'd draw them on paper. So they had to resort to the colon and the parenthesis signs, sometimes using the hyphen too. So we started having the "sideways" smileys -
:-)
:-(
;-P and the whole works.
So much so that i discovered that no one these days know how to draw the smileys in the original way!!!! Look at some of the samples below (courtesy of me flatmates - but they dun know, so sshhhhhh!!!!):-
I find it so weird when i saw those smileys - why in the world are the smileys sideways???????
To this new generation, smileys originated from colons (semi-colons if you are winking) and the brackets sign - and they are always sideways. I bet some of you reading this dun know that the original smileys were not facing sideways!!!!
Guess i have to accept it and move on with the times, too. :-)
The other day, i was chatting wif a mate - yes, online (i move with the times, ok?) - and i was going like "Oh, no!!!!!!!". You see, i asked her how she and her boyfren finally admitted their feelings for each other. How he looked into her eyes, maybe held her hand, gave her a flower, a gift to symbolise his love... To my disappointment, it was none of those. Not even close. He was in his house and she was in her house (like miles apart) and they confess their feelings as they sat in front of their own computers, looking onto a screen filled with words!!!!!
Sigh... maybe i'm a hopeless romantic but the atmosphere and ambience must be right!
But to them, online chat is really special. That's one of the ways how their relationship started. So i guess in some ways, it was only right (for them) that they found out each other's feelings via the same manner.
Lately, i've noticed how this generation is so much into online chats, SMS-es and e-mails and no longer write anymore!
For example, see the note on the right. In the past, when we wrote notes and letters, we'd draw the smiley out like the one shown in the pic. Of course we had the all the variations - sad, angry, tongue sticking out, the works.When e-mails and instant messaging started, people couldn't draw the smileys like how we'd draw them on paper. So they had to resort to the colon and the parenthesis signs, sometimes using the hyphen too. So we started having the "sideways" smileys -
:-)
:-(
;-P and the whole works.
So much so that i discovered that no one these days know how to draw the smileys in the original way!!!! Look at some of the samples below (courtesy of me flatmates - but they dun know, so sshhhhhh!!!!):-
I find it so weird when i saw those smileys - why in the world are the smileys sideways???????
To this new generation, smileys originated from colons (semi-colons if you are winking) and the brackets sign - and they are always sideways. I bet some of you reading this dun know that the original smileys were not facing sideways!!!!
Guess i have to accept it and move on with the times, too. :-)
# posted by imissw : 9:14:00 pm
