It’s only two days away from Christmas, which also happens to be my birthday! Yes, I am a Christmas baby and Christmas was great until people around me realize that they should give me one birthday-cum-Christmas present instead of two separate gifts. One good thing that is still prevalent through these years is that it is so easy to remember my birthday; Kris is born on Christmas day! How hard is that? If you don’t remember my birthday, SHAME ON YOU!!! Go repent and get me a big gift! (Or make it two… )
SUBTLE HINT: iwantanipodtouch16GBthankyouverymuch
As much as I would like to believe that I am 18 years of age, I am actually turning 27 on Christmas and that thought is quite scary! I am actually inching towards the big 30 soon! And I can actually feel the age catching up on me; friends of the same age/batch getting married, more wrinkles, deteriorating stamina and most of all, the increasing hunger for a superpower to turn back time. That and X-ray vision. Heheheheheheheeee.
Despite the fallbacks that come of age, I think I am still happy with the past year. I made a lot of friends through the revival of blogging in February and through channels and platforms like wholivesnearyou.com, ping.sg, twitter, yebber, facebook & plurk. Being so active in the social media scene also gave me opportunities to attend various events that added colors to an otherwise mundane life. Most of all, thanks to Ruifang aka KuKuNehNeh aka KKNN aka the gf, for contributing the most joy for the past year.
This came to my attention when Claudia messaged me over WLM saying that I should visit this particular website and look at the link. I am quite sure Claudia wouldn’t send me a porn link during office hours and so I clicked on it without hesitation and got directed to a local website and my eyes popped out of their sockets and my jaw dropped to the floor when I saw the company logo.
This is the company logo of the new website Muilee.
For those who are familar with the company that I am working for, your jaws must be dropping too as well.
In order to not bring trouble onto myself, let me just say that I find the logo of Muilee very, very similar to Yebber’s. I am NOT implying in any way that they blatantly copied Yebber’s logo of course. Obviously there are differences in the logos!
I just notice someeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee similarities that I will like to mention.
Oh look! Similarly coloured subtext! Oh wait! It’s actually in different shades. Muilee can’t be copying Yebber! No wayyyyyy!
Oh look! EXACT coloured text! Oh wait! It’s actually with different letters. Muilee can’t be copying Yebber! No wayyyyyy!
Oh look! EXACT coloured symbols and white letters inside! Oh wait! It’s actually flipped over with a much pointed tip. Muilee can’t be copying Yebber! No wayyyyyy!
A company’s logo is their brand and being that important, I am sooooooooo sureeeeeeeeeee that MuiLee can’t have copied Yebber’s logo that blatantly.
With the every growing popularity of social media tools in the internet such as blogging, twittering, plurking, facebook, friendster and WLM, it’s no wonder that people start to use less of other traditional forms of communication like landlines and handphones.
I remember my first encounter with the internet was back in secondary school when I joined this ECA called ‘Media Resource Club’(MRC). The school purchased about 3 to 4 computers in the library and they are connected to the internet. I was with 2 other friends and we logged on to explore. I distinctly remembered going to Yahoo! and the very first term I search for was,
“Amy Yip”
WAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAAH!!!!!!
Younger generations won’t know who she is but let’s just say that she was pretty popular back in the days for her erm… assets.
=D
Anyway, I soon acquired my own computer and a 56K modem and I was connected! I used mIRC to make all sorts of new friends and stayed connected with them through ICQ. Papers constantly reported the dangers of the internet during those times and I understood them, but I still proceeded to meet people up. Before all this, I was this introverted geek and the internet really opened me up to chatting and meeting new people up.
Fast forward to now and I am still using the internet to meet a whole lot of people I got to know online through popular social sites and tools.
At least for me, the internet has made me more sociable and enabled me to reach out to a bigger pool of people. Whether or not these relationships can be continued and substained in the real world is still too early to tell. With the right mindset and correct approach, I strongly believe that the internet is a great tool for socializing.
It’s quite lucky of me to join Yebber at this point in time because of an interesting project that they are working on. And I experienced it for myself yesterday!
I can’t say much about it or else I’ll be out of the job in the very 1st week.
)
