peer pressure

alone,
i'm fine.
better,even..'cause i can actually hear myself think and not be affected by other opinions.
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too bad i can never be alone when i needed to be.
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handphones.
God i hate those things...
they get smaller and smarter every couple of months...
CHEAPER every couple of months...
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i used to think,'ok,i'm gonna get this lousy little swanky phone that can keep me in touch with people. There's no need for android, smart phone, or dual-core.'
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then i thought about how some 'apps' that came with those gadgets,
how some of those applications allows users to communicate completely free-of-charge.
'Whatsapp'..right?
or..'chatroom' or something.
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and then i look at my phone.
3G? *check*
wi-fi? *check*
bluetooth?*check..duh*
memory space? *more than enough*
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but:
i have no idea how to operate the 3G,
i don't know how to set up my phone so that i could watch youtube videos (because the program in this stinkin' thing isn't compatible with any of the available set-up instructions and what-not)
i can't send nor receive business cards properly,
i sure the hell don't know how to MMS with that phone.
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the mobile did exactly what i wanted,
to be able to SMS and make calls.
finito.
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phones these days allows us to purchase movie tickets and practically every other things we wanted,via those 'apps'...
heck, you can even purchase your groceries with you smart phones in South Korea.
(even National Geographic and Discovery has apps...so not fair...i feel so tempted +.+)
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which leaves me even more dumbfounded, as time goes by.
"how stupid you were"...
"i must be going backwards in time,instead of forward" i thought to myself.
+________________+
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so i realized that, i may need to upgrade my phone sooner or later..
you know, when all my friends start using the same-looking piece of plastic-metal composite with a thin layer of touch-sensitive fibre glass on top, covering all those silicon and nano-chips in that little flat box.
which made me realize the fact that we can never run away from peer-pressure.
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unless we move into the mountains,
where there is no coverage *A-HAH!!!*
remember, Yellowmen are too heavy to climb XD
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otherwise, peer-pressure we'll have to succumb to, almost all the time =='
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which brings me to another example:
remember the Buddhist society that i joined?
they've set up a food stall,selling vegetarian food (big surprise...not.)
honestly? i'm not interested to buy vege food, i could've just go on home and enjoy the delicious dishes my mum made,with all the love she has for us XP
but no,
i just HAVE to stop by the stall for a ricebox, only because i got asked by a couple of friends who were in the club as well.
"eyh did you langgan Vege Stall yet??"
"no wor...tomorrow, tomorrow *smile*"
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can't go against my words now,can i...
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it just feels weird to not support your own club, whether you like it or not.
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likewise for all the other clubs i've joined,directly or indirectly.
fact is, i don't really want to participate in all those extra activities they've organised,
i just want to join for the main purpose the club/society was set up.
i don't want to persuade and 'pull' other people into joining me,
what if they ended up joining only because they're forced to?
and they attended the activities, not because they wanted to,
but because they've already signed up for it when they joined the club.
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get me?
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*5minutes later*
googling up possible future handphones.