Weekend without internet
Previously when 56K dial-up was the only Internet service available, dad didn’t get online very much. But things changed since ADSL became available to the village two months ago. Every weekend when I was home, brother HS would be on his laptop and dad would be on the desktop, the computer addict me couldn’t even get near to the computer until they went to bed. This weekend, Streamyx was down since Saturday morning, HS kept calling the service provider to report the interruptions, dad kept asking him to call too. But, they did get over it and get more social later as everyone was at home this weekend.
At least once a month, all my siblings would be gathering at my parents’ place. Though older brother, his family and I who live half an hour distance away, the regulars would be there almost every weekend. This weekend, Pauline, my ex-roomate and now my sisters’ friend came down to visit us too. We had our favourite Hakka Lei Cha for breakfast. Pauline though is not Hakka had acquired the love for Lei Cha since she came to visit my family for the first time 10 years ago.
In the afternoon, we went downtown with Pauline. Poor Pauline though came to visit us regularly, but we have not brought her to the weekend tourist trap market. As Malaccans we dragged the weekend tourists traffics and the parking woes, we would avoid going downtown if we could. My sister’s friend, LH was so enthusiastic about showing us this coffee place that she found featured coffees from all the Malaysian states. She volunteered to do the driving, so we obliged.:-)
LH is a school teacher, she got a 25% raise during the recent salary adjustment of government servants. She wanted to give us a treat, but we all had lunch at my parents’ place before we went out, so we took rain checks from her. Anyway, we changed our mind about coffee when we were at Jonker Walk, we had Cendol instead and camwhore around a bit. But hor, my two sisters very fierce one, they will kill me if I put their pictures up here, so they warned.
A weekend without internet was not so bad, with friends and family around.:-)
I stopped at “56K” and fainted…yikes! :-P
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56k modem… that sounds like ancient history. indeed, internet has shaped many of our lives… i foresee, within the near future… everyone will spend 60% of their time in front of the screen… including working time.
wonder what is the different between hakka lei cha and the regular lei cha…
Daniel & Zewt: Aiyo, that show you guys are young enuf, do not have to go thru the pain of 56K. :-)
there’s quite a digital divide going on between Klang Valley and lain lain.
Zewt: Lei Cha is Hakka, but they are many types of Hakka, mainly due to geographical migration patterns. My ancestors came from LuoFeng Province and they actually called it “ham cha” instead of “lei cha”, it literally mean “salty tea”
Yeah, I would say that I am slow like 56k, but technology is alot faster ;-)