Sunday, June 18, 2006
10:27 PM
Haha. Spent the day mugging. First day mugging!

I was thinking. Times are changing very fast. Especially for my year people i think. We seem to live in between two different generations of people, we belonging to the past few generations. Many people have commented, your batch and the seniors are the same. After your batch, people are different. Thinking of it, it seems quite true.

Things were very different when we were juniors. We listened to the seniors, and agreed with them. We shared the same kind of views and concepts. When i was a senior, the juniors held different views, they had different thinking and they believed that their thinking were superior. Its really different. When i look at rj, it seemed the same too. The juniors do not think the same way as us. We think the same way as the seniors. Its just this generation gap there.

Actually i would think anyone born after 1990 is different. The build-up in life is different. Yes, all our teenage years are within the 90s, but the 90s is also a decade of change. 2 - 3 years of difference is great. When we were in primary school, not many carried handphones. But just 3 years down the road, even a primary 1 carried a handphone to school! Thats the difference. Difference in material wealth and difference in thinking. To the juniors, it seems that we held more traditional and more obselete thinking. But to us, i would feel that they are too havoc. Their thinking had gone very different and their track in life is really different too! This made them very different in the way they do things. They believed that their ways are better, but most of the time, its the traditional way that works.

Its quite evident. Last time, the youngest you would ever see in an online forum or a chatroom is a sec1. Nowdays, even 7, 8 year odds go to those chatrooms. Their exposure is greater, and they know more at a younger age. Most of us started computer stuff in p3, now they start in p1. The improvement in technology and the common-isation of the handphone and internet made things really different. I believe in the theory that a child's mind is a blank piece of paper. What you put in is what the child will become. But with all these exposure before they even enter school, they have pre-requisites but also some wrong concepts slated into them. It then makes things harder. They procrasinate more and comment more. But are those correct? Most of the time, they are wrong.

It is something inevitable, but it may not prove to be good afterall.

`someday my princess will come. She just took a wrong turn, got lost and is too stubborn to ask for directions]]* ;