Thousand miles away from home....

Assalamualaikum and Hello Everybody...

I feel homesick today out of the blue.. it's because I just talk to my sisters, nephew (Harris) and niece (Hessa), via a 3G phone this afternoon. It's lovely what technology can do today. Eventhough they're thousands miles away from me, it seems that they're so near and I could talk and see them directly as if they're just next door.

I remembered when my aunt and uncles studied in UK in the 1980's, we hardly receive any news from them. When my aunt came back home from UK, I eagerly waited for her at the airport and I just looked at her, admiring her cream brownish dress with small roses design, her nice wavy shoulder length haircut and her fair skin.

Nowadays, I called my family every week via phone, or sms or e-mail them and my friends... like everyday... well, thanks to all those scientists, inventors, ICT specialists, engineers, etc for pioneering the creative and innovative inventions.

Communication certainly has changed tremendously over the years. From the era of traditional/manual communication (horses, on foot etc) to the era of telecommunication or mass communication (telephones, telegraph, radio, tv, internet, sattelite, www, etc).

Comes to think of it... Do you think these superb technology has taken over human life?Hmmm... I wonder what's today's life will be without tv, computers, play station, mp3, internet, etc...? Well, whatever it is, traditional or advanced technology, it has both advantages and disadvantages.

And I do agree with this quotation from Antoine...technology do bring all the people together.

" Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures— in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together" -Antoine De Saint-Exupery, "Terre des Hommes" (translated into English as "Wind, Sand, and Stars"), 1939