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Top Ten Problems You Didn’t Face Ten Years Ago

April 24, 2006

Top Ten Problems You Didn’t Face Ten Years Ago

The title kinda says it all, doesn’t it? Don’t get me wrong, i love the new millenium and the tech and gadgets, but things were a little different back then…

  • You can’t figure out how to connect your plasma TV, hi-fi set, Astro decoder, DVD player, VCR (“I still use it ma…”) together. Either you get sound without picture or picture without…

  • You just lost your handphone and together with it, your all important phone book, and videos of you and your…

  • “Sorry la Joe, this year, I can’t make the trip up to Lake Pedu to go fishing with the guys. You know, a little financial problem la, some more toll price so expensive, some more petrol now RM1.92 per litre la… you know la…”

  • Your PS2 laser is out of alignment, it cost as much to get it repaired as it would to buy a new one, but your mom won’t buy you another one, and PS3 is not due to be out for a few months… dang, dang, dang…!

  • Your infernal ISP is traffic-shaping your IP address due to your Bittorent downloading.

  • You missed the turning off to your house from the LDP, so you had to travel exactly 3.8km to the next interchange and back. Your girlfriend has the cheek to call it a ‘joyride’.

  • ”Actually ah, the price of the magazine has gone down to USD12.50 recently you know, but with the exchange rate at RM3.62, and plus shipping and handling ah, RM60 should cover it for one month…”

  • Yahoo! Mail keeps sending messages from your favourite anime forum to the spam box.

  • You’ve just found out that ‘hotchick37‘, the 6’ 2″ Swedish model you’ve been flirting with online for the past 3 months is your father in the next room.

  • ”I don’t care if it’s freaking free for life, or you’re giving me a vibrating pillow, I DON’T WANT YOUR CREDIT CARD!!!”

19 Comments

  • Ken

    April 24, 2006 at 10:02 pm Reply

    You’re so right about the PS2! Hahaha… Digicams also cost a bomb to repair… Better off getting a new one… 😛 *Campaign for Sony T-9*

  • yuin

    April 25, 2006 at 6:34 am Reply

    ROFL! electronics is still a mystery to some people. My mum still doesn’t know how to even turn on the computer. She calls the monitor ‘screen’ and the cpu the ‘box’.

  • lilian

    April 25, 2006 at 2:56 pm Reply

    WE also don’t have ‘Let me check the internet on what to cook for dinner’

    P/S : Talk about vibrating, that vibrating rodeo chair from Os*m which is purported to help lose weight? I hope someone got slip disc and sue them till terkangkang. Have you seen that? Oh my, they are obsence mannnn

  • simon

    April 25, 2006 at 3:37 pm Reply

    ghost – well, there are some things we’re better not knowing…

    yuin – what does she call the ipod nano? a toothpick?

    sashi – those banks think some ppl are so gullible… vibrating pillow, sheeh.

    inevitable – try to unblock your bout of blog block!

    lilian – that’s just a load of crap. i doubt anyone can lose so much weight and look like some lingerie model just with that gadget.

  • zyrin

    April 25, 2006 at 4:20 pm Reply

    “You missed the turning off to your house from the LDP, so you had to travel exactly 3.8km to the next interchange and back.”

    Omigod. This happened to me today. The horror, the horror…

  • anjali*

    April 25, 2006 at 4:33 pm Reply

    ”I don’t care if it’s freaking free for life, or you’re giving me a vibrating pillow, I DON’T WANT YOUR CREDIT CARD!!!”

    Not just that, now they want to give you RM10K personal loan so that you can pay your credit card debt. Which makes me wonder why I want to take on more debt to clear my debts?

    Or maybe I am just thick and don’t understand arithmetics? Ha.

  • simon

    April 26, 2006 at 6:21 am Reply

    zyrin – i bet its that super huge round about in putrajaya, isn’t it? the one near parcel B, C, D…

    anjali – or when they keep bugging you for their loan transfer program for the millionth time.

  • consuela

    April 26, 2006 at 7:42 am Reply

    nice list…hehe
    am actually proud to say I can put all the entertainment gadgets together with no hitch and am put in charge of it eveything it needs tweaking! 🙂

  • Joshua

    April 27, 2006 at 12:45 pm Reply

    How about this for the 11th:
    “Signal frantically to the cars at the back as you try to wriggle your way tru jammed cars, because you have so many shopping bags to carry – you forget to pay the parking fees before reaching the automatic parking gates!”

    And oh, I like the credit cards bits.

  • simon

    April 27, 2006 at 2:17 pm Reply

    consuela – really? maybe you should help me fix up my home entertainment unit.

    joshua – oh man. i hate that. happened to me a few times.

    recently, this building i know changed from ‘pay at exit’ to pay at machine. Everyday a few cars will get stuck b’coz they didnt know of the change.

  • Jürgen (Jay) Hösch

    May 2, 2006 at 9:12 pm Reply

    It’s just another word Simon 😉 Unluckily I don’t have an English-English dictionary here for a good translation. But a baton is used in a relay race and is passed from one runner to the next one. That is the source of this metaphor.

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