Good grief, I still have a blog.

The last time I came across this page was several years ago. Just how many online cookie crumbs do I have? I really don't know.

Hrmmph, and so, what has happened in the last few years?

I got married, yeah.
We bought a flat to live in. Woohoo! my own property.
I got 3 cats (rather, the husband got 3 cats, I am merely the feeder, cleaner and caretaker...)
I changed jobs several times, which isn't surprising since I do project work.
I became much closer to God in my Christian journey and have been attending church regularly for a few years now and believe I have matured.

Oh... I turned 40 a couple of years ago.

You know, as I was reading my old posts, it struck me that I was certainly a miserable... or rather, melancholic person.
I'd like to think that this has changed somewhat. I believe I now have a sunnier disposition.
I am still passionate and I feel strongly about certain issues but.... I guess, I did mellow with time.

What about the world around me, how has it changed? Well, we all know that blogs are so 1990s and 2000s. In the 2010s, it is all about the smartphone. Every other thing can be done on the smartphone. You can surf the internet, learn, watch TV and movies, read the bible / quran, read news & posts, take photographs that are better quality than some point and shoot cameras, use the phone as GPS, a media player, a shopping and payments / banking tool too.

Yeah, I think the 2020s are going to be all about artificial intelligence and IoT. These have actually been around for a while now but the signs are clear, they are going to turn mainstream soon.

In the 2000s, a phone was only for calls and SMSes. Then in the 2010s, we started watching movies and surfing the internet on our smartphones en masse. After that, came all manner of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Wechat, WhatsApp, Skype, etc. I was a laggard in the smartphone revolution. My 1st smartphone was an entry level HTC in 2010 considering that the 1st iphone was released in 2007, I was slow.

After that, I graduated to several Samsungs, the S3, Note 4 and now Note 8. I am still considered slow in changing phones, I change them an average of once every 2-3 years, usually when the phone batteries start to die. The iphones that I have had are always work ones. I still much prefer Android to IOS. It feels more familiar to me.

But even for me, the smartphone is now an indispensable tool and I think more of our lives will go online, on the cloud... whatever. Just 3 years ago, I wouldn't buy things online because I was afraid of credit card fraud. Now, buying things online is the norm.

Just 2 years ago, I wouldn't do any mobile payments. Now, I do have a mobile payment account that I use occasionally. There will be malls and supermarkets (even now) that use only epayments. Blockchain and bitcoin may eventually enter our lives as well, who knows.

The pace is accelerating and we need to change along with it.
Keeping the right attitude, looking forward and upward is the way to go.