We all know the internet became phenomenally popular for two reasons - porn and gambling.
So pray tell, what crosses your mind when you see a middle-aged tudunged makcik at Low Yat Plaza haggling over the price of a 50-pack of DVD-Rs like it was ikan tenggiri? That's a whopping 285GB of storage space.
a. She wants to save her mp3 collection and she has over a million songs
b. She wants to clone some DVDs
c. She's a writer and wants to back up her Miscrosoft Word files
d. She's buying them for her teenaged son
e. None of the above
The homely-looking makcik, probably in her 50's, was carrying a newly purchased D-Link wireless router in a plastic bag. Total respect. Even my 16 year old sister doesn't know what a router is.
I think its great that our elders are finally going online but the sight of mums, dads and grannies buying gigabytes of recording media jolted my ever-curious mind.
Its still trying to compute why... whirr..whirr..beep...beep...
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