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Nomophobia.

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One beautiful day, I was having a date with my friend planning to have a movie marathon in the cinema. While waiting for the movie, we planned to get some refreshment near a café called PCLO that served churros as the main dish. The second he gets up to go to the toilet, I quickly grabbed my phone, started scrolling and checking all the social media I have in my phone. It was some kind of a panic attack when I have to sit there all alone and I trying hard to avoid eye contact to those near me. I felt like I am vulnerable to every assumption that I have in mind for instance, people will think that I am a weirdo watching them from far. That I decided to just stick with my phone, act like I need to attend important messages. Once he came back, our conversation resumes as usual with none of us attached with the gadget. The good side of it is that, smartphones able to keep us accompanied without having to put so much effort of being occupied. Simply just withdraw

Device and Life

Hi guys.             Today, I would like to bring you guys to discuss about ‘second life’. Before that, do you know what second life is?  According to an article from EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (2008), with the title “7 things you should know about Second Life”, second life refers to largest virtual world which is including VolP that lets users to speak with each other. It was launched in 2003. Besides that, it is using technology to create visual lifelike experiences for their user who already registered. The one who registered will create their avatars in that virtual world.             Second life created to let people meet and interact with others. They can set their avatar as other gender if they wanted. They also can behave confidently even they are too shy in the real world. For more information, please read from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7038.pdf .             So, I would to ask you all that, do you think that this kind of application is bette

Globalization and Foreign Culture

Annyeonghaseyo,  And good day everyone,  Last few months ago, while I was watching my favourite Korean pop group on my laptop, suddenly my father came to me and asked,  “What is it that you see in these guys? You’ve watched them too much”  From that moment I realised, I must have liked them so much that I have become obsessed in them, and at the same time, annoyed my dad. The Korean wave is no longer become something peculiar or new in Malaysia. From the readings, the wave may have first hit Malaysia’s shore because of the famous Korean drama (kdrama) screened in national television, which is Winter Sonata. The drama left such a great impact to the country that it has eventually lead “everything Korean” into the gates of our country. The Korean wave hit us so strong that it is not just the drama, music, and dancing, has caused people to become fanatical, but there is something more than that. The South Korean culture has developed to be something so sensational, that