{"id":1392,"date":"2010-02-14T12:57:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T12:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2010-02-14T12:57:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T12:57:37","slug":"a-new-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1392","title":{"rendered":"A New Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My mom declared that there shall be no reunion dinner this Chinese New Year. Which was very un-Chinese, so I decided to hanker on with one of the traditions anyway – cleaning up the house!<\/p>\n

I managed to garner 4 cardboard bags full of old magazines and leaflets. Home alone, I took 4 trips across the neighborhood playground to the recycling bin. On my 3rd trip back, I saw this mom and son carrying old clothes to the bin (which also doubles as a donation box for old clothes.)<\/p>\n

On my 4th time there, a car was in my way – a macha<\/i> had loaded 3 of my bags into his front seat! He asked if I was carrying more books. Yes, I said, and I passed him my last bag.<\/p>\n

Bless him for doing his bit, and bless him if he gets money out of it.<\/p>\n

I wanted to take a picture of my 4 bags lying near the bin to declare “PAPER IS DEAD TO ME!<\/b>” but I was a bit too late.<\/p>\n

My housemate (if you read my blog, you’d know who he is) came back, and we hauled out 6 more bags to the neighborhood recycling bin! This time an older couple was throwing out their stuff. It’s a nice feeling seeing people recycle.<\/p>\n

Seriously though, I don’t see the value to paper anymore. What did I throw out?<\/p>\n

– old college books that were outdated and irrelevant even when I got them
\n– newsletters
\n– computer price lists
\n– newspapers
\n– annual reports (my housemate is a massive hoarder)<\/p>\n

I did not throw out my massive stash of:
\n– Guitar And Bass
\n– ROTTW (Rhythm Of The Third World)
\n– TONE (yeah man!)
\n– KLue<\/p>\n

All of this information, is better in digital format. When you have no use for it – delete it!<\/p>\n

I have no romantic notion with print. I don’t read books on the bus – instead my mind wanders to a random curiosity and I read Wikipedia on my Nokia N70. (I’ve been doing this long before all you iPhone yuppies!) If you have a stash of annual reports you can bet that finding the information under a big pile, with dust, is not as convenient as a digitized format.<\/p>\n

Even if digital formats do die, the information is probably of less relevance by then.<\/p>\n

Oh, and Happy Chinese New Year everybody! Happy Valentine’s Day, and Singles Awareness Day. I have to say the SAD nights are more fun because they’re not so expensive.<\/p>\n

* the picture above has nothing to do with the recycling bin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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