How Funny We Haven't Die !!

It's the first time in HK.

Broadband dies down, even in this 3rd busiest trading floor in the world.

(I felt very sorry for those are very into online sex.)

It is said the Taiwanese earthquake has impaired our Internet connection to Europe, US, Asian region, etc. Well, basically all over the world.

You know what, I used to believed that we are going to die without Mobile phone, Internet or Octopus Card, the top 3 stuff for survival here in HK. Money is the 5th, right after credit card.

Yet, it proved creations like these can be very fragile.

And HK becomes funny today.

Not because of the disaster. (I'm not ruthless and cold, ok? And I truly hope all is well soon.) But because when you take time to look around, you will see how interesting people react.

At first, it feels like the end of the world. Groaning, moarning all over the place. 

Some colleagues become motionless without their favorite MSN and eBay.

Some just stuck in front of the LCD monitor, with their mouth open and don't know what to do. They used to get lost in the Internet world. Now reality becomes too real for them.

Some refreshes the HK Yahoo every minute because it's the only site we can access to. But something tragic is, one website won't provide enough entertainment.

Some started jumping around, murmuring something.

Some clients disppeared.

Some friends disappeared too.

For my company, things become more efficient than ever. Though I know internet-die-down is not so funny for some industries.

Back to the old days, we are now on phones and faxes until we can finally use our emails at noon, but unfortunately restricted to local HK.

As an employee, so sorry to discover how we have spend 50% (or more) of the working hours everyday to browse something not really useful. That includes me, of course.

Suddenly we have a lot more time. How funny.

My IT friend sits in front of his server, looks serious (but for what?), and keeps saying "shit" the whole day.
Obviously we have created more jobs because of the invention of Internet (could be good). But today, at least in my office, we proved that we can do without it.

For the rest of us, we can finally spend more time talking face to face with our colleagues. Which is a nice thing.

Thanks.

We haven't die !!