so here is some take away ideas about this week reading from Gabrielle and David observation:

• Hyperlink creates a by-product
• Two way writing
• Hyperlink breaks the traditional way of reading, non sequential, people can jump to anywhere, not follow a particular order like reading a book from start to end
• Printing unevenly phased in

However, personally I find that the modern technologies of smartphone, facebook, computer, tweeter…. and other social media, mainly writing is performed electronically and this is really destroying my writing skills. Grammar, spelling… everything is checked as we go. Well in a way it’s a great development in general but I think it more likely to create bad habits for me. I almost feel like I have lost the ability to write longer and academically. I becomes more lay back like I don’t care much about my spelling and sometimes even grammar since I know the device will correct my mistakes for me.

But yes, we can’t deny the conventions of writing. Imagine life without books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, etc, it’s just so boring. And then the art ground is missing out on an amazing medium on earth.

Another year is coming. I just blinked and a year has passed. Time is too fast for us to follow.

There’re so many Tet festivals but they don’t make me feel like Tet at all. Tet is not about going to a festival, playing some games, eating something we could eat everyday and listening to live music. No, it’s not the Tet that I know.

Tet is a culture. To me, it’s a wonderful time of the year. In those last days, I and my family spend hours cleaning up our house. Well, it’s when I read all the memories of the year and decide which ones have to be forgotten. We buy new decoration to refresh and bring some new luck into our house. We always have a special lunch on the last day after we worship my dad’s parents. There’s always a boiled chicken and ” bánh chưng”. It’s the only time of the year I eat “bánh chưng”, it’s not my favourite though.  And thousand of things we do when Tet is coming, they always keep us busy but happy.

And to the children, the most interesting part of Tet is receiving lucky money ” lì xì”. In the old day, the children loved lucky money because they believed that money would bring them luck but nowadays, they love it because of its value. People turn into too realistic these days, and so do I.

Sometimes, I miss the old day. It was too good to remember.

Another Tet is coming, just like my last year. No Mum, no dad, no Tet special dishes, no traditional things I used to do when Tet is coming but valuable lucky money.

Somehow, I wish I could have a real Tet like I used to, but I couldn’t use that money to buy a Tet for myself.

I realise there’s something more valuable than money and it’s our feelings, the real feelings that we hide inside our hearts.

Just close my eyes and imagine I’m back home, worship my grandparents and then eat the boiled chicken and “bánh chưng” as well; Mum is smiling and Dad is telling stories of his wretched youth.

The idea of Hypertext is now being analysed and explained once again. To be honest, this is the very first time I’ve actually learnt about the concept of hypertext rather than just knowing its definition as “text displayed on a computer display or other electronic device with references (hyperlinks) to other text which the reader can immediately access, or where text can be revealed progressively at multiple levels of detail”. It’s amazing how people invented this and make everything so easy to link and support each other in different ways only with one simple click on a blue underlined text.

It’s true to say that nowadays Hypertext appears everywhere, mentioned by everyone, even in this blog here, hypertext is being used as a helpful tool to reference the chapter I’ve read about hypertext. Hypertext or hyperlink is so popularly used in this era in which internet, smartphone and computer rule the world. But as it is now widely used around the world, accessible to everyone, privacy and security should be concerned. Nothing is really safe on the internet!

I also find an interesting blog about the hyperlink war  that shows another dark side of hypertext/hyperlink, that we need to reconsider before using and clicking, especially writers.

[podcast]http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2013/06/tsy_20130623_1005.mp3[/podcast]

As a part of my Broadcast Media homework, I came across an interesting piece of radio document from ABC 360 radio program about dressing issue of women leaving prison.

What should a woman wear when she’s leaving prison? How does it feel to get out of the prison tracksuit for the first time in months or years and back into ordinary clothes? How does time in prison leave its mark on the body? What accounts for the gaol saying that in prison, men get fit, while women get fat?

Restrictions on clothing and grooming might seem like a trivial aspect of imprisonment. But losing control over personal presentation can have a profound impact on self-esteem, and undermine rehabilitation.

 

I have never ever thought of that issue in my entire life, what should a woman wear when she’s leaving prison? I’m a big fan of nice clothes, neat outlook and self-appearance, I know how it’s to be in such situation with restrictions on clothing and grooming. Well, as all women do, appearance is really important to us to keep our self-esteem on level.

They do bad things, but still, I personally think they deserve to look at least OK when their punishment is finished. It’s an essential part for them to get back to their normal like, and take back their sense of belonging in the community. How us, people in the community look at them will party determine how these women would be after prison. A better person or recommit crime.

The work Dress To Success organization has done is very meaningful and admirable. Not many people see this as a problem and they usually underestimate its serious impact on these women in jail and our society. I hope this will be analyze more in depth and raise more public awareness on this issue. One way to stop them recommit crime and get back to the community is here!

Then suddenly a day I wake up to endless worries, the unknown ones. They’re just coming and coming without any signs.

Sometimes, I find myself wondering in the middle of the lecture what will I be. Will these abstract sophisticated philosophies and knowledge make me a better person, have a better life, make more money? I feel like I’m sinking in the hopeless silence of my own questions. Well, the fact is I don’t really understand these “philosophies” that the lecturers, the tutors are talking about. What is “technology determinism”? What is the concept of whatsoever? Maybe, maybe I’m just too ordinary to understand these sophisticated things. English is not my mother tongue language which makes it even harder for me.

I’m lost in this sea of ideas and thoughts. Just lost.

While waiting for the bus, I saw a little cute girl playing around with her brother. The kid just looked so cute until she opened her mouth.

” Don’t fucking do that! “, she yelled at her brother, probable not much older than her, in front of her mum. Surprisingly, her mum didn’t say anything about it.

I was shocked. She was wearing primary school uniform and she swore. My God! What has happened to this generation? What have we done to them? Isn’t she supported to be angelic and innocent? Isn’t she supported to say something cuter and nicer than the word “fucking”? Well, I guest she properly doesn’t know the meaning of “fucking”; but still it’s so inappropriate for such a young kid to say something like this. This happened in front of her mum, and who knows later, what could she say to her teacher?

I know, swearing now is not a really big deal. People swear every minute, every day; but for kids to swear as a “habit” from copying adults is just so wrong.

We have to look at ourselves again and find out what we have done so such thing happened.  Bad words appear everywhere, on TV, on the internet,books, magazines, comics… influential famous figures swear, parents swear, siblings swear, strangers swear… the kids will eventually pick up these words and think of them as cool word, something popular that everyone say. That’s how everything starts I suppose? But for this to become a “habit” is another story. Bad parenting is the first thing to blame. The kids would not continuing using the words if their parents explain and stop them from using the words in such way.

 http://www.littleheroes.com/wp-blog/parenting-advice/what-do-when-when-your-kids-swear/ – here is a helpful link for this problem.

Now, I wonder; is the little kid I saw today a “design fiction” of her parents? Back then, did them create a fictional design of a kid that could swear? If they did, they’re very successful at designing their own fiction.

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