Yeah...!

Hi,

A big yeah.... today. I want to share that my granddaughter, Chloe, announced at dinner time that she has included me on her Facebook!

Wow! Such a lovely surprise it was.

Did I tell you that it was she who calmly told her grandfather that if he wanted to find out anything, he should always ask Google?

And she's all of ten years old. She turned ten in September.

She loves tuning into YouTube where she looks for her favourite singers, gets the lyrics and sings along with the singers.

When I was ten years old, I was still playing "masak-masak" ( playing with toy kitchenware, pretending to cook!!)with my siblings.

Today's generation is amazing. My niece is already teaching her almost 4 year old daughter how to handle the computer! She may yet turn out to be a computer whizz kid.

The youngsters pick up things very quickly while these old, tired brains have a hard time trying to figure out where something she downloaded had disappeared to!

Another incident was even more disheartening. I was in the process of sending a file as an attachment to an email to a friend who wanted to know more about Twitter, when it suddenly disappeared and I can't locate it anymore, not even the original file. So the poor guy won't ever get the Twitter file. I just can't locate where it went. Must be orbiting somewhere in cyberspace. So my friend, if you are reading this, please know that I was sending it to you a second time since you said you didn't receive it the first time. Now it has disappeared forever and I won't even have something to refer to when I forget something. You know what it's like...senior lapses are more often than not, occuring these days.

Talk about forgetting where the car was parked in Mid-Valley ( a huge shopping complex with an equally huge underground carpark )during my last trip to Kuala Lumpur. My spouse was not much better. He remembered the number but not the alphabet preceding it. The car is an old one so we had to use the key to manually lock it, not the type where you just pressed a button and the car would give off a sound thus alerting you to its whereabouts.

Suffice to say that it took us a long time plus a bit of female intuition before we finally located it. My brother then advised," You should have taken a photo of the car and its position with your mobile phone." I wonder how much good that would be. I will try that out next time.