Farewell!

I guess this is where we say good bye.

I find it kind of a waste though that it is going to be the last of the blog posts. But yes i do enjoy blogging and this blog has been a love-hate thing for me, sometimes its hard to think of new ideas to make the posts sound interesting and from my experience. We do have a guide on what to post, for topics as well as helping questions, but i want to make the reads an enjoyable one, something that after reading the posts, you would have learnt something new!

I surely did learn lots of new things as i was sort of "forced" to find that what is new on the Internet and it has been an enriching journey for me! I do hope that after reading my blog posts, you will also feel that you have learnt something new! As much as I have enjoyed writing these posts, I do hope that you too did have a fun time reading it. :) like i said, it feels quite a waste for a blog to end just like that, personally i am still keeping up with my personal blog since old times till now. But I dont think i am able to keep up with maintaining this blog and rummaging through this huge internet to find new stuffs that will keep the readers here! I ever did consider maintaining this blog, but nope I don't think i will be able to keep up.with the posts.


*edit* UGH html codes used to work so much easier with blogger?! now it's kind of wonky for me, i have no idea why, but yes, enjoy the videos!

To my fellow Spring 2015 COM 125 fellows, thank you soooo much for reading my blog! I hope that you guys are done with the blogging assignment too :) It's been a great Spring semester with you guys, all the best for your finals! :)
am i the only one using blogger?!

The future of the Internet

I think the future of the internet will be more of the use of more intensive web applications, virtual reality will definitely be made more available to us and third world countries will probably have better and faster access to the internet. The Internet will advance, and with our computers are able to process more information at one go, i can imagine games online becoming more realistic over the internet through the use of web applications. More corporations and online shops now make use of flash to add an interactive function to their website. This will probably soon become the norm for all websites, adding in more interactivity in the websites, or even face-to-face customer service made possible! Since the Internet is evolving, the bandwidth will definitely increase, allowing more data to pass through at one go. Also, probably more cables linking up more computers across the globe too? And wireless data connection too. Now we have 4G network which uses a different frequency. I can imagine a world we live in that uses multi levels of frequency to allow everyone lightning speed fast internet service!

Crazily enough though, now wireless internet is even possible on the moon! Yes you heard it, THE MOON. Google and Nasa teamed up to shoot 4 laser beams to the moon, allowing wifi to be possible from the moon. 19.44Mbps for an average speed sounds pretty decent too, with the peak at an insane 622Mbps! This shows the crazy infinite possibilities that we are able to create today with the current resources that we already have. Here comes the future people! Our computers are greatly advancing, from the age of floppy disks to hard disks capable of storing over 2Tb without a power source within half a century. What more will the future bring to us as we grow exponentially?

Here you can see how gaming has been brought to a whole new level. We were just introduced to realistic graphics in recent years, but now developers have combined technologies to provide a totally immersive experience into the game.


Combine this with the Internet, and I am pretty sure everyone will be totally immersed in the gaming world. Apply this to shopping, to touring around the globe when you combine such technology with apps like Google Street View  There are just so many crazy things that we can explore with technology today and with the help of the Internet! With so much data now being required to send over the Internet, i am pretty sure that the future of it will have so much in store for us.

So if you think that the Internet has pretty much hit a stagnation point, maybe you might want to reconsider that.

New ideas, new internet?

The first thing that comes to mind when innovations and the Internet are mentioned Kickstarter is the first thing that comes to mind! Surely there are all the big names like Apple, Microsoft, etc etc but what caught my eye was an innovation that helped innovations:

I found it really interesting how Kickstarter took online shopping one step further, by allowing crowdfunding for various products or musical gigs. Crowdfunding hits a really grey area when it comes to supporting such projects, whether these projects are bogus or not, or what happens if halfway through the project fails. Here's how it works.

You can pledge whichever amount that you want to pledge, the more you pledge, the better the rewards! In this case, it is dependent on what they have to offer to you. So if you are now thinking that it is like pre-ordering something, then you're right! Just that, the catch is that if the campaign fails to raise the amount that they have set out for, then you do not foot a single cent. If it is successful, then yay! you just supported an innovation and you'll get a product soon! Take the Glow headphones for example. This is one such project that raised way more than what they had planned out for!

Here, you can see that they raised $500k as opposed to the $100k goal! so yes if you pledged to this product, you would receive your headphones! You can support projects from all walk of life, there are dog leashes that you can support, or just about any area of life. All you need to click is the discover button! Or if you are into photography, how bout some photo books? They even have flying drones, robotics, etc etc. I absolutely love the idea that we get to support such ideas, encouraging more people to step up and actively pursue their dreams! Its a win win situation, we help them beat the start up cost, while we get to have their products at a much cheaper price! Then people will worry about the quality and all, but so far, i have yet to have any bad experience with the various projects that i have backed! Some i back in huge amounts, especially when the products are really good, whereas some are just in small amounts :) from techies to wooden guitar picks, i've backed many different ones and the people there are generally very friendly! Unless the person starts giving problems and breaking promises like "oh we will get the item shipped out in june!" and it only arrives in November.

But hey, its awesome to be able to support others for their ideas, and we get to benefit too. Moreover Kickstarter has a good system in place just in case the project is a success but the people decide to run off with the pledges. Or sometimes it kinda sucks on their end when us backers fail to send the money through even when the project is a success. Well theres always that few people, but since the transactions are automated, by the time you put a pledge in, they will automatically deduct from your card! I honestly think that Kickstarter is a good innovation in itself, so do check it out yeah!

Internet Journalism

when we think of citizen journalism, STOMP comes to mind, TRS (The Real Singapore) surfaces too and we have negative thoughts of such websites. Personally, I think that these websites are trash, they did contact my mother before because of some incident, asked permission if it was okay to publish the story but I did not bother following up on whatever they did. It's quite scary though that a sinple Facebook post can actually trigger STOMP journalists to jump on the story. I am highly skeptical of it in Singapore, although other countries seem to be truly benefitting from the perception of the "common man" through shaky videos and what not of protests and events.

I found this video on the "best" moments of citizen journalism picked out by the news presenter and it highlights the edge of citizen journalism highlighting the plight of the people or bringing a different perception of the same situation. Many a time, media is regulated and what the media wants to present is heavily affected by their framing, just which part of the story do they want to show, photos can be misleading at times. As such, we have resources from the people on the ground, showing exactly what is happening and reporting their side of the story.



Sometimes, it may be as simple as just a video posted online without any voiceovers or glamorous newsrooms. Online citizen journalism in my opinion is pretty trashy. Little do we find quality information or educated, well-thought through opinions of others. Instead, we Singaporeans can be seen belittling each other online and shaming one another for the unruly behaviors of others.

I feel that the Opinion section of The Straits Times, although printed, offers a much better source of "citizen journalism". There, you find quality information and opinions that are highly substantiated. Like these people actually MAKE SENSE. Many times, only good articles sent to The Straits Times get published, as such these people take pride in their work and churn out quality reviews. I personally love to read this section as it offers a great deal of different perception of the people and I always learn something new after reading this section!

if you ever have the chance to, pick up the physical newspaper and flip to the opinions section! they are usually filled with words but amongst the words are great knowledge for us! Many of us simply miss out in my opinion, the most valuable part of the newspaper :)

Politics and the internet

wow i think this is probably going to be the hardest topic to talk about because i cant think of any interesting thing to talk about as there always isn't much interesting about politics on the internet, at least in the Singaporean context. I know our prime minister PM LHL is pretty active on the internet! and so is Dr Teo Chee Hean they are the few more active politicians on the internet and social media! even our PM has an instagram account. Rather than talking so much on how politics have changed whereby candidates now go online to rally support and let their presence be felt, i shall talk about what happens after they join office!

In the past, the only way we can get to talk to the ministers is through email or meet and greet sessions which leave the politician quite far away from the citizens, prompting many to feel that ministers do not understand how the typical Singaporean lives his life. Whereas now ministers are much easier to reach, and they do not feel far away. They seem more like your colleague with their photos and selfies .

I found it more heartwarming to feel the ministers "closer" to us and with the help of social media, politicians now seem more engaging, answering questions posed by the public at times. Even though they may not be the only ones handling the social media account, it still seems like a really good way for the public to keep in touch with the ministers, being tagged in the photos, etc etc. You even see people posting photos of the ministers and tagging them, and also tagging them in posts that raise concern. Posts like this recent video that went viral 

With the ministers now having a greater presence online, they are able to quickly tackle the problem and comment on such posts, instead of relying on conventional means on getting a more formal personal statement read out or posted on websites 

games and games and games

I guess i am pretty lucky having to experience web1.0 and web2.0 hence knowing the benefits of multimedia in web2.0. Now, the web is way more interactive, and with the addition of multimedia, websites have become more engaging, online games have become possible and many tools are now available on our fingertips. Last time back in secondary school, before maplestory become popular, i used to play heliattack2 with my friends online! We used to be really crazy over this game and compete who could get farther in the game. There was pretty much no end to the game, at least according to our efforts throughout secondary school years. You can try playing the game here! It’s still available in miniclip! How could we forget neopets??? It was such a craze in the past, i lost my account in the past but have since created a new one out of fun! Just to play those classic games like meerca chase and hasee bounce. 

It was also only possible as a web application with the introduction of web2.0. We spent a lot of time online, playing such games at home and bragging our highscores to our friends when we are back in school the subsequent day. 

With university and many other commitments now, games seem to become a thing of the past. Even more so as I soon lose my interest in gaming, unlike secondary school days when we used to say “see you online later!” when we ended class everyday. I didn't really study during secondary school which wasn’t a good thing, and i was heavily addicted to online games. While the Maplestory craze was still going on, another crowd craze hit us again. This time, it is Facebook games. Farmville, Restaurant Story, Mafia Wars, Backyard Monsters, all of these caught the attention of Facebook users young and old.

I was one of them who caught on it too. I was really addicted to Restaurant Story, always worrying that my food will be “overcooked” and finding the fastest way to gain money or experience. I found that tomato bisque which only took 30 minutes to cook was the most “worth it” and safest option. 15 minutes intervals for my food seemed to cook too fast for me to handle. Instead, from time to time, i will check back on my computer and collect the food. This had me very glued on to the computer. After school, I would go on quests or simply start slaying monsters in maplestory and i will alt+tab at intervals to check on the food in restaurant story. As you can tell, i was deeply engrossed in games! 

Games aside, other web applications also help us in our everyday life! and one of the apps online that really helped my family was Google Maps. Last year when we were in France, we wanted to take the same photo as the past, when brother and I stood at a ledge for a photo with the Eiffel Tower. However there were 4 sides, which left us thinking which side could it be, and every side was quite a fair bit of distance away. To make matters worse, we had a very tight timeframe  at the Eiffel Tower as we wanted to explore other areas. Instead of walking around, we relied on Google Maps the night before to do the walking for us and planning which station to alight. As such, we managed to find the same spot where we took the photo and it was a different spot from what we initially planned! You can actually view it in “street view” and click directional arrows, a technology that is wondrously clever and navigate around. 

This was what it looked like when i tried navigating using google street view!
Here go give it a try! there are arrows on the ground that allows you to travel around :)

As we angled the viewpoints at certain spots, we managed to narrow the area that we last stood over a decade ago and take the same photograph! 

Internet Security

Both of my parents are in the cybersecurity industry! So i probably have a little more dose of internet security than usual and after listening to my parents talk, that was when i realized the true importance of internet security. At first, it seemed to me like something trivial - something not needed. Exception for internet banking. I had this conception that whatever you put on the internet, is whatever you are okay with disclosing to the public. Hence there isn't really much information for people to "steal". Boy was i wrong! Mum has been in the industry ever since the government was without any form of cybersecurity, up until today. After i told her how useless i felt internet security would be to us, she shared with me how the government computers used to be laden with tons of viruses and trojans and they had to come up with firewall to protect the network of government computers. I myself ever experienced getting my computer loaded with so much viruses and worms that the whole computer began to operate very sluggishly and surely i hated those moments. When mum explained, this term 'firewall' came up. New term! A firewall is a system that helps to safeguard the contents of a network by preventing malicious software from entering. This can also mean hacking attempts from various companies or countries to gain access into the resources or intelligence of the country.

To us home-users, it does not have a very big impact on us other than getting our computers flooded with annoying pop-ups or causing our computer to hang with worms running all over in the system. Whereas at a larger scale, corporations need to protect the data of clients, their credit card information especially and sensitive information like their NRIC number and contact numbers. As such, corporations like DBS or Mapletree or FedEX has to consult on the services of IT security firms like Mcafee, Juniper, Norton for ways to defend against cyber attacks. Government websites too become the victim of cyberattacks by Anonymous. At a more serious level, cyberattacks against a country can allow the attacker access to vital defense information and pose a threat to the country.


All of these attacks go through the Internet, the network. They access the data servers of the corporation and extract the personal information of clients or sometimes, they tap the lines between computers and am able to extract the messages. Hence at a big scale, internet security is very crucial in ensuring our personal data (unicorn) remains secure! Also, instead of simply transferring files across the network, more sensitive files can be encrypted and sent across the network before the recipient decrypts it using a program. The users can also abstain from downloading files from file sharing websites or illegally downloading files. These are simple but cumbersome ways in ensuring the safety of the network.

Recently, there was a data leak of the information of 1.9k students and parents were leaked, you can read it here.
Even though this is leakage of information, it does not exactly mean that their internet security isn't tight! But because it was due to negligence. However if such files were encrypted in the first place, then the leakage of this excel file would still have been useless.

VLOG

Since i do blogging on a (supposedly) regular basis, i've tried doing a vlog before but my initial tries seemed really bad as i couldn't hear myself over the video! and it was hard to video myself while walking around. Well about a good 3 years have passed since then and i have gotten better at this in recent months! Well it was only recently that i got back to editing because we need to submit videos our various modules. 

well....i'm pretty sure i've gotten better at this? hopefully :) I did a video of my trip to Iceland during last year's end of year break. It was my first time documenting my holiday trip on video! It was only after editing the video and watching it through did I feel like i made the trip a whole lot more fun! I only finished editing the video when i was back in SG. That was when i really wanted to fly back there again and film more! It was also one of the first few times that i am using a GoPro to film so i was still learning how to use it!

Mum said my background music is "noisy".

WHAT is E-learning?

When it comes to E-learning week, we ALL rejoice. To teachers, e-learning is a new way for students to learn, expecting us to go online and do some independent studying. Our take on e-learning, is a time off from studies and we are able to relax and have fun just as how it is the march holidays! Learning through online classes is the first thing that always comes to our mind when e-learning is mentioned, but there is actually much more to it! It also includes the media resources and the framework of the e-learning portal that allows us to better navigate through the whole library of resources. It also includes the links to various online resources or provides helplines for us when we need to find specific information. I found it particularly useful for my project works during the past semesters. Accessing the libraries and gathering all the journal articles were a total breeze as compared to the conventional way of Googling all of our information! Which was really "revelational" because i never knew that there could be an easier way to find information than Googling all of it!

In the past, the learning portals that I used tend to be very Web1.0, whereby everything was very boxed, simple and plain! it was extremely boring and really hard to navigate. It had a very plain layout, with at most a logo at the top righthand corner and simple words with underlines showing the links to the texts that we were supposed to read. No one paid attention to e-learning lessons, which thankfully only made up a small portion of our classes. During those days, we were using computers linked to really bulky monitor screens and we would all open up Internet explorer to access the e learning portal and then open up and play pinball instead. Oh come on, we all know we are guilty of it!

The image might be small but you get the idea of how old e-learning websites were like!
Whereas now, given how the web has evolved, we have a more pleasing layout of the e-learning portal, making it a lot easier to navigate through the portal. Also, more advanced portals make use of web plug-ins and flash applications to increase the attractiveness of the portal! It also allows us to better learn as we have more resources, especially images and videos to explain diagrams and processes.

and this is how a web2.0 e-learning portal has in store for us! this is my personal homepage in UBLearns. With such a layout and colours and 'tabs', it is definitely more appealing for the user! The last thing we will want to have is a website that is very cumbersome, shunning people away from education!
We are no stranger to this page. Checking for updates instead of having to manually click on every module, checking our grades, printing out materials for upcoming class, all these are the little wonders that tools of e-learning provides to us!

With the advancements of technology, we are now able to watch lectures online, interact with the learning resources and download required documents for our lectures. Gone are the days that we need to queue up outside the book shop to print books and books of notes! I feel that E learning has definitely benefitted us greatly! and i really am impressed how e-learning has evolved so much that it becomes integral in our researches, in our daily learning. Surely we don't exactly enjoy e-learning as nobody really likes classes, but at least it isn't as unimpressive that it shuns as away from using it. :)

E commerce made me broke!

E commerce has changed the way how we shop online, as it provides great ease through online transactions. One drastic way it has changed business strategies is through micro transactions. These refer to the purchases available to the user although the application is free to download. This feature can be seen being used extensively in games. Massively popular games like... 

Get Rich!

 or World of Tanks,

LinePLAY, Steam Games depend heavily on this business strategy of micro transations to rake in profits. Moreover, they make these games free to download, hence once the user is hooked onto the game and want more, their tendency to spend money is higher. i was once addicted to spending money online on games too! How the cycle goes is that i will first link my credit card to the game, and then you can top up money to your in-game wallet before purchasing anything. Once the linking is done, i will buy an in game item, and then after a while later, i will feel like having more, and i will buy another! and the cycle repeats itself! It becomes really dangerous and scary as the spending increases and if it is uncontrollable! 

The same also happens for online shopping, e-commerce allows us to spend money so freely over the web, that when we see an item that we like, it is easy to just purchase the good and have it shipped over and delivered right to your doorstep! This...i am still guilty of! shopping online is really easy, and it is so easy to obtain the product that you want with just a few clicks away.. and then after a fury of clicks away, you realise the damage done to your wallet when the bills come out. Which really shows how effective e commerce is in making you spend money! no longer do i need to pop by 7 eleven stores to buy those prepaid cards for my Maplestory game. 

oh everyone knows maplestory and their acash frenzy! with everyone flocking to get a quick boost in game or a chance for a rare item! Instead, i can simply link my card and keep purchasing over and over again without much verification required! 

e commerce has definitely changed the way how we shop online. now we no longer look towards shops in malls for our clothes, but rather now everyone is hopping onto the blogshop bandwagon. Instead of having to wait for a time when there is no lesson to buy clothes at the mall, students like me can simply browse at blogshops online at our ease and e commerce will help us settle the rest! well that is provided if we have free wifi :) E commerce is an exceptionally powerful tool in raking in profits and while the shops are benefitting from the demand that i am providing them with, i am definitely getting a lot more broke!

i am a great big fan of e commerce, and even though i do spend a lot on e commerce, i will still sing praises for it because i am able to get the goods that i want! it has definitely helped me to get my goods a whole lot easier. and definitely, who doesn't want their temptations to be fufilled?! that when you see an item that you really love online, you are actually able to buy it with just a few clicks??

Whoever came up with the idea of e commerce is a genius. 

Powerful lah Social Media!

Social media is a powerful tool. This phrase has already become a cliche, Social medias like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram has changed how we view friendships, how we interact with people and how we even behave. They owe their successes to the user-generated content that they host and cleverly streamline the vast content for social media users, showing you what you want to see. Facebook was the first to burst forth with international success with it's "like" function which made people feel that they were being recognised. I myself am an addict of social media! i spend a pretty substantial amount of time on facebook, scrolling through the news feed and stupidly refreshing the news feed every few minutes, thinking that something new will pop up. Facebook was clever enough to track which users you tend to "like" their photos or facebook groups that you frequent, arranging these items right at the top of your news feed! Hence, the moment i wake up and click on the facebook app, something of interest tends to pop up! and instead of washing up, i will find myself scrolling through facebook instead of closing the app. I guess this is the power of social media, allowing its users to stay glued to it! Also, almost everyone has facebook or twitter! this allows companies to advertise and reach the masses very easily. One thing i didnt know in the past is that you can actually track the statistics for your advertisement, which is a really powerful tool that can grant you great insights as to who in the world are more inclined towards your product! I never knew that facebook actually offered such a feature to tabulate the viewership of an advert. Also, facebook used to have advertisements at the side, hence it still allows the users to not be annoyed by the constant pop-up ads that other websites have. However, now they also do offer paid posts, whereby a user can post something and they will be charged according to how many people click on the link.

one thing that really caught on was the use of #hashtags. It used to be viral, with everyone hashtagging just about anything. I even saw friends posting one entire sentence with hashtags! Something like this: #you #should #totally #try #this. which to some extent was painfully annoying... but what hashtags do is that they categorize all of the posts that have the hashtag so that when you click the hashtag, it will simply bring up all the posts (most of the time) related to it! i really love this feature as sometimes when i post about my hobbies, i can also hashtag it so other users can see what i have done and all too! moreover, it also allows me to quickly view what others have done too :) 

Nowadays, the in thing of social media are the posting of posts from other websites like Buzzfeed and EliteDaily! These are really popular sites with the teenagers and young adults like me. :) They have posts that allows people to easily identify with themselves, posts like "The Pain of Loving Someone You Should Let Go of, for the Both of You". Below is an example of how my good friend tagged me in a post! :)

There are other interesting posts like "22 Things Only People Who Went to Harvard will Understand" or mouth-watering "How to Make The Easiest, Most Delicious Chocolate Lava Cakes" and this is just for Buzzfeed, let alone other websites that post similar information. Most of these posts tend to have a number in front and then words behind! like "5 Things You Should Never do on Valentines!" Since today is Valentines and i am spending it by blogging away. Such interesting websites do have users who frequent them, but what social media does is that they help to "advertise" for these websites as the users share the posts that they find interesting. This definitely helps to rake in more viewerships! Facebook sure is an amazing and powerful tool for us, that when we are on the go, many of us are always glued to our phones, scrolling through Facebook. Or even when we are with friends, 'liking' all those Instagram photos that our friends post! Moreover now, we can easily share posts across different social media platforms, hence all of these social medias help to complement one another and rake in greater profits! On the other hand, with many companies paying for their advertisements, they have allowed us to benefit as free users. :) and who doesn't like free things?! 

Not-so-small beginnings

The internet is something that we take for granted today, something that many of us even myself have addictions for it! We always expect lightning fast speeds, scoff when the video pauses as it buffers and whine continuously like mammoths when there isn't 3G connection. This is a familiar scene when my friends and I are in the food court at school where connections reach an all-time low.

Sounds kind of unbelievable, but the internet was first started off by the US Army. It was used to connect the wide range of computers that they had, quite similar to that of an ethernet in a typical office today. It was mainly used for military purposes. However as they progressed, it was soon made available for the average consumer. The internet became usable to you and me as the World Wide Web when an Englishman, Tim Berners Lee created HTML coding and with the working with others from CERN, enabled the World Wide Web to be used as an application on the internet and connect users from across the world. Since then, there has been many evolutions and 'upgrades' to the internet to make surfing more pleasant to our insatiable hunger expectations for more services online.

This gave rise to ISPs, Internet Service Providers like Singtel sprouting all over the world, offering consumers the ability to connect to the rest of the world. From the consumer's standpoint, connecting to the internet has changed leaps and bounds. With the rise of the ISPs also came big steps of modernization such as the laying of the transatlantic cables.


In fact, those cables then were copper cables which has a much smaller bandwidth and so much easier to lose quality as compared to the fibre optics that is now available.

I am a 90s kid and I must say i've pretty much experienced a great deal on how the internet has progressed! Here is my life story of my experience with the internet, from young till now. :)

First there was dial-up. Everyone got panicky whenever the phone rang as once you pick up the phone, your line gets cut off. And i remember using that ADSL 'stingray' Alcatel modem to connect my computer to the internet.

This, my friends can be your best and worst friend. I remember the times it would beep, and BSSSSSHHHHHHHT pretty much like a comic book strip whenever i tried to connect to the internet. and when our home phone rings, i'll shout "DON'T PICK UP THE PHONE" in those days, we had to connect directly to the phone landline RJ11 cable. Back then, i was so into MapleStory and I would always panic whenever someone called as i was in the middle of the game. 

Soon after, we converted from ADSL to a WLAN Linksys router that allowed us to connect multiple computers to the Internet with the help of trusty cat 5 RJ45 cables. WLAN was the days when facebook and youtube birthed forth, sparking a new trend of how people use the internet. 

This also allowed us to connect our mobile devices and laptops to the WiFi network available which was quite an eye-opener as this was the first time our devices went wireless and this also gave us a back-up option to connect to the internet when our cabled connection did not seem to work. Also then, we had a Mio modem to organize our internet connection with our telephone line, allowing us to have a peace of mind when phone calls came in. :)

Having a techie family also means that i get to enjoy the faster internet speeds that are available as my parents always desire the fastest internet speeds available. As such, Mum asked me about switching to fibre optics, with it boasting gigabit connection speeds! Soon after, I had to revamp my house network map to accommodate the new lightning fast internet speeds! After wiring up our house with the new and fragile fibre optics, my whole family was ecstatic! But still lots of work had to be done. 

TIP TIP TIP 

Many people tend to complain why they are still experiencing similar connection speeds to their usual Linksys router that they have at home while being already on fibre optics. Well that is because the router and cables they are using are unable to support the fast speeds that the fibre optics are capable of. I went to Sim Lim Square to buy a ton of cat 6 RJ45 cables along with a new high performance linksys router, an ASUS fibre optic router and a fibre optic modem. This configuration allowed me to rig my house up to 2 floors of lightning fast internet access and strong wifi signals around the house! 

As the internet begins to evolve, people even do have blogs based on flash instead of HTML coding as web browsers are now more high tech thanks to increased bandwidths hence being able to support a wider range of more intensive data-chewing services. From the evolution of copper cables and complaining buffering times, to fibre optics and downloading a full movie under 5 minutes, there is much for us to explore and take advantage of - provided we are willing to learn how to fully utilize the technology that we have.