Our own caregivers and nannies can’t wait to leave their employers once they get their permanent resident status. Can’t blame them, of course - who would want to be a nanny forev­er? Besides it’s mostly a stepping stone to Canadianism for most people - so don’t count on loyalty as such.
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One teenage kid was amazed to find out that his friend’s par­ents still watch tv shows on TV! Ouch! Like many of us we still do, and kids already think we’re ancient. Thanks to the ever-progress­ing technology, the television as we know it is soon becoming ob­solete, giving way to those tiny wonders called netbooks, iPads and iPhones. Why, our son even gave us a media player so instead of using those “slow” DVD play­ers we now have instantaneous access to movies in HD quality and all for free. Isn’t technology wonderful?
Even that greatest 20th cen­tury invention called telephone is now becoming obsolete. Don’t you notice that except for those nasty telemarketers, your tele­phone isn’t ringing as often as before because instead of phon­ing the latest gossip (oops I mean news) your friends now simply tweet them?

Those elegant photo albums with padded covers are now be­coming primitive, thanks to digi­tal photography. Now even email­ing digital photos is becoming obsolete - all you need to do is open your email and out comes popping all those facebook links beckoning you to view photos of your friends’ latest vacation.
All too wonderful but are those new thingy’s really making us more productive? I wasn’t even reading email, just selecting and deleting those I thought were junk already took me like an hour this morning. Imagine if I read all those stuff - probably will take me a week.

Talking of email, many do not realize that emailing requires more than just typing on the computer keyboard and hitting that send key. Good communi­cation skills does not mean just technical proficiency - it requires
good grammar and writing skills, knowing how to transfer your real intentions and feelings into those written text, and to “smile” while typing, just like smiling when you talk. Emailing has caused a lot of unnecessary problems because of misrepresentation and plain dumb wrong words. But perhaps the dumbest of all that we’ve seen happen in emailing is sending your email to the wrong address, or copying others who shouldn’t see your email. Once you hit the send key, that’s it.

Here’s one lesson to be learned from typing the wrong email ad­dress.
A couple was to have their sec­ond honeymoon in Florida but their hectic schedules wouldn’t allow them to fly together so the husband flew a day earlier. Upon arriving at their Florida hotel the husband immediately emailed his wife but didn’t realize there was an error in the email address that he used. Instead, his email went to the wife of a minister who just passed away and was buried the day before. The grieving widow was checking her computer to see if there were messages from relatives when she opened the first email, which was the mis­sent email from our Florida va­cationer. The email message was enough to cause the widow to scream and faint. It read: “Hi honey, I finally arrived. You might want to know they have free in­ternet access to send emails to loved ones. I have been checked in and seen that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then! Hope your jour­ney is as uneventful as mine was. P.S. Sure is freaking hot down here!”