Pre-blog note: Hate the gadgets
Indians in Japan are lured into techonology; They talk about Akhihabara, Yodobashi, SofMap, iPOD, Shuffle, Nano, palmtops, laptops, MP3 players, DVD players, PSP2, portable HDDs, digicams and handycams.
Wait....when somebody talks about all this stuff like a professional, dont jump over him. I can bet 10,000 yen that he wont be knowing what actually a Celeron or a pentium means to his laptop performance, why the heck there are 4 USB ports, will the stuff really work in India, whats a mega-pixel, what to do with this aperture priotrity mode, can we really play games on a PSP, how do I change the fps rate of my cam......
Adding to all this irony, he is always going to grab junks and junks of load from Akihabara to be taken to India; MP3 players for 500 yen - China makes - which you will get in Rs.100 or less in any third market duplicate shop in India.
Basically, indians are not tech savvy. We dont really think about this stuff. India has more problems and each one of us in India have to struggle in and out everyday to survivie and lead a life. We dont really think about buying a new digital camera, let alone upgrading it every year. The consumer electronics in the entertainment front has not gone so far as in Japan. You beter discuss Cauvery water problem with your colleague rather than the newly launched Sony 20GB MP3 player. There are things more important in your life than electronics.
Then,Why all this . . . that too all of a sudden.... .Listing out the reasons
- No social life in Japan
- Japanese never entertain you and you are always a gai-jin
- You have got weekends and got nothing to do
- Can't really watch the TV
- Got some unspent money too
- You think its not worth spending in anything else
- You wanna show-off yourself
- You wanna tell everybody that you are smart
- You want everybody to talk about you that you got something worth in a damn good price
- You wanna boast
- You wanna satisfy your ego
- and all your kith and kin over there in India, are expecting you to land with an electronics store as your baggage
The effects of this so-called "pseudo-tech-saviness" of Indians living abroad are too many and are mostly miserable.
Nagz
3 comments:
you are absolutely correct... if people can't find something to
pass-time
.... then... they are slowly into this.. digital world...
sure... they want to show-off their belongings... and forget all the
remaining in their life...
Life is not all about technology & advancement.... it's about the
people..
mankind.. love.. passion... & so many...
but now-a-days people forget all these things and more money minded...
fill
their pockets & spend them all..
Frankly speaking... i liked the lifestyle i had in Baroda...
the people are also so good and they enjoyed each and everything...
even
the floods... calm & serene...
Let us see... where we are advancing.. !!!!!!!!!!
Sorry but the following statement in your blog is totally inapropriate...
"Japanese never entertain you and you are always a gai-jin"
I've never come across any discrimination for being a foreigner around here.
Buddy....
This is a really good one for the Gadget Gizzmos! ! !
Then When are you going to Post your Singapore Experience...
Dei..its Seems that your Online fan club is Growing !
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