Simplified

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.
Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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For the man who simplified computers for the masses.

I never realised just how impactful Steve Jobs' inventions were until I set foot in Singapore for the first time this year.

The Land of Kiasu

Only in Singapore did I realise that the iPhone was so immensly popular that even old aunties sitting in the MRT were seen engrossed playing Angry Birds .

Yes, at that point. The coolness factor about owning an iPhone 4 was sucked right out of me.
damn.

So if you consider Singapore's iPhone per capita ratio alone.. *chup*

(woah tengah guna Bahasa BNM ni... But hmmm, iPhone per capita..ke..or iPhone penetration rate?

Call me a horny banker if you may but I seriously think using the word 'penetration' in a powerpoint slide is just wrong.
My bosses however, think otherwise.

So who's horny now? :D

Anyway, if you think of how many aunties in Singapore are catapulting exotic birds at discoloured green pigs while commuting....and how many adolescent Singaporean teenage kids are making out like right now on the MRT while Facebooking on their iPhones....Heck, thats each and every boring, sad Singaporean life that has been touched by Steve Jobs.

The point is, we all been graced by his magical creations in one way or the other :)

My first experience with an Apple product was way back in primary school, when my sister got her hands on a Macintosh computer to aid in her graphics work.

Being a typical sibling from hell as there is in every ordinary family, she barred from me ever using it.

Nevertheless, I thought it was the coolest thing at home.

What I fondly remember about that computer was the 'Bad Dog' screensaver. Its a classic old screen saver from the 90's that features a dog running around and tearing holes in your desktop screen and creating all sorts of mayhem. I particularly like how it drags the 'trash can', (akin to Microsoft's 'Recycle bin')..overturns it and eventually pee's on it.

Bad dog!

naiceeeee. heheh.

Many years later, I purchased my first iPod at a shop called JB Hifi in Australia, as an expensive X'mas gift to meself...

..which for the first few days, I could not figure out how to turn on, there you have it a classic example of...iFail. :)

Then...at 23, I enriched my life with an iPhone, and was at awe at what a wondrous piece of human invention it was.

Buying an Apple product is a pretty big deal for me, because its like I've waited 15 years or so to finally be able to afford something 'Apple' on my own.

So like you..(shall resist from comparing myself to a Singaporean. ewww) my life has been magically graced by Steve Jobs and his awesome creations.

Steve, I can't thank you enough for the iPhone.
If it weren't for you...I'd be forced to do other things to look busy at work.

So what's your Apple story?

Don't settle.

-@p-