BIG NEW YEAR BIG MOVEMENT

Today, the 23^rd of January 2012. Is that in some way or another have some significance to you?  Well if it doesn’t, let me give you some hints. It’s the day where people go home and celebrate with their families, pray to their ancestors, clean their house, light up fire crackers, give red envelope filled with money to the youngsters and go to temples, especially Chinese people. It’s CHINESE NEW YEAR!! For Chinese people their real new year is actually TODAY and you may wonder why I’m writing about it in my blog, well that’s because (first of all) I’m Thai part Chinese and secondly, the time of Chinese New Year have caused the biggest human migration as well!

                People from all over China travel to see their parents and family in time of the New Year celebration, as we all know China has HUMONGOUS amount of people. Anyone who visits China at this time of the year would all be surprised, not because of the beautiful decorations and food all around but the insane amount of people! It would be easy if these crowds would last for a few days, but believe it or not the places stay as crowded as can be for about 40 DAYS!

                Can you imagine the number of people migrating at this time? 235 MILLION PEOPLE. Yea that’s right TWO HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE MILLION PEOPLE migrating at the same time. How would you like to mingle and squeeze yourself through that much amount of people? Of course overcrowding isn’t the only problem, but it is the main cause of the following problems such as: tickets of planes and railway trains are sold out real quick, not enough for 235 million people to migrate in time, consequentially making them angry. You may say, why not book your seats on internet a month before? The answer is, you can’t, since not many Chinese adults use them and for those that do know how to use the internet there are still obstacles. There were times when the booking website got 1.4 million hits or close and that often crash the system. Most people have to buy walk-in tickets, again these lines are not short and quick. Some people have to wait for hours to finally get their chance to reserve seats for their family and themselves, only to find out later that all that’s left are standing tickets in a crowded train on a trip over 40 hours.

                As for all of you bloggers and readers that are not Chinese what are you opinion? If it was me, I would say “This is the craziest and insane thing I’ve ever heard in my life, I have never imagine Chinese New Year to be this troublesome and tiring.” Why would anyone stand on a train for 40 hours, just to go eat dinner? But on the other hand, this is exactly what makes Chinese New Year so unique and beautiful. It is the time where people go home and reunited with their parents after working for the whole year and enjoying the pretty feeling in the air. Even though the path way there may be filled with troubles but in my opinion what you get out of it is worth going through all that problems. 

HOW WAS LAST YEAR?

Happy New Year 2012 to all of you bloggers and readers, say good bye to 2011 and welcome to year 2012 where the Mayans have predicted to be the end to the world (21^st December 2012). Despite the increasing natural catastrophes, climates changes which result in the downfall of economic, the world is moving faster than ever in the improvement of technology and politic. This New Year 2012 may result in numerous ways that can either affect the people positively or negatively, unfortunately we have absolutely no way to know for sure. However the future can be determined by the past, looking back into year 2011 we can know slightly how things can turn out.

                A significant event that I would use to sum up the whole year of 2011 would be the death of our genius inventors Steven Paul Jobs. This one man is known worldwide as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution. He is also the co-founder and chief executive officer of popular product where in the year 2009 had about 80 MILLION and more people using one of their laptop products, Apple Inc. 

       Many people are familiar with iPhone and iPod, we see them everywhere everyday of our lives and this man we are talking about here is the man that improves these products. These objects have become a huge part of our life, because it is the main source that opened us into the world of communication. One only their phones and laptops are used in calling other people near and far it also enables us (including iPod touch products) to stay updated and connected to the internet! Nowadays internet filled the humongous hole in the world of communication completely, you can even talk to your friend half way across the world from your comfy bed in a matter of second through internet. Because products of Apple are widely used, it took a big role in enabling people to stay connected.

                Last year on the 5th ofOctober 2011, Steven Paul Jobs our great man died at the age of 56. It was so sudden that it left the whole world shocked. Everyone wondered about what would happen to the next and onwards generations of Apple? Even though there are still other great people working along the side of Jobs but his death have left a big hole in the company and the world of communication. His loss left all of the customers thinking, how would Apple product continue? Will the company survive without the great leadership ofSteve Jobs? How would the communication be affected? Because he was in charge of so many contribution to technology, which has become vital factor in our everyday lives these days his death would affect us as well.