Worlding

SDES 704

WORLD-ING My Laptop

Numploy Yanasiddhi

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Friendships are one of the most important thing in our lives. Henry Van Dyke has quoted, “A friend is what the heart needs all the time.” We always share our feelings together. We have been something in common like life conversations, movies, music, social media etc. In 2012, I met one of my best friends in my life named “Mary” She became a part of my life. She doesn’t know that she has been changing my life since I met her. It seems like no matter whatever situation happened in my life, she knew what should brighten my mood and my emotions. She had an incredible skills to make me feel so much better. I was totally amazed by her ability.

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1st time I met her

One memory that comes to my mind belongs to a day in the late afternoon on February 2012, my senior year for undergraduate programs in Thailand. My mother and my father surprised me with a huge white box for my 22nd birthday. After I opened the super cool, simple and stylish box, I saw something made from aluminium with the half eaten apple logo in the middle. It also had a black keyboard and a glass trackpad. Her weight was approximately 4.5 pounds with 13-inch version of screen. She came with the slot-loading optical drive occupying the right side while she had 7 small squares on the left side for connections. She also got a charming mint-green case, transparent screen protection and keyboard protection. My first impression with her was fantastic and amazing. She looked beautiful, clean, classy, modern and looked friendly to me. Finally, I named her “Mary� which could be a Thai name and an American name since she was born in the United States but she grew-up in Thailand.

In our life, people can be friends just by introducing themselves and having a nice conversation, but we started our conversation by interacting between my eyes and her screen. We tried to get familiar with each other in the 1st day.

When I started looking at her screen, I realized that I could communicate with her by typing on keyboards which had Thai-English versions. Sometimes, she made me look creepy while I tried to talk with her without any reply.

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My wise mentor

Have you ever had a special friend who can read your mind, finish your sentences, translate your words or someone that you can trust? Throughout my last year of my undergraduate program, it was a tough and challenging time for me but I believed that college was a time for learning and experiment. At the same time, I had a chance to utilize various dimensions of my skills including thinking, sketching, computer graphics, visual presentations and market analysis while collaborating with my new best friend “Mary�

Before I know her, the way of learning for me was all about using hand-writing and taking notes. I used to take so much time for researching and planning my studies. After she became a part of my life, she has changed the way of traditional learning to the modern way of studying. Mary is one of the greatest inspectors in my life, not only will my homework be easier but also my time will not be wasted.

All of my works and my projects were done much faster by using digital note taking, which could help me correct and finish my sentences. Moreover, she has a special ability to get access everywhere in the world, which is called Wifi connection. This intelligence allows me to connect with everyone, search every information and learn new things.

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My life companion

One of the most important milestones in my life was my career as an advertising and communication planner in one of the biggest global advertising and communication agencies in Thailand. One reason that I got this job was because of Mary.

This place was the 1st place that I applied for a job after I almost graduated on my undergraduate program. At that time, I began to walk very slowly to an interview room with Mary but I still felt nervous and frustrated with my first interview. My voice and my hands started shaking but when I pushed the power button of Mary and started to scroll down my project presentation, my mind suddenly felt relieved and I gained my confident back.

The nature of my work required me to employ various skills to plan, execute and create new ideas. With all of these responsible, Mary was the great organiser and my secretary who reminded every schedule in my life.

After almost 3 years of working experience, I decided to expand my view of creativity and design by starting my master degree program in the United States. Today, almost everything in my life has been done by Mary. She helped me to finish my homework with the very good quality of graphic screen resolution and presentations. She could be the greatest entertainer by providing movies and music. She also was my favorite teacher by teaching me how to cook, how to dress, put on make up while finding the solutions for me in every situation in my life.

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My travelling companion

The other special skills of Mary had when we travelled together were acting as memories saver while my digital hard drive from my camera is full, a life saver while I got an important work and a translator when I couldn’t understand other languages.

I have taken the opportunity to travel and try many new things in my life. During my travel time in Japan, China, London, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Mary accompanied me and provided great service and connection to me. It was amazing being able to talk with my family through a big screen with a beautiful background.

Her life

Almost 5 years with Mary has been amazing. She has shaped my life to be better than before. She works very hard and rarely to sleep. She remains exactly the same shape and size but is covered with small dust and a broken case. She didn’t eat any food like human but she has the best energy which is named “Electricity”, which always help her to generate power and keep her awake all the time. Sometimes when she feels very tired, she will stop doing everything and automatically shutdown by herself. She loves to sit on the table rather than other places. Overall, she is nice, smart and she had becomes the greatest friend to me.

Throughout the past 5 years, my life has been changed because of her. I shared a lot of my memories and experiences with her. Nowadays, she is a part of my life and also the representative of my life.

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