Topic #8: Senses

          Hurr…this is such a difficult question because all five senses are all important. If I have to choose one, that would be smell. At this point, I have to convince myself to give all you guys the reasons. First, I think sight is the most important sense. Could you imagine if you lose your sight? So far we can see everything – your family, beloved friends, and our beautiful teacher; once we lose the thing we had before, personally, this will be the worst thing. Considering four sense left, I think I could live without the smell sense. Second, if you lose your smelling sense, you still have taste sense. Without sense of smell, eating will not be that great, but at least, I still can taste a food. Thinking of ice-cream, if you cannot smell, you anyway know what it the taste like. Is it “enough”? Third, if you lose sense of smell, you still hear the conversation. I still can chat with my friends, study English, watch movies, etc. You see I have many things I can do without a sense of smell. Finally, this is funny that come up in my mind. Thinking about bad smell, when you walk pass the trash can or spoiled food, I have to walk very fast. But if you cannot smell, is it good? I don’t want to say “yes”. Now, you knew that sense of smell for me is the least important. 

Topic #7: Has technology truly made our lives easier?

          Has technology truly made our lives easier? What would you un-invent? Ummm… I have been thinking this question for a while. It is such an interesting question! Honestly, sometimes I feel technology makes my life harder. First of all, we are all having that small electronic device. Now, I think everyone can guess; it is smart phone. With this small device, I don’t have to remember anything. One day, my cell phone ran out of battery, so I noted everything there: friends’ phone number, things I will buy at the mall, ect. Somehow, the “smart” phone makes me a person who does not even try to remember anything. I think just a “normal” phone is okay for me. Second, this is probably especially for me. I hate mathematics! I would not un-invent a calculator. Why? Nowadays, everyone has to agree that in school we have never care about the simple calculation such as 43 multiply by 68 (this is so simple, isn’t it), but what we are interested now in calculus, geometry, etc. I think, back to 40 years ago, when calculation was not rich, people just tried to focus on that. Right now, computers are very powerful; we have to learn something that is not as basic as we did 40 years ago. For the last one, it is video game. One of my sisters is always playing video game. Sometimes, I want to chat to her, but she seems busy and does not care about my conversation. I think my parents also have this feeling too. I realize that video game becomes more and more problem in Thailand; if children are “addicted” to video game, they likely have very poor grades. In conclusion, the video game is annoying me because I want to chat to my sister!