Thursday, April 23, 2009

Twitter what? When I initially read this assignment I didn’t understand the point of twitter. I said to myself this website is about statuses? Big whoop! But as I became more acquainted with the site I realized how addicting it could be and now I cant get enough of it! Since setting up this account I have realized how out of the loop I have become. It is so true, you can definitely get wrapped up in the events of your life so much that you forget to ask what is going on with other people and sometimes you even don’t have time to talk anymore period.
The hypertext was quite confusing. I didn’t really get the point of the story. I was really trying to figure out the point of what the man was talking about when I realized the author was trying to make a point about time. The different lanes created by time. The big picture was for us to see our lives by reading the story and realize our lives are multidimensional.
After reading the hypertext the words that caught my attention were infinite, enemy and friend. These words make me think about my life and its infinite possibilities, the ones I love and the ones I don’t care about so much. It makes me realize that all these things allow me to stay motivated and make the most of this life manipulated by time.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Influences on Time

A new website or home page called Twitter was very good and very networking site for our friends and family in the daily activities. Being on Twitter it is a good experience and even though it was a little confusing to work with, I think it’s all worth it. Here in NY all of us are very busy with work and school and we never seem to make time for friends and family. All we think is run to work make the money and then you start forgetting about your loved ones because you are so into your work and career and don’t seem to make time for anything. Now knowing the Twitter is here and it was assigned by our professor I think it’s great because we somehow can try to stay in contact with all the class mates, professors and who ever we know; even though we are away and doing our things, we are still everywhere together with the Twitter. This means that we can make the five minutes during the day and try to stay connected with others.

I think that the hypertext was confusing, yet as I was trying to figure it out I exposed that there was a meaning behind it. Different times and paths are designed by point in time; it is how you managed to be. Who ever invented this internet, blog, Twitter or in other words social networking was genius. It’s something that will keep us going and share the good and the bad, yet being away from your presence.
This shows our mood, personality, and many other personalities that a human being might have, but you never knew it before. Twitter will explore it all.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Influences of Time

Being on Twitter was a new and very interesting experience for me. I discovered something new about myself. I had thought that I existed in a purely theological time where my life was basically a series of cause and effect of events. My main purpose was to go to school to get a great paying job, so that I can get a beautiful house then have some kids and retire. While like many of my classmate, my life is still driven by teleological time, I find myself also being influences by stellar time- intermingling scenarios that affect our daily lives. For instance, the professor’s posted her reaction to her discovery of plagiarism that was done the blog posts. This information affected me in a very adverse manner. I was actually looking forward to a great weekend. I was in a great mood. I had just finished a midterm that I felt good about, but after reading that post my spirit felt – stellar time came into play. If she had not discovered and posted her finding about the plagiarism and had I not read it I probably would have had a fantastic weekend. My weekend was ruined. After reading her post, I was depressed.

At first, I found the hypertext to be very confusing. However, as I click on I discovered a theme the – different paths of life created by time. I believe the designer intent us to view our lives as multi-dimensional, coordinated by only the space of time. The phase, “Time Forks into, perpetually, into countless futures. In one of them, I am your enemy” is pointing toward this conclusion. Like the actual fork that starts with one main structure and then divides into different ends our lives are similar where we end depends on the path that we choose to follow.

The words that most attracted my attention were enemy and friend. What does this says about me? I am not sure? Looking at the words they are complete opposite of each other. If one were to put them on a scale, they would suggest balance, order, control, which could possibly describe my personality.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Twitter! A wonderful site..

“Alone, alone, all, all alone,Alone on a wide wide sea !” this line is written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his book call “The Rime of The Ancient Mariner”. I love this line since I read the book in my eleventh grade. I’m living in US by myself and today when I start to write my twitter assignment this line came up my mind first. I believe in stellar time because we are affected by everyone around us. My friends, family and all the people around me affect me; likewise I myself affect them with my actions as well. For example, yesterday after a long day with classes and work, I called my friend to refresh my mind while only to find out that my friend has complain for me that I don’t give enough time to her, which made me feel even worse. On the other hand, one day I was feeling down and a friend comes in after a long time and makes my day. The twitter is a very good website that influences me last couple days. On twitter I saw a friend posing a comment stating, “I have found an old friend on face book and is extremely happy after I talked with her.” Reading that, made me recall the time when recently I spoke to my childhood friend after 3 years. It was really a pleasant recalling moment and I was so happy. So, this is how stellar time influenced me when I used twitter last week.

To me, the hypertext is an interesting activity. It shows how we are confused about our life. I like it because it’s never end. I spend two days to understand the hypertext reading, but I lost the track. After ward my feelings like I lost in an ocean and just the water everywhere as the Samuel Taylor Coleridge says in his book. After reading the hypertext I love the words my friend, infinite, books, read, you are my enemy. These words recall me to my childhood when my dad helps me to prepare for exams, or playing whole evening with my neighborhood friends. Brave, friendly, emotions reflect on my personality very much.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Twitter and Hypertext

1. Twitter was one of the best activity i came across relations with other socializing sites because it was more to the point and we all can relate to one another. we all are busy in our daily life and as every human being who work hard we all believe we are doing so much more than other people. However, twitter made me see some of our classmates working as hard as myself more than ten hours. it made me feel good and less frustrated because they are also full time student and work full time. Twitter is the good place to know your classmate more than maybe we can know each other in college, class, etc. i was so impressed by it and i will stay make sure i wont loose contact with my classmates even after the semester.
2. The text made my mind spin because it was really confusing. It was a nice piece of literature but the author really confused the points he was trying to make. what i understood from the text is that time goes on and we achieve our goal or not. It does not stop for anyone whether the choices are right or wrong. we have to live our life no matter the decisions we take affect it or not. There should be no regrets because even we do make wrong choices we still have to accept it and move on. It would not make any sense if a person would keep digging the past and screw the future as a result. These were some of the points i was able learn from the hypertext. I was fascinating with a word called "lantern" in the text which made me think of the times when i was in my country. I used to study in the lantern light at night when there would be a shortage of electricity.