1 more month to go, surviving on 56K

Less than a month to go before I head to Texas, USA on a 2 year stint with our RSAF Peace Prairie Chinook Detachment. Lots of preparation to be before leaving my beloved country. So far, I have been packing shipment
boxes with items I will be needing while in a land far far away. My room is literally filled with boxes stack on top of one another, ready to be couriered on the 13th this month. They are going to be out at the sea on a long 3 weeks journey, hopefully not on the TITANIC II, and to be unloaded at East Coast of Texas before heading down the interstate highway westbound on truck to my home in Coppell TX, St Marin/Karrington.

Have so far cancelled my Starhub Maxonline Broadband services cause no one in my family is gonna do a lot of heavy download of movies, music and porn or play online games. For the first time in 3 years, I have reverted back to the old 56Kbps dial up internet connection. The familiar dial-up tone was akin to the firing up of a old 1989 Daihatsu Charade 1.0L car and the speed leave much to be desired for some one who have been on living on a "Honda Integra Type R" internet surfing speed for the past few years. Its literally a long wait for the pages to load let alone waiting for any downloads to complete. I suddenly find myself in the Iron Age of Internet surfing (28.8kbps was the Stone Age).

My impatience with the internet surfing speed make me realise how damn fast we have all come to expect everything to be. Instand Coffee, Fastfood, Broad Band, Pentium 4 1.8GHz processor, the sound barrier, Maggi Mee, Express lane, 3 in 1 milo Ferrari...etc etc. The society just got so use to having everything at a snap of the fingers that we could feel so uncomfortable if all the fast stuff were to be taken away suddenly. Maybe once we are at the next pinnacle of improvement in any aspect of life, we just can't give it up and take a step backwards. Its sure is weird you know? Back than I was happy with the 56kbps dialup speed but not now. I don't know what to call this, Desire for improvement or Desire for comfort.

In the meantime, I just going to live with the agonising dial up speed for the time being. Oh to readers out there, I will be keeping this blog posted with all the happenings when I step on US soil.