Kids do not know what else to do when there's no iPad or iPhone.

Yesterday's public holiday saw us lazing around at home in the morning, having toasted bread, fruit juice, biscuits, milk, cereal for breakfast and homemade sushi for lunch. By noontime, I spent some time going through some school workbooks with all 3 of them and finally send them off to relax after a couple of hours or so.

Korkor went off to his friend's home to do a movie together, hearsay for a competition. Hubs and I went off to BTS to send the iPad for fixing.

Speaking of iPad, the screen was cracked during the journey home on the train back to Ipoh. Had I insisted that the iPad is to be left at home with us that fateful day, it wouldn't have to come to this state. I was so angry with him. He propped it up in front of his seat like watching movie in a mini cinema, I can't visualize how, and when the train braked, it fell to the ground and *piang* the glass broke.

So, he called up a few shops to change the glass screen, and one quoted RM780! Both of us were shocked at that exorbitant price!

Anyway, he found one who charges RM180 for it, but when it came back, the wifi was konked.

Hence we resent it back to have that fixed. And the hubs had just unlock the password and gave it to the unknown stranger to have it done! Can you imagine the shocked face of mine?

Die la! All the "private" info and photos are at the expense of this stranger! I just don't understand how come the hubs is not concerned at all!!

(OK, that was also part of the reason I came home and changed certain passwords to my inbox, facebook, and what else there are. So while I was at it, I changed the online nick, blog title as well, since I'm pretty tired of it! Nice, eh?)

While we were outside lepak-ing, the younger 2 called up and cried boredom! Oh, they were home since my mom is around right now, and I don't quite fancy taking them to shopping malls since they would be crying boredom anyway.

When they were complaining they were bored, I mean, c'mon, what is this?? Schoolday complain boredom jiao wa jek, holiday also complain??

I blame it on the tech gadgets. At that time, the iPhone and iPad were out gaigai with us, so they had nothing to play with! And it's such a bad thing to happen to a child!

Whatever happened to imagination and creative play? OK, I am to blame partly, but I always resigned with a big sigh when I see papa always chucking those gadgets right in their faces! Oh.. I do hate these new inventions, really!

So, that night when I climbed into bed with them before their bedtime, I ranted about the feeling I had to them. These gadgets are good, if it's used sparingly, but when it is abused, see the effect? It is totally killing their creative thinking for play! Yucks!