Daily Ritual

Do you have any daily ritual? Back in school, I had this smart and handsome Japanese young man as a Computer Science classmate, Mr. T. He would read all his textbooks before the semester started - yes, he was the type of classmates you hate to have, because they usually skewed the bell curves. Only you couldn't really hate Mr. T., because he had this innocent smile that made him seem so friendly and harmless.

Anyway, Mr. T. had a daily ritual. Every morning he had to go to the school computer lab to check his horoscope on Yahoo! before starting his day. My other good friend Ms. S. would complained to me that Mr. T. often fought with her to use the computer, "because he had to do his daily ritual." Oh, by the way, I was the one who introduced Mr. T. to the Yahoo! Horoscope website. So of course, Ms. S. had me to blame too. But I didn't envision to bring such a loyal customer to Yahoo! I hope Mr. T.'s daily ritual brought him good luck.

Back in the days, we enjoyed the simplicity of the internet; we enjoyed the prestige of using the cursors based "talk" program to chat on the UNIX servers; we happily passed on email chain letters, aka spams; we dreamed to ride the dot com waves and became internet millionaires. The past was far away, confusing and simplified.

Confusius said: I examine my behavior three times everyday. What is your daily ritual?