i have often seen my friends using chinese characters in their fb status updates. and much as my chinese is rather rusty and screwed up, i thought it would be a nice change if i could do the same. afterall, using chinese characters in my sms-es and my fb status updates was quite a norm for me when i had my bb. since changing to an iphone, i have stopped doing so. and i decided i should try to restart this practice again. i had a hard time cos i couldn't find the right apps to help me so... and i search and i search and i downloaded a particular app just to find that it was only a dictionary. finally, feeling exasperated, i posted in whatsapp a group message asking for help... and one of my friends told me, much to my embarrassment... go to the setting, look for keyboard and set the keyboard to chinese characters (i could choose if i wanted simplified characters or traditional characters...)
well, that was the first embarrassment! heh... so, now equipped with this new knowledge, i enthusiastically shared this with 2 of my friends who i had lunch with over the deepavali holiday 2 days back. and this was where i learned a new thing... oh, one of them said, do you know you could actually write it out rather than use the pinyinized version... and he showed me... now, go to the settings, look for keyboard, and set the keyboard... haha... oh... i said. second embarrassment... well, ok la, not much of an embarrassment, just another lesson learned. it's always nice to learn new things and increasing, i do find myself at the idiot end when it comes to such technology-related things... then again, since using apple products, it's been a serious case of unlearning and relearning a lot of things!
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