My grandmothers are very interested in how I spend my time off. Both of them ask my parents (or me, when they get me on the phone) what I do all day. That is not an easy question to answer. Usually I shrug it off with "talking, walking, cooking, reading" and they tell me to exercise more and learn to make some specific dish. In reality, (nowadays at least) I am riding high on a wave of Wattpad addiction. Not to say that I don't pray and stuff (I still prioritize, people! Geez!), but it has kick-started my flow of words after a dry spell.
That said, my grandmothers were not born yesterday. They have a good idea that I spend a lot of time on the laptop (and mobile device # 1, and gadget # 2, and backup old still-kept-for-sentimental-reasons gadget # 3). My maternal grandmother (I call her Nano) was scandalized when she visited during one of my "LISTEN TO ALL THE STUFF" phases and discovered that instead of reciting Quran daily I was only listening to it. After returning back home, during one of the calls to Mama she said, "Does she recite Quran now? She doesn't spend all day on the computer, now, does she?" Yes, and um, well, sigh. I can't lie and say yes to the second one. The safe reply is just to giggle whenever the question comes up.
If I had to make a family of sites featuring audiovisual content, I'd put YouTube as the father, Vimeo as the mother, and Dailymotion as the spoilt brat child. The interesting thing is that the site which is the perennial best friend is Soundcloud, which doesn't even feature video. That's precisely why I like it. Low data usage, high reward. (I say reward because I usually listen to useful stuff on it).
Where does Wattpad feature on the family tree, I wonder. You tell me. If Wattpad were a family member, who would it be? More on family in the next chapter.
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