Tuesday, October 11, 2011

If you could stop time...

According to my Japanese textbook, Seiko did a survey in 2004 where they asked 516 20-year olds about time. They asked them 'What moments in time do you want to stop?'.

There were 2 types of directions the answers took. One was positive, where the respondents wanted to prolong their 'I'm so happy and hangfook (pardon my Chinese side but I feel that hangfook expresses this more accurately than happy somehow)'. The other was negative where they wanted to stop time where it seems like they're going to fail at something and they wanted to stop time for everyone else except for themselves so they can figure their shit out.

Alot of those who gave the former happy answers were women and alot who gave the 'unhappy' answers were men, so maybe men have a tendency to be pessimistic?

I tried to reproduce the graph, it's below. It's in no way accurate and it's been ages, if I have ever made a graph using Word. Strange but I don't remember having ever made a graph using Word...how did I get out of doing that ever studying commerce???or mayb i've forgotten...

Before reading the article, my teacher asked us the question and my answer was 'when I'm sleeping and when I'm on a date'. Come to think of it, I also would like the weekend to last longer, they seem to pass by in a flash @.@...How about you guys? When would you like to stop time?

4 comments:

Deicidal said...

of the 4 choices? sleeping. though i wouldn't be able to tell if time did stop when i'm asleep.

I used to think it was all magic. That the sun and moon would switch places only after I fall asleep. That if I didn't sleep, it would mean that tomorrow would never come.

tkl said...

of any!other popular choices were 'eating something delicious' or 'while i'm at Disneyland' hahaha..yes sleep is awesome!

Anonymous said...

im sure u used Words before. hahaha

tkl said...

in reply to wjx:of course I used microsoft word before!!but i don't remember making graphs using Word...or using any other program!