Recently my youngest paid to convert her Kindergarten videocassette to DVD and a computer software format.
Interestingly, the sole business owner she selected mentioned that many of the missing passengers of the ill fated airliner that plunged into the Indian Ocean had their nearest and dearest convert images of them into the most modern form too. Home videos, wedding videos, birthday tapes ... came out of the closet. Folks spent a cool few hundreds to ensure the images could last through time for posterity.
If you are reading this blog, you must have heard a few of the many permutations of the possibilities of what had happened to the entire plane load of poor souls destined not to arrive in China. I have no personal view on that, any thing is possible. But whatever it was, it must be big. For hundreds of lives have been wiped out. Lots of families around the globe have to contend with the repercussions of never having any closure of their tragic loss.
Back to my daughter, she has preserved the first speech she gave to two hundred over audience that was made up of family and friends in the hall. I myself did not have a video of my campaign speech made in my Form Four (equivalent to Grade 10) year in running to become Head or Assistant Head Prefect. It was made in front of one thousand over students from both the morning and afternoon sessions on the hot assembly ground. That was the first year the students in my alma mater could vote for their Head Girl. Prior to that it was teachers and Headmistress who decided whom to be selected as Head or Assistant Head.
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