Peggy Chan's Blog

I have crafted short read love stories, poems, children’s poems and books, as well as non-fiction books. Do read them, and I would appreciate it if you could leave a review of the book you chose to read.

This blog is a place for me to write about my ideas, about upcoming books, and about my life and writing. I hope that you enjoy reading it, and leave some comments for me!



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August 30, 2021

Learning Requires Effort

Learning involves so many things. I thought I had left it all behind when I left school but another kind of learning had crept up. The internet was here and computers came into existence, followed by mobile phones, rather huge clumsy things unlike the sleek smart sophisticated phones of the present. I wanted to learn how to use a computer so I attended a couple of short courses but having a brain that is not wired to absorbing anything technical, I learned practically nothing. It was too complicated, with the computer language, loops and what nots. There were floppy disks which had to be slotted into the drives. Anyway, time passed and computers became smaller and cheaper. Then came laptops!! And the mobile phones evolved into smaller ones which you could keep inside your pocket. These gadgets were expensive and I couldn’t afford them. So, it was the old computer on which I hunched over for hours on end trying to get the brain to understand and learn. By trial and error I discovered how to create a blog on blogger.com using a very basic page. I had a few blogs because I wanted to try things out. Later on, […]