Last week, I discovered that Google.com (which is set as my homepage when I log onto the internet) offers something called ‘iGoogle’ that you can use when you have a google account. Basically, it’s a way to customize your Google homepage. You can customize the theme and add ‘widgets’ to your page. Well, I’ve had so much fun with mine! I hate reading the news (no news is good news, is my philosophy), so I now have absolutely no news stories/links messing up my day. But now I do have the date/time, local weather, a translator (which I use a lot), a currency converter (which I often use when I’m shopping British, Indian, or Korean websites), Wikipedia (which I check pretty much every day), a Korean word-of-the-day gadget, my favourite games, a link to my favorite Bollywood music site, and even two extra clocks so I know what time it is in Bollywood and in Korea!
But my favorite part is the customizable theme. I selected the most adorable theme featuring a little Oriental fox who lives in a charming little house by a lake. At different times of the day, the fox does different activities and the lighting changes. It’s dinnertime now, so here’s a screen-shot of my little fox eating dinner on his porch. Early in the morning, he picks tangerines from his trees (like Yu-Rin in “My Girl!”), in the afternoon he does laundry in the lake, and at night, he goes sailing in his boat. It’s so cute! I don’t know what nationality he’s supposed to be, since I’ve seen him with a coolie hat sometimes, and sushi and Japanese geta at other times, plus those tangerine trees look to me like the ones on Korea’s Jeju Island. But I do know that he (or she) is awfully cute! Below is the screen-shot:
