You have heard the term Black Friday, Thank God It’s Friday, Monday Blues, etc… but recently I came across with a new term, Cyber Monday 😛 For me, from IT point of view, it sounded like Monday has gone virtual into cyber… or to a more extreme point of view it goes something like ‘you arrived to the office on Monday morning and found out that your system has been hacked!’… so there goes your Monday 😛

But NO… it has nothing to do with computers or ICT… it just a marketing term or gimmick to refer the Monday immediately after Black Friday… and Black Friday itself is the Friday immediately after Thanksgiving Day. And today, not only retailers in United States are using the term, it has spread to other countries like United Kingdom, France, Portugal and Germany… and sales at these countries last for eight days…. from the last Monday in November till the fist Monday in December…. but in Malaysia, sales carnival called Mega Sales held from July to September can last eight weeks and not just eight days!!! 😛