Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Off the grid

In the last few days, my phone went into coma. There's little i can do but to restore and update the phone. You know how fussy Apple can be. The whole process takes roughly about 4 - 5 hours. Depending on how good the internet to you. I'm using office's internet, so you can probably imagine how that sucks, thus, the reason why i've been missing for 4 days.

Life without smart phone. I tell you, the first 2 days is the most difficult one. I was dumbstruck, not knowing what to do with my free time. Watching TV was not even fun. The more i tried to be patience, the angrier i became. That night i went to bed early.

The 3rd day went by and my phone still not fixed. I thought the world might as well end that day cause i already starting to feel hopeless. For whatever reason, it was beyond me. Believe me, the thought of getting a new phone does crossed my mind. I have 5k cash with me that day so it was tempting. But the new blank and empty iphone 5 doesn't stand a chance with my old iphone 4. It was an easy win. So that night, i went to bed with Haruki Murakami.

The 4th day. I was beginning to enjoy the fact that i am a phone-less person. I realised that for the first time in a long time, there were no annoying beeping sound followed by text message such as "can you help me..", or "can you check..", "can you do..", basically all the "can you.." message. It felt so liberating! I was out of reach and no one can bother me.

I kind of miss the old days, you know. Where when a favor is required, people actually come and knock at your door to ask for it. For me, that shows respect and appreciation. Nowadays you literally just have to move your thumb a few times and things were done. Sure it may be just a simple and mindless favor, but there are other things were put on hold for yours to come through. In another words, that person took a fraction of his life and gave it to you.

Sorry. For went on and on about that. Just don't take things for granted. That makes me sad.

Anyway, my phone up and back today. So many things to catch up.