Number Porting

Was blog hopping the other day and I found this. If you ever wondered about keeping your existing number when you change carriers this shows you how to do it.

Number Porting

And so I couldn't write...

I was half way on my reading Shutter Island when this urge to just write something came. I don't know how, don't know what but I just felt that I have to close the book and start pounding on the keyboard of my netbook. So I did. I haven't done so in ages. For whatever reason, I just don't. Perhaps I lost track of my creative streak. Perhaps I lack inspiration or desperation for that matter. I am just rambling. So be it. I might stumble into something that I could write on.

But I couldn't. I just couldn't. And it scares the hell out of me. Am I losing it?

A nice conversation on death

...from the novel The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea

Huila: Will I die now?
Teresita: Yes.
Huila: I don't want to die.
Teresita: I know.
Huila: Does it hurt?
Teresita: No.
Huila: Will I be afraid?
Teresita: Oh no.
Teresita: Do you know how it is when a child needs to go to sleep? How a child fights and bargains. Asks for a story, or cries, or suddenly needs water to drink because she won't go to sleep?
Huila: Yes.
Teresita: But you know it is time. For whatever reason - it is time for the child to sleep. It's late, or she needs to get up early in the morning, or she is ill. You have to make her go to sleep, sometimes against her will.
Huila: Yes.
Teresita: This is how it is with God and us. God has to put us to bed, and we don't want to sleep yet.
Huila: Will I like being dead?
Teresita: Did you enjoy being alive?
Huila: Yes.
Teresita: Then, you will enjoy your death. I wish you could stay. I will miss you.

Time for Android

I got an Android phone the other day. It's not brand new but for $50, I got what I bargained for plus a 2nd hand Pink Motorola RAZR. Not bad huh? I was tinkering with it and couldn't get the hang of it so I switched back to my reliable BlackBerry Pearl. All of my contacts are in the BB anyway.

Tonight, for lack of better things to do (and to free my mind of whatever negative thoughts I am having) I tried to Google how to synchronize my BB contacts and export in to my G1. I was able to get my contacts from my BB and saved it as .CSV but I couldn't manage to sign in to my gmail account in my G1 as yet.

Darn! I better try it again later. Maybe I really should change my data plan from BB Unlimited Web and Messaging to the G1 Unlimited Wed and messaging.

Sigh..

Bike mode

Gadget for Misis Tikboy's iPod Touch

My stop at the San Bruno Postal Office

At the San Bruno Bart Bay

Yesterday I went out to ride my bike. It was a beautiful day. There was a heat wave alert but I didn't feel it. I got out of the house at 11:30 in the morning and the temperature was still manageable. Went to BestBuy to get a gadget for Misis Tikboy and then strolled around the mall. I was looking for a blood pressure monitor for my Mom and Dad. I wasn't able to get it from Target so I went to Walgreens. Good thing it's on sale. Hehehehe!

My Dad's been sick for more than a month now. Ang tigas pa ng ulo! Hay naku! I called Mom last night to check up on him and was glad to hear that he's now walking. He also stopped being grouchy. I worry for my Mom because Dad is a difficult patient. Sabi ko nga painumin na lang kaya namin ng Lorazepam para kumalma? Ehek!

I am now back on duty. Next week, another bike mode for one day. I need to exercise!