Un-techie me

My brother and my roommates often tell me that I'm terrible when it comes to gadgets.

I almost never answer my cellphone when someone's trying to call me, sometimes because I leave it in my room upstairs when I go downstairs, sometimes the other way around, sometimes because I forget to take it out of silent mode, sometimes i leave it in my bag, or when it's a strange number, I simply don't answer it. I have an aversion to calls from unknown numbers.

My itouch has contained the same videos, applications and games since it has been with me and no, it does not have any music. Furthermore, I don't have an itunes account. I also charge it at most twice a week, when I find the charger. Yeah, I know, I suck. Haha.

When my brother and I had digicams of the same brand (sony, I believe), he used to get mad because I would exchange his fully charged battery and leave my empty one in his camera. He sold his camera after about a year. When my friends and I had an out of town trip, I brought the camera, complete with battery and charger, but neglected to charge the battery at night. When our family went on vacation to Singapore, I packed the camera, charged the battery, then forgot the battery and charger when we left the house. See? Hopeless. Thankfully, on both trips, at least one of my companions had a camera.

I also have a netbook, which is probably the only thing that is consistently charged and used, but probably only because I need it for work.

It's true, for someone who is blessed enough to own several gadgets, I know that I don't take advantage of their full capabilities. Hah, I probably don't even use 25% of their capacity. I'm sorry, but I really am that lazy. Maybe because I feel that these gadgets are just contraptions that add to the complications of my daily life and I can fully function without them. Don't get me wrong, I do have a healthy respect for the truly techie people (brother included) who make the effort of updating their knowledge and sharing their knowledge with the rest of us. I just haven't caught up with the twenty-first century.

Maybe I'll start with charging the gadgets regularly, whaddya think?

True friends are forever

At my current age, life is full of work, stress and competition that at the end of the day, all I want to do is curl up on my bed and sleep my exhaustion away. It is at this stage of life that really opens our eyes to the reality that there will be people who want to bring you down, or, if not that, people who will step on you just to get to the top. Relationships become more difficult to build because you can't really tell if a person is really a friend, or is just using you for their own benefit. Many of us learn that the hard way.

I remember my dad telling me when I was younger that the friends you meet in high school will pretty much be the friends you have for the rest of your life. He was right. I admit not all of my high school friends are still around, but I will always be thankful for the treasured friends that God graciously gave me.

True friends are those who will stay despite the circumstances. They'll be there to celebrate with you in the best of times, there for comfort through the of worst trials. They'll lovingly tell you when you're being foolish, when you're wrong, when you look like a freak. They can be family, confidante, adviser, accountability partner, cheerleader, shopping and food trip buddy. No matter how far you are or how long it has been, the closeness will always remain. True friends, for me, have been few and far between. That's why I am thankful for each and everyone of them that has come my way, just like my best friend Crisel, we may not see each other often (she currently lives in Japan), but no one will ever take her place. Miss you friend!