The Construct

This morning has got to be one of the better days of this year. Some aspects of my ego. Team Sugoi got invited to the MSI-ECS Product Demo day at their Libis office and by jeebus, it was fun! The demo day was organized by a friend and I got invited as a blogger (for Sugoi Stuff and Bloggy Network). It’s basically a day of freely testing new products from brands that they manage. Sure, they might not let you take them home, but who passes on a chance to toy with new tech?

[Shamless plug: For the detailed reviews of the products, just wait for them over at Sugoi Stuff. We're just sorting out a few things with our web host so that might take around five days or so for us to get to post our takes on several of the products.]

Quite exciting to get a hands-on preview of what’s hitting the market. I’m particularly eying the new Lenovo Y430 as my new laptop. Unfortunately, it might take me six months to be able to scrounge enough cash to even consider buying one. Seeing the new Genius and Ozaki speakers had me GASing as well. I particularly like the Ozaki WoW 2.2 channel speaker. And the new Samsung LCD monitors! Oooh… GAS!!!

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I hate the Filipino mobile phone culture. I hate how it became a status symbol. I hate how people let their phones govern their lives. I hate how companies developed this mobile lifestyle equating phone use to necessity. To some extent it has become one but isn’t it ironic how people have money to burn for credits and yet complain how their wages just won’t suffice.

For me phones are simply pang-text and pantawag. I own a year-old Nokia 6020. It has SMS and MMS capabilities and a crappy 1.3 MP camera. And even my scope of use doesn’t maximize its capabilities. The phone still works fine but it’s casing had seen better days.

I happened to be washing my car yesterday and spied our neighbor’s help fiddling with her phone. It was one of those fancier ones. I didn’t feel sorry for myself, I felt sorry for my phone. On the pecking order of cellphone elitism, even our neighbors’ help’s cellphone would put my trusty phone to shame.

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