The Apple iPad and Why I'm Not Getting One, Yet

1. 64gb max capacity
- My 80gb Apple iPod Video 5.5 gen has less than 15gb available capacity now after all the multimedia items I archive to it. Do the math: 80gb total minus 15 free = 65gb used. 64gb? I might be the only one who thinks it but it just seems rather outdated.

I Just Like This Song

"So bizarre, yet so cliche

That every day is a new day

And all those candles can't
make me stay the same
Since I was born yesterday"

I first heard this on an episode of the TV series Felicity: Born Yesterday by indie artist Mike Schmid. I just like it. You can also find it here.

My Travel Habits and Essentials

For some reason, am more of a backpacker than anything else, even when I don't want to. It just makes things easier for me, especially since I bring tons of stuff with a carryon. No little purses for me when travelling. 

If you have a possible better suggestion regarding my carryon bag, please let me know. I'd really like to know how others can get by with a strolling bag or a bag you can't really store underneath a plane, bus, or train seat? 'Cause I don't have the build nor the frame to be able to carry such a bag over me and store in a plane or train's overhead bin without assistance. And I'd hate to inconvenience a fellow passenger/stranger by asking them to store it for me. Hehe!

Anyhoo, apart from the obvious, here are my travel must haves (or not) and one or two habits whenever I travel:




1. Travel documents
I have photocopies of travel docs in my check in luggage, soft copies with my email. Having shots of the docs in one's digital camera is quite a good idea I read in a forum.

2. Footwear
I always never forget to bring a pair of my super versatile Teva Olowahu model sandals. It's verrrry comfy even if you walk with it the whole day and through the night over sand and paved or cobblestoned streets... beats wearing my Diesel sneakers when I was in Europe.

my beat up Teva sandals in Germany

I use the same slippers in the hotel and bathroom/toilets. Hehe! If I can collect one in every color I will. Lol! Though of course you can't wear this in winter conditions outside. It's not sold in Manila anymore, to my dismay. Got my first pair at Bratpack 5 years ago (they don't sell Teva shoes anymore). And bought some more of this model on a U.S. trip last year.

3. No laptop
Yeah. Right. Easier said than done.

Nada mas...

Musings good enough to tweet but am blogging 'em here instead... :P

1. would like Christian Dior, IKEA, and H&M to open stores in Manila

2. Some people are lucky to have had Paul Krugman as their professor.

3. I admire Ben Bernanke, whatever happens.. hehe!

4. The U.S. (and possibly the rest of the world) is lucky to have a Paul Krugman, and a Ben Bernanke in the right place at the right time. Lol! See this.

5. Wish there were more iMax theaters around so I won't have to endure the stress and the crowds of Metro Manila congregating in one location (one reason I don't want to go to SM Mall of Asia or its cinema to see a movie on a weekend... Spare me puhlease... Gaah!) just so I can watch Avatar.

New Cellphone

Sony Ericsson T707

I just got myself a new cellphone. Replaced my old Sony Ericsson w800i Walkman phone with another Sony Ericsson, a T707 in lucid blue. My old SE still works except the camera's autofocus doesn't work as fast anymore, and I just got tired of it. Plus its casing has come a bit loose from its screws after I've dropped it more than a dozen times already (and it still works). It's been my phone for more than the past 4 years.

I've been hankering for a clamshell phone again and it's great that SE released a new set of clamshell design phones last year. I used to have a Sony Ericsson Z600 clamshell phone with striped casing design.

Z600 in stripes