dumb terminal

a friend was telling me he has a simple phone.  he said he ditched the smartphone the office issued him and bought instead an ordinary one with tv.

and then he says one time he was at starbucks, he turned his tv on and other diners tried to watch / listen from it as well.  he said he covered his device (uuuhhhh, selfish!) gloating his simple phone whacked the others' smartphones, hah!

me:  'you know, the owners of those smartphones are not smart...  you have a smartphone...  you have wifi...  you should just have watched online or downloaded an app that would have allowed you to watch tv...'

not-so-smart users reduce a smart device to mediocrity...  : }

love notes

i was going through my files and was surprised (shocked?  dismayed?  wahaha...) to find envelopes containing cards i sent to and received from, uhm, exes from long ago.  #ThrowbackThursday indeed, ahaha...  ; )

i re-read them and felt so good and giddy and loving and loved...  :")

and then i wondered how come the cards i received are with me and the ones i sent are, too...  immediately i had an answer.  i request for my cards back.  uuuhhhh, baaaddd!!!  ei, it's just the cards.  everything else the guy can keep (better yet throw away, haha).

i have my reason (not sure it's valid)...  the cards i choose and the things i write are sooooo mushy...  yucky, tacky, cheesy me...  so embarrassing...  : }

oh, to be in love...  <3 <3

listen

while logging in to my e-mail, i requested my cousin beside me to dictate to me the code that she will hear on my phone.  (i have two-step verification.)

she did.

i entered it twice, both times i could not get through.

she then asked me to switch a certain digit.

i did and i was able to gain access.

she blurted out chuckling, 'active listening!  i failed!'

me:  'what's that?'

cousin:  'how well you listen...  we were being tested monthly...'
(she used to work at a call center.)

me:  'oh...  so there is such a test?'

cousin:  'yes...  you have to listen very well otherwise you won't pass...'

hmmm...  if only we had that in daily life...

more than meets the eye

niece brought cookies to my parents' place...  she says they made it...

me:  'you were the one who baked it?'

niece:  'us classmates...'

me:  'i'll take a picture...'

niece:  'don't!  it doesn't look good...'

me:  'it's okay...  what's important is that it was made by you...'

:")

an arm and a leg

bumped into my cousin at the supermarket...  i had the big packs:  a dozen toilet paper, 300 cotton balls, 400 cotton buds...

cousin:  'what's that for?'

me:  'my supply...'

cousin:  'why that much?'

me:  'cheaper in bulk...'

cousin:  'but they'll get dated...'

me:  'you use these everyday...  for food i want fresh...  these are for external use...'

cousin:  'so you really buy your supplies?'

me:  'of course...  what would i use if i don't?'

cousin:  'but <uncle -> my dad> buys so much...'

(uhm, my dad goes grocery-shopping as if he's stocking up a warehouse...)

me:  'so?'

cousin:  'i thought you just get there...'

me:  'that's too much...  i already eat there [daily  ->  i don't cook]...  don't tell me i'm gonna bring their groceries to my house as well...'

i don't abuse kindness...  \m/