Benefits of an actual radio
Radio has become the staple for family meal time. It’s an outdated, single purpose technology, but it reminds us to live in the moment, even if it’s imperfect or unpleasant.
Miscellaneous
Profiling
We profile the company that we do business with. We might even profile the key contact person’s interest and birthday for gift. Why don’t we do that to our friends and family? Recently while visiting an old friend, I added ‘cooks dinner for the kid’ and ‘enjoys noodle more than rice’ in to his profile
Fountain pen lesson 2: laziness
Spin caps are great for night journals, the seconds it takes to spin the cap off provides a time to recap the day. It enhances the ceremonial process. Snap caps are great for work. The reality is, the time to spin the cap off and adjust the grip is enough to cost an idea or
Fountain pen lesson 1: insecurity
The feeling of running out of ink in a middle of a meeting and trying to touch the paper lightly to squeeze its last ink drop is disturbing. That made Lamy Safari a fountain pen worth constant revisiting. It’s a bless not having to unscrew the pen and flip it upside down to check the
Smart watch problems
They gamified my life and satisfied my OCD of tracking every aspect of my life, although the benefit and medical reliability is questionable. The fact it shines every time I turn my wrist is extremely annoying during light out. That half second delay between my wrist position and screen display. Maybe my nitpicking is the
What Shopee recommendation tells me about my recent life
When I asked my wife whether buying a ASUS ProArt PA248QV monitor for work is out of necessity or impulse, she reminded me the wish list I have recently. The list falls into these categories and moments:
Watch I keep coming back to: CASIO F-91W
This must have been the watch I wore the longest, it’s been close to 5 years. I had two smart watches in between, a Xiaomi and a Huawei, none of which lasted more than few months. What I learned about myself with this watch?
New Router: Should have replaced it sooner
I replaced my old ASUS RT-N12 with a new ASUS RT-AX3000 last week and it 10x my bandwidth! The previous router was purchased in 2017. It was a time when I was still single, no kid, and still renting a one-room apartment. All I needed at the time was something functional to keep my laptop
First encounter with dumb phone in a decade
(originally written on December 25, 2021) The first day of owning a dumb phone was not full of anxiety from digital detox. On the morning of December 24, I picked up the secondhand Nokia 3310 that I purchased online. Being late for work, I didn’t swap my SIM to the phone (it requires an adapter