Wednesday, March 07, 2007 Cell phones By Rene Lizada Papa's table
ONE of my sons and I will not mention who has a new cell phone. And though it is still new to our family, this phone is starting to irritate me. Forgive an old fashioned guy like me but I think the only functions a cell phone ought to have are calls and text. Aside from those the other things are just decorations or "ek ek." And the phone of this son of mine has so many "ek eks."
Last year, Migoy got a brand new phone, which did not last. Migoy has this habit of losing things and his brand new phone did not want to be exempted. So, his brand new phone was stolen.
Luckily for him he had a spare phone, which was ancient in today's standards. When he came home last December, being the father that I was and since my wife ordered me to, Migoy and I exchanged phones. He got my relatively new phone while I got his totally old phone. But I am not complaining. As I said I think if a phone can do calls and text messages I am content.
What is strange only is the looks that I get when I expose my phone to the world. When I bring out my phone people take a second look at it because in today's standards nga, it looks so ancient. But I really do not mind because nga...
Now here comes the new phone. Now this new phone seemed to be inspired by the series 24. (For the past several days we had a marathon of 24. That is another story altogether. Most of the phones in that series were the flip types and my son who will remain anonymous started liking those types of phones.)
So he badgered his mom to buy him a new phone and since he is so good at it my wife gave in. (I still have to ask him how he badgers Chona and gets away with it. Because when I badger my wife I end up somewhere I do not like.) So after he successfully "convinced" my wife of course we all had to go shopping for his phone.
After numerous calls to stores, after miles and miles of walking and after days and years of searching we finally found the phone. It looks spiffy in silver and it looks like a CTU phone. (24 nga eh!)
The first day the phone was in our house, perhaps, gave me the idea that this was going to be a strange phone.
For one thing every time you flip it, it makes a sound. You flip it open, it sounds. You close it, it beeps. But that is not all. This phone looks likes a flying saucer, a UFO. It has so many flashing lights!
There is green, red, white and blue. Even while it is idle the damn thing flashes all sorts of colors.
I woke up at about four in the morning two days ago and as I was staring at the darkness and enjoying the cold when a flash of light suddenly hit the ceiling. I thought I was dreaming but after a few seconds the light hit the ceiling once more. And I was wondering where it came from.
Then the silver light faded and suddenly a green light came into view. I thought this rather strange because there was no light inside the room (or so I thought), so the only place where this would be coming from would be from the outside.
Slowly I stood and in the darkness opened the curtains and peered outside half expecting a UFO with all its lights hovering ready to abduct me. But there was only darkness. Only the night. And then the light hit the wall. This time it was red. Red light. Where was I? In the middle of a street with traffic lights?
But then at the corner of my eye I saw the culprit, the UFO. It was not outside; the UFO was inside. The phone, the phone was flashing in the middle of the night. I looked at my son who was in deep sleep and I wanted to whack him in the head because of his alien phone. I was just hoping that someone would not text him during the nocturnal hours because I did not want to hear what sound it would create.
Good thing it remained quiet. Better that way I thought. But those lights were still flashing and while I was watching it the lights hit my phone. The only time that my phone lights up is when I have messages or calls and of course when it desperately screams low batt! But aside from that it remains quiet and shy. Unlike that ostentatious new phone.
Now my son complains that his phone drains easily. Hahaha. Why would it not? It has so many sound effects and gaudy lights. No wonder the battery drains. Unlike my phone. The only time my phone goes out is when I receive a call. Otherwise my phone lasts for 36 hours. Jack Bauer has 24 hours, my phone has 36! LUGAW FOR KIDS. Barangay Nutrition Scholars of Agdao District prepare porridge served to children in the area as part of the city government service caravan to barangays project, held under the Agdao flyover bridge yesterday. The adults, on the other hand, are also served with the light food.
