Skip to main content
I LOST MY GLOBE! ARRRRRGH!!!

Please help me re-build my Contact List.

Send me your cell# at: budj (@) rocketmail (dot) com

Thank you.


Ugh!

I lost my cellphone in Starbucks, Greenhills (the one beside Chili's). I must have been too sleepy to notice that it fell out of my pocket.

I was at work til 10am yesterday. I rushed home, took a bath, dressed up, then went with my mom and Brandie to meet up with family friends. After lunch, we went to Starbucks and that's where I lost my phone.

I noticed that I didn't have my phone as we turned the corner. So, we rushed back. That must have only taken 5 minutes. Maybe less. By the time we came back, the table was already clean and my cellphone could not be found. The busboy who cleaned up our area said he didn't see any cellphone. Even the guard said he didn't notice anything.

Bummer.

It's just annoying how people can be so dishonest.

I wish that whoever got that cellphone will put it to good use. Maybe he'll use the money to buy food for his family or buy medicine for his dying grandmother. And if his grandmother is already dead, may she rise from the grave and eat his brain.

It's also annoying how much info is lost because of that cellphone.

Aside from all the names and numbers, it also contains pictures from birthdays and weddings and parties. It also contains a whole lot of important messages that I didn't want to delete. The hardware can easily be replaced. It's those other things that matter more.

It's annoying how I've stopped making an effort to remember things because of that cellphone.

When I got that Nokia 6630 last year, I started to use it as a notebook as well. Under each contact list, I would include little note; like the names of the children of that particular friend and their birthdates and addresses as well. Now, I don't even know my own home phone number. I don't remember my mom and brother's cell #s as well. Crazy.

One comedian in Conan O'Brien's show said, "Do you remember that time when you knew your friend's phone number? When was that dark age?! I've got an ancient cellphone. All it can do is text and call. I'm afraid that one day, I'll be walking down the street and some guy will hover right next to me and I'll ask, `How can you do that?` And he'll just shrug and say, `I don't know. My cellphone does it!` "

Crazy.

Annoying.

Happy New Year.

(And don't forget to send me your cell#)



Popular posts from this blog

Couple of weeks ago, Ms. Diyco featured another campaign made by the creatives here at Harrison Communications. Here's her review about the Neozep "Neozerye" TV campaign: Romancing the mighty colds cure ADS AND ENDS, Nanette A Franco-Diyco BUSINESS WORLD Vol. XX, No. 139, Friday-Saturday, February 9-10, 2007 http://www.bworldonline.com/Weekender020907/main.php?id=marketing_diyco The four television commercials that serialize the life of pretty housemaid Luwalhati, culminating in a storybook wedding to her once-upon-a-time señorito from the imposing mansion belong to an ad campaign awards class all its own. There have been other spoofs of soap operas selling other brand categories in the past. But for several reasons put together, the Neozep series of commercials that began with honest-to-goodness ad teasers that looked and sounded like teasers for true-blue soap operas proved ultra entertaining and more importantly, "reinforced Neozep’s leadership and further s...

The Mini Manifesto

LET'S BURN THE MAPS. Let's get lost. Let's turn right when we should turn left. Let's read fewer car ads and more travel ads. Let's not be back in ten minutes. Let's hold out until the next rest stop. Let's eat when hungry. Let's drink when thirsty. Let's break routines, but not make a routine of it. LET'S MOTOR.™ This is the copy for the MINI “Let’s Motor” campaign. The creatives who created this campaign said they weren’t just writing copy on how great it would be to own a Mini, they were writing a manifesto, a way of life for people who drive a Mini. I just love how the copy has rhythm, how it just flows and rolls off the tongue, how it just wants you to go out and drive and just keep driving. Makes me also wish I could write copy like that. More wonderful copy ads can be found at: http://www.libraryofmotoring.info/miniprintads.html

the sons and daughters of Kanlaon

Last Friday, we attended the 40th Anniversary of KBS, the Kanlaon Broadcasting System, where my mom and dad once worked. I was still a baby when my dad worked there. I barely remember the people there. One of the first people to greet me was Lando, my dad's old driver. Him, I remember. As the story goes, when I was a baby, I could not pronounce his name and just started calling him "Agoong". Hence, he got that nickname and that's what everyone called him. I remember how we used to play chess while waiting for dad to finish work and how I always forced him to make me win. (Makes me wish I forced him to teach me how to play chess better and learn how to not win things so easily.) As expected, as my mom re-introduced me to her old office mates, they all looked surprised and delighted to see me. They would then immediately extend their hand, palm down, and show me how small I was when I first met them. Some would pretend to carry me and tell them they were the ones who ca...