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Anniversaries. Sunday, September 16, 2007

trolling through my favorite websites, i found a couple of thought-provoking questions:

do you remember what you were doing on 9/11/2001?

i'm a few days late for this. yes. i was watching cnn. i saw almost everything almost instantaneously. i didn't see the first airplane hit the north tower of the world trade center, but i was there for the rest. i was giving my blockmates a running commentary on the events as they progressed. it then hit me, we'll never know when our time will be up. i suddenly felt the need to do everything on my life list. i was only able to accomplish one within the week. a few months after that, i felt bad about achieving that particular item.

what was your first cellphone?

20 years of gsm technology (!). my first cellphone was a brick. a nokia that didn't contain a sim card. i carried this around in 1996. on my senior year in high school, in 1997, my parents got me my own gsm plan and it came with a nokia 1610. it wasn't much of an improvement from my first phone, but it housed a sim card. it weighed around a pound and was still the size of a brick. it also had sms capability, but no one knew what sms was back then. pagers were our favorite gadget then. i never had one of the small colorful models. mine was vintage. instead of the 7-digit pager number with the personalized operator greeting, i had a 6-digit number from the provider with cranky operators. buti na lang they soon became obsolete, no matter how small and colorful most of the pagers were.

Ana played hooky at 12:13 AM