Saturday, December 3, 2011

停電記

      過去兩天,經歷過了一次人生短短三十四年來沒有經歷過的停電經驗,在我們把源源不絕得供電當作家常便飯,突然來了一次停電整整兩天半的手足無措,才再一次讓我深深感受到,這現實的無常!

     寒冷的冬天,完全沒有電,夜裡伸手不見五指,必須仰賴蠟燭和手電筒微弱的光線,來完成一些簡易的家事。不滿一歲的女兒,更是得包成跟愛斯基摩人一樣睡覺,做父母的我們才稍稍可以成眠。

     仰賴高科技的現代人,停了電,就幾乎與外界斷了聯絡,行動電話無法充電,就算有電,偏偏附近的基地台也沒電,所以還是呆機一支,一點也感受不到什麼智慧型手機的智慧。家裡空有電話線,可是電話主機需要電力,還是無用武之地。早已被我拋棄許久無需插電的電話機,又讓我懷念起它來。

    車庫的大門也需要電動起重機來開啓,沒了電,就得天天練練二頭肌,三頭肌,不然就無法開車上班。上了路,短短十來分鐘車程的距離,瞬間變成了一個小時通勤時間,這電力真是跟現代人與社會的順暢運作,有著密不可分的關係啊!

   冰箱沒了電,一堆的食物,也至少有一半必須丟棄,另一半還得感謝冬天的寒冷氣溫才免於腐敗。這以上的種種不便,都是在供電正常的生活中不會想到的。非常感謝辛勤的電力公司工作人員的努力,能夠讓我們的生活重新回到軌道。

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

One day without my Nexus One

     Don't have my phone with me doesn't cause a life change moment. Not at all. But the thing is it takes out some flexibility of my daily life. Normally I can check my emails and my social network services from my phone.  

     Since my company blocks "ALL" services it can possiblly find out there, which means no Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo mail. But for some reason, it doesn't block the Blogosphere at all. I can log in to my blogger, wordpress, tumblr and of course posterous. So that I can semi-rant a little bit.

    Thanks to Google voice. I'm still able to text my wife,  receive missed call information and voice mail. In addition, I can read the news and articles from Google reader.  So I guess, besides I can't read the emails and my friends' news feed. The life without my N1 isn't too bad.

 

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