In regards to promote a more work & life balance, my company provides me with this.

It arrive yesterday right in the middle one of the busiest day in a year, which is the salary increase letter distribution day!! Yay!! So apart from the excitement of knowing that my wallet will be thicker this year, this toy also excited me. I could feel my heart beating fast when I saw the (seemed not so grumpy this time) IT guy walked along the corridor bringing me the medium size box. He then sat in front of my PC, murmuring something, work his magic finger across the keyboard, scratch his head, fiddling with the mouse and voila! It ready to be used! He showed me some tricks on how should I check my e-mails, send SMS, make phone calls, however, knowing that any of my innocence questions would upset him (i.e. what is multi tap? How to pick up a call? Hey, even the way I hold it upset him!), I decided to take the whole package home and learn it by my self? Of course not!! Do I sound like an enthused self learner to you? Thank God I was gifted by an IT-gadget lover husband. By the time I saw my (so much) better half, I passed him the box and he nearly collapsed in excitement. I had to take it back again with the fear of him dropping it in ecstasy. If my salary increase gave him a little bit of jolt, this magic box gave him an orgasm. He had this ecstatic look for a while whilst he run his finger through its smooth surface. It was not long before he started to advise me to advise the company to buy this and that and to install this and that to maximize its uses. Writer note: please don’t ask me what is the this and that. I hardly can’t remember the name. It has something to do with LCD screen (mine is not LCD screen) and to keep the casing smooth.

So last night, whilst I was deeply engulfed reading David Edding’s the Belgariad, hubby busied him self with my new toy. He fiddled around with it, holding it dear as if it was something alive trying to communicate it self to him and I think he slept on it, eager to optimize its capabilities. I was not surprised when today I found my new blackberry has already been set up according to my liking (read: limited ability in IT stuff). It sure was made my self easier to operate it (read: type the e-mail and sms).

Apart from the promised I made to my self that my new toy will not change the way I run my life, I found my self kept on looking at it. Checking whether there are any new e-mails, got annoyed when there are none and excited when I see one (although the content is about work). And when I can’t find any new messages to be read, I browse around it. Trying to see what’s in there, bookmarked my favorite page and checks the contact list. I even do something that I have never done before, which is reading the manual. Well, not really a manual though, it’s more like a quick guide. Fortunately the cheat sheet is very thin and simple. It even got a page that can be torn apart for a complete end user like me to bring around. Whoever invented it must be a genius who can empathize with a civilian like me. Even when I failed to insert the charger cable to the blackberry, I turn it around and lo and behold! There was little word read as UP in its jack. Geez…I can’t stop marvel on the investor. And now if you excuse me, I want to go back and see whether there are any e-mails…