Life as you go
If getting life insurance leads to peace of mind as I go through a busy day which starts with commuting to work then I’m all for it. I look at insurance as a form of forced savings, something I HAVE to do if I really care for the people I’ll be leaving behind in case I walk into the way of a speeding truck or get mugged or something like that. This is a more formal and systematic way of putting a little away for that inevitable day which most of us would rather not think about. We just need to make sure that we pick the right company to administer our savings for us.
Goodbye P910i
I got my Sony Ericsson P9109i from my then-coworker Ejay in the last quarter of 2005. He had just bought the phone himself, hardly two months old, but he had found a cellphone that he liked better. Perhaps if Ejay had not wanted to give it up I would not have bought the P910i, but we were at the point of our careers when we needed a phone that was also a PDA, and this was an opportunity for me to buy it for a lot less money than I would have shelled out at a mall.
I lost that same cellphone last Friday, December 11 2009, after four years of constant use. It was stolen from my backpack as I was walking across the Estrella pedestrian overpass. I was an easy mark for the zipper gang, I suppose, regularly walking that route at least 5 days a week.
The phone has seen better days. I had already removed the flip because it was broken, and was using the onscreen keyboard and virtual flip for text entry. There was even a time when the jog dial didn’t work anymore, but I found a shop that could repair it, of all places, in Masbate. I had vowed till death do us part with this phone, and I guess this loss was its death.
But not quite. The thief, whoever he is, is still using the SIM card. The number is 0921 9866 989. I can’t recover it because I no longer have the card backing, having had that number for the past 2 years or so. Feel free to send it any junk text that you can think of. 
The best things in life are free
With all the recent calamities that have visited the country, free insurance quotes would be a helpful thing for people who have much in the way of material things to lose. A quick google search reveals that free insurance quotes are readily available for vehicles, homes and personal needs. Some websites even offer online quote calculators that a user can fill up for a quick estimate of how much premiums would be if they got a certain insurance package. I like websites that have calculators of all forms. It saves the user a lot of time plowing through questions and eliminates the need for guesswork when it comes to budgeting.
My imaginary Xmas wish list
Even though I know that at my age just staying alive and kicking is already something to be quite thankful for, I can’t help but create a wistful wish list for the holidays, a list that I know will materialize only in my wildest fantasies. But then, there’s no fee for fantasizing, is there? *wink*
Top of my wish list is an LCD TV. Forty-two inches will do. Preferably Samsung. Preferably something that can be hung, with minimal effort, from my living room wall. It would be good if I could connect it to the computer as a secondary monitor when I’m editing images too.
More items on the list to follow.
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