My phone is a good size

So several months ago, my dad bought me a Samsung Galaxy Note. He wanted to buy something for me that may assist me for my future job (what ever that may be). He offered that I either take an Ipad 2 or the Galaxy Note. Now I understand many people would argue whether the Galaxy Note or the Ipad 2 was a better choice. Sadly, I didn't care that time. My old cellphone was lagging at a horrible rate. I couldn't even text back my friends on time. If you are stuck between getting a phone or a tablet and your old cellphone sucked, why wouldn't you take the new phone?

So after I got my lovely Galaxy Note, I was bombarded with questions by friends and sometimes strangers. One in particular that was constantly asked was: "Isn't that phone a bit big?"  It is true that this phone is a lot bigger than my previous one. My previous phone was not much bigger than the size of my palm. It took some time getting used to the drastic change in size but honestly, I think the size is fine. Has anyone seen the old mobile phones before the 1990s? Now those are huge mobile phones and all they do is make phone calls. Those things are like bricks! No GPS, no music players, no internet, no text. If you check even older ones, they are so big, it is like carrying a payphone. I'm not saying they were useless because those phones are what led to our cellphones today. I really appreciate that. However, because of their size, I can never say that my current phone is too big. Not only is my current phone a tad bit shorter than my hand (by a few millimeters), it is a smartphone. It is literally my personal digital assistant (PDA, does anyone still use that term today?). While some of people may complain about its size, I'm just laughing how phone design are going back in time, growing larger instead of smaller. If the size is such a problem, just go use Bluetooth.

Riddle #1

Sometimes I find or hear riddles that are really amusing to me. So I wish to share them to as many people as possible.

When you need it, you throw it away. When you don't need it, you want it back. What is it? (It's a tangible object)

Answer: Anchor

Childhood #1: Happy Unbirthday

Sorry for the late post. I wasn't in good condition to type up anything yesterday. Rest assure, I'm feeling better now.

I wish I was in elementary school again. From what I remembered, I wasn't really stressed or depressed in anyway back then. There were many good memories. One awesome one was how my younger sister and I can have fun with almost anything we find. In one case, we took a shoe box and flipped it over so it would be standing on its cover. Then we stick small screwdrivers into the gap between the lid and the box. What does it become? In our eyes, it was suppose to be a birthday cake. We cheer "Happy Birthday" to each other even though it wasn't really anyone's birthday. Of course, we didn't keep it. The box and the screwdrivers were returned to my dad. None the less, it was a funny and creative moment.

Apartment mate #2: The fuse box is not a toy.

It is really awkward. I never thought this is a special skill in any case. The ability to understand how a fuse box works is not that special, is it? I was in the bathroom doing my business. The only thing on are the lights. No hair dryers. No hair straighteners. Just the lights. Out of the blue, the lights went out. I wasn't mad but I wasn't exactly happy. I quickly finished my business and went downstairs to check the fuse box. How else would the electricity not work when it's switched on? To my surprise, the fuse box was open. Now my bathroom was the only switch that was stuck in the middle. For people who never see the fuse box (ever), when the black switch is in the middle, it means the fuse detect high current usage through the system and the fuse shuts itself off to prevent burning/overheating the fuse. I thought this was common knowledge. Anyways I disregarded the switch. Other than the fact that the box was wide open, it looked like a regular shut off. I just turned it back on. It wasn't until later did I heard a funny story from my sister about our apartment mate Wavy. Apparently, Wavy's room was shut off due to her high usage of electricity. It doesn't really matter to me since I did that a few times myself. Just be careful next time. That's what I always say. However, Wavy doesn't know how to use the fuse box (to my surprise, since she's an engineer major). So to solve her problem, she called up the technician for help. At the end, she ended up using her whole palm of her hand and switched several switches off and on. It wasn't one switch at a time. No. It was using your whole hand and randomly moving switches left and right. This screwed up almost half the electronics in the apartment, including the microwave and everyone's internet excess.

I don't understand. Is using the fuse box that hard? Or is it really a special skill? I'm not an electronics expert but I know how it works. At least I know it's not safe to just randomly moving switches in hope to fix the problem. I really question how my "lovely" apartment mate thinks. 

Holiday #1: Monsters, Witches and Ghouls! Oh my!

Halloween is coming soon! The holiday of diabetes from candies and heart attacks from frights! A time to talk about what we want to dress up as and what we're really afraid of! Who doesn't love Halloween?

Halloween is not really a holiday my family would celebrate. However, giving out candy to cute little trick-or-treaters was something we don't want to miss out. It was always adorable to see the smiles on little children. (Somewhere in the back of my mind, I think those cute little smiles are family's weakness.) Anyways, one can't go through Halloween and give out treats without following the real deal of the holiday: dressing up. Ever since 1st grade, I dress up as a witch. It's a decent costume and anyone can look fine in. Of course I got tired of it for a while and tried other costumes, but the witch costume always remain as back up.

Halloween is definitely a holiday based on fun, at least in today's society. Now I understand there must be some crazy serious history behind this holiday, but it will be hard to find people who doesn't celebrate this holiday just for candy, fun, and frights. In my opinion, Halloween is the only time where everyone can literally be anyone. Everyone gets to act childish for one night before ultimately falling back into reality.

What's your favorite Halloween memory?