A Call to Arms

no..not this one!

      Gadgets, who among us who have none one of these? Maybe those vagrants on streets or those vagabonds that’s lost in their own universe, or maybe those unfortunates who live beneath the falling bride of this country or those who live in fear the native regions of Mindanao, but us?

from day 1

      Necessity is the mother of invention, and as the season changes so are these gadgets that make as gaga and craze over and over again. From telegraph to telephone, to cell phone now android phones are swarming our market like a plague that catches as off-guard, dying to have one of the latest. If necessity is the mother of invention then contentment is another question.

      Rapidly, I saw how we craze over the latest gadgets, 15yrs ago, you can count on your both hands those family who have cellular phone on their houses, 25yrs ago you can count on one of your hand those family who have a telephone in a town. Now, every member of a family has its own gadgets, and at times you can count in one of your hand how many gadget one has. From the first computer made, from windows ’94, ’97, 2000, vista, professional and from windows 7 to the new talk of the town windows 8, inventors and manufacturer’s really know how to tingle are minds and get us on our feet, sell our dignity for a small gadget.

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      Early this morning, a friend asks me to come over his school for a Boy Scout investiture, and there is one thing that I notice, most of those who are there are using tablets. I want to have one of those, as a gaming console for me and my baby. Maybe at times get a picture from its camera. But as much as possible, I would like to have my own camera, DSLR or not, I must have one of these.

      Though, a tablet has its own built in camera, it was never a synonym for you-won’t-need-a-real-camera. I mean, hell you have the dough to buy an APPLE IPAD2 or SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB, then why don’t you buy a real camera? Bragging rights? It’s not a cool thing to wag your 10’’ tabs all over the place like you’re a priest that’s holding the holy sacrament and telling the insipid crowd to vow down. Tablets are tablets; they are made as it is. Not a laptop or an SLR to capture a real life image.

who made this cover...steve jobs?

      Have you seen an I-pad with a cover or a casing to protect it from harsh element? Who ever invented it must have thought of it thoroughly, he was a genius! I mean, he created an accessory brilliantly. Why make an accessory that would cover the godly-apple-logo? Then there was the casing with a hole purposely place in front of the logo. There no use of a casing if you can’t tell the world HEY-LOOK-AT-MY-EFING-TAB! Kudos to you sir!

      I know, a facebook friend thought as that we need no SLR or a DSLR to capture image and be an instant photographer. We were only using camera phones at its limits together with our hearts and mind. Imagination and literature was our axes. Maybe they’re no photo enthusiast, and I’m just a dickhead mumbling on things I’m not associated to.

they must have lots of dough man...

      But maybe, a tablet has many more use than we can imagine. One can use it as a cover when it raining, or from the heat of suns raging fury at summer. Or you can use it as a weapon to smash anyone in the head! Or maybe try these cool guys from the US who made their i-pad a skateboard!

      If you’re reading this I urge you my friend to not only invest on show-off-gadgets, though having a tablet is a nice idea, pls. invest on a good camera to be used on kodakan-moments, in the end, we are still Filipinos who love to smile in front of the camera even when we’ve been hit by a level 5-superstorm, and you’ll find that pictures taken from a high def. camera always rocks! Tabs are gods in your hand, but it can never replace cameras, maybe for now.

sir, lets try hitting you with this and tell me if it hurts?